Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-06-12

Coney that its delegates to the ma
tonal encampment, will vote for
him for national commander
Decoration Day Accident. - Thorn
as Butler. a young man at Weir, and
son of City Clerk C. c. Butler, was
accidentally shot by his younger
brother, Owen. The latter, in pre-
pairing to go hunting, accidentally
discharged shotgun in an adjoining
bed room. The load passed through
partition and lodged in young But
ler's thigh
Hinton's Sentence COMMITTED. -
Gov. Hoch has committed the SEN
tence of life" prisoner, Joseph B.
Hinton, of Phillipsburg, to ten years
solid time and the prisoner will be
liberated April 81. 1911. Hinton was
sentenced to hang for the murder of
his sweetheart. Maggie Shurtz, in
1901. The charge was first degree
murder
Several to Receive Raise. With
the publication Of the session laws,
the superintendent of the Topeka.
Osawatomie and Parsons asylums
will draw $4,000 per year instead of
s1,S00: the secretary of the state
historical society gets a similar
raise, the assistant newspaper clerk
in the same Office is raised from 5000
to 5000. the stenographer from $3.50
to 5000, and the assistant librarian
from 5000 to $1,000.
Had 100000 Insurance. - Lucius
H. Perkins, secretary of the state
board of bar examiners and former
president of the Kansas Bar AssOcia-
ton. who died as the result of fall
from the roof of his 100000 home,
Upton Court at Lawrence, carried
more than. half million dollars
worth of life insurance, and was one
of the heaviest policy holders in Kan
sas. OF this amount it is understood
the New York Life wrote policies for
100000 and the Northwestern Mu-
tuaI 100000, the remaining 100000
being in smaller policies of several
companies.
Coolest in Forty Years. - The
weather report for May, 1907, pre-
pared by DR.. F. H. Snow, of the Uni
| yersity of Kansas. from observa-
tons taken at Lawrence says the
] past month was the coolest May in
| forty years record. There were five
white frosts during the month, the
| last being on the 9th the latest
| spring frost on record. The rain
| fall was nearly the normal amount
| The wind was below the average We
| locity, and the cloudiness very much
| above normal. The mean tempera-
| degrees below the May average. The
| highest temperature was S7.5 de-
grees on the 18th; the lowest was
SO degrees. on the Sd. The rainfall
was Loo inches, which is .55 inch be-
low the May average. The entire
rainfall for the five months of 1907
now completed has been 1865
! inches, which is SO inch above the
average for the same months in the
thirty-nine preceding years and
double the amount for the same
period in 1906. Rain in measurable
| quantities on seven days. There
were three thunderstorms during the
month The month was 597 per cent
| cloudier than usual
Statute Book Is Out.-The statute
| books containing the laws enacted by
the legislature of 1907 have been is
| sued by T. A. McNeal. state printer
and with their appearance a number
| of important laws became operative
One of these Is the famous Bird RED
| Can" bill. From now on it will be
| unlawful to put gasoline in anything
except a receptical which is painted
| red.
Sanitation For Teachers. = Schoo
teachers will be taught the new pure
| food. drug and sanitation laws
| Every county In Kansas Will have &
normal institute this summer. The
board of health has prepared a small
pamphlet which summarizes the
salient features of the new laws, an6
these pamphlets viii be the text
book for the teachers. Especially
will an effort be made to instruct
teachers how to cope with the SAM
tary problems in schools. Through
the drinking water, the ventilation
the heating and a good many Other
avenues, disease is carried int
school rooms. More than that, the
teacher should know what to do in {
community in which an epidemic O
contagious disease has started
Kansas Furnishes Another Cadet
Carl j. Ballinger, Coffey county
boy, has received official notification
that he has passed the physical ex
animation for admission to the mil;
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