Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

OF the passenger train service on the
Leavenworth, Topeka & Southwestern
and the Union Pacific railways. The
board recognizes the fact that the traffic
on the line Is so light that 1t will not
pay operating expenses yet the people
along the line subscribed literally to-
wards its construction under promise
that they should have good service, and
the board holds that that promise should
be kept. Itwas, therefore, ordered that
the passenger train service petitioned
for be put on within thirty days
IT is estimated that Kansas has 7,OOO,-
900 acres in corn this year.
j. +. WILLIE, chairman, and 5. w.
Chase, secretary of the Central Com
mittee of the Peoples Party, have is
sued the call for State convention
to be held in Topeka, August 10, 1890,
to place in nomination candidates for
State offices and to transact any and all
business that may be legitimately
brought before the convention. The
apportionment OF delegates provides for
q convention of $50, the largest ever
held in the State. 1t IS based on the
population of the counties as no test OF
the strength of the party has ever been
made.
A STORY from Wichita is to the effect
tina. the foreman OF the Santa Fe shops
conipels all the employees to take out a
life insurance policy in the company he
represents in order to retain their
situations
S. d. WIcKENs, who has had some
reputation as newspaper man and who
has been through the Western country
as a solicitor for several Eastern news
papers, was recently arrested at Leav-
enworth for forging the name of prom
inent clothing dealer to check for Sa4o
and receiving the cash therefor.
DIR. r. NJ. BARNES, of Greensburg,
was found dead in his Office the other
day with bullet-hole in his left breast.
No revo' yer could be found, which evil
dences that it was not case Of suicide.
The theory was that he had been assas-
sinated the night before by some enemy
who had followed him from Michigan,
from which State he came about four
years ago and where it was reported he
had had trouble and left for the West
as q matter of safety.
WILLIAM CLAUsMAYER, a farmer liv-
ing near st. Marks, recently drank con-
centrated lye, which he mistook for
wine, and died in short time.
AT St John the other day about
twenty persons were poisoned by eating
ice cream. No deaths had been report
ed, although some were expected to oc-
cur.
Two burglars entered the residence Of
L. b. Pellee, at Usage City, the other
night and when they reached the bed
room of Mr.. and Mrs Pellee the lady
awoke, and, shaking her husband, ex-
claimed: There is man in the house;
shoot~ The burglars commenced to
shoot, when Mr.. Pellee returned their
shots and they fed. In few minutes one
of them was found short distance of
with bullet through his body and dying.
He gave the name Of Irwin Curt and
said that he was an outcast
AMONG the recent combinations by
the Senate were E. Il. Jewett as post
master at Wichita and c. 5. Radcliffe as
postmaster at Salina.
THREE children of John Lober, n we'll
known farmer ten miles south Of Wichita,
were burned to death the other after
noon. Lober and his wife left them
locked up in their house while they
went visiting neighbors. During their
absence the house took fire and the
little ones, unable to escape from the
burning house, were consumed with it
F. 7. BEAI, a harness maker, was re-
Gently shot and killed at Caney by Dep
uty Marshall Killian in quarrel over
an arrest Killian had made.
THOMAS BILrMAN, a dairyman, was
recently killed by his runaway team at
Wichita.
AT Hutchinson the other day hand
car ran into freight train on the bridge
and Bresson Florentine was killed.
LoTTIE MCDONALD, eighteen years
old, recently undertook to start fire
with coal oil at Hutchinson and was so
successful that she was burned to death.
PRESIDENT TRoUTMAS, Of the State
Temperance Union, has issued call for
a State convention of Prohibitionists to
meet at Topeka July 10, for the purpose
of declaring their loyalty to prohibition
and take action concerning the attempt
to sell liquor in original packages. The
basis of representation will be as fol-
lows: Each county shall be entitled to
one delegate at large for every 1000 OF
it's population, to be appointed in any
manner that the localities may find
most convenient. Every church, Sum
day school, temperance society or other
organ cation in sympathy with the pur-
pose of the convention is invited TO elect
three delegates Delegates should Be