Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

the past four years. How does 1t come
that Harper has never set up as health
resort?
The superintendent OF the public
schools at Anthony will receive 800
less than he did last year. But the
fruit crop is so abundant this season
that he will save almost that much on
the single item of sugar.
The opera house at Marion, Kansas,
burned Monday night, with the stores
OF w. r. Coburn, dentist: G. Fl. Streh,
cigar manufacturer, and j. Il II Nc
Leod, druggists, in the same building.
Total loss, $40, 900; insurance small.
Carry Peters, aged II. was struck by
lightning and killed just as she was
about to sit down to supper near Law
renee, Kansas. Nine other persons
were in the room at the time. All
were stunned but none we're seriously
hurt.
The Atchison Champion thinks that
the modern diminutives which are ap-
piled to women are idiotic, and makes
an earnest plea for the old fashioned
names OF half century ago. The
Champion is all right as long as 1t
fights shy OF politics.
Independence Star: A farmers wife
living near Independence has sold six
dozen spring chickens this year for Sl5,
Sl2 worth OF eggs, and has lot OF hens
that are setting the second time. A
smart, thrifty wife and an industrious
hen are treasures that any man is justi-
fed in coveting.
A company atiWinfeld has purchased
twenty acres OF land, ten OF which will
be used as park, and ten as grave
yard. The park will liven up the Gem
etery, and the cemetery will impose q
wholesome restraint upon the hahltues
of the park. The idea is purely origi-
nal. and would probably never have
suggested itself to anybody outside OF
Kansas.
Wichita Beacon: J. c. Adams, the
man sentenced to he hung for the kill
lug OF Captain Couch, received tele-
gram from Judge Shields, who is at
Washington in his behalf. at noon to-
day stating that his bill of exceptions
had been allowed by the supreme court
and that all proceedings had been
stayed in his case. He is naturally
veny jubilant over the news.
Osborne County Farmer: This years
wool clip of J. Q. Foster OF Hancock
township, amounted to about 10000
pounds. We understand he received
l9i cents for his wool in st. Louis,
which brings him in quite sum OF
money, and also proves that there is
money in the sheep industry. Mr.. Fos-
ter left for st. Louis the first of the
week to look after the sale OF his wool.
Arkansas City Dispatch: w. X. Nc
Comas of Burden procured quantity
OF inoculated chinch bugs OF Professor
Snow and placed them in his wheat
field which was overrun with bugs.
The remedy did the work. The wheat
had been killed before the diseased
bugs were received. but the cholera eX-
terminated the live bugs. Had the eX-
pertinent been tried sooner Mr.. Nc
Comas would have saved big crop OF
wheat.
Hiawatha World: There was man
in this office the other day who. three
years ago, owed $3.50. He doesn' owe
a dollar to-day, and in three years he
has put up buildings and bought bug
Ky and other luXuries at cost Of a 800,
besides paying the mortgage. Counting
interest and all he has paid out not less
than $4,000 in addition to his usual liv-
ing expenses during these three years.
And he has made every dollar OF it out
OF Brown county farm.
One OF the most accomplished men in
Kansas who attended last week the Sec
end annual meeting OF the seminary OF
historical and politica. scieucA at the
Kansas university, declares that he was
most agreeably impressed with the
character OF the speeches delivered by
the students. He says they were full OF
good sense, with no ''rose pink" nor
magnolia business" about them. The
subject matter was excellent and adj
mirably expressed. There are plenty
Of young men at Lawrence" he added,
''who are learning how to speak and
write English and who know q good
many other things"
During the storm Of last Sunday night
lightning played awful havoc at the
home OF Louis Peters, in Leavenworth
county, killing his daughter and badly
injuring several other persons w. NJ.
Nadelhotfer, with his wife, who is a sis
ter of Mr.. Peters. drove with their
children to the Peters farm on a visit.
At o'clock in the evening, during the
heavy rain, all were preparing to sit
down to supper. The older persons
and the children OF both families were
in the dining room. Mr.. Nadelhotfer
had stepped into an adjoining room.
This left seven children and three
grown persons in the one room, and the |
lightning bolt passed through this
room. Mr.. Nadelhoffer was stunned |
for q moment, an then, rushing into the
dining room, found every one OF the ten
lying unconscious on the floor. He !
thought at first that all we're killed, but |
soon Mr.. Peters and some of the chill
dren revived, and their attention was
attracted to Carrie, the 12-year-old |