Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-04-10
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
For Populist. to Decide.


For Populists to Decide.
Senator Curran, of tho peoples
party state committee, is sending q
list Of questions broadcast through
out Kansas and expects soon to get
the views of the rank and file Of the
party on the question of fusion and .
to the democracy. Under
the new anti-fusion law two tickets
bearing the same names cannot be
put on the official ballot, and tho
populists are wondering how the anti
republican elements in Kansas cam
get together. Populist leaders are in
favor of calling the ticket in 1909 the
peoples ticket" and in 1904 call il
democratic" provided that the demo-
Gratis Loyalty support the populist
ticket.
Capper Controls the Capital.
The Topeka Daily and Weekly Cap.
ital, the only morning paper at the
capital, has been sold to Arthur Cap
per and his associates for $4,000. Mr..
Capper owns 81 per cent. of the stock
and will control the policy of the pa
per. He is president of the company
and managing editor. Mr.. Capper il
a Kansas boy, native of Garnett. He
learned the newspaper business ON
the Capital under Maj. ]. K. Hudson
and knows the paper thoroughly. He
will sell the Mail and Breeze, of which
be has been owner several years. !,
Night Trial for Slater.
"Slick" Slater, the Topeka whits
man charged with assaulting a white
girl, who was taken to Atchison three
weeks ago to escape mob, had his
trial in Shawnee county
at nine o'clock at night. To avoid q
Topeka mob Slater was taken overland
nine miles into Shawnee county to-
the home of ex-Sheriff Wilkerson, and
the trial held before Topeka Justice.
Nick Childs Wouldn't DO.
partnership with Nick Childs, the col.
partnership with Nick childs, the col.
ored publisher. She will hereafter en-.
deavor to edit and have printed her
paper, "The Smasher's Mall" without
his assistance. The trouble grew out
of the suppression by Childs of an
editorial written by Mrs. Nation scor-
ing District Judge Hazen.
Cadet Corps at Baker University.
The adjutant general issued commits.
sions to the officers of cadet corps
of students at Baker university at
Baldwin. This is done under the law
enacted by the legislature last winter
and Baker is the first corps organized.
Harry w. Stanley, son Of Gov. STAN
ley. is first lieutenant.
Twins Run I'm the Family.
Mrs. James Little, living west OF
Atchison, gave birth to twins last
week. Eighteen months ago she gave
birth to twins also. Now there arc
four babies in the house less than
l9 months old. Mrs. Little's husband
was twin and his father was twin.
She was twin also.
VIII Not Move Baker University.
A committee appointed by the Kan-
sas and South Kansas Methodist con-
ferences met to consider the offer OF
I 100000 endowment for Baker uni
7ersity provided the college was moved
from Baldwin to Topeka. The COM
nittee rejected the proposition.
Work on Memphis Double Track.
About 200 railroad laborers were
taken to Fort Scott by the Memphis
road to begin work on the construc-
lion of double track south from
Fort Scott to Washburn, where the
Joplin branch joins the main line.
wichita and the Saloons.
An examination of the books OF
the city of Wichita shows that dur
ng the past two years and ten months
the sum of $s3,922.53 has been col
ected from the saloons.
The Uncertainties Of Fame.
A year ago Leavenworth county had
two United States senator's; now she
has none. Senator Harris has changed
his residence to the Sixth district and
Senator Baker IL in seclusion.
Oldest Voter I'm Kansas.
Ottawas has probably the oIdesG
living voter in Kansas If not In the
country. It is "Aunty" Lewis, q no.
yress, who claims to be 116.
Chance for Missionary Work.
In Hutchinson there are 2,438 per.
IONS between 8 and 81 years Of ago,
md Of these 1861 go to Sunday school
ind LOTT stay away.
Order from Far-01 China.
A mill in the little town Of Canton.
county, has received an or.
Ter for 600 barrels of -four to be sens
o China.
Newspaper Man Appointed Judge.
Gov. Stanley has appointed Oscar
of the Lawrence Journal.
udge Of the new Douglas county
ourt. &
Fine schoolhouse Burned.
The finest school building in Garden
ity, was destroyed by fire, entailing .