Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-02-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Of the firms money.
PENSIONS lately granted to Kansas
veterans: Original invalid, Samuel IL
McClay, National Military Home; Johr
A. Larkins, Garden City; E. Ames, st
Mary's; Thomas Hindman, Grainfield
William Grub, Haviland; Reuben A
Burgess, Alpha; James Chithero, Mil
tonvale; Charles Miller, Huntsville
Levi Gray, National Military Home
Increase: Francis NJ. Cunningham, Fall
River; William NJ. Smith, Highland
Hiram Reynolds, Wilsey; jackson Per
rim, Wyandotte; Andrew ]. Humphrey
Nicola; Charles X. Ford, Arcadia; Will
lam II. Folsom, Emporia; Lewis Parks
Junction City. Original widows, Lydia
A., widow of C. ID. Lint, Hiawatha.
FoRTNER, the defaulting Riley County
treasurer, it is said, has determined tc
kill himself, and as all other means OF
accomplishing his purpose are denied
him in jail, he has, it is stated, deter
mined to starve himself to death, and tc
this end refuses either food or drink.
j. w. HAMILTON, State Treasurer, has
handed his resignation to the Governor
to take effect when his successor is ap'
pointed.
SAMUEL ID. CRAIGMIRE, an old resident
was instantly killed by a Santa Fe pas
senger train at Lawrence the other
morning. He was standing on trestle
work watching the ice cutting and did
not hear the train. He was seventy
years of age and carpenter by trade.
=. Il. THORNTON, assistant miller al
Baden's Touring mills in Winfield, was
caught in the machinery the other day,
and before the power could be shut of
every vestige of clothing was torn from
his body, bones in both arms broken in
number of places, the breast and sides
crushed and the body fearfully bruised
When his clothing caught he braced
himself against boiling chest and en-
deavored to get free, but was drawn into
the cog wheels and whirled around. This
was his third serious accident within
the last three months in the same mill
THE Wyandotte & Northwestern road
recently reduced passenger fares to two
cents per mile, and the Missouri Pacific
running to competing points, met the
new rate by making similar reduction
THE Railroad Commissioners. upon
complaint of citizens, have decided that
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
must restore its passenger train service
on the LIE Roy & Caney Valley Air Line
railroad, whether it pays to run trains
or not.
JOHN X. RANKIN, OF Lawrence, has beer
appointed by the President an agent te
allot lands in severalty to the Indians
LAMpHERE & Co.'S box factory al
Atchison was totally destroyed by fire
the other night. The loss was $4,000.
TIE Governor has appointed ID. A
Valentine, editor of the Clay Center
Times, regent of the State University tt
fill the vacancy caused by the res gna
ton of Hon. j. +. Billings.
Z. n. GARDLEY, well-to-do grocery
keeper of Leavenworth, recently mel
with singular and probably fatal acct
dent. He was engaged in taking some
barrels of salt into cellar under hi!
store, when he lost control of one o.
them and it passed over his body, ter
ribly crushing it.
TIE sugar company at Medicine Lodge
is experimenting with thirds" with
good results. The output for the frs
season will reach $4,000 pounds O.
sugar. Beet seed have been ordered
from Germany, and the adaptability o.
the German beet for this country viii
be thoroughly tested.
ADRIAN REBER, recently convicted anC
sentenced to the penitentiary from Law
renee for assault upon c. ii. Branscomb
has been pardOned by Governor Hum
phrey.
Ed. Mccoy and Benjamin w. Dunn
carpenters, were working upon scaffolG
at the Benson ice house in Topeka the
other day when the scaffold broke pre-
cipitating them to the ground, distance
of thirty feet. McCoy's back was broker
and he died in about two hours. Dunr
received serious injuries. Mccoy wai
forty-two years old and single.
A SYNDICATE of New York capitalists
recently purchased the Topeka water
works, the price paid being over $500, 600
ATcInsoN is again agitating the sub
ject Of the building of the Missouri Pa.
cific shops at that place.
Two women in Kansas City, Kan,
were recently found in an unconscious
condition from gas asphyxiation, which
was caused by the escape from a gaso-
line stove.
n. w. McCLEEs, Of Wichita, recently
died from injuries received from fall
on the ice in his yard.
w. A. HOPKINS, Finney County farm
er, sold load of alfalfa seed recently
which measured out little over fifty
bushels. 1t sold for the sum of SOL. 40
"a little over 81 per bushel.
An application for the appointment Of
a receiver of the Topeka Rapid Transit
Railway and suit for foreclosure Of a