The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

dI OdE0nd the OCn0r dIIcEGOOus dAO w a
so badly mangled that he only LIVED
about two hours after being taken out
The Howell Lumber Co., of Atchison
has failed The company had connec
| tons at Chicago, Omaha, Jeffersonville
Tex, and other places. The assets are
reported at s.. 900, 900. Liabilities not
given
The preachers of Topeka recently
held meeting in the interest of pro
hibition and to adopt measures to sup
press the illegal sale of liquor by drug
stores. which they aver have taken the
| places of saloons
Joseph Hecklin, a ten-year-old boy,
was killed the other night at crossing
On the Missouri Pacific some distance
north of Wichita The boy and his
father were crossing the track with a
reaper and were caught by train.
Despite threatening anonymous let
tiers of death in twenty-four hours and
many other terrible things unless he
refused the Office, Thomas j. Irwin
took charge of the office of secretary
of the board of education of Wichita,
and still lives.
Laura Bogard attempted to commit
suicide at Kansas City, Kan, the other
day by letting herself down from the
Central avenue bridge into the Kansas
river, but was rescued by two men who
noticed her actions and watched her.
lnhuman treatment by her husband
the cause.
When the Missouri Pacific railway
was built to Arkansas City the city
gave the company bonus of $50, 900 in
bonds Since then the city has refused
to pay the bonds. The other day suit
was begun in the United States court
by the holders of the bonds for $50, 600
and interest
The doors of the Firt National bank
of Kansas City, Kan, were closed the
other afternoon at 2:15 o'clock-the
hour for clearing. The bank was I'M
able to meet a large check drawn
against city deposits and therefore
closed. 1t was thought all liabilities
would be paid in full.
The trial of Rev. A. II. Tevis, pastor
of the Washington Street Methodist
church of Kansas City, Kan, resulted
IN the finding of the defendant guilty,
as charged, of falsehood and hypocrisy
and his suspension from the ministry
The result was a split in the church,
one of the oldest in the state. DIR.
Tevis is talking of organizing a new
church.
L. s. Cook, representing the Phoenix
Savings Investment Trust Co., of Kan
sas City, Mo-, was recently arrested at |
Ossawatomie on the charge of obtaining |
money under false pretenses. He had |
obtained advance fees from a number
If persons, aggrega ting several hun
ired dollars, under pretense of loaning
money at six per cent, and the money
vas never forthcoming.
Nelson George. a highly connected
Toung fellow, who used to be deputy
postmaster at Wichita, and was more
recently head of the registered letter
department. in the post office at Ogden,
Jtah, Is under arrest charged with en-
'ezzling $4,000 from the Ogden office.
lie appropriated registered letter con-
aiming large sum of money.
AAAC OIhCH A1oTuAuS dS Inc MISSOURI
'acific train from Kansas City started
vest to Wichita and stopped at the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas crossing at the
ity limits of Fort Scott, freight train
n the latter road struck the Missouri
'acitic chair car, knocked it off the rear
rucks and turned it on it's side. The
locomotive of the freight train was de-
allied and badly smashed Several pas I
engers were injured.
call has been issued by the various
eads of reform organizations in Tope- ,
a for cooperative convention In To- !
eka, August 30 next it was formula
I'd by Fred. 2. Bailey, of Wichita, gem i
raj manager of the Mutual Protective s
ssociation, an organization for staying
xecutions under mortgage foreclosure.
mong the names signed to the call are
lose of Senator PETER. w. f. Right r
ire, secretary of the Citizens Alliances;
McLallin, editor of the Advocate; J.
French, secretary of the alliance, i,
nd Fred p. Bailey. r
President Frank McGrath, of the
armers' Alliance, says that the esti- A.
ates of Secretary Mohler that the y
heat crop of Kansas would be about a.
100000 bushels are altogether too t.
gh From reports received by I
m from nearly every county in
e state he estimates that the
ED will not exceed 10, 600, 600 and pos
bly, not more than IS, 600, 600. The c
unties which have heretofore pro-
iced the largest crop have, according Z,
him, suffered partial failure this "
ar. He believes, however, that the
IN crop will be unusually large @
The state supreme court has decided r.
ainst the petitioners in the case of n
three insurance agents who were -.
wing to be released from custody at ~
'avenworth on a writ of habcas Cl
rpus. This is the case wherein three II
'urance agents from Missouri formed b.
organization called the "Sunfower
10, and went 10 Leavenworth to dis l.
Zine local insurance agent named Fl
mes Graham, who they charged with
1ting policies at cut rates Graham u
not take kindly to their extraordi. IT,
~ efforts to regulate his business and 81
had the fhr4aa IS I