Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-05
Items Of Interest In the Sun
flower State.
A Record Of Happenings for tho Past
Week Gathered from Our Exchan-
ges and Boiled Down FOR
our Readers.
Sterling has a raid on gamblers.

but two inmates.
In Crawford county q burglar YVES
killed by u trap.
Gcary county produces an eight
pound sugar beet
An Atchison travelling man is named
James Blaine Clay.
Adramatic company is playing THE
yngsbond" in Kansas.
The Independence cotton gin Is full
OF business this season.
Sumner county this year produced
4,43O.720 bushels OF wheat.
Prettyman is the appropriate name OF
Gueda Springs photographer.
The Lawrence Record wants Webb
McNall made republican brevet sena-
tor.
In the past three months Sl25. 600 has
bees paid out ut Sterling for broom
corn.
The Junction City Tribune still calls
It Davis county. But Geary 1t will al
ways be.
The independence Y. NJ. C. A. is so
prosperous that it can afford paid
secretary.
Having Strengthened up Leaven-
worth. the Kelley institute proposes to
tackle Topeka
Christopher C Columbus. q descendent Of
the old man who discovered America,
lives in Wichita.
An electric shock killed press feed
sr In the Leavenworth Times office
Sunday morning.
In SO counties in 81 months Kansas
farmers have reduced their indebted
ness by s., 100000.
The Junction City Union wants to
know why Kansas should buy SO many
Colorado potatoes.
Water is SO scarce in Franklin county
that the prohibitory law has been sus'
pended pending rain.
More than 200 petitions are before
the Kansas board OF pardons in hehali
OF penitentiary convicts.
Rev. D. C. Miner, d. D., OF Manhat.
tan, made the talk at the Soldiers
home Thanksgiving.
The Atchison Globe says the world is
full of bowling eight-hour men with
patient fourteen-hour wives.
The sugar mill at Topeka is loaded
with suits for damages for cane planted
and allowed to 60 to waste.
A Chetopa man broke off marriage
engagement because his girl used the
Mae abomination for her front name.
The Hutchinson News says Kansas 10
getting rich faster than any other state.
Her people will soon be blasted pluto
Gratis.
The Santa Fe roads "fixer" ought 10
90 TO Atchison and quiet renowned agi-
tation OF that moss-grown and outlawed
100000 CLAIM: esa ~--'-----'
A Mrs. Welty OF Oswego county has
Just obtained verdict OF so, $50 DANA
ges against the Santa Fe road for kill
ing her husband.
Marsh Murdoch is newspaper candi-
date for governor. He is not running,
but as he takes no steps to shut of his
boom, there is q suspicion that he ho?es
to be a dark horse II az :::9:i,a Jss=.-
A LeavenwortA man who happened
in Independence last week heard OF the
cotton gin that is In operation there
and made great haste to find 1t. He sup
posed it was the name OF joint.
A bear broke out OF cage in bag.
gage car at Garnett one day last week
and drove all hands outside. The train
was laid out an hour and the animal
was only subdued by the use OF chloro-
form.
A tracer has been sent out to look up
Ike Rigby, who is O candidate for attor-
new general. 1t is one OF the inalien-
able rights to run for Office, but it is
impoliie to jump in without an intro-
dutfi0h.
The war between W. G. Jones and
Charley Holiday is still going on. 1t Is
believed that Jones will become so IA
NOUS on account OF It that he will have
to take the democratic nomination for
governor $500
Topeka is crying out for Keeley in
stitute. Topeka lays no claim to drunk
enness, but IL Is so used TO having
everything that Il wants to deprive
Leavenworth OF the one little glory 1t
possesses.
A woman bought fifteen buttons In q
Girard dry goods store at cent apiece.
Next day she stopped in for some skirt
braid, costing four cents and for pay
ment presented three Of the buttons
and cent
W. n. Abbey, Missouri Pacific mai
agent out OF Atchison, is six feet eight
inches tall and still growing. After
awhile ne will have to have his car
rugged up after the fashion Of cars
made TO carry giraffes.
g.. NJ Strickler. formerly q famous
Kansas man, has permanently located
in the San Gabriel valley, CAL, twenty
Eve miles east Of Los Angeles. For
the past ten or twelve years he has
been living in New Mexico
". I. Kellogg will soon leave Cornell
and 90 to Harvard, where he we'll stay
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