Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-03
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
From slaverx TO Amaence.

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| From Slavery to Amuence.
Benjamin Vance, born a slave in
Kentucky 81 years ago, came to
Shawnee county IL years ago with q
team of horses and so cents. Now he
owns 400 acres of land ten miles north
| of Topeka clear of all indebtedness,
| several hundred head of stock and
| fine residence. His house is luxu-
| riantly furnished. Recently he gave
one of his daughters a piano as .
birthday present.
Coburn Has Faith In Kansas Sugar.
In spite of the backsets it has re-
eeived and the present distressingly
depressed position it occupies, the
secretary of the Kansas board of ag-
| riculture is an answering believer
that sooner or later ways and means
| are to be found whereby Kansas will
profitably produce her own sugar and
more, in quality the equal of any,
from the sorghum plant.
Reform In Property As.essments.
Kansas county clerks, in session at
Wichita, passed resolutions calling
upon boards of county commissions
ers to demand the assessment of all
property at actual value. If two
thirds of the boards agree to do so
the attorney general will be asked to
prosecute any assessor who fails to
return property at it's full value.
HOrticulturists Have a Complaint.
AT their annual meeting in Topeka,
Kansas horticulturists complained of
the treatment their state organiza-
tion receives at the hands of the state
Legislature and administration. They
are. opposed to the consolidation of
the society with the state board of
agriculture and want more liberal ap-
preparations for next year.
What the College Preaidents Ask.
The Kansas College Presidents as
sociation will ask the next legislature
to establish for Kansas colleges a GER
tain standard which must be attained
by all colleges offering the bachelors
degree. No state in the union has as
yet adopted the system and the Kan
sans think this is good time to set
standard.
SO Places for Three Kansana.
Judge Gill, of Colby, recently ap-
pointed federal judge of the Indian
territory, Northern district, will ap-
point the following Kansans to COM
| missionerships in the territory: w.
IL. Browne, of Paola; NJ. C. Reville,
of Stockton, and ex-Representative
Marshall, of Rice county.
Triplett Promoted for Galiantry.
Sam Triplett, of Labette county,
has been awarded medal for gallant
action in the Cuban war. He was a
sailor on the Marblehead and per
formed perilous feat in cutting the
cable at Cienfuegos. He is now on
The battleship Indiana.
Minor State News.
The Cary hotel at Wichita was sold
for $4,000.
Thieves stole seven horses from w.
N. Hoyne, Saline county farmer, and
escaped.
j. B. Moore, of Wichita, fell II feet
from the limb of a tree and sustained
fatal injuries.
Posey Graves, aged Sc, died at EN-
poria. He was the father of Judge
Charles B. Graves.
Topeka dispatch said ex-Gov.
Leedy would be candidate for
United States senator in 1901.
George Baum, Leavenworth high
school boy, will be appointed naval
cadet by Congressman Curtis.
The fee and salary law passed by
the legislature of 1897 was upheld by
Judge Gillett in the district court at
Kingman.
Cyrus Taylor, of Hutchinson, one of
the twentieth Kansas boys, has re-
tured to Manila to marry a Filipino
girl, it is said.
There are 100000 pupils attending
Kansas public schols and it costs 81
100000 annually to foot the bill, or
about $14 head.
May Baldwin, an 1S-year-old incor-
rigible girl, escaped from the indus
trial school at Beloit She was sent
from Saline county.
Near Burden. Cowley county, lives
a Russian Mennonite who is the
father of 25 children, all living Mt
-AoAiAS " IA tiC HClSuOOTuOOQ.
The business portion of Westphalia.
Anderson county, was destroyed by a
midnight fire. The. heaviest losers
were w. L. Cayot, +. E. Stewart and
j. w. Muir.
c. NJ. Mitchell, student in the To-
peka medical college, was found dead
in the Santa Fe depot at Newton.
He had been in albuquerque for tu-
berculosis and was returning to his
home near Olathe.
A scandal has grown out of the
awarding of the contract for the new
auditorium building at Topeka. The
firm that secured the contract was
the highest bidder and the defeated
contractors will take the matter into
court.
Francis c. Price, who for ten wears
has been judge of the Thirty-first
district. composed OF the counties Of
Meade, Comanche, Clark, Ford, Gray
and Kiowa, resigned on the 27th and
will move to Sandusky, O., his former
home If was fhorrhf Gov C<c~r.