Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest In the SUM-
flower State.
A Record Of Happenings for the Past
Week Gathered from Our Exchan-
roe ana Boiled Down Gos
our Readers.


Harvey county has been settled only
twenty years.
The Coffeyville Journal is waging q
war on joints.
We read an occasional reference 10 a
joint In Wichita.
An Atchison man smoked 1923 worth
OF cigars last year.
Near Waterville corn averages So to
60 bushels per acre.
]. G. Moher OF Salina, has some gold
mines In California.
Fish culture Is q great success in
Washington county.
The Anthony editors are calling each
other Judas Iscariot
Chautauqua county recently had q
disastrous prairie fire.
J. P. Pomeroy owns 10000 acres Of
land In Graham county.
Water is so low in the Neosho that
the catfish have trouble.
The society OF Friends have an acade.
my In Washington .ounty.
Three Italian peddlers are doing the
people OF southern Kansas.
\ Twenty-three dogs were killed by the
Rpolice of Newton last week.
4 A pair OF Elk county sweethearts
y quarreled on account OF politics.
The Hutchinson News looks better
every day. 1t always read we'll.
A great lot OF Texas cattle are NOV.
ing into central Kansas for feeding.
An Oklahoma man has been swim.
ding the colored people of Fort Scott.
There are gambling dens in Leaven-
worth. One OF them run all day Sun
day.
Nineteen persons left Douglas county
Sunday to settle on lands near Abilene,
Tex.
- A book ageLt is already out working
the suckers with history Of the ALI.
ance.
Rev. r. L. McNabb and wife oil
Washington, will 20 to China as mis-
sionaries.
e' One grocery store in Arkansas City
sold So, 900 worth OF groceries in six
months for cash.
A 7-year old boy at Wichita died
from the sting OF an insect, supposed to
be black spider.
E. NJ. Hewins shipped from Elgin
this season Il, 900 head OF cattle. He
has left 1000 head.
Hoxie people can see Rocky noun
l1ha which are 200 miles west, by
means Of mirage.
The Concorda Blade thinks the PEG.
pie OF Kansas are now in the clutches
OF the money power.
Corn near Waterville is turning out
to average between thirty-five and sixty
bushels to the aero.
Special train on the Santa Fe be.
tween Newton and Halstead made nine
and half miles in eight minutes.
A Rocks county crank threatens to
sue Melbourne, the rain maker should
he drown anybody in that region.
]. W. Jones OF Hutchinson. wants to
4 run against Jerry Simpson for congress
in the Seventh district next year.
A Chicago cloak house failed last
{. week, wholly unmindful of the great
4 demand for cloaks in Sumner county.
Z BY the will of William P. Spooner,
who died the other day at Boston, the
university Of Kansas receives $9l, 6l8.03.
A Rock Island freight train made the
distance from Goodland to Phillipsburg, |
eighty-four miles, in ninety-two minu.
tes.
When Tom Osborn was boy, back in |
Pennsylvania, he was known as IAN.
ady." His name is Thomas Andrew o.
born.
& There are 30, 900 acres OF government
{and in Cove county, but settlers are
taking 1t up at the rate OF two quarters
day.
Three women have been elected to
n y Genda Springs council, and this is
Srpretted TO mean that the Joints
I'D st 60.
The Topeka preachers are discussing
be subject: ITO what political party
hOuld the ministers Of the present cen.
~ belOngg"
Farmer Smith OF Kansas, is the first
0rthern man to hold the position OF
residing officer in the National Farm
~ congress, ----r
Kansas produced more rye this year
ian any other state except Pennsylva-
rs and came within 1900, 900. bushels
making tie Of it.
Out In Finney county a school dis
let treasurer has been arrested,
anged with embezzling S251.S1. He
obably needed the money.
Near Almena there are 1000 head Of
tie nearly ready for market. The
aindealer claims that 90, 900 head Of
POP win be fed in Norton county.
The Liberty Review says that Pap
I11y has completed picking his
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