Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-11-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

old citizen OF Kansas City, Kan, was in
jured by being thrown from q buggy,
which resulted in his death few days
later.
A MAN by the name OF F. H. Actert
lately victimized several parties in Kan
sas City, Kan, by purchasing several
bills OF goods and giving forged checks
in payment. The police were eager to
make his acquaintance but he studiously
kept out OF their way.
The shareholders of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
held meeting ut Topeka the othor day
and ratified the purchase OF the Colo
RADIO Midland railway.
GEORGE COOPER, colored, shot at
Jake 0verstreet, also colored, in q
quarrel at Lawrence the other even
ing, and hit Charles Ashley in the right
arm.
THE other day sewer gases contained
in the sewer pipe under Kansas avenue
in Kansas City, Kan, exp! oded with
terrific force. The iron caps OF the man
holes in that vicinity were blown fifty
feet into the air and created consterna-
ton among pedestrians and horses on
the street Fortunately no one was hurt
WILL SHEPPARD, aged Il years, was
killed at Wetmore the other day, by
the accidental discharge OF a shotgun
in tho hands OF a deaf and dumb man
named George Buckles
Doc RAYMOND. the demented hack
man, who was recently picked up in the
water Of Three Mile creek, near Leav-
enworth, and placed in hospital, has
escaped from that institution and can
not be found.
w. j. WILLIAMS, % years old, was re-
Gently injured in runaway Mt Kansas
City, Kan. and died two days later.
The horse he was riding was run into
by buggy and he was thrown his head
striking the curbstone and fracturing
his skull. Williams was at one time q
member of Buffalo Bills Wild West
show
POLICE raided the warehouses of the
Western Brewery Company at Leaven-
worth the other day and conGscated
forty-two dozen cases Of beer, taken
there during the original package period.
The proprietors were engaged at the
time in hauling the goods to Missouri
Every bottle was destroyed.
The other afternoon as John Rupert
and James Holloway were excavating
for barn foundation on the d Rupert
homestead, just west of Argentine,
where an old stable was standing which
had been erected years ago, young Ru-
perts pick struck an object that gave
forth sound as Of iron. The curiosity
Of the men became aroused, and they
began excavating the strange object
quite rapidly, when huge iron kettle
with about five-gallon capacity and
covered with heavy iron d was ex.
posed to Wow. The kettle was found
to contain gold coins ranging from 81 to
$50 pieces and none with a later date
than 1854. showing that some one had
buried the gold in the year 1854. The
vessel contained just SIS 600.
A CORRESPONDENT who has been on
visit to the barren hills of New
England comes to the conclusion that
"a Kansas man just before each Thanks
giving day should take trip East to
fit himself for the day and its exercises.
II after such an opportunity for observa-
ton and comparison he did not join in
the anthem of thankfulness in a man
ner TO make him heard all over the
neighborhood, then he might be set
down as creature incapable of graft.
tude to God or anybody else"
A COLORED man recently took four
Opossums to Leavenworth VIII CHI he
offered for IS cents He could not find
purchaser and returned home vowlng
that he would hereafter vote for no
man who did not advocate home mar
ket for possums.
II is stated that Atchison contains
seventy-five BARRIERS.
A THIEF attempted to enter the back
door Of the home Of Editor Landrey at
Argentine the other afternoon with the
view OF improving his worldly condi-
tion, but the vigilant eye of the editor
detected h m and the editorial shotgun
caused the scallawag to beat hasty
retreat
JUDGE FOSTER, OF the United States
Circuit Court at Topeka, has ordered
Receiver Kent, Of the Industrial Iron
Works in Kansas City, Kan, to proceed
with the operation of the plant The
sheriff had taken possession under at
tachments sued out in the Wysndotte
County district court The sheriff, who
had been cited to appear before Judge
Foster for contempt was released upon
condition that he release the attach
ments and turn the property over to the
receiver.
BY general orders issued from the
War Department the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth is constituted an in
dependent military post under the i'm