Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The president has nominated and the
senate confirmed LATE Smith as re-
ceiver of the land office at Kirwin.
The corner stone of the Wesleyan uni
versity at Quindaro was laid the other
day. under the auspices Of the colored
Methodists.
The Western Highland Presbyterian
church, Kansas City, Kan, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire the other
night. Loss, 1000.
Kate Hutchinson, daughter Of .
Mitchell county farmer, lately suicided
by taking strychnine. She left q note
saying she had determined to be mSkried
or to die.
Five Topeka boys were recently ar
rested for beating the son of John Nys-
from with baseball bat. 1t was
thought young Nystrom's injuries would
prove fatal.
r. C. Hite, an old trapper, arrived at
Atchison the other day in a small boat.
He left Bozeman, Mont, in his frail
craft in September, 1889, and expects to
reach the gulf before winter.
]. p. Pomeroy, of Boston, has sold q
large body of land that he owned in
Graham county to company OF Rus
slams. There is already prosperous
colony of Russians in that vicinity and
they are interested in the project. The
first colony will occupy probably one
hundred quarter sections.
John Withers and Samuel Love,
Bourbon county farmers, recently had q
quarrel about division fence and
while Love was passing Withers' house
the latter shot him twice from behind q
stone fence. Loves injuries were
thought to he fatal. Withers escaped.
Withcrs married Loves Sister.
John Edwards, alias Anderson, was
captured the other morning while in
the act of robbing the residence of Mr..
Ettcnson, Leavenworth merchant.
When arraigned for trial he pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary and
larceny. lie is u hard criminal and will
no doubt serve the state for some time.
The two-year-old daughter OF ex-
Sheriff Hays, of Wichita, found match
on the floor the other morning. She
ignited it and was soon enveloped in
flames. Before Mrs. Hays, who was at
tracted from the adjoining room by the
screams, could extinguish the flames
the child had been burned so that its
death was hourly expected.
The Second district republican con-
vention at Fort Scott elected Eugene F.
Ware. of Fort Scott, and Col. O. Z.
Learnard, of Douglas county, delegates
to the Minneapolis convention, with
John McCaslin, of Anderson, and E. c.
Owens, of johnson, alternates. B. 8.
Smith. colored, of Wyandotte county,
was chosen for elector for the district.
Hon. E. +. Ware, of Fort Scott, be-
lieves he has discovered in homeless
child at Santa Catarina, Mexico, the
orphan of Mr.. and Mrs. Judge McComas,
who were massacred in the Apache raid
near Silver City, n. NJ, in 1884. On
that occasion Charley McComas, three
years old, was kidnapped by the savages
and has never been heard of since. The
homeless child at Catarina answers the
boys description, and Mr.. Ware, his
uncle. will attempt to identify him.
The bill establishing United States
court ut Fort Scott has passed congress
and been approved by the president.
Court will hereafter be held at Fort
Scott for the counties of Miami, Linn,
bourbon, Crawford, Cherokee, Labette,
Neosho, Allen, Anderson, Coffee, Wood
son, Wilson, Montgomery, Chautauqua,
Elk and Greenwood. Two terms are to
be held annually, the first in May next,
if the court records can be transferred
in time, otherwise not until November.
At the request of the convention re-
Gently held at Salina, the Democratic
state central committee met and
changed the place of meeting OF the
democratic state convention to nomi-
nate a state ticket from Pittsburg to
Topeka. The convention will, there
fore. meet ut Topeka July 8. The APP
portionment of delegates is the same as
the Salina convention, viz, one delegate
for each 300 democratic votes cast at the
last election and one delegate at large
for each county.
The remnant of gang Of toughs
hanging around Wallace, the other
night, chased several citizens to their
homes at the muzzle of pistols and as
the Kansas Pacific train pulled in at
Ills o'clock the gang at the station de-
manded the money box of the operator,
but by suddenly extinguishing the light
and concealing the cash he saved the
money though a bullet went crashing
past his head. The toughs turned their
attention to the passengers on the train
but it pulled out The fellows fed
south.
DIR. Wiley, who has charge of the gov
eminent sugar experiments, has adj
dressed a letter to congress calling
special attention to the sugar expert
ments at the government station in