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


OF Concordia, went out to water the
stock. fell head first into the we'll and
was drowned
Must Accept c. o. D. Whisky.
Judge, Pollock has granted a mandA-
tory injunction compelling the Wells
Fargo and Pacific Express Com
panies to accept and deliver in Kan
sas c. o. d. liquor shipments. Judge
Pollock holds that prohibition or To-
cal option laws cannot affect inter
state shipments, and that since I'M
der the constitution an express COM
pany cannot be stopped from max
ing deliveries in a prohibition state.
it cannot refuse to accept such c. o.
D. shipments in another state. ]. M.
Shoenheit, general attorney for the
distilling company, urged that that
discrimination could not be made
against liquor or any other class OF
merchandise. Judge Pollock's tenn
porary order is to hold until June Is.
when he will give the matter hear
ing
Beat Up Reformatory Guard. -
John Simpson and Blair Riley sawed
out of their cells at Hutchinson and
attacked Officer Sherman Monroe.
night cell guard, and after beating
him nearly to death, were frightened
away by his cries for help. George
Goodman, an inmate and cell house
-
with a broom, but was driven away
by Riley with the bar of iron torn
from his bed. Officer Monroe was
terribly beaten. The bones in the
back of each hand were broken, one
finger was cut off and there are nine
cuts in his scalp. He will recover.
Riley was sent up from Sedgwick
county for burglary in September,
1905. He had previously served
term in the Iowa reformatOry. He is
"a years old. Simpson, sent up from
Labette county in 1904 for burglary
| and larceny, is 81. He had been a
trusty until recently. Both were
eligible to parole and might have
been released next month, but will
probably be transferred to the peni-
Tertiary.
Kansas and Nebraska Compared
| In 1901 the state of Kansas produced
| 99,019,304 bushels of wheat, while
Nebraska raised 42,006,SS5 bushels.
The yield in Kansas being Ia bushels
per acre greater than in Nebraska,
| the price, under the law of supply
and demand, should have been lower,
byIt it was cents higher COmpar-
| ing rail hauls from Kansas City and
| Omaha. the principal shipping ports
of these states, it is found that the
| former is thirty-four miles nearer
Chicago and 129 miles nearer st.
nearer the river route to New Or
leans, so that this gain in cents per
bushel for that year, on yield of
| 1875 bushels per acre, represents a
net revenue of 92.5 cents an acre
| over Nebraska. Had the entire state
| been sown in wheat it would have
| produced an additional revenue of
nearly $5O,0O0,000. The actual re-
turn on this crop above that for Ne
| braska was nearly $5,00O,000 Kan
sas received 9 cents more per bushei
| on her corn and cents more on
oats, making total net gain of near
| ly S12,000,00O, while on her crops Ne
braska lost over $14,000,000 because
of her geographical position with ref
erence to waterways.
| Liquor Gases Disposed Of. The
last of the liquor cases against six
teen of the Parsons druggists who
| have been on trial at Oswego has
been disposed of. Eleven of them
confessed judgment and were taxed
up with the costs in their cases and
by attorney fees. Four of them went
on trial, three of them being found
| guilty and one was acquitted. The
two remaining cases were transfer
red to the June term of court.
Unhealthy For Horse Thieves. =
Horse thieves will do well to keep
away from Whitewater, in Butler
county. The farmers there have an
! Anti-Horse Thief Association which
has never failed to get every thief it
has tried to capture. Within the last
| few days a team of horses was stolen
! from Dean & Co. and a horse and
buggy from E. p. Burns. The Anti
Horse Thief Association went
| promptly to work and the thieves
were captured with the stolen prop
erty in their possession. One was
captured at Yates Center and the 9TH
er at Leon. small town thirty miles
| southeast of Whitewater. Both are
in Jail awaiting trial at the next tenn
| of the district court
Cost More Than Last Year. The
maintenance of the nine charitable
institutions for the first ten months
OF the present fiscal year has cost
| approximately $26,S54.35 more than