Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-07
KANSAS Nor@
Whes. dull and lower.

Farmers are dlspOsing ~ their sur
plus aay at fair prices.
The largest county in Kansas Butler
has but one national bank.
Eastel Il papers are booming Ingalls,
for the vice presidency in '92.
L. A. Wasser OF the Press has been
appointed postmaster at Girard.
There are twenty counties in Kansas
in which coal is successfully mined.
By the Knox failure ut Topeka the
New York NJ. E. conference loses S20,-
600.
Mrs. William Graham, at Wichita,
Kans., found her babe after search OF
year.
A literary organization in Norton
county is called the Noble l.. Prentis
society.
Sabatha citizens have donated car
load OF provisions to the needy OF Raw
Inns county.
G. G. Fox OF Highland, Kas., found a
box of Spanish gold pieces while dig
ging OH his farm.
There is talk of two more wholesale
HOUSES Uelltp bldTlCu III ouliho SOOA,
also another large foundry.
A new Methodist church, costing 81
200, was dedicated at Longton last week
by the Rev. Bernerd Kelley.
Washing ton Star: Senator-elect
PETER OF Kansas rejoiccs that he is not
q plutocrat, but potatOcrat.
There are 266 varieties of wheat sown
on the agricultural college farm at
Manhattan for experiment.
A new school house or an addition to
the old one will be erected in HOising-
ton during the coming summer.
Jewell county is going right ahead.
Since January 10 the net decrease in its
mortgage Indebtedness was $l4, 1866.
The people OF Louisburg showed a
good deal Of Judgment in electing Mr..
Lively to the Office OF street commits
siOner.
Uncle Chester Thomas, who is the
subject of more good stories than any
other man in Kansas, is living now at
Stafford.
An Atchison man who was supposed
to be dead returned home from the far
west the other day, after being away
twenty-six years.
The society of eX-Prisoners OF war
met at Fort Scott recently, selected
officers for the ensuing year and were
given banquet.
Jerry Simpson is stopping in WASH
ington at the Hotel Johnson. But IN
writing to his constituents he always
alludes to it as the johnson House,
The junction City board OF trade has
committee at work at Topeka, seeking
to have the lawmakers investigate the
question OF drouth and how to overcome
w. r. Harvey, the defaulting city
clerk of Concordia who has been sem
fenced to year in the penitentiary,
lost the city's money drawing to bob
tails.
The three links are rather solid ones
In Kansas. There are 1853 lodges and
1864 Odd Fellows in Kansas, and they
paid $5O,676,79 for sick benefits last
year.
AS an evidence OF Kansas thrift it is
said that 1.-THE Emporia canning factory
put up 800 cases OF tomatoes. 1000
cases of apples and 1870 cases OF
peaches the past year"
"A good many people will be surprised
to learn that the Methodist of Atchison
refused the G. A. r. the use OF their
house of worship for holding memorial
services in honor of General Sherman.
The cheerful announcement is made
that the peach buds are all right yet
and those who have trees may reasOna-
bly, expect crop this year. There are,
however,Svery few thrifty peach trees
to be found, comparatively speaking.
The Alliance Herald SAYS that the
membership of the Farmers Alliance
in Kansas is now 100, 900 and is increas-
ing at the rate Of 1000 q month. There
are supposed to be about 300, 900 voters
In Kansas.
President Angel of the Michigan
university will be present at the quarter
centennial celebration OF the Kansas
State university in June, and will make
one Of the principal addresses on that
occasion.
The Atlantic Constitution says: MRS.
Lease of Kansas is reported to be an
infidel." There is no ground for any
such statement. Mrs. Lease believes in
God, but she thinks He has been
crowded out Of some Of the churches.
A bunch of Shawnee county prisoners,
who were taken to Lansing the other
day, swelled the list Of penitentiary in
mates to an even 900. OF this number,
$50 are males and eighteen females.
Forty-nine are what are termed Ito
hang convicts," eight are from Okla
homa and seventy are United States
prisoners
This Is the way in which the Leaven-
worth Standard presents the prohibit
ton situation: 'tJust think Of it.
Leavenworth, q city OF 10000 people,
and the police force in the hands Of