Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-14
STATE NEWS.

The Y. NJ. C. A. OF Kansas will send
no more missionaries TO the Soudan.
Hattie johnson, daughter OF ). N
johnson, treasurer OF Doniphau county
fell dead from heart disease last week
There was boom in matrimony Of
Independence last week. The probate
Judge issued six licenses in q single
day.
Eldoraio Republican: NJ. Biddle.
the new president OF the Kansas Farm
er's Alliance, lives in Augusta, this
county.
]. T. Coplan, an Atchison man who
had 10 quit banking on account Of hay
fever. has bought an $4,000 farm IN
Washington county and will live on 1t
Mr.. Noah Brooks story, 1.-THE Kan
sas Settlers" has been published In
book form. II not q homemade story
it Is very near it and has much to do
with Quiniaro and Manhattan.
What is there in the Kelley cure, OBJ
serves Dell Valentine, that makes men
so anxious to parade their former deg
relation, even while acknowledging q
cure from terrible thralldom? Just
now 10 some cities 1t seems TO be the
fad 10 be o reformed usher.
Frank Flerniken, Senator Plumb's
private secretary, Is distributing two
public documents to the Kansas editors;
one the Memorial Addresses on the
Life and Character OF Senator Beck"
and the other Diseases OF the Horse"
Speaking of Flenniken, why not keep
him ut home and run him for some
thing?
Nebraska sued the Atchison & Ne
braska Railroad company for CONSOLE
dating with the Burlington & Missouri,
alleging that competition was thereby
destroyed and the interest Of the state
injured. The court decided in favor OF
the railroad on the ground that The
Atchison & Nebraska could not be OPP
Grated successfully as an independent
line. In other words. the court rca-
soned that a state has no right to force
even O railroad to commit commercial
suicide because q few cranks think it is
not run enough in their interest.
Lawrence once had jour printer
named Hawkins, whose delight 1t was
to gather the children OF the neighbor-
hood around him and spin yarns, Ito be
continued" from day TO day. after the
manner OF the Oriental story teller.
The children, now grown people, may
be pleased to hear that their former
friend, after making lot OF money in
the mind cure" business and losing 1t
in q magazine. besides writing a sue
cessful play called the Broom Maker
has written q book, "A Kansas Pa
triot." the scene being laid in Lawrence,
Boston and New York.
The "Old Horn" we'll in Rawlins
county is to be cleaned out. 1t is 200
feet deep, and was dug many years ago.
It has never SLED with water because
it is on divide" 1t Is believed that
It is the sepulcher OF many murdered
people, and one man Is now In the PEN
itentiary, who, 1t is supposed, threw
the bodies Of some OF his victims into
1t. It is said two young ladies OF At
wood visited the place long time ego,
taking with them looking glass, and,
they were Mortified at seeing bones.
This has been kept secret until re-
Gently, when 1t was told by one oHthem.
Atchison Globe: Those two old bat
tie SCARED veterans, Tom Anderson and
Tim McCarty, are just too funny for
anything. For instance, Tom tele-
graphs the officer OF the day, G. A. R.,
Belleville, TO arrest one Tim McCarty
for stealing q Grand Army sermon from
Barney Kelly, etc. Only think Of 1t,
and Tim q candidate for governor!
These old pensioners joke and guy
each other just as freely as they did
when kids together. Such slick humor
as Tim Is capable OF making would fade
q carpet. Then Tim don't get q bit
made at Tom, bit keeps right along
working up his governor racket; find
ing time, however, to telegraph Tom
that he dould forgive anything In the
world but being charged with stealing
from his brother Irishman, Barney
Kelley, and threatening to come back
Ct Tom with q George Washington an
ecdote II he don't quit. There's
enough jcicy pleasantly in Tim to
choke q sewer. Then the Topeka Cap
itnl publishes all this funny business
and everybody Is tickled almost 70
asafhto see Tom and Tim play horsa