Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

5000 bushels of corn, being the product
of 1860 acres of land.
ID. +. Hoover, of Shawnee county, has
raised 63l bushels of apples this year,
and sold 4S4 bushels.
The Baker university football team
of Baldwin City went to Denver to play
the team of that city.
Ducks are plentiful near Leaven-
worth, one hunter killing twcnty-scvcn
in one evenings shooting.
Rcita IT,, two-ycar-old Kansas filly.
has reduced the trotting record for her
age in the state to a:2SA. She was sold
to an Illinois man for $4,000.
Thomas Tinker. of Saline county,
sent lot of sugar hoets that he had
raised to the experimental farm. One
of the beets weighed eight pounds
Wesley Best, of Elk county, lost his
fine residence recently by fire The
house cost $1,000 and was total loss,
with much valuable furniture. lnsur-
ance, $500.
A Douglas county farmer is reported
to have buried crock of butter twelve
years ago. Shortly after he died. Re
Gently some workmen, while digging,
discovered the crock and found the but
ter we'll preserved and perfectly sweet
Patrick Egan, n car repaircr. was
killed in the Santa Fe yards ut Wichita
the other evening. He was caught be-
tween two cars and horribly manglcd.
,,lo IF ri
who was killed in just the same way a
month previous.
Fred Sorter, Il farmer, who murdered
Enoch Link, Il Quindaro blacksmith on
decoration day two years ago, will have
to go to the penitentiary To serve out
his sentence of ten years, the supreme
court having affirmed the sentence OF
the Wyandotte district court.
The attorney for c. A. benson, of
Leavenworth, has presented to the
United States supreme court petition
for Il new trial. Benson will be re-
membered as the man convicted in the
United States court at Leavenworth OF
the murder of Mrs. Mettman.
ID. T. Mitchell, Of Douglas county,
realized from thirty acres of land, which
had been in grass for the past seven
years, crop OF excellent potatoes aver
Il crop of corn which, without tending,
yielded thirty bushels to the acre.
The ease of the ChcrolSee Strip Co.
against j. V. Andrews was called for
trial in the district court of Kansas
City, Kan, the other morning. The
suit, although for small sum, involves
the right of the Cherokee nation to the
six million acres comprising the Chcro-
kce strip
Gen Weissart,o of Indiana. commander
in-chicf of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, Department Commander Green
aud other prominent Grand Army men
were given public reception at Salina
on tho evening of the Sd By the local
post and citizens generally Visiting
delegations were present from sur
rounding cities.
The amount OF sorghum sugar pro-
duced in Kansas thus far this year, as
shown by the internal revenue report,
is as follows: Fort Scott mill, 500, 600
pounds; Medicine Lodge mill, 500, 900
pounds Total, 1900, 900 pounds, which
ut the price paid in Chicago for it, 80
cents per pound. would make the hand
some sum Of $4,000.
The October report of Chancellor
Snow, OF the state university, says the
month has been q warm October, SUR
passed in warmth by only five preced-
ing Octobers, 1879. 1881, 1882, 1854 and
1886. The first white frost of the sea-
son occurred on the 9th, ten days later
than the average date. There was no
black frost, unpicked apples and tender
vegetation above the surface of the
ground being entirely unframed at the
end of the month. The rainfall was
more than 80 per cent. above the aver
age.
William Sims, a young colored man,
has brought suit against the Kansas
medical college to recover 5000 dam
ages because he was dismissed from the
school on account of race prejudice
Mr.. Sims has located in Oklahoma and
prior to going to Topeka to enter col
lege was practicing medicine there on
a certificate. He gave up his practice
in order to obtain a regular diploma |
from recognized medical college. lie |
passed examination at Fisk university, |
Nashville. Tenn, and Harvard univer-
sity in Washington City, and also be-
fore q committee appointed for that
purpose when he applied for admission
to the Kansas college, but mis- admission
was refused on account Of his color, and |
for this he asks damages
Pensions lately granted to Kansas
veterans: Ezra Wells, John A. Ander-
son. August Haas, Henry c. Mann,
Rhesa g. Van Cieef. Brentford Fitz-
patrick, James Wilson, Richard Talbot
Frederick Wodke, Ludwig Boy, Fred