Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

An Emporia woman claims 10 have a
pullet only four months old that Lays
eggs.
Every pond, lake and buffalo wallow
on the prairie is filled with water out IN
Stanton county.
The government has appropriated
s., 300 for the renovation OF the public
building at Topeka.
One hundred car loads Of agricultural
implements have be,a un'oadod q Har'
per within Che last three VEGAS.
The colored man who graduated this
year from the law department OF tho
Kansas university was born slave.
The ST. Marys Star has dropped its
democracy and becomes the Official ALI
ance paper of Pottawatomie county
Garden City will celebrate the Fourth
in grand style. \ big old fashioned
frontier dinner is the drawing card
In the base ball game between the OF
tawa team and the Indian club from
Haskell institute, the latter was de-
feated.
The rain started fire in Beloit by
falling on exposed lime. and then kind
" put the fire out before mucG damage
was uone.
The Emporia Republican says: 1t
would be difficult to make II newcomer
TO Kansas believe that this was ever 4
drouthy state.
A quarter section OF land in kiowa
county was unaccountably overlooked.
Frank Leard found IL, located upon II,
and sold his right 10 $1,000.
A band of begging ''gypsies" is work
inc the towns ol eastern Kansas, where
the city marshals compel them to move
on before they set up their tents.
The Winfield base ball club chal-
lenges any club within Il radius OF sixty
miles TO play upon any terms agreeable
to the club accepting the challenge.
Topeka Journal: Strange noises COM
ing from the Kansas orchards emanate
from the peaches and apples crowding
each other for room OF the branches.
The agent OF the Northwestern road
at TongGnoXie beat his wife The next
day the travelling auditor checked him
out. and he is now looking for job.
The Topeka Democrat has offered 10
do the city printing Tor less than il costs
to setssthe type. The editor OF the Demo
crat is one OF the few men who is able
to run q newspaper for the fun there Is
in it.
Southern Kansas will show better
yield OF wheat than was estimated by
the most sanguine. Harvest has com
menced. although the ground Is heavy
for the reapers.
Chairman Dumbauld OF the people.
party in Kansas, has issuee call TO all
the alliances in the state, recommends
ing that they hold alliance picnics ev-
erywhere on July 4th.
Topeka now has two companies that
will take you 10 the worlds fair, pay al.
your expenses. and keep the buncO
steerers away, II the proper amount ls
dropped INTO the slot.
The State Bible school camp at Law
renee has been named Camp Helmicka
in honor of Charlie Helmick, who sac
rifced his bright young life BY going to
Africa as missionary.
1t pays to put wheas I well. says the
Johnson City Journa The best crops
in the country are those which were
prepared before seeing.
Ground was broHon last week for a
new ladies' hail Oh the campus OF Mid
land college at Atchison. a large
number of students and friends were
present TO celebrate the event.
A farmer. near Horizon, visited a
gambling den in that city one night
last week, leaving his wife and two
babes in his wagon out in the rain until
2o'clock in the morning, when he went
broke.
Atchison Globe: "This," observed
the ragweed to the sunhower, as 1t look
ed over the tops of the corn and saw
the farmer and his family climb into
the big:wagon and start off TO an alli-
ance picnic lis good day for us to get
our work n"
Lane university, which was built on
the foundation OF the territorial state
house at Lecompton, graduated seven
students from its academic course this
year and eight from the normal and
commercial course. The enrolment
this year was 326 students.
1t has been estimated that the con-
tinued rains have destroyed on the
vines about 10000 crates of strawber-
ries in Douglass county alone. Other
small fruits are to some extent becom-
ing moulded, and potatoes are in bad
shape. Hardly field has been entered
since those crops we're planted.
One OF the good acts of the last legis-
lature, and one which will make some
men trouble, is the law governing pri-
mary elections. A man must testify,
whether he incriminates himself or not,
and the giver Of brides is not only pun
ished by fine and Imprisonment, but he
is debarred the right Of suffrage.
A hive OF bees swarmed in corset that
had been hung out to air in North Atchi.