Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS
items of interest In the Sum
flower State.
A Record OF Happenings for the Past
Week Gathered From Oar ESohsn-
res and Boiled Down for
our Heacera

A'boy OF Is "a furnishing spiritual
comfort to the people OF Empcria
The millennium has reached Parsons.
The rival papers are booming each
other.
F. Opper, the famous cartoonist on
Puck, Is cousin OF A. w. Teachout oil
.Atchison.
Thayer has about completed new
methodist church, and is hauling stone
for a new opera house.
Ewing Herbert is called upon TO deny
so many things that he has crowded
John ]. Ingalls, out OF view.
Judge Botkin is a candidate for re-
election. He will be successful: that is
he kind OF district he lives In.
E. ]. Humphreys and S. F. Burdett,
two of LeavenwOrth's oldest citizens,
died ON the same day last week.
C. w. Click has sawed on on wheat
bread, and now eats only corn dodgers.
Mr.. Click is getting ready to run ioF
governor again.
The Atchison Patriot wants special
session OF the legislature called to enact
q law prohibiting the return OF Bill
Hackney to the state.
The A. o. U. w. of Parsons is in q
prosperous condition. 1t has already
paid two death assessments this year
out Of the general fund.
The Mound City Clarion does not OBJ
iect especially 10 the violations OF the
liquor law. but it draws the line ut Sat
urday mig Stand Sunday carousals.
Barney Sheridan figures 1t out that
PETER has only to declare himself In
favor of the force bill TO be in full fell
lowship with the p;publican party.
The Topeka papers are the only Kan:
sas papers that will publish a card OF
thanks for bereaved family. After q
while the Topeka papers will quit 1t.
The hens OF White City are indus.
trious. One dealer has shipped Ell ghty
cars OF eggs from that state since Jan
uary LIST. This amounts to 2l,6oo,OOo
eggs.
A Linn county man has bought o
farm in order to get job in the ALI
ance as a state lecturer. He thinks
owning some real estate will help his
chances.
The Axtell Anchor calls for load
OF nice, juicy elm wood on subscription. !"
The editor is evidently preparing to go
on the warpath after his hated contem-
pory with club.
OF course the alliance candidate for
speaker will be Kansas man. II he is
not, the FIVE Kansas men OF the seven
alliance congressman will not be. faith
full 10 state pride.
A buxom girl of Sedan broke into the
chorus OF the Evangeline company at
Parsons. 1t was her first appearance
in tights and lot OF young men OF the
town followed her off.
A Sedalia city directory OF 1874 men-
tions H. 7. Lemist as paymaster oil the
Missouri, Kansas e. Texas railroad.
Mr.. Lemist has since lived at Atchison
and is now q resident OF Lincoln, Neb.
John Barr OF Leavenworth, cele-
brated his ninety-6rst birthday Sstur.
day. His wife, who is only few years
his junior, his three children and their
children, and some great grandchildren
Joined in the celebration.
Al Tue uluu0T vi tuC AtCulSOu w. ~.
T. u, Thanksgiving day, John ].
Ingalls, was called upon to respond to
toast, but he was not present, and, the
Globe says, Councilman Cawley, who
has whiskers like PETERS, took has
place
The wheat crop Of Kansas would
supply population OF thirteen million
or one-ffth Of the people OF this country
It would take LA, 900 cars OF 400 bushels
each to haul the wheat grown in Kar-
sas this year. No other state in the
union has ever produced so much sur
plus wheat.
D. G. Miner, who spent couple OF
DAYS at Leavenworth last week, says
the old soldiers at the National home,
south OF the city, are robbed by the
Leavenworth joints. At the last pay.
ment OF the pensions the old soldiers at
the home got some S66,000, and Gov
ernor Smith and other officers at the
home think large portion OF 1t went
into these Leavenw0rth hell holes.
About Two months ago Bernard
Schmitz. q substantial German farmer
OF Atchison comfy, clncluded to go
back to Germany, after an absence OF
twenty-three years. When he arrived
In the old country he was arrested as q
deserter from the Prussian army and
Is now serving under the emperor as q
soldier. Schmitz Is q prosperous and
highly respected man and has q wife in
Atchison county.