Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


following officers were elected: Presi-
dent NJ. j. Brown, of Salina; vice-presi-
dent, q. II. Anderson. OF Seneca; treas
urer, g. II. 7. johnson, Of Atchison;
recording secretary, p Deiderich, OF
Kansas City, Kan; corresponding secre-
tary, d. p. Cook, OF Clay Center.
Mrs. DR.. jackson, OF Emporia,
and Drs. Mcintyre, OF Topeka,
and Hutchinson. OF Hutchinson,
we're elected on the board Of censors.
DIR. Robey, OF Topeka, was elected dele
gate to the American Institute HON.
opathy and DIR. Foster, of Kansas City,
to the Western Society OF Homeopathy.
AT tie recent meeting Of the Loyal
Legion at Leavenworth the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: General C. A. Med. McCook,
commander; Captain ]. d. Barker, OF
Girard, senior vice; Major Thomas j.
Anderson, Of Topeka, junior vice; Cap
tain Hathaway. U. s. A., recorder; 5. +.
Neeley, Of Leavenworth, registrar; Dr.
T. j. Weed, Of Leavenworth, treasurer;
DR.. Woolverton, of Topeka. chancellor;
Rev. Bernard Kelly, chaplain; Colonel
Milton Steward, Wichita; Colonel j. r.
Mcclure, Junction City; Captain c. @
Carr Leavenworth; Major Homer Pond,
Fort Scott. and DIR. A. c. Varduyn,
Leavenworth, council.
HEAVY frosts visited parts of the State
on the night Of the 18th.
ELBERr +. WARD, wanted at Vienna,
Ill. for selling for $1,000 his horse Red
Bird, which was mortgaged for $500,
was recently arrested at Anthony. He
was living there under an assumed
name and was about to try to secure .
loan OF 81, 600 on another's land.
TEE Social Science Tub at its recent
meeting in Lawrence, elected the fol-
lowing officers: President Mrs. L. Is.
Kellogg, of Emporia; vice-presidents,
Mrs. J. X. Cravens, of Kansas City. Mo-;
Mrs. NJ. Il. Gray, Of Kansas City, Kan;
Mrs. Judge Hauk, Of Hutchinson; Mrs.
Prentiss, of Lawrence; Mrs. Crowell, OF
Atchison; Mrs. Sallie Toler, Of Wichita,
and Mrs. Morgan. of Leavenworth;
secretary, Mrs. Rosa W. Atwood, OF
Manhattan: treasurer, Mrs. Henrietta
Stoddard Turner, OF Paola.
TIE Republican Congressional con-
vention for the Sixth district recently
held at Colby, nominated Webb McNall
for Congress on the SD ballot.
The Atchison street railway. which
was sold to John Weber, Of Des Moines,
last November for $4,000, has again
been sold, this time to H. j. Ransom, OF
Des Moines, representing Boston people.
The consideration was S11S,OOO.
A TORNADO recently did much damage
in the vicinity of Fredonia. Many
houses were destroyed Mrs. Frank
Glidden and child were killed and
several others ser ously injured.
The other afternoon q man named
Frederick Shafer, who was trying to
beat his way out Of Leavenworth, at
tempted to board north-bound freight
train, and in doing so got his legs
caught between the cars, crushing them
in horrible manner. He died in .
short time.
THE Senate has passed Mr.. Plumb's
bill to fix the times and places ofholding
Federal courts in Kansas. 1t divides
the State into two districts, to be known
as the First and Second division OF the
district OF Kansas The terms of court
in the First d'vis on are to be held at
the time and places now prescribed by
law, and those of the Second division at
Wichita on the first Monday in March
and September in each year.
GEORGE w. CRANE & Co., printers and
bookbinders of Topeka, recently made
an assignment for the benefit OF their
creditors Their liabilities are $3.50, 900.
TIE other morning an aged colOred
man, PeytOn Burleigh, was found dead
in White Clay creek, near the Missouri
Pacific shops ut Atchison, with deep
cash just above the left temple, evil
IDENTIFY made with car coupling pin.
He was seen with another negro man
the night before, with whom he had
been quarreling, but the man denied all
knowledge of the crime.
THERE are 10 creameries in success
full operation in Kansas.
KANSAS is growing 375,001 more acres
of wheat this year than it did last
SALINA business men have organized
a Commercial Exchange to forward the
interests OF their city.
ALFRED NJ. SEELEY has obtained .
Judgment at Olathe against the Santa
Fe road for S7,04S.25 for losing leg in
an accident while in the employ Of the
road as q brakeman.
THE ladies who were recently elected
to the municipal offices of Edgerton have
resigned.
A MEMBER Of the soldiers home at
tempted suicide at LeavenwOrth the
other afternoon by lying down full
length on the tracks of the Leayen-
worth, Topeka & Southwestern railway
and awaiting the coming of train. but
was discovered by the engineer in time