Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-08-23
Miscellaneous,

THREE desperadoes confined in the
Wyandotte County Jail at Kansas City
were recently detected concocting
plan to escape. The plan was to throw
cayenne pepper into the eyes OF the
jailer, club him and make q break for
liberty. The sheriff permitted the plot
to 60 on until about ready to mature,
when he spoiled the whole scheme.
WHEN Mrs. j. P. Stotts, living at the
town of haywood. went to the cistern
about noon the other day she discov-
cred what she supposed was bunch OF
clothing lying in the water. She called
her husband, who went down into the
cistern and brought out an infant male
child, perhaps two days old, which had
been strangled to death by means OF
rope wound around its neck.
OK the afternoon OF the 14th Henry
Daniels, well-to-do farmer living seven
miles southeast of Manhattan, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to tree.
For year past he had been practically
crazed over Spiritualism and OF late he
had been worried over his financial at
fairs. He was one OF ex-County Treas
urer FORMERS bondsmen and was one OF
the few who had o disposition to pay the
county the amount of FORMERS embez-
element He was an old resident and
man OF sterling qualities
A PARTY Of young missionary workers
left Topeka last June to operate in the
Soudan. They were Charles Helmick,
Mrs. Rebecca Kingman and Miss Jennie
Dick, of Topeka, and Warren j. Harris,
of Augusta, Me-, and Frank Gates, OF
St Paul. Upon reaching Freetown,
West Africa, they were stricken with
African fever and all died except Hell
mick and Miss Dick. Miss Dick is the
daughter Of George Dick, prominent
physician of Topeka.
TIE total tax levy made by the State
Board of Equalization is 81, 4sO, 952.4O
being one-twentieth Of mill more than
last year. The levy for the general rev.
enue fund is three and fourteenth mills;
for the State-house, four tenths Of a
mill; for the interest fund, two-tenths
OF mill; current university fund, one
fourth OF mill.
ATTORNEY GENERAL KELLOGG has
written an opinion concerning the scope
and effect OF the Prohibitory law OF
Kansas, since the passage of the Will
son bill, which, if it is sustained by the
courts, will prove very sweeping and
dangerous thing for the express COM
panies and liquor dealers. The Attor.
ney-General holds that the Kansas Pro.
hibitory law is now more stringent than
before the Iowa decision, as the State
can now control the express companies,
while before, knowing that that could
not be done under the act affecting In
ter-State commerce, no attempt was
made to control them.
THE rains which have fallen over
Kansas within the past two weeks have
been OF incalculable benefit to the
farmer as the ground is in prime condi-
ton for sowing wheat. Secretary Mohl-
er, of the State Board of Agriculture, ad-
vices small farmers in the northwest
and southern sections of the State to
raise WneAL rdLueE Iuou OOEh' Ao ooJo
he knows Of dozen farmers in his Sec
ton OF the country who have raised
wheat for several seasons and have made
enough money to stock their farms and
purchase cattle to fatten. Now, since
they have gotten start they will begin
raising corn again to feed, but not to
sell.
JACOB NICHOLS, q farmer about fifty
years Of age, was killed by lightning at
Norton the other evening while stand
ing near telegraph pole.
A. T. SHARPE, editor and proprietor
of the Ottawa Republican, died in that
city the other day of a complication Of
heart disease and dropsy. He leaves
wife and three children. Mr.. Sharpe
was one of the few newspaper men of
Kansas who got rich.
WASH. WATERMAN, the eighty-year.
old horse-thief who was but few weeks
ago released from the Missouri peniten-
tiary, was again arrested the other day
at Topeka with horse and buggy that
ne had stolen at Fort Scott. He de-
slared that he would plead guilty.