Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-10-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

dled In rev minutes one nnu deem
ailing with severe cold, but was not
considered sick. The physicians pro-
nounced the case heart failure, induced
by over exertion while at play.
Lon ELLIS, young farmer living
near Abbeyville, was accidentally shot
at Hutchinson the other afternoon. He
was attending an Alliance picnic ut the
fair grounds, and while standing near q
party Of friends who were examining q
revolver, the weapon was discharged,
the ball striking him in the left breast,
penetrating the lung, cutting an artery
and inflicting what was thought to be
fatal wound.
A SHORT time ago citizen OF Atchison
called at restaurant in that town and
got bill changed by Miss Clark,
young lady in charge OF the cash. Later
he returned and presented lead dollar,
which he declared she had given him.
and demanded q good dollar forit. Mss
Clark was positive she had given him
no such coin and refused to redeem 1t.
For this he had her arrested and taken
to Leavenworth for examination upon
the charge OF passing counterfeit money.
When the case come before United
States Commissioner Clough he prompt
" discharged Miss Clark without hear
ing any evidence for the defense.
A TOPEKA dispatch says that 1t has
developed that large number Of the
wheat buyers of the State are loaded
up with wheat While the wheat mar
ket was rising this fall many merchants
bought heavily and are now left with o
high-prlced stock on hand to dispose OF.
But small proportion Of the wheat had
been marketed, large reserve being
held for higher prices. Kansas wheat
this year has not only yielded splen-
did crop, but OF excellent quality. The
greater part of the wheat taken in has
tested over sixty pounds, while some
weighed sixty-five.
The Judgment OF SIS, 3a4. so recently is
sued by the Supreme Court of the State
in favor OF the plaintiff in the case of Z.
A. Smith against S. c. Pomeroy dates back
to 1873. Smith was proprietor OF the
old Teft House in Topeka, where
fulattempt to be reelected United States
Senator. Pomeroy quartered his political
friends ut the Tefft House during the
campaign, creating hotel bill of 3d..
3o4.50 After his defeat Pomeroy paid
Smith 81, 900, claiming that was enough.
Smith thereupon instituted proceedings
in the district court OF Atchison County
for the balance. The debt, including
interest and costs, now amounts to
about $4,000.
w. w. CLARK, secretary and treasurer
of the Harper City Milling Company,
committed suicide in his barn the other
morning by shooting himself through
the heart with revolver. The cause
for the act is thought to be financial
trouble His brother, Robert Clark, OF
Augusta, mysteriously disappeared last
December. He leaves widow, his Sec
ond wife. whom he married last May,
and daughter, aged eight years.
THE result of the census of the first
supervisors district OF Kansas has been
announced. The total population of the
district is 81, 4ss as against 277.596 ten
years ago; an increase of 92, 500. The
population of eight Of the principal
cities and towns of the district is as fol-
lows: Fort Scott, II, 1887, increase in ten
years, 8, 465; Burlington, y, $3.50, increase,
22s; Arkansas City, 1854, increase,
1912; Winfield, 5,l47, increase, 2,SO3;
Oswego, 2522 increase, Ill; Parsons,
O. 73G, increase, 2,537; Emporia, $50, in.
crease, 2,9l9; Independence, 3,12l, in
crease, 206.
ATCHIsoN is at last to have public
building. The Secretary of the Treasury
has advertised for site.
The Railroad Commissioners recently
visited Manhattan to investigate an ap.
plication of the citizens for the removal
of the side tracks, switches and depots
of the Union Pacific road from their
present location to another. AS now
placed they are thought to be dangerous
to the public.
SrATIsTICIAN HILTON has obtained Of
fetal statistics from twenty-one coun-
ties in Eastern Kansas, showing that
since January 4,O61 mortgages have
been recorded, and 8, SOC released. 1t
shows decrease of the mortgage in
debtedness of these counties of seven
teen per cent in period OF less than
six months The percentage Of de-
crease is greater since May 1. He esti-
mates that the decrease for these coun-
ties will be double for the entire year,
or 81, 5S7. 532. The amount OF chattel
mortgages released will probably ex-
coed that Of real estate, and January l.,
1901, will see the farmers Of Kansas at
least $40, 900, 900 less in debt than last
January.
A MAN who was known as Arthur Fell
ton was recently arrested at Camden,
N. j., who is supposed to be c A. Ben
son. the murderer OF Mrs. Mettman at