Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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the other day at Topeka. One OF the
presents was an alarm clock.
There have been no mortgage fore
closures on farms in Brown county for
six months, and only thirteen in three
years.
Peaches are rotting on the ground In
large quantities all over Kansas
What's the matter with drying them
for fuel.
George r. Peek and w. n. Rossing'
ton OF Topeka, will start for Europe In
few weeks. They are not going on
business.
Sumner County Press: Speaking oil
poor farmers, Wichita has one who
could not plant his feet in the road and
not raise dust.
A spire ffty-two feet in heighth has
been built on the Congregations
church at Oswego That town Is evil
deutlY looking up.
The Mcpherson college offers a
years scholarship free to the teacher
making the higest general average In
the common branches.
Albert Griffin, who once thought he
was in o fair way to be president, has
accepted q $500 clerkship in one OF
the departments at Washington.
A man in Topeka who has loaned
lots of money at 2 per cent month
says if he had 100000 to invest he
would put in farm lands in Kansas.
The farmers of Kansas are finding
out this season that it doesn't pay to
raise peaches at ten cents bushel in q
state where the manufacture OF brandy
is prohibited by law.
A s. greenback was received by the
state treasurer at Topeka the other day
which had Arkansas City whisky lad"
written on it back. 1t was voted an
outlaw on Kansas soil by Rory Moore.
Jake Stotler: The checklist thing
on the road between here and Topeka
Is seventy-five cents for dinner at
Florence. 1t is said Fred Harvey has
made over o million dollars out OF his
Santa Fe eating house.
The first number OF the Agora, which
Is published at Salina by the Rev. Mr..
Chiltonden, is filed with excellent
reading matter and is model of typo
graphical neatness. 1t is almost as
handsome as its editor.
Web Wilder will deliver the annual
address before the Western Insurance
association, which meets at Chicago in
August. II the insurance men care
anything about choice English they
have q great treat in store.
There has been so much wet weather
all over the west that hot winds are
not at all probable. Travellers from
the west say that corn will make big
yield, even if there is not another rain,
corn could not be better under any cir
cumstances in any country.
T. B. Sweet, president Of the Kansas
Loan and Trust company Of Topeka,
says: Farm lands are worth % per
cent more this year than they were
last year, and we have sold more land
in the last ninety days than we had
sold before in the last three years"
The Wichita Eagle says that one
more rain between now and the LIST OF
August will make the biggest corn crop
that has ever been in the Arkansas val
ley. The right kind Of weather will
produce from seventy to 100 bushels to
the acre. All that Jerry Rusk needs to
do is to press the button and the farm
iers will do the rest.
Wallace county has just reason to re-
joice. A bountiful harvest Is being
garnered, considering our population.
The wheat acreage is very large and
the weld surpasses the most extrava-
giant estimates and expectations, and
the quality is superb. This Is practic-
ally the first wheat crop that has been
tried in these extreme western coun-
ties and results are extremely crafty
ing indeed.-Wallace County Ex-
change.
} w. Il. Brush, writes from Salem,
Oregon, "I'm up here in this neck o.
woods Say to the boys, stay away
from the northwest. No good free
land any more. Good and available
timber land hard to find. More then
half the saw mills in Washington stand
ing idle. Country over run with men
out OF employment More than half
and nearly three fourths OF the farms
plastered. Worth $3.50 per acre to
clear up heavy timber land. Times
hard. Not so good o country for the
Door man take 1t all in all as is Kansas.
I already loug for Lansas air and sun
shine. Most Kanssns here will drift
back again to Kansas. CLARK Co. Clip
per.
The president OF the Kansas loan and
trust company at Topeka says that
farm lands are worth % per cent more
now than they were last year and that
HIS comnanv has sold more land in the
last ninety days than it has sold before |
In three years. The following in
stances Of the growing activity in real
estate are cited: Three hundred and |
twenty acres Of land in Sumner county |
have sold for $1,000, and this years |
crop is reserved by the former owner.
This piece Of land has been held for two |
years and last year would not sell at |
any price. One hundred acres |
Of land in Ellsworth county have this |