Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-04-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

wheat steaming and heating machine;
Andrew Rowan, Buffalo, vehicle wheel;
Albert C. Sims, Winona, weather strip;
Heinrich Sommerfeld, Canton, car
coupling.
The other morning John Bobzine, and
Ross Hawley, living seven and half
miles north OF Coheyville on adjoining
farms, quarreled and fought when
Hawley struck Bobzine on the head with
a fence rail, killing him instantly. Bob
zine was an old settler, having located
on his farm in 1869.
PRoF. ROBERT HAY has been down the
shaft and personally measured the first
working vein Of Alma coal at 46O feet
and found it twenty inches in thickness.
He says that they undoubtedly have
semi-anthracite at the lower depth to
which the shaft is being sunk.
THE Governor has offered reward Of
$3.50 for the arrest and conviction OF the
person or persons guilty of the murder
of Mrs. Teresa Mettman, ut Leaven-
worth, on March %.
ROBERT FISCHER, aged forty, recently
took morphine at Leavenworth and died
soon after. He left q wife and four
children. He had used some OF the
funds OF the Cigar Makers Union, which
he was unable to make good and so
ended his troubles with morphine.
For some time previous to the death
Of Governor Nehemiah Green, the sword
worn by him during his service in the
Union army in the war Of the rebellion
had been in the keeping of Manhattan
lodge No. II, !. O. o. f. The lodge re-
Gently presented the sword to the State
Historical Society, accompanied by q
handsome silver plate bearing an appro-
pirate inscription.
THE women OF Edgerton. after warm
campaign at the late municipal election,
succeeded in electing their ticket as fol-
lows: Mayor, Mrs. W. II. Kelly; police
Judge. Mrs. Thomas Greer; Council, Mrs.
5. E. Ewart, Mrs Stewart, Mrs. Holden,
Mrs. Nat Ross, Mrs. Brown.
MAN named jackson, owner OF q
sheep and cattle ranch fifteen miles
southeast OF Liberal, was lately fight
ing prairie fire and became so excited
that his neighbors induced him to mount
his horse to ride home, but his animal
threw him just as he started, he fell
against q wire fence and barb stuck
into his temple. He got up and de.
clared, laughingly, that he was not hurt,
but spasms set in and continued for
several hours when he died. He leaves
wife and two children.
FORMAL complaint has been made
against John Mettman, the husband,
and Mrs. Routzahn, the daughter,
charging them with the murder OF Mrs.
Mettman. who was recently found dead
and so horribly mutilated at Leaven-
worth. The accusation and arrest COM
pletely Frustrated Mrs Routzahn, and
she was said to be physically and
mentally in critical condition.
The other night Officers Wilson and
Wellman went to arrest William Had
dock, young Topeka negro, for grand
larceny. Wellman produced warrant
for his arrest and Haddock Immediately
raised a musket and said: The first
man that offers to cross this door Is q
dead man" No sooner had he said this
than Wellman fired, the ball entering
the negroes left breast, coming out at
the back and producing fatal wound.
THE Larned State Bank, which re-
Gently failed, has been recognized and
again resumed business
Mrs. CYNTHIA MILLER, an old settler
of Wichita, died the other day at the
advanced age OF ninety-two years
THERE was bitter contest for member
of the school board from the Fourth
ward in Leavenworth, at the late cleo
ton, and when the City Council met to
canvass the vote 1t was discovered that
the returns from the first precinct Of the
ward were missing, which completely
changed the result. The returns had
been stolen, but had not been traced up
AIATE meeting Of the board Of direct
ors Of the Hutchinson, Oklahoma & Gulf
railway in Chicago has resulted in push
ing forward the construction Of the road
through Harper and Kingman Counties.
1t is proposed to have trains running on
the new road June 1. 1t is reported
that the road will be operated by the
Union Pacific, which has long desired
to control line penetrating Southern
Kansas and the Indian Territory.
The old soldiers and citizens Of Barton
County at the campfire OF Pap Thomas
post G. A. r. in Great Bend the other
day, passed resolutions favoring the
more liberal issue OF pensions and de-
manding the immediate passage Of the
Ingalls, headle Service Pension bill
without alteration or amendment
AT a coal shaft, one mile north Of
Weir City. o difficulty recently occurred
between Dick McIlhany, weighman, and
George Barnard, trimmer, which re-
suited in McIlhany shooting Barnard
twice-once in the right thigh, causing
only flesh wound, and the other time
Just at the lover edge Of the floating rib
| IN the laft side The wounds were