Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

test at Lincoln, Neb., 3. w. Naylor OF
Washburn, College, Topeka, won first
place. and A. C. Douglass, also Kansas
man, second place.
TIE district committee for the Fourth
Congressional district has called the
Republican convention to nominate q
candidate for Congress to be held Mt
Emporia, June -.
w. T. MAGEE was recently held for
trial at Hays City on the charge OF de-
frauding farmers by obtaining promis-
sorry notes under false pretenses. The
evidence showed that he had been
working extensively among the Rus
sian farmers, appointing them as agents
for the sale of patent fence and hav-
ing them sign certificates to show them
that they were agents. These certifi-
Gates in each case proved to be plain
promissory notes, the negotiation OF
which caused his detection.
A FARMER near Bala recently found a
casket OF diamonds, pearls and other
precious stones near the Rock Island
railway track. The gems were identi-
fed as those stolen from Mrs. johnson,
q Chicago bride, en- route to Denver on
her wedding tour q week previous.
THE old soldiers belonging to Bren-
nan Post ut the soldiers home recently
passed resolutions declaring the charges
made against the management of the
home and cruelty to soldiers as false in
every particular. There are LOO old
veterans at the home ut present, and
nearly all of them belong to Brennan
post Of the e. A. r.
AT Coldwater the other night DIR. G.
w. Prichard and S. NJ. Miles, an attor-
ney, met on muddy crossing and quar-
relied as to who should & We the road. A
fight resulted, in which Miles struck
! Pritchard on the head with q pistol,
which caused his death in short time.
Miles then fed. Both men leave fami-
lies, and bad blood had existed between
them for some time.
Four children named Ritter, whose
parents committed suicide on the same
day at Wichita about four years ago ow-
! ing to financial troubles, have just been
left fortune of 40, 900 marks each by
the death of their grandfather in Ger
many.
Moses HARMON. publisher of the VAL
ley Falls free love paper. Lucifcr, who
was convicted in the United States dis
trict court at Topeka of sending obscene
matter through the mail, has been SEN
fenced to pay fine of $500 and serve
five years in the State penitentiary.
WHILE Mr.. and Mrs. Hankinson were
in Avery's Hotel photograph gallery at
Sedan the other afternoon their little
girl, three years old, fell out of the
window to the stone pavement below,
striking her head and crushing the
skull, causing her death in few hours.
MAMIE EVANS, a sixteen-year-oldg girl
of lola, came very near killing herself
the other night. She used chloroform
on a cloth for a headache, and lying
down dozcd of, the cloth falling down
over her mouth and nostrils. When
found she> was limp. 1t took the best
efforts of wo'physicians to save her.
THE barn and granary of A. Is. Smith,
living eleven miles south of Wichita,
burned to the ground the other night,
together with contents. Estimated loss,
80. 600.
CHARLES BARDwELI., a farmer, was
recently killed at Hutchinson by Bill
Wollery, who is represented to be a
tough citizen. and who cut Bardwell's
throat with razor. Nothing could be
learned of the cause, but both men were
under the influence of liquor. Wollery
was allied.
JOHN ORRIGHT, farmer near Edmund,
hanged himself in his barn the other
afternoon. His wife discovered him
after he had been dead for several hours.
Cause, loss OF property.
FRANK CONE, switchman in the Santa
Fe yards, was run over and instantly
killed while attempting to board CO.
boose in Argentine late the other night.
lie was twenty-nine years of age and
leaves a wife and one child, who live at
Burton.
The nineteenth annual meeting Of the
State Dental Association was recently
held at Topeka. The following officers
were elected: President, T. X. Aitken,
of Valley Falls; first vice-president, o.
+. Hetrick, of Ottawa; second vice-pres-
ident, j. A. Roberts, of Sabetha; treas
urer, II. A. WATSON, of Ottawa; secre-
tary, c. E. Esterly, OF Lawrence.
Four years ago travelling mans
trunk was stolen from the sidewalk in
front of the Byram Hotel at Atchison
and the owner claimed and received 5000
for the loss, saying it was filed with
cigar samples. The trunk was found on
a sand bar near the city recently and
was found to contain a lot of printed
stationery and advertising matter.
ANNA HUGAN and Katie and Nellie
Grimes have brought suit at Atchison to
set aside the will of their grandmother,
the late Susan Grimes, on the ground
that under the will the estate can not
be fairly divided. The property is val
ued at about 100000.