Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


in session at Salina, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident j. E. Minney, Of Topeka; first
vice-president, w. A. Phillips. Of Salina;
second vice-president, DIR. Peters, OF
Mankato; secretary, DIR. Lindsey, OF
Mcpherson; treasurer, DIR. Robertson. OF
Hutchinson. Wichita was selected for
next years convention.
Mrs. LUCY HENDERSON, an old resi-
dent Of Atchison, committed suicide the
other morning by drowning herself in q
cistern. She had been in poor health
for two years, and about three months
ago was taken with severe attack OF
la grippe, which left her mind in an UNI
balanced condition.
WHILE recently trying to catch colt,
Leslie, the twelve-year-Old son Of A. b.
Fleiner, OF Atchison, was kicked on the
head and instantly killed.
In the District Court at Leavenworth
Judge Crozier recently declared part Of
the State Prohibitory law unconditional.
The decision was rendered in q case
where the Assistant Attorney-General
summoned the street commissioner and
others to give information under
oath as to violations of the Prohibitory
law. They refused to give testimony
and were committed to Jail for con-
tempt Habeas corpus proceedings to
secure their release were begun before
Judge Crozier, who handed down long
decision ordering their discharge from
custody and declaring unconstitutional
the provisions of the law comforting
power upon the Acknowledgement to
summon persons to testify as to viola
lions of the law.
HOWARD HARTZELI, telegraph oper-
ator at the Wichita stock-yards, shot
himself the other morning. He deliber-
ately descended to the cellar under his
Office with shotgun, emptied barrel
into his breast just above the heart re-
turned to the Office, exclaimed, II have
shot myself" and fell over. His wound
was considered fatal.
GEORGE BREWER, farmer, was found
dead in his bed at his farm house, five
miles south OF Whitewater, the other
day. The remains were in horribly
decomposed state. Brewer was sixty
eight years old and lived alone. 1t was
thought robbery and murder had been
committed, as valuable team Of horses,
wagon and harness were missing from
the place.
A PALACE horse car, which had been
standing for few days on the Union
Pacific side track at Junction City, was
found to be on fire the other morning.
When the flames were ext inguished the
body of an unknown man was pulled out
OF the car, dead from suffocation. Let
ters were found in coat pocket from
Emma Vogt, Grape Creek, ILL.,, addressed
to John Vogt at Denver and Manitou,
Col, which furnished clew to his
identity.
NJ. CoNy, proprietor of the Eldredge,
House at Lawrence, pleaded guilty in
the district court the other day to the
charge of selling liquor in violation Of
the law. He was sentenced about noon
to thirty days in Jail and to pay fine of
500. Several prominent citizens took
the noon train for Topeka and at four
o'clock returned with pardon from the
Governor.
THE Grand Commandery Of Knights
Templar, recently in conclave at To-
peka, elected the following officers:
George w. Port, of Beloit grand COM
mander; w. S. Corbett, of Wichita,
deputy grand commander: E. c. Culp, OF
Salina, grand generalissimo; Clark
Gray, of Larned, captain general; I. c.
Upper, Of Leavenworth, grand prelate;
Christian Beck, Of LeavenwOrth, grand
treasurer; John H. Brown, Of Kansas
City, Kan, grand recorder; Alexander
Robb, Of Mcpherson, senior warden; ].
b. Hoober, of independence, junior
warden.
SEVERAL Original package" houses
have opened for business at Topeka.
WILLIAM c. FULLER, who represented
himself to be the son OF leading
banker at Pratt, had check cashed at
a cigar stand at Wichita the other even
ing for SIS. Mrs. James Erwin, who
owns the stand, soon afterward sus-
pected that the check had been forged
and started to find Fuller. She ran
across him coming out of joint, seized
him, forced him to the pavement and
awaited the arrival Of an officer. Fuller
admitted that the check was forged and
was locked up. He is only nineteen
years old.
Mrs. BENSON, of Leavenworth, wife Of
the suspect Charles A. Benson, has filed
a petition for divorce and for a decree
investing her with the title Of the Ben
son home. She married Benson Feb
ruary 1, 1870, in Germany.
THE Grand Army investigation Of the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth result
ed in proving the charges of mismanage-
ment to be groundless. The men who
made the complaints failed TO present
themselves.