Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-11
KANSAS NOTES.
There are $4,000 colored people in

Miss Rose Hawthorn OF Lakln, soiu
100 tons OF alfalga last week at ~ per
ton.
Prof. Snow OF the Kansas state uni
versity says that last March was the
coolest in fifteen years.
The Methodist preacher at st. John
has received back pension to the amount
OF $3.50 and $50 month.
1t is claimed that there is moro
moisture in the ground in Kansas than
there has been for IL years.
. Next Saturday the democratic edl,
torial fraternity" OF Kansas will hold
it's annual meeting in Topeka.
A bright little girl from North 10
peka made 700 words out OF the name
''Eunice Goodrich" and earned $40.
During the recent snow storm in west
ern Kansas the snow drifted six and
eight feet high on the level prairie.
The wheat acreage OF Kansas is 80
per cent greater than last year, and the
prospects for crop are unusually good
Dopcz, the hot tomala man who kill
ed Joe Dodson ut Wichita, has been
sentenced to the per,tentiary for thirty
years.
4. NJ. Walker OF Osborne county, will
plant upwards Of 800 acres OF broom
corn in the vicinity OF Hoxie, Sheridan
county.
The license of the Capital Insurance
company of Topeka has been revoked,
the company having been declared In
solvent.
The Rev. Z. Lytkens wife deserted
him in Wellington. She left letter
saving she was tired OF the dizziness OF
her life.
The Lance is publishing collection
of Kansas poems. An introduction to
the volume is to be written by George
r. Peck.
A North Atchison woman placed a
revolver to her drunken husband s
head the other night and made him
sign a temperance pledge.
The Kansas City Star says that
Mayor Cofran is understood and red
headed but the women votes were all
for him regardless OF his misfortunes.
Alliance men in Kansas are nightly
pleased with the intelligence that in a
Single evening 1000 members were
added to the alliance in Pennsylvania.
A Douglas county farmer was COM
pelled to use four horses the other day
to haul twenty bushels of corn to Law
renee, but he got 81 bushel for 1t all
the same.
One farmer in Ellis county who owns
1850 acres of wheat applied to the aid
commissioner for seed wheat. He said
ne didn't need 1t, but II 1t was going he
wanted some.
Secretary Mohler OF the Kansas
board OF agriculture has received from
Paris the gold medal and diploma
awarded Kansas by the exposition for
the best agricultural report.
There is a negro in Allen county who
is fatalist. When sentenced to the
pen, for stealing, he was thoroughly
satisfied. He said that God had de-
creed it before he was born.
It is very doubtful whether the men
who are on trial for burglarizing q sa.
loon at Atchison will be convicted. II
is mighty hard TO make any Roadway
against the sympathies OF a jury.
Mr.. Trimmer has very properly de.
clined nomination for councilman in
Atchison. A man who doesn't know
Just where he stands oughtn't to mix up
with local politics in Kansas this
spring.
A penniless young man who died last
week at Norton, is found TO have been
Harry B. Acker of Washington. He
left Washington last December and his
friends lost all track of him until news
OF his death was received.
Governor Humphrey signed the
HAYES vinegar act, despite the protests
of the vinegar manufacturers. The law
provides that apple and cider vinegar
shall not be counterfeitcd, or acid vine
gar sold as the pure article.
The beet sugar industry is being
worked up in central Kansas by DR..
Sweitweiier, OF Germany, who is there
arranging for 500 experimental tests in
different countries with foreign seed.
He saws that German syndicate with
a capital OF $40, 00O, 600 will put in facto'
ries If the test is satisfactory.
s. f. Nesbit, the new pro bate judge
of Washington county, took claim in
Doniphan county as early as 1856, NOV
ing his family there in 1857. He claims
to have taken to that county the FIRST
cultivator ever in the county, banging
it from his old Kentucky home, and
crossing the Missouri river at st.
Joseph.
Statistics OF the forthcoming Kansas
wheat crop, collected by the Galveston
chamber OF com merce, show that the
present acreage is larger than ever
before and that the crop has never been
in such fine condition as at this time OF
the year. In seventeen counties heard
from, this years wheat acreage Is !, 1885,
700, against 1874, 900 last year.
Perry Hutchinson OF Marshall county,
has $50, 900 bushels of corn cribbed at
Maryvillc, for which he payed seven