Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

mayor OF Leavenworth, gave M. l..
Decker, democrat, majority OF 2S9.
The Farmers Cooperative Milling
company OF ElDorado, Butler county,
has filed its charter with tho secretary
OF state.
The post Office ut Olathe was entered
the other night by burglars and robbed
OF every letter in the boxes and all let
tiers which had been deposited and not
dispatched.
The salary Of Prof. Garfield, OF the
state university, has been raised, TO
forestall his acceptance of an offer OF
$4,000 a year to take the presidency OF
an eastern college.
There will not be much OF an early
crop OF potatoes in Kansas this year,
but with scasonable weather there will
be q tremendous late yield, rs the
farmers are preparing to plant a large
acreage.
Delegates who expect to attend the
Kansas state Sunday school convention,
to be held at Emporia, May l2-l4, are
requested by the COMMITTEES on enter
tainment TO send their names'a as soon as
convenient 10 d. w. Eastman, EN-
poria.
A Wichita young lady tells good
story on,hersef. She RENTED in an
swer TO an advertisement reading.
zone hundred and fifty useful articles
for 80 cents" ard received in return q
paper containing $50 pins. Her friends
are having an abundance OF fun at her
expense.
The Atchison lawyers, will at the
next meeting OF the state bar associa'
ton, present proposition TO change
the law so that all examinations for I'D.
mission 10 the bar must be before the
supreme court. Too many young fel.
lows break into the bar under the pre-
sent law.
Those who imagine that there will
not be good acreage OF corn in Kan
sas this year are installing in their
reckoning. While there will not be as
many acres planted in corn this year as
there we're last, the number OF acres
throughout the state will by no means
be small.
The Baldwin Ledger calls attention
to the fact that Rev. Z. G. Boaz has
been completely indicated from all the
charges preferred against him. A suit
against him for exemplary damages
was recently dismissed at the plaintiffs
"ost. The people at Baldwin are
practically unanimous In their en-
dorsement OF the Christian character
of their lormer and present fellow citi-
zen.
In the district court OF Wyandotte
county, the other day the American
live stock commission company began q
suit against the Kansas live stock eX-
change for $780, 600 damages for the in
jury to its business through the expul-
sion OF the American from the exchange
.and-eWalleged boycott of the American
&agents by the exchange and its
y.
ohn A. Anderson has the credit
naishing the position OF Secre-
horticulture: THE act of ele-
Va miac commissions of agriculture
to cabinet position and making his an
Independent department, which was
deferred by congress year after year on
various pretexts, proves to have been
one OF the wisest in the behalf OF the
country's most importent interest, that
has ever obtained"
Superintendent John NJ. Bloss, secre-
tary Of the City Superintendent asso.
citation OF Kansas has called a meeting
at Topeka May IA. Is and 16. The
meeting will consider the questions per.
tanning to the management OF schools,
course Of study and discipline. The
association will also have under con-
sideration the method Of preparing and
displaying the work OF the Kansas
schools at the Worlds fair.
General B. F. Stringfellow of Atchi-
son died April 25th. in Chicago, at the
residence Of his daughter, Mrs. White. /
The interment took place at st. Joseph,
Mo-, only the family being present |
While General Stringfellow had spent
little OF his time in Atchison since the |
death OF his wife, six years ago, he was
a legal resident OF that county. Gener-
al Stringfellow was one OF the old time
Kansans and man OF great learning |
and ability.
A man named Walker OF Scandal, has
invented something new in railroad
circles, which is being made at the
Central Branch shops, at Atchison. 1t
Is machine to cut the weeds along the
RAILROAD tracks. The machine is opera
ted by q threshing machine engine
placed on hand car The engine also
runs the car. The weeds are now cut
by hand. The machine will be run at |
the rate Of twenty miles an hour and do
its work. Mr.. Walker will do the work |
by contract.
A sad tragedy occurred at Norton last
Thursday. The l1-year old son of f.
M. Duvail, editor OF the Courier, during
the absence OF his parents, secured are
volver. and having as he thought, ex-
tracted all the cartridges, proceeded to
brighten the other children by swapping
1t at them. Then, to assure them there
was no danger, he placed the muzzle
against his forehead and pulled the trig-
ger, when a bullet went crashing
his brain, he having failed to