Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-08-07
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Observation-Disclosures
witnesses Paid the Costs.
A peculiar thing happened at Os-
wego during the trial of J. p. Axton,
charged with assaulting Mike Hahn,
a farmer. with a pitchfork, in a dis
pute over the division of some straw.
Axron was found guilty and fined.
There were about % witnesses in the
case, and after the trial was over the
witnesses each refused to accept any
money as pay for their services, but
they went down into their pockets
and paid Axton's fine and the jus
tees and constables' costs. Axton
was not out a cent.
Two Historic BuiIdinEs Sold
Two historical buildings at Fort
Leavenworth, known as Thomas and
Mcpherson halls, and which were
built 75 years ago, were sold at auc-
tion, bringing S. each. For years
offices of the headquarters depart
ment of the Missouri were in these
buildings, and such noted officers as
Persifer G. Smith, Fitzjohn Porter,
Gems. Miles, Wilcox and Wesley Mer-
rift have issued their orders from
these buildings.
Prisoners Would be Pleased.
Warden Jewett favors the abolition
oe the Tin service" SO long in use in
the state prison dining room and the
substitution therefore of dishes made
of durable but more attractive ma
terial. 1t would make the dining
rot n cheerful looking and the inno-
vat1on would no doubt have a good
moral effect on the prisoners.
She Raided n Gambling Joint.
Mrs. Mary L. Dickens entered a
gambling establishment in Leaven.
worth and broke up a roulette wheel
and other machines connected with
the place. She used a hatchet. Her
arm was cut by flying glass. Mrs.
Dickens has two boys whom she says
were allowed to gamble in the place.
Grain Fight IL Now On.
The grain trust began a fight
against the farmers elevator at Solo
mon Saturday. Notwithstanding that
the Kansas City market only warrant
ed scant So cents, the trust paid 81
cents for grain at that point. At Tai
mage, few miles distant, the trust
was only paying 40 cents
Not Equal to 1850.
Ex-Gov. F. n. Morrill, says the
| drought of 1901 is not to be compared
with that of 1860. This year there is
an abundant wheat crop and fair
crop of hay. In 1850 money command
| ed 90 per cent interest, with no money
to be loaned. In 1901 it commands
six per cent.
Hers a Notable Life.
Mrs. Mahetible Ryus, one of the first
white women to become a resident
Of Wyandotte county, is dead in Kan
sas City, aged 81. She had lived in the
county more than so years. She was
the mother of w. III. Ryus, who built
the Ryus hotel in Kansas City many
years ago.
Practical Demonstration.
Near Colby well-known farmer got
religion in the recent revival. The
next day he went to the courthouse
and paid SIS over to the county clerk,
saying that he had collected that
much unlawfully in the shape of
bounty on coyotes not killed in the
county.
Three Bridge Builders Killed.
A wreck on the Howard branch OF
the Santa Fe two miles south of EN-
poria caused the death of three bridge
builders-Frank Macdonald. of Fre-
donia; Cyrus Wing and Cromwell
Lake, of Chanute. Several others
were injured.
C0nvfcts Number 1.O60.
There are now 1,O69 convicts in the
Kansas state prison at Lansing. OF
these, 1,041 are males and % females
OF the males, IT'S are white and 25s
colored. There are 5 Indians and 3
Mexicans. Fifty-one of these are life
convicts.
What 1t Costs to Feed Them.
1t costs on an average of II to II
cents a day to feed each convict in
the Kansas prison. All the work con-
nected with the preparation and serv-
ing of food is done by the prisoners.
Pioneer Resident.
Robert Garrett, a resident of Leav-
enworth since 1857 and wealthy
lumber dealer, is dead. He was one
of the founders of the Presbyterian
church in Leavenworth.
Baseball Players Good Luck.
Young sAgnew, a baseball player Of
Minneapolis, has been appointed sec-
on2 lieutenant in the regular army.
I!c was with the Twentieth Kansas.
VIII BE Brisfow's Secretary.
Will e. Spilman, of Manhattan, has
jnst been appointed private secretary
to Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gem
eral Bristow.
The Flour Industry.
Kansas mills ground $1,000, 900 BUSH
els of wheat during the year ended