Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

dead BODY was tounu on the rlVcr oank'
He had frozen to death.
Shortly after midnight recently Peter
Hinton. u cattle inspector. was shot and
killed in the streets of Arkansas City.
He had been in q row in gambling
room and it was supposed that John
Boucher, a gambler, followed him to
the street and killed him. Boucher
was found at his home with his hand
badly cut and was arrested.
Extensive arrangements IRE being
made for the G. A. r. state encamp-
ment, which will be held ut Atchison
next month. It is expected that 1,5Oo
delegates will be in attendance. The
cncampment will be composed OF five
departments-G. A. r., Women's Re-
lief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. r,
Ladies' Aid societies and Sons OF
Veterans
Mary Jones, fourteen years old. was
recently arrested at Kansas City, Kan.
upon the request of her parents and
given over to the authorities If the
House of the Good Shepherd. Her
waywardness caused her parent, any
amount of trouble and she finally
threatened to poison the whole family,
which resulted in her being put under
restraint
No more serious outbreak is re-
ported from the war in Stevens and
Seward counties. The militia were
preserving order, and while Judge
Botkin was reported to be in imminent
danger no further attempt upon his
life had been made. Six persons sup
posed to have been connected with the
assassination of Sheriff Dunn had been
arrested, and all manner of sensational
rumors were afioat.
The largest suit ever commenced in
Wyandotte county was filed the other
day in the court of common pleas
by the Northwestern Construction Co.
against Jaw Gould for S4S5, 600, and .
writ Of attachment for that amount
was issued against the Missouri Pacific
and Union Pacific roads. The suit is to
recover u balance alleged to be due
upon deal made several years ago. in
which the amount involved was So, 00O,.
600.
Wi liam Ehrhart, teacher of a school
four mics north of Topeka, was at
tackled by three of his scholars the
other afternoon after school and re-
ceivcd injuries which were considered
of n serious nature. The leader
of the boys is son OF George
Kistler, n prominent Shawnee coun-
ty citizen. The boys threw Ehr-
hart down en- the floor struck him over
the head with an iron poker and cut
his throat with a pocket-knife. The
trouble was said to have grown out OF
the attempt of the teacher to keep the
boys in as a punishment for violation
of the rules.
A Wichita special is authority for the
statement that under the will OF q
brother. who has recently died in En-
gland, George Tankersley, burglar in
the state penitentiary, comes in for
property over the water said to be
worth upwards of $1,000 900. The news
was received by Mrs. Tankersley, at
Wichita, who, since her husbands in.
generation, has been largely depend
ent on neighbors for support. The
family was we'll to do at one time, but
got into financial trouble and finally
Tanlkersley became n criminal. He is
serving a sentence OF ten yeas, having
been sent up about u year ago.
At late meeting OF the western as
ISOLATION of wholesale nuserymen at
Topeka resolutions were adopted ask
ing the cooperation of all fruit growers
in the Mississippi valley /, unite in IN
effort to have stringent quarantine
and inspection laws passed to prevent
the importation of diseased fruit from
California, which threatens the fruit
interest and endangers the health Of
the people. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, II. L. Kelsey, of ST. Joseph, Mo;
vice-president Il. II. Blair, Kansas
City, Mo-; secretary and treasurer, o.
b. Pearsall. of Fort Scott Kan.
The board Of railroad commissioners
rendered decision recently in the case
of the Wholesale grocers OF Wichita,
Hutchinson. Salina and Arkansas City
against the Santa Fe, Rock Island,
Union Pacific. Missouri Pacific and
Frisco railroads. The complaint Of
the grocers was that they were being
discr minated against in rates on sugar,
ffth-class rates IN aud distributing
rates out They asked that the seventy
Ave mile eastern limit be abolished.
The board ordered that on and after
February 1, 1892, the following fifth
class rates be established: Wichita and
Hutchinson, 90 cents; to Arkansas City,
80 cents; to Salins, IS cents.
A Wichita special declares that .
prominent Santa Fe official is authority
for the statement that the Montezuma
branch of the Atchison system will be
ahondonad In the enf-ino and the matA.