Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-20

BOND issue and will at once improve
a block in the center of town for a
park and Carnegie library site.
Veteran Frozen to Death. = VIII
liam Higley, a veteran of the civil
war, 63 years of age, was found
frozen to death within the home
grounds at Leavenworth. He had
crawied through hole in hedge
fence, but being exhausted, sank
within sight of his barracks and
died from exposure.
Fell From Porch on Head. - AL
bert II. Green, a veteran of the sol
diers' home, at Leavenworth, fell
from the barracks porch and struck
on his head. He died in short
time. Green was 20 years Old He
served in the Sixth Kentucky cav
airy in the Civil war. He had been
member of the home eighteen
years.
For German Orphans Home. =
The German Baptist Brethren of
Mcpherson have organized an Or
phans' Home Society, and the CHAR
ter of the association has just been
received. Arrangements will be
made for the accommodation of the
orphans of the church, but no home
will be built for their accommoda-
ton until later.
A Democratic Banquet. The
Democrats have sent out a general
invitation to the members of their
party to assemble in Topeka to at
tend the annual banquet February
p. 1t is to be under the auspices
OF the Kansas Democratic Club and
will be held in the Throop hotel.
Tickets are now on sale at 81 each.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial
Association will meet there on that
date.
Escaped Convict Under Arrest. -
Captain J. M. Purcell, guard at the
United States penitentiary at Leav-
enworth, has gone to Rawlins, Wyo.,
to get George Pierce, convict who
escaped during the muiny in 1898.
Pierce was arrested and sentenced
in Rawlins for robbing a postoffice
He had been serving time at Leav-
Kansas and will have nearly fous
| years to serve.
Names Son-in-Law. - 1t is under
i stood that Congressman Bowersock
has recommended Mr.. Hill, SON.
| pointment at Lawrence Mr. Hill is
at present manager of Mr.. Bower
| socks flour mill. A man by the
name of Collins of Lawrence seeks
the appointment. He is in Wash
| ington and it is stated that he pro-
poses to see President Roosevelt il
behalf of his own claim.
Arrested For SwindIing. - Char
les Carson, young man living
about five miles south of Wichita.
was arrested on the charge of lar
ceny. Carson is said to have
bought several loads of corn from
farmers, to whom he represent
ed that he was working for a
Wichita livery man. When the bill
turned it down because he knew
nothing of young Carson or his deal
ing.
Sheriff Took the Liquor. - On
complaint of several citizens and by
order of the county attorney of
Ford county, Sheriff H. B. Bell seiz-
ed all the liquor held by the United
States Express Company at the
ROCK Island depot at Dodge City.
The liquor was taken to the court
house, where it was stored pending
investigations by the court.
Accuses Legislator. - Members
OF the house have received from
Will K. Reeme, of Kansas City, cir
cular letters declaring that the
conduct of John A. Edwards, chair
man of the special legislative COM
mittee sent to Kansas City to inves-
tigate the stock yards, was unbe-
coming of a Kansas statesman. The
letter charges that Edwards drank
while there, and that he refused to
investigate charges that the stock
yards company had used money to
defeat the passage of laws against
their interests two years ago. Ed
wards says that Reeme is he
Myra McHenry." and that the
charges he made were absolutely
false
Demand Kansas Land. - Senator
Clark, of Wyoming, has presented
memorial to the senate at Wash
mgton from absentee Shawnee In
dams claiming title to 1.5OO. 900
acres OF land in Kansas lying south
OF the Kaw river. The strip is
twenty-five miles wide and 100 miles
long and takes in nearly all the