Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

sAC AOSeNA AOeeSt ANos
The Planters house at LeaVenworth
has been destroyed by fire.
A colored farmer living near Fredo'
MIA is putting in 10 acres OF cotton this
spring.
1t is reported that 2. p. Elder has
not decided to attend the Cincinnati
convention.
There is IL man in the city council al
Atchison who can construct grammat-
ical sentence.
The Wichita Eagle says that when q
man out in western Kansas wants Office
he moves TO Larned.
Elihu Hurley, q coal miner. was
smothered in the Home mire III Lcaven'
worth Monday BY Il falling roof
Senator Plumb is sticking close to
the farm vernacular. He says the re-
call OF Baron Fava simply means one
less hand TO feed.
1t is understood that Sherman county
will have the first stall al the right OF
the entrance TO tie Kansas exhibit at
the Worlds fair.
The music for the commencement at
the university in June will be furnished
BY the orchestra ut the Soldiers home,
and that means that 1t will be first
class.
The Kansas State University base
ball team mopped the earth with tie
Washburn team. Whenever Lawrence
and Topeka try conclusions. Topeka gets
whipped.
When the same young man and the
same young woman go boating at Law
renee for three nights in succession ii
is looked upon as equivalent 10 an an
nouncemeut OF their engagement.
Hon. C. G. Foster, Judge OF the Uni
ted States district court for Kansas,
who has been in i'll health for long
time. will leave this week for the cele-
brated Carlsbad Springs in Germany.
Emporia Republican: A man was
hanged in South Carolina the other day
for numbering his mother-in-law and
two children. Why man should want
to kill his children is incomprehensi-
BILE.
An Arkansas City photographer took
q group picture the other day in which
four generations were represented-a
child, its mother. the grandmother and
great grandmother. The latter was
only rs years old.
The Topeka agent Of the Kansas City
Sunday Sun has been arrested and
Jailed. He is to be prosecuted under the
new law which forbids the circulation Of
immoral and indecent literature. II
the prosecution is successful, the news
dealers in other towns would do we'll to
shut down on the dirty sheet while
times are good.
The widow OF the late Milt Reynolds
is stopping at Hamburg, Mich. In a
letter to the Arkansas City Traveller
she expresses her deep affection for
Kansas, her continued interest in its
prosperity and her desire to return to a
state which she can not forget. She
says: II am proud every day to point
TO Kansas for advanced ideas in legisla-
ton and to Kansas laws which Michi-
gan is just copying"
Emporia Republican: Rev. Updike
says he spent several weeks at Atchi-
son, Fort Scott and Mcpherson, and did
not see a drunken man, nor hear an
oath, but since he came to Emporia he
has heard swearing enough on the
streets to compel him to rank our city
with any OF equal size in Missouri or
Ohio. He says swearing is hook OF the
devil which is swallowed without bait
by mullet heads Swearing is the curse
of our country.
Leavenworth Standard: For some
time Governor Smith and Surgeon
Weaver of the home, have been consid-
ering the advisability OF employing
trained women nurses al the home hos
pital. Application was made TO the
board, and the reasons for the desired
change fully set forth. 1t is understood
that the application has been approved,
and Governor Smith intends to install
women nurses into the hospital not later
than July 18th.
The Kiowa Journal boasts OF four
peaches on one stem. The Index man
don't want to boast, but just to show XII
owa new kind, we will say that three
OF our neighbors were examining one OF
our peach trees few days ago, and on
one limb were three peaches in bunch,
two punches OF four peaches. and one
bunch OF six peaches. All four bunch
es are within space OF three inches.
Six peaches from one stem Is pretty
good. Fours are too common to men,
ton.
Saline County Journal: Five acres in
the northeastern part OF the city at
$500 per acre were purchased by MessrS.
Barney & Hinkle Saturday for the pa
per mill site. The tract lies on the
river and is near the railroads, all that
could be desired for a manufacturing
enterprise Of any kind. These gentle
men left Saturday for Chicago to have
the plans and specifications prepared
and will return with them as soon as
completed, when work will begin on the
buildings. Three and possibly four
buildings will be erected, the main one
being about 400 feet long. The plans