Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-03-06
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
1t Goes Marching On.

It Goes Marching On.
At least dozen joints in Kansas
have been smashed the past week. At
Perry Is women followers of Mrs. Ma
ton sailed forth and with axes and
hatchets denuded and wrecked joints.
The sum total of the raid was 90 bar
rels of whisky, 62 kegs of beer and 20
cases of beer turned into the street
and 81 900 worth of fixtures destroyed
A cheering crowd followed the cruz
saders from place to place. Fifteen
masked women, on liquor crusade.
broke into the Central Branch rail-
road depot. at Goffs, Nemaha county.
and destroyed Is gallons Of whisky
and four kegs of beer found there.
The liquor was poured out upon the
platform. The w. C. T. U. meeting at
Lawrence had the desired effect on
the police, as they raided two joints
and caught one of the jointists, \
negress named Nancy Hawkins. There
was free-for-an fight at Beloit re.
sulting from the feeling over the
closing of the joints. The temperance
men and women insisted on making
an inspection of the places to see if
their orders regarding closing ha6
been observed. Soon an alarm of fire
was sounded and a hose cart dashed
up and commenced throwing water
on the crowd. Some men attempted
to cut the hose, but were prevented
by display of revolvers. At Arkan-
sas City at four o'clock in the MORN
ing Is men went across the Arkansas
| river to place known as the last
Chance" and with hatchets, axes and
| clubs broke every piece of furniture
in the place. The ice box was chopped
open and every bottle inside was
broken. At Peck, a small place in
Sedgwick county,, IA miles south Of
Wichita, 100 men, women, boys and
girls made raid on two joints and
ordered the proprietors out. Being
refused, they completely smashed the
buildings, delivering all goods at the
depot platform in a whole condition.
The goods were shipped to Wichita.
Crusaders Broke Down the Door.
Twenty-Five or 80 men and women
from Thompsonville, Perry and the
vicinity of Newman, armed with
hatchets and axes, made raid on the
Joints at Newman, IL miles east OF
Topeka, on the Union Pacific. The
building in which the joint was kept
was locked. The jointkeeper forbade
their entrance, but they disregarded
him and broke in the door. They then
proceeded to completely demolish the
fine cherry bar and all the fixtures.
Short work was made of the hand
some Mate glass mirror
Merchant Charged with Arson.
L. M. Peoples, a merchant of Ham.
ilton. Greenwood county, is under ar
rest charged with setting fire to u
store building last November and
burning up nearly all the business
part of Hamilton. Frank Mitchell Is
also under arrest charged with COM
plicity. It is alleged that Mitchell saw
Peoples starting the fire and left the
country for a time in consideration
of a certain sum of money.
To Change Name of Asylums.
The house committee on charitable
institutions fayors changing the
names of the state asylums to hos
pitals and fixing the pay of members
year without expenses. The board will
be authorized to raise the pay of SUI
perintendents of hospitals from $500
to $4,000 year.
Backed by Women with Hatchets.
The principal churches of Emporia
have agreed upon plan to suppress
the joints. A committee of ten men
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appointed, with orders to have the
joints closed within a few days The
women have organized and stand
ready to do hatchet execution If il
is needed.
Bill Affecting Child Labor.
Representative Hoag's bill to pro-
hibit child labor in packing houses.
factories and mines, amended so as to
permit their employment in vacation.
and exempting district messenger
l-bpys, has been recommended for pas
sage in the house.
Warnings Were Sumcfeht.
The temperance women Of O1pe.
south of Emporia, called on three
jointkeepers and demanded that they
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tight and promised to move out. At
: Cottonwood Falls the same policy was
pursued.
Four from Medicine Lodge.
The Hutchinson News cites four
Medicine Lodge people who have ar
. rived at national prominence-Jerry
Simpson, Chester I. Long, Tom Nc
Neal nd Carrie Nation, {
Paid e1o2 900 to Veterans.
The 2,400 soldiers at the national
: home In Leavenworth county were
paid Friday and Saturday. It took
100000 to cash the regular quarterly
vouchers.
Kansan Robbed Away from Home.
! j. e. Mason, of Stillwell, was robbed
by man and two women at Seventh
and Central streets, Kansas City, No.,
of $40. Two suspects were arrested.
To Raise wardcn's SALARY.
A bill has been introduced to raise
the salary Of the penitentiary warden
from $500 to $1,000 year. It Is al
legged that politicians spend 30 much
time visiting the institution that the
warden has to spend 81 900 year In
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