Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


A. j. Quance, living near Scott City,
was accidentally shot and killed by his
twelve-year-old brother the other day.
JAMES {. FREEBoRN, an inmate OF the
city hospital at Wichita, removed q
bandage from his head the other day,
while the attendant was sleeping, and
bled to death within an hour He had
suffered fracture OF the skull some
weeks ago near Guthrie and was recov-
ering rapidly.
CHARLES FELL, 70 good, kind-hearted
Irishman" about thirty years old and
employed at Eudora, recently filed up
too heavily with a compound known as
hard cider" and becoming boisterous
was locked up in the city Jail. When
the marshal went to the calaboose next
morning Fell was dead.
AT recent dance given to celebrate
the opening OF o new hotel near the
stock yards at Wichita, two men named
McMahan and Schilling quarreled over
girl. The latter drew q pistol and
shot McMahan through the stomach,
wounding him dangerously Schilling
was arrested.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 4th: Original, Frank Sloan, Win
field; Wilson Boughton, Phillipsburg;
Casper Friedli, Elmo; Alex Mcfarland,
Pleasanton. Increase, Edward d.
Haynes, West Plains Reissue, William
II. Cook, hatfield Green; William Eros
SOW Woodbine; John Hall, Wichita.
Reissue and increase, Alexander Trott
Kansas City Original widows, etc,
Minors OF George S. Marsh, Toronto.
JUDGE GLENN, one OF the most prom
inent citizens of Atchison, died Of con-
gestive chill the other morning. Judge
Glenn was former law partner OF Judge
Foster.
An unknown young man was killed at
Leavenworth the other morning while
attempting to board Missouri Pacific
freight train. The only paper on his
person which tended to identify him
was letter recommending Ed. Chatter
felt as brakeman.
JAMES A. KAZEE laborer residing
in Kansas City, Mo-. recently went to
Turner, Wyandotte County, to secure
work. Being successful he started to
walk home along the Santa Fe railroad.
He had gone only short distance when
he stepped of one track to avoid west
bound freight train, on to another track,
just in front of an east-bound passenger
train, when the engine struck him and
his body was hurled beneath the wheels
and literally torn to pieces. He was
single man thirty-eight years old.
FRANK SHERIDAN, Marysville en-
bezzler, who had skipped to the Black
Hills with 81. 100 belonging to his en-
ployer, has been captured.
A SPECIAL committee is making all
arrangements for the G. A. Il. reunion,
which is to be held in Topeka next Octo-
ber This promises to be the most sue
cessful reunion ever conducted by the
G. A. r. in the State. The occasion will
draw about IS, 900 veterans to the city,
many of them being the most prominent
G. A. r. men in the State.
THE last monthly report Of Secretary
Mohler, OF the State Board Of Agricult-
ure, makes q discouraging showing on
corn. Only 56.4 per cent of the corn
area OF the State is worth harvesting,
and the average yield for the State is
but sixteen bushels an acre. The total
corn product is estimated at $4,000, 900
bushels. This estimate Is about 80 per
cent. lower than the Secretary's esti-
mate a month ago. Nearly all the corn
grown this year is in the eastern third
of the State. All other crops are good.
The wheat product is estimated at 49,
900, 900 bushels The Secretary says
that on the whole the outlook in Kan
sas is more encouraging than it has
been, and the prospect for vigorous
and thrifty growth Of wheat and rye
during the fall is better than it has
been in many portions Of the State for
some years.
BESSIE KLAUS q six-year-old girl, was
recently run over by man on horse
at Wichita, and died OF her injuries
within two hours. The man was un-
known and the accident was purely the
result OF reckless riding. Officers could
not find him.
COOPER HoUFT, young German, sew
'eral months ago forged two checks for
$50 each at Leavenworth and skipped
out He returned few days ago and
paid one OF them but had no money 10
pay the other and was arrested and held
for trial.
DISPATCHES were recently received ut
Topeka giving an account of the acci-
dental killing at Concordia, Mo-, of
Thomas McGrath by w. NJ. Lyle. Both
were residents ofTopeka and were trav-
cling with a circus Lytle, was sitting
in the ticket wagon, and while handling
o revolver it was accidentally d s.
charged, the bulle. striking McGrath in
the left side and piercing the heart He
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