Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-07-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The price OF new wheat Is generally
quoted in all southern Kansas in the
neighborhood OF 20 cents.
G. G. Arnold was the first white set
tier OF Sedgwick county. He located
where Wichita now Is in 1857.
The City Bank at Usage Mission has
closed its doors. The assets and liz
bilities Of the bank are unknown.
Medicine Lodge, the home OF Jerry
Simpson, besides producing statesmen
raises gooseberries that are two inches
in circumference.
The Republican, an evening paper
established in LeavenwOrth q montf
ago to fill long felt want, died OF con
sumption q few days ago.
Sheriff Weir OF Morton county denies
the statement that James Brennan wa
deputy sheriff, or that he permitted
Brennan to have unusual privilege.
while In his charge.
John A. Hazeltine OF Mitchell county
has farm which is eight miles round
and he expects to have 1900 bushels.
Of wheat this year. He Is about the
poorest politician in his neighborhood
The board Of county commissioners
oflLeavenworth, has appropriated S204..
so, which Is 10 per cent OF the amount
assessed against Leavenworth county.
~ its share OF the 100000 worlds faii
fund.
A geodetic station has been estab-
lished on the Heath farm in Ellsworth
county, where the roaring pillows Of
the Mulberry and the raging waters o.
Elm creek divide and flow into diver.
gent channels to the sea-
The present sheriff of Leavenworth
boasts that only one prisoner has beer
taken to the penitentiary since he went
into Office. That prisoner was Green,
the colOred fellow who killed an old
soldier on Christmas night, 1889.
c. G. Scrafford was at one time well
known In Kansas, but has been away
seeking health has returned to his
former home at Seneca to die. Hi:
trouble Is Q complication Of disease.
which affect the action OF his heart.
The only son of Col. d. r. Anthony
Dan, jr,, has just completed course iu
the law department of the University
of Michigan. 1t Is not likely that he |
will adopt the journalistic profession.
though he has been reared in the at. |
mosphere OF newspaper office.
Peter McGrath, an insane veteran al
the soldiers home, jumped out of
three story window in Company KS bar |
racks last night to the stone pavement
beneath, and instant death was the re.
suit McGrath was permitted to GO
from his cell into the bath room, where
the windows are not barred. He opened
one OF them and jumped. -Leavenworth
Standard, July Sd.
Through chair car service has been
placed on the NJ, K. & L. from Hanni-
bal, Mo-, to points in Texas. The chair
cars will take the place OF first class
coaches now In use on the main line
and will be run free. This commend.
able addition cannot fail to meet the
approval OF the general public and
places the old reliable NJ, X. & T. in
the front rank Of all western roads in
point Of passenger equipment.
The midsummer meeting OF the south
Kansas conference will be held at Kin.
caid August At, 1891. There will be
three lectures delivered during the
meeting, as follows: Tuesday, August
4th, at 8 o'clock p. m, Future Punish
nent" by Hugh McBirney. Wednes.
day, August 5th, observations in Pal.
estine. by an Eye Witness" S. S. Mar
tin. Thursday, August 9th, IAN Hour
In Other Worlds" by J. w. Wright,
D. d.
Tell Walton OF the Lincoln Republic
an, planted eighty acres OF wheat last
fall for the purpose of ascertaining the
exact cost per acre of cultivating the
cereal in Kansas. He rented the land
and hired all of the work done. and ex-
poets to come out ahead. When the
crop is harvested and threshed Mr..
Walton will make a statement in HE
paper as to the result Of his expert
meut and it will be awaited with con.
siderable interest.
A man living south Of AtchisOn re-
Gently came into possession OF number
OF cattle hides, but had no way OF get
ting them into the city to market ex-
cept to carry them on his back. He put
them into two gunny sacks, three in
each sack. He could only carry one
sack at time, but he carried one sack
half mile and deposited 1t by the road
9Iucp BOAuB UnCk oAOor tuo ObuoCs LIN
he continued until he reached the
town. He was afterwards given en-
ployment by the man to whom the hides
we're sold.
Justin Barrett, aged Z, left his home,
Third and Usage streets, yesterday
with Henry Kerzdorn and Ed
die Young, boys Of about his own age.
Hhey went to the river to float BARK
md single boats and in reaching o"t
10 guide his, the Barrett boy fell in an,
was drowned at . point north Of the
Kansas Central elevator. Barrett's /
went home with their
clOthes wet and accounted for their con- !
1itlop by various stories. They were
awed into silence by the death Of their
they wanted to tell, but
souldn't One OF them finally con. (