The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

4 ne ~ hOA "a tAC GuuTCn
of Kansas will meet at Kansas City
(Kan.J October ., and be in session
three days 1t is expected that about
SIS delegates will be in attendance.
| Gov. Humphrey has offered reward
of $500 for the apprehension of William
Wofford, alias William LogwOod, eSl-
6red, who killed William Norris, col.
0red, of Leatenworth county, on Au-
gust 90
Miss Clara DeRussey, of Fort Leav-
enw6tfth, student in Bethany college
at Topeka, Goth t6itted suicide the other
day by taking strychnine. She was
twenty years old. Hard study had nm
balanced her mind.
3, 6. Prather recently informed the
| Oakley Graphic that he had field OF
alfalfa, three fears old, from which he
had already this year cut three crops OF
about three tons to the acre each, and
that Il vas then ready to cut again.
Two large Ice houses belonging to
| Charles Pullen, at Atchison, were re-
Gently destroyed by fire, causing loss
of $4,000. Partially insured. Two
barns Ii the same block also burned
with horse and buggy in one of them.
A wealthy Wysndotte county man
| celebrated the t11irticth anniversary Of
hts marriage by knocking his wife
down ard otherwise abusing her, and
she has sued him for divorce, alimony
and the custody of their minor children.
The other afternoon Mrs A. IL
Coyne, while out riding at Clay Center.
Vas thrown from her buggy and seri-
oisly injured. Her horse broke from
her cotitfol and she was thrown out
breaking leg, thigh, arm and other
wise injuring her
The other night Rock Island freight
and Union Pacific construction train
eollided near Muncie, and although
there we're forty men on the construc-
ton train and a dozen cars were
ditched nobody was hurt The loss to
the railroads was heavy.
Everett Ray, the twelve-year-old son
of Martin Ray, head bricklayer for the
a Northwestern freight train at Kansas
City, Kan, the other day and killed.
He attempted to jump on the moving
train and fell under the wheels.
Miss Stella Covert, seventeen years
old, was drowned while recently bath
ing at Claassen's mill, near Newton.
She was a good swimmer, but the water
was quite cold and she remained in too
long. A young man who was with the
party had nearly succeeded in saving
her, when she caught him by the arms
ND rn,r1lnl He cunanadnd
in freeing himself, but she sank and he
could not find her.
Rrhe body of Miss Flora Roberts, a
young woman who lately disappeared |
from her home at Armourda1e, was re-
Gently found in the Missouri river,
several miles below Kansas City, Mo. |
She was eighteen years old and after |
dark one evening left home to visit a |
neighbor and was never seen alive |
again by the family. The supposition /
was that she had been assaulted and |
then thrown into the river.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners recently received a complaint |
from the miners at Pittsburgh against |
the st. Louis 81 San Francisco Railroad |
Co., claiming that the company will not |
accept shipments of coal to the interior
towns upon the schedule issued in No
vember, 1889. The company charges
in addition to the regular rates switch
ing charges of three dollars, which it is
claimed is violation of the long and
short haul clause of the law governing
freight rates.
The mandamus case against State
Treasurer Slower to compel him to
honor warrants drawn by the board Of
regents against the normal interest
fund, was argued in the supreme court
at Topeka on the 1st. 1t has been the
custom of the treasurer to pay these
warrants without question for years,
but Attorney General Ives recently
rendered an opinion that no fund in the
hands of the state treasurer could be
drawn upon except under a special act
of the legislature. A decision will not
be rendered before October.
The driver of hotel bus at Gueda
Springs was shot by Edward CLANCY,
cowboy, the other day. CLANCY was
stopping at Z hotel and wanted TO leave
on the evening train. but was slow in
getting ready, and as it was train time
the driver started off without him.
CLANCY drew his revolver and shot at
the omnibus three times The first
shot wounded the driver badly. There
were several women and children in
the bus. and the indignant citizens
came near lynching Clancy before he
was hustled off to Jail
At the close of the western confer
ence of the NJ. T. Church South. lately
held at Hillsdale, Miami county, the
following Kansas appointments were
made by Bishop Hargrave: Atchison
district, j. W. Payne, presiding elder:
Atchison station, w. II. Conner; Fling
ham, j. T. Smith; Holton. J. Tillery:
Waterville, W. II. Kincaid; Lcaven-
worth, H. l. Miller; Kickapoo, to be
supplied; Oskaloosa, A. III. Moore;
WyandOtte, z. A. Parker; Kansas City
station. Frank Siler; Shawneetown. III.
d. Hogan; Hillsdale. A. j. Notes.-The;