Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-30

OF attention to politics.
Speaker pro tenn Matchett Of Osborne
county, who was in Oregon when
elected representative, has decided not
to remove from Kansas as he originally
intended.
It is ioregone conclusion that Judge
Botlin will be acquitted. 1t isn't bit
easier to impeach republican in Kan
sas for drunkenness than 1t Is TO convict
a democrat in Missouri for embezzle.
ment.
A live tarantula is on exhibition in
Wellington drug store. A great many
people who drop in to see 1t march
right through TO the back part OF the
store, though the tarantula is In the
front window.
The Paola town boys are organizing
aball club TO play clubs from the sur
rounding towns. They seem to be work
Ing very energetically and there is no
doubt plenty OF good material there for
O good club il they will bring 1t out.
L. L. Hoaglen, prominent hardware
merchant OF Scranton, Kansas, was
overcome by damp while attempting to
repair pump on the 10Th inst, and Tell
100 feet to the bottom OF the well.
Death resulted from fractured skull.
Emporia which is just now in the
throes OF great religious awakening,
has u 7-year-old girl who can play high
Ave" considerably better than the aver
age person three times her age. She
never bids more than her hand is worth
and always makes the correct lead.
Near Leavenworth farmer had his
entire farm gradually washed away by
the Missouri river some years ago. Soon
after the river began to deposit rich
soil along the banks where the farm
once was, and recently the owner went
to the county clerk and had his farm,
which was much larger than before, re-
placed on the tax record.
The 5-year-old sons OF Mcssrs. Wells
and Rollison, residents OF Washington,
KS, wandered from home Sunday morn
ing, the 18th instant, to play on the
bank OF the creek, about 100 yards dis
tant. It was just after rain. They
we're missed, and after a short search
were found buried in sand bank, where
they had sought protection from the
rain. When dug out 1t was found i'm
possible to restore life, as both bodies
were cold and stiff.
The Rev. DIR. Cordley OF Lawrence,
who is known as the nugget preacher
in Kansas, will sail for England July lst
as delegate to the international confer
ence OF the Congregational churches.
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Cord
ley. They will be absent about three
months, and while in England will visit
the doctors birthplace in Lincolnshire.
where the old house in which ne was
born is still standing. DR.. Cordley has
earned this outing by years OF faithful
and earnest toll for Christ and for Kan
saS.
Miss Palmer, an attractive young
woman from Philadelphia, is endeavOr-
ing to popularize the India silk worm
in Kansas. She says it is much to be
preferred to the Chinese worm, which
has already eaten its way into that
state. The worm that she advocates
thrives out OF door on oak, maple, cot
tonwood, English walnut apple, plum
and cherry trees and makes a fine quail
ity OF silk from the castor bean plant.
It is O more hardy worm than the Chin
ese worm and is less trouble and eX-
pense, while the cocOons are five times
larger, fifteen to twenty OF which will
weigh pound, while it takes about 300
OF the Chinese to the pound.
The cattle men in the vicinity OF EN-
poria are concerned about the appear
ance OF new cattle disease among the
cattle OF Mr.. May, near Wykoff. A
post norton examination Of the first
one afflicted was made. The disease
had been present in the system for about
two months and the whole body was
covered with tubercles, and the fact
that the other animals were taken in
the same way in close succession, proves
the disease to be contagious. There
was no perceptible change in the out.
ward appearance with the exception OF
small, hard, lumpy knots on the jaw or
about the head. There was no shrink
age in weight nor falling of in the sup
ply OF milk.
Topeka Capital: Woodruff will be
given another trial. Early yesterday
morning telegram was received from
Little Rock, Ark, stating that Frank
Woodruff, the Lawrence deputy post
master, had been ordered released on
bail by Judge Caldwell of the United
States circuit court. Woodruff was
convicted on May 1st in the United
States district court OF appropriating
money to his own use belonging to the
money order department and was sem
fenced the following DAY to one year in
the penitentiary. Since that time he
has been confined in the county Jail
awaiting the efforts OF Captain Joe
Waters to obtain new trial, and his
efforts have been crowned with success.
Isaac Fox shot and killed Henry
Letcher with a 32-caliber revolver at
the Home mine, in the vicinity Of
Leavenworth City, Monday, May 18th at
s o'clock p. m. Letcher was shot
through the abdomen, and died in half
an hour. The shooting grew out Of
quarrel between Eugene Lewis and
Grant Plaokhnrn MAR tho xrhifflin0 If