Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Bafe AT That station OF SVUO rev DAYS
ago 1t Is said that the railroad people
claim that through his carelessness the
loss occurred.
TIE Missouri Pacific is handling corn
through Atchison by the train load. A
number of extra crews have been en-
ployed to meet the demand and every
available car has been pressed into SER
vice.
ANOTHER vein Of coal, about ten feet
below the first vein, has been struck in
the deep cut north of the plaza Mt Fort
Scott. The coal is of bright black
color and of an excellent quality.
NINE prominent citizens of Grant
County, including three county officials,
have been arrested for defrauding the
county by presenting the same wolf
scalps several times and securing the
bounty thereon. In the complaints filed
against the accused, it is alleged that
one of the conspirators would present a
sack of scalps to the county commits
sioners, who would authorize the issue
OF scrip in payment Of bounty. The
sack would be placed where another
member of the party could conveniently
steal 1t, who would in turn present 1t
again to the commissioners. In this
way the one sack was presented over
and over again, until bounty had been
paid to the amount of SIC. 200.
RECENTLY deputy United States
collector created quite commotion
among the lunch counter and restaurant
men of Lawrence by making them take
out Government licenses to sell hop tea.
He says while it is not Intoxicating it is
manufactured by breweries and stamped
the same as beer, hence it comes under
the license law.
THE estimated assets of Z. Il. Purcell.
the Manhattan banker. who failed re-
Gently, are: Cash and sight exchange,
$0,OS0. 10: Overdrafts, S114.90: bills re-
ceivable. Ssl7.S3s.Ss; open accounts. $780,
59S.0S; Office fixtures, $1,000; stocks,
SGs2, O53; one-sixth interest in trust,
S155, 1873: total. Sl,aO4,O74.11.
r. J.. GARDNER. special agent for the
Indian Bureau was recently in Topeka
paying the Pottawatomie Indians for
lands purchased sixty years ago. About
1900 Indians will getSlO6.35 each.
WITHIN three months 500 lodges Of
the Farmers Alliance have been o.
ganized in the State with an average
membership of thirty. The new lodges
have for the most part been organized
in the western part of the State.
The Kansas Livestock Sanitary Com
mission, recently in session at Topeka,
agreed upon an order under which cattle
from the Eastern States must be held
ninety days at Kansas City, at the eX-
pense of the owner. and until they shall
receive bill of health signed by the
State Veterinarian of Kansas.
QUITE an excitement was recently
caused at Lawrence by the appearance
of mad dog upon the streets. Before
being killed the dog bit two horses and
colored boy.
IL the United States Court at Topeka
the jury in the case of the Government
VS.. Woodruff, charged with embezzling
$1,000 while acting as deputy postmaster
at Lawrence. failed to agree, standing
six for conviction and six for acquittal.
THE post-offlce at Strong City was en-
tered by burglars the other night and
$3.50 stolen.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Established, Clarence, Stevens County,
Clarence A. YOunggren, postmaster;
Esther, Shawnee County, John Doane,
postmaster; KeYsville, Pawnee County,
Herbert E. Miller, postmaster; Leoran-
da, Graham County, Peter Hanselman,
postmaster. Discontinued, Dillwyn,
Stafford County; Oasis, Logan County;
Won, Comanche County.
On the Goth Kansas Odd Fellows gen.
orally celebrated the seventy-first an
niversary of the establishment of the
order.
THE right leg of the murdered Mrs.
Mettman was found the other day on the
bank of the Missouri river, near the
Planters House at Leavenworth, by a
number OF boys who were walking along
the shore.
W. b. BALDWIN, agent of the Santa
Fe at Lovelle, absconded the other day
with $1,000 belonging to the road.
Through some means it became known
to the officials of the road in Topeka and
they Immediately telegraphed their
agent at Denver to have him arrested.
just before the message was received
Baldwin entered the general Offices
of the Santa Fe at Denver and
asked for employment as a telegraph
operator. While he was in the office
the message asking that the absconder
be arrested began to come in over the
wire. He quickly detected the purport
Of the message, and clearing the railing
about the telegraph desk made his es-
cape.
JOIIN LANE, a farm hand, returned
from Kansas City to Edwardsville the
other evening under the influence Of
liquor. and after chasing the family out