Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-03-27
NUMBER 42.
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
Bold Robberx at olpe.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Bold Robbery as 0lps.
Two men, one wearing . mask.
made bold raid at olpe, Lyon coun-
", the other night. The store Of
Young & Diebolt was entered and
six men were covered with revolvers
and robbed. They compelled the sin
s. Co., robbing the store and three
men in it. The robbers then com.
pelled the nine men to walk out to q
bridge near town and, after warning
them not to follow, told them to 60.
John Wheeler was arrested at Olpe
on the charge. All the men who were
robbed are positive Wheeler Is one Of
the robbers.
Alien Land Law Repealed.
Kansas no longer has an alien land
law. Gov. Stanley attached his sig.
nature to a bill wiping it OF the stat.
ltes. After this aliens can enjoy the
same privileges as to holding propers
ty that citizens of the state enjoy.
Thero will be no distinction. The alien
land law was passed to catch one
man-Lord Scully, of England-and 10
didn't catch him. He at once took out
naturalization papers and became ao
American citizen.
May Invalidate the Law.
Attorney General GODDARD expresses
the opinion that the clause Of the
biennial election law which author
ICES the governor to appoint district
judges for the period from January.
1902. to January, 1903, to succeed
those whose terms Of Office expire this
year, is unconstitutional, and may in.
validate the entire act, on the ground
that the legislature cannot create O
Unique Wedding Ceremony.
DR.. Joseph Lutz and Miss Belle
Reed, prominent young couple ol
Smith Center, were married in the
smallpox quarantine by Rev. DIR. MeF.
edith, who used megaphone at Q
safe distance to perform the cere-
mony. The couple stood in the door.
way of the pesthouse, while the min
lister stood across the street and
shouted the formula distinctly.
Legislature Passed 4es Bills.
The Kansas legislature which adj
journed last week passed 42s bills
and resolutions. This was 113 more
than were passed two years ago, and
4s more than were ever passed at any
previous session. Probably fewer bills
were signed by the governor this tiina
than any time in the past.
Kansas Leads In Rural Routes.
Superintendent Machen, of the gen.
eral free delivery, gave out state
ment showing that on March Kansas
had in operation 1877 rural free de.
livery routes, and there were appli-
cations for 342 additional routes
pending. Missouri had only IS routes.
The "Outward Manifestations
Sharpers with a new system Of
school charts disposed of 100 Of
them in Washington county alone at
$50 set. Three thousand dollars in
one Kansas county has all the out
wayd manifestations of ready money.
Kansas City Star.
Transferred the Entire Order.
The supreme officers of the defunca
Order of Select Friends issued a cir.
cular letter giving notice to the policy
holders that the membership had
b cen transferred to the American
Crusaders Of Kansas City.
Left Her Alone with the Cat.
In a divorce suit fled in Brown
county the wife alleges that her hus-
band went of to dances and Other
parties and had hilarious old time.
while she was compelled to keep com.
pany with the cat at home.
Kansas Couples Diamond WeddinR.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. BidweIl, Of
Atchison, celebrated the sixtieth an.
niversafy of their wedding day. All
though Mrs. Bidwell is nearly 60
years old, she does all her own work
Has Cigarette Blindness.
Physicians give no encouragement
In the case of 13-year-old Stockton
boy who is next to totally blind from
smoking ciSdTetJcS. One eye 10 sure
ly gone, and the other may follow. .
Barker Would Succeed Harris.
George j. Barker, speaker Of the
house of representatives, has confided
to his friends an ambition to be Unit
ed States senator, to succeed W. a,
Harris in 1903.
Carnegie Library for Lawrence.
Andrew Carnegie viii give So, 900 Ton
a library at Lawrence, the city to de.
vote $500 year to its mainte-
nance. A tax will be levied for the
purpose.
White Would Go to Congress.
Hays B. White, senator from the
JewellMitchell district, will contest
the republican nomination for cons
gress in the Sixth district with w. A.
Reeder.
Episode OF Dodge City Gixl.
Rella Workman, an 1S-year-old Doded
City girl, dressed herself in male APP
parel and ran away with tramps. Shn