Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

DIX pairs OF Twins competed Tor
baby cab ut the Kansas state fair.
A woman died the other day at Nor
tonville who weighed 800 pounds.
The wedding suit OF O Wellington
man was stolen the other night, but for
tunately after he was married.
The Kansas university Is good deal
set up because Harvard graduate Is
sending bis son to Lawrence this year.
There are 1892 lots in Hiawatha and
out Of that number only eighty-six that
allowed the taxes to become delinquent.
The recent marriage OF its editor,
Mr.. Davis, Is q pleasing proof OF the
prosperity OF the Junction City Tri-
bune.
John Hutchings, q citizen Of Law
renee whom that town and the state OF
Kansas could Ill afford to lose, Ia very
critically Ill. f"
A Wichita bank clerk, who tried to
put on more style than the president OF
the institution In which he is employed
Ia In trouble.
The trial of Brennan, the slayer OF
Sam Wood. has been post poned until
November on account Of the sickness
Of Mrs. Wood.
Wichita has resident who was once
an oyster pirate He sold his yacht,
came west, and Is now respected and
wealthy citizen.
The city OF Horton has !, ACT lots upon
which the taxes are delinquent. 1t
costs the county $l41.70 to pay the ad-
vertising bill on them.
Oats will average about forty bushels
to the acre in Riley county. The horses
at Fort Riley always create q good
home market for that cereal.
Atchison Champion: Jupiter will
continue to be the evening star during
September, provided always that the
Holton Recorder does not object.
At Gueds they say there ID wonder
full baby. His father is an Irish gen.
tleman; his mother is an English lady.
The child was born in America and in
Kansas.
A Japanese student has entered the
university. His name is Heizo Jasano.
His home is Toxic. The university is
quite abreast OF the times.-Lawrence
Journal.
Two companies of the regular army
from Fort Riley are making the yearly
thirty days march prescribed by the
government. They are marching
through the state.
One hardware firm in Hiawatha has
sold fruit cans enough to supply one
can for each man. woman and child in
the county, besides three or four extras
tor Ewing Herbert.
Ralph M. Easley, for twelve years
the able editor OF the Hutchinson News,
has severed his connection with that
journal to accept an editorial position
on the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Lane university at Lecompton opened
this year with big attend ance, which
will make the old faculty which
thought they had killed that institution
by resigning feel kind OF cheap.
The demand for farm help at good
wages this summer aud fall is unpre-
cedented in the history OF western Kan
sas. Farmers have more work than
they can do and help is scarce.-Ker-
win Independent.
The Wellington Mail tells about an
apple tree near Belle Plalne which Is
filed with fruit OF the Golden Russell
and Maiden Blush varieties, which are
said to be growing on the same branch
es all over the tree.
Land contests are now in order The
register reports more land to be con-
tested now than at any other time
since 1885. So much for the value OF
Rawlins county and northwest Kansas
land.-Atwood Time
@. Wood Davis OF Wichita. was
recently offered big salary to travel
In Europe for publishing firm, but he
declined the tempting proposition.
The Kansas people will be glad to know
It. The state can't afford to lose man |
who Is in favor OF 81 wheat.
The state board OF railroad commits
sioners reafiirmed its order TO the Union |
Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & |
Santa Fe railroads to build q connect |
ing track between their lines near En-
terprise. The mayor and common
council OF Enterprise brought the orig
inal complaint against the companies
and the commissioners ordered that |
the connecting lines should be built by
September lst. The railroad compa-
MES asked for a rehearing. 1t was
granted and the order stayed. This took
place September 5th and the companies
are now ordered TO connect the lines
not later than October LIST.