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

DR.. Philip Krohn Is preaching In ono
NJ Prof. Swings mission churches In
Chicago.
Salina proposes TO have the Fourth
re giment OF the National Guards as an
attraction for the Saline county fair.
A Salina addition, consisting OF 80
lots, sold last week for Sl5, 900, not quite
$40 = lot, TO one OF tho gentlemen con-
nected with the Salina electric light
company.
The Kansas travelling mems conven-
ton meets at Hutchinson on November
list. The people Of Hutchinson are ar
ranging TO entertain the association in
good style.
The Winfield water company has
brought suit against the city in the sum
Of $l,442.50 Tor hydrant rental. The
average Winfield citizen does hate TO
pay for water.
More grief for the young crowd. Cy
Leland has been appointed an aide de
camp on the staff OF General Veazey,
commander of the Grand Army OF the
Republic OF the United States.
Mr.. Ingalls, bought a stock Of town
lots ut Atchison the other day which he
converted into a pasture field. This
means that ingalls, is pretty rich or
that town lots in Atchison are mighty
cheap.
Arthur Capper, formerly OF the To
peka Capital, is working on the New
York Tribune. There Is an agreeable
rumor ahoat 10 the effect that Arthur
is engaged to be married to o Topeka
heiress.
There is q marked reduction in the
acreage OF corn in Harper county this
year. There were IS, AL acres In 1889,
while this year, owing to the large
acreage OF wheat there are AZ, l26 acres
planted in corn.
Marshall county's new court house
will cost $50, 900, aud the county Will
not 90 in debt for dollar. Every cent
OF the money has been raised and Is
now in the bank. The corner stone
was laid last Thursday.
Some time ago the pastor Of she
Methodist church at Kickapoo bought,
without the consent OF the oongrega-
ton, some NEW tangled" hymn books.
They disappeared, ant! several days ago
were found in q sack floating down the
river.
It hailed 80 hard in Cheyenne county
one afternoon last week that sixteen
men working at threshing machine
were cut about the face and hands 90
badly that they were unfit for work the
rest OF the day. Their clothes were
literally riddled.
A minority OF the stockholders Of the
Emporia street railway made an appli-
cation for the appointment OF receiver
for that corporation. After making an
investigation into the condition OF the
company Judge Graves refused to grant
the receivership.
Miss Viola Price, formerly connected
with the faculty Of the State Normal,
has accepted q position in the South
west Kansas college, Methodist insti-
tuition at Winfield. She declined O
fattering offer from the University OF
the Pacific in California to remain in
Kansas.
At Wichita two brothers who had
been separated twelve years, met in the
county Jail. Both wore going under as
sumed names, but one day while COM
pairing notes they found that they were
from the same town in Pennsylvania.
One OF them finally told his name, and
the other at once recognized him as q
brother.
T. B. Brown, president Of the Kansas
state federation Of labor has resigned,
owing to business changes. Robert
Tompkins OF Atchison, KS, succeeds
him. The federation comprises car
penters, plasterers, fathers, plumbers,
painters, printers, pressmen, clerks,
tailors, BARRIERS, cigar-makers, coopers,
miners, switchmen, car repairers, etc.
A bunch OF johnson grass from
Pawnee county has been received by
the state board Of agriculture at To
peka. which Is over eight feet high.
The field from which 1t was taken will
average from six to eight feet In
height, and will yield from five TO six
tons of hay to the acre. Cattle and
horses are very fond OF the grass when
It is green and after it is cured.
Benson, the convicted murderer, has
Lold his jailer that he prefers hanging
10 life sentence and should under no
submit to petition on
The part OF his counsel for mitigation |
II the courts sentence. II he really |
ieels that way about it he ought to be
1ery glad that he killed Mrs. Mettman
IN the government reservation and /
.hus escaped the penalty which would
nave been melted out to him under the
avs OF Kansas.
The state OF Kansas is in prime
financial condition. 1t is discounting
Is bills, many of which are not due for