Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-03-27
simons ana Hook Disa~ree.


Simons and Hook Disagree.
At Uniontown r. E. Eckert, travel 7
ng salesman for the Louisville Supply ma
company, of Kansas City, was arrested ty,
or soliciting orders for liquor. He Yo
vas fined 500 and sentenced to 80 six
lays in Jail. Application was made and
o Judge Simons. of the district court, me
or his release on . writ of habeas &
corpus. on the ground that the law me
lnder which he was convicted is un- pei
as Judge Hook, Of the bri
'ederal court, has held it to be. The the
'tate court held it good and refused Jol
% issue the writ. on
rot
NO" AAnsa' hanroao' the
The secretary of state granted a
.harter for the Hutchison & South
Railroad company. The OBJ +
ect of the company is to construct law
! railroad from Hutchisoh, Kan, to nat
Fort Smith, Ark. The Kansas coun- ute
les 1t Is proposed to traverse are sar
Reno, Harvey, Sedgwick, Butler, Sum- ty
Ter, Cowley, Greenwood, Ellis, Chau- tn
;auqua and Montgomery. Ian
Important Kansas Land Decision. s:s
Judge Clark rendered q decision at ...
Great Bend in the Cheyenne bottom A.,
and condemnation cases that knocks
,ut everything SO far done. This de-
.ision involves about 10000 acres of 4
and situated in the middle of the the
Cheyenne bottom, that was sought bic
TO be condemned for the purpose of ize
\ reservoir for irrigation and like jut
general purposes. 100
She Believed In witches. Wv
Mrs. Agnes Koch, an aged woman -,
- 20, >as ~ Juiy on tn,
,ution could show was that Mrs.
Koch believed her chimney to be in
habited by a witch, and that occa- ]
sionally she would go upon the roof Re
and punch down the chimney with Sn
pole in order to make the witch un- SIN
comfortable. ed
The Kansas "Big Four" M
Word comes from Washington that m ~.
J. NJ. Simpson, of Mcpherson, will be w. wa
appointed collector of internal reve- ~
nue.. L. s. Crum will be United States 'n
and Cyrus Leland is to sue
ceed himself as pension agent. Ike
Lambert will succeed himself as io1
United States district attorney. an
Cashier Stopped q Run. w W.
c. A. johnson, missing cashier of 10
the F;rst national b,nE nj Niles pr
N;oh :, ,,ra.;da,,+ "a ~. r.,,,ars, we
- .r,.s C.t-- -. g. - tn
ing of the Niles bank started q run
On the latter institution, but Cashier
Denton had provided 100000 and met err
the excited depositors coolly. m.
Big Coal Strike at Mound City. -"
Two veins of rich coal have been NV
struck at Mound City, which are %
claimed to be the largest finds in the PC
Kansas field. One vein is five feet
thick at depth of 300 feet and an t.
other six feet thick at depth of $40 sci
feet. The strike has created quite tn
a sensation there. SAT
Doctors to Choose Their Own Board. -,
Gov. Stanley announced that he ~
would let the physicians of Kansas
have a say in the selection of mem
bers of the new state board of regis
tration. The governor will permit Or
the regulars" to name three, the GU
two and the eclectics no
two. lb
Women Saved Temperance Ticket
After fight of unprecedented bit
terness Col. j. W. F. Hughes of
douglas house" fame, was nominated CO.
for mayor of Topeka by the republi- ba
cans. He headed the claw enforce pa
mcnt" ticket. The woman vote was WI
cast for Hughes. pa
Saloon Raiders Charged with Murder.
After a three days preliminary trial
at Leayenworth a jury found Andy At
Son Thurnburg, Joe Turner ni'
and John Wilson, who were implicated tn
in the raid on the Milwood saloon last ye
guilty of the murder of Mrs.
Hudson, in the first degree as charged. ,
Shortage of $4,000. IN
The annual report of the Order of DO
Select Friends shows that the order sn
was deficient $4,000 in the payment "
of its obligations. That is the rea-
son State Insurance Superintendent ,
Church revoked its charter. ho
Entertained at Kansas City. W
The Kansas Grain Dealers associa- II.
tion held it's annual meeting at To- '
peka last week, from there going by
special train to Kansas City, No., 4
where they were entertained by the a ]
board of trade. vo
on Found Near Cawker City. An
While digging well on H. B. Wood -
berry's ranch, south of Cawker, oil
was struck 20 feet from the surface. ]
The oil burns readily and the farm Je,
ers in the vicinity think they have tn,
a bonanza or,
Re
For the fourth time Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman McKinnis, of Republic coun- j
ty, have become the parents of twins. Cit