Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-31

OF the Kansas university Y. NJ. C. A.,
shows remarkable development in
the work of the association during
the past academic term. The mem
bership of the organization has been
more than doubled, and now numbers
$50 young men. The association has
organized 13 Bible classes, mission
ary study class, and teachers train
ing class, the total attendance at
which is 125. The association main
tains Y. NJ. c. A. home which is al
ways open to the young men of the
university and also employs a secre-
tary who devotes his time exclusively
to association work.
Harris Law Declared Invalid.
The Harris law, which prescribes
jury trials for persons charged
with contempt of court, was de-
clared unconstitutional by Judge
Holt, of the Wyandotte county COM
mon pleas court. The law was intro
duced by State Senator (now United
States senator) w. A. Harris in 1897
and passed. 1t was designed to take
away from the judges of the courts
the right to punish persons charged
with contempt of court and give them
the right of trial by jury as in ordi-
nary criminal cases. Judge Holt holds
that the law is an abridgement or re-
striction of the constitutional powers
of the courts, and therefore it is uns
constitutional.
Would Restore Hanging in Kansas.
Gov. Stanley, if he be reelected,
will recommend to the legislature
that the crimes act, fixing the punish
ment for murder, be amended so that
the jury shall decide that question,
and the jury having fixed the punish
ment, the governors only duty shall
be to execute it's judgment. This
would restore in Kansas capital pun
ishment for murder, which the pres.
ent law practically abolishes.
His Conscience Troubled Him.
George Walker, the Leavenworth
negro who attempted an assault on
Miss Edna Perkins near Turner, Wy
andotte county, was convicted, the
| jury being out only Is minutes. Lin
| coin Mckee, the officer who arrested
Walker and at the preliminary gave
damaging evidence against him, told
| a different story at the formal trial
| After he left the witness stand he
| committed suicide.
Good Prospects of Joining Collins.
| "Cook" Wright and "Pearly" Atkin-
son, two Topeka negroes who gained
some renown by being involved with
John Henry Collins at the time of the
murder of his father, were bound over
| to the district court recently for
highway robbery. There appears to
be clear case against them and they
will probably spend long time with
| Collins at Lansing.
Hits Parsons Hard.
The attorney general rendered an
opinion holding that the state board
of charities had no legal right to con-
denim a site for a new insane asylum
at Parsons. This is hard blow to
Parsons, because the board of char
titles will follow the opinion and re-
fuse to take any action toward the
| construction of the new asylum.
The Prison Gates Closed.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state
penitentiary, has notified the sheriffs
of Kansas that he will not take any
prisoners from them at present until
the chickenpox and smallpox epidemic
| in the state is abated. Owing to
smallpox cases near the penitentiary
| gates the prison gates have been
closed to visitors.
Record of One Methodist Town.
At Baldwin, the seat of Baker uni
versity, there have been but two at
tempts in ten years to hold a dance,
but neither event secured enough
patronage to pay for the hall. There
| is not a place in Baldwin where play
ing cards can be bought and the town
| never had billiard hall.
| May Sell to Farmers Direct.
| The directors of the Kansas peni-
| tentiary are puzzled to know how
they shall market the produce of the
penitentiary twine plant this year.
| The directors would rather deal di-
rectly with the farmers if they can
without allowing the dealers chance
at the profits.
Early First District Convention.
| The First district republican con-
eressional convention will be held at
Atchison between March Is and 80
This will avoid bringing politics into
the Kansas G. A. r. encampment to be
held in April at Holton.
Kansas University Athletics.
| DIR. James Nailsmith has been
elected director of physical training
at the state university; Fay r. Moui-
ton, of Marion, football manager and
Frank Gray, of Phillipsburg, manager
| of track athletics.
Kansas VIII Get the Reservation.
The house public lands committee
agreed to make a favorable report on
| the bill ceding the abandoned Fort
Hays military reservation to the state
/ for normal school and agricultural
college purposes.
Organising Commercial Clubs
The formation of commercial clubs
seems to be all the rage in Kansas
Just now. Each town of any size
whatever is organizing for the pur-
pose of promoting its commercial and
industrial interests.
Engine Pinned Him Down.