Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-15
State News.

The Santa Fe will soon build ten
new locomotives in Topeka.
The skeleton of mastodon 10 feet in
height and IA feet long was dug up at
CoEcordia this week.
The L. P. r. r. has expended
$500. 600 for new equipments to be
delivered July first.
Major Shreve, the last of Gov.
Leedy's clerks was discharged from
service this week by Gov. Stanley.
f. H. Hoag, formerly OF the New
ton Comm'l bar k has failed with
assets only $2C0, ard liabilities $751; :
494.41.
Miss Anna Finn of Leavenworth
as sued the city for $40 $50 on ac-
count Of injuries sustained from fall
jig on defective sidewalk.
Harry Alley, AMI A. Adams, two
prisoners who broke Jail at Wichita,
were captured. One was found at
Potwin and the other at Augusta,
Miss Matte Store aged 20 Of Pitts
burg took her own lite by ST ootiDg her-
self with a revolver Feb. 5th. Fer
lover moved to tie Pacific coast some
months ago aid she ! ad received no
tidings from him.
The net income of the Rock Island
r. r. for Dec. was s597, ,O36, an it,
crease of nearly 10000 over Dec. of
the preceding year. Jan. was also
ahead of year ago
G. A. Wolcott, president OF the 1st
National bank of Russell, Kansas,
invested about $40, 900 of the bank
money on the stock market and lost.
He is gone and the bank closed. The
county treasurer had SIT 900 in the
bank.
g. p. Barnum and M. Snattinger
who have been business partners in
Topeka for toity years dissolved part
DeIship last Saturday night. Each
handed to Samuel Irwin, clerk who
has been in Their employ IL years, a
sealed bid for the stock. Mr. Barnum's
Was the highest and he will continue
the business.
A little girl asked police matron
Thorpe of ToI eka for bread for beI
father saying: Papa can't eat pan
cakes any more. He is going to die OF
consumption ,cocu, and we can't get
him any bread. 1t don't matter for
the rest Of us but please get papa some
bread" An old lady of 20 was forced
to ask for food also.
Strenuous tfforts were made to get
new trial in the Collins case. A dczpn
afiidavits we're secured to prove that
the jury were not competent, aud a
professional cyclist from Denver made
oath that he heard Johnson Jordan
and a pal named "Jess" plan to re-
main in the alley While party called
"Jolly" killed Collins.
Frank Filing who beat Jailor Law
son and escaped from Shawnee
county Jail was captured at Herring
ton. He was in freight car nearly
starved and frozen, having no shirt
and the tenn perature was below zero.
Trainmen gave him food and clothing
and allowed him to ride in the ca
booze to Harrington where officers
had been apprised of his coming.
Rev. J. G. Daugherty of Kansas
City who recently visited l4j Kan sas
towns to ascertain the extent to
which the prohibitory law is violated,
reports Summing up my observa-
tions, 1 find that in 80 per cent of
the towns in the eastern two-thirds
of the state the law is violated, and
that in 6l per cent Of the towns an
effort, more or less earnest, is made
to enforce the law. We won one Of
the smoothest fights at the last
election. The liquor men had spent
money freely to get the house to
favor resubmission, but we beat
them" He does not state that the
Efforts made by the citizens of the 81
towns were successful.
Miss Emma Kelley who spent a
year in the Klondyke lectured recent
ly in Topeka. The coldest weather
which she experienced was 73 degrees
below zero. 81 wanted to shoot
White Horse rapids, said Miss Kel-
", ''for wished to experience that
thing called danger which men court
and women dread The occupants
of the boat wished to have me walk
across the land instead of shooting the
rapids, but l refused. The shooting OF
White Horse rapids might be COM
pared to shooting the chutes, only the
boat attains twice the speed, the walls
of the canon are 200 feet high and
nearly perpendicular, the water is
rushing through the canon at an