Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-08-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

agreed to perfect q republican state ed
itorial association. A meeting for that
purpose was called to meet the second
week in September.
1t is now known that Richard O.
Meade, the missing Atchison insurance
agent, has gone to England and de-
tective agency has offered to bring him
back for $500. That amount was raised
in Atchison on the streets in about two
hours. 1t is believed that his liabilities
will reach $4,000.
David and Mary Martin, father and
mother of George w. Martin, of the
Kansas City, Kan, Gazette, died recent
ly at their farm near Lecompton. with
in few hours of each other Mr.. Mar
tin was rs and his wife ~ years old.
They died on the farm Mr.. Martin pre-
empted thirty-seven years ago.
Eighteen insane old veterans were re-
gently taken from the soldiers home to
! Washington, ID. c., for treatment. 1t
Is stated that the number of old voter
ans who lose their reason at the
soldiers home is very large, and squads
If them are taken to the national in
sane hospital at Washington several
times year.
The body of a young man about %
years old was found hanging from u
limb in bunch of trees on the Fort
Leavenworth military reservation the
other day. The surroundings indicated
| that he committed suicide. The only
articles found on his person were
chloroform and Il memorandum which
failed to disclose his indemnity.
The other morning the barn of Mr..
! A. G.. McSlinds, u farmer living about
seven miles northwest of Smith Center,
was burned to the ground. also six head
of horses that were in the barn at the
, time of the fire. One belonged to
: neighbors who were sitting up with the
farmers sick daughter. Children play
ing with matches started the fire.
| Acknowledgement Ives has written
another letter, in which he says that
the Interpretation put on his recent
opinion relative to the state inspection
law is entirely erroneous and that in
spectors from the state of Missouri or
any place who attempt to inspect grain
Kansas soil without qualifying I'M
Ter the Kansas law should be promptly
dealt with.
Secretary Mohler said recently that
so far as he could judge at present time
the probability is the corn crop will
be the largest ever produced in Kansas.
Additional reports from the wheat har-
vest indicate that the secrctary's esti-
mate of thirty days ago will fall below
the actual product at least 10000 900
bushels, making a total yield OF over
20, 900, 600 bushels in the state.
The annual statement of the United |
tates pension agency in Topeka shows
lat the disbursements for the past
year reached nearly Sl5,OO0OC The
Topeka agency makes payment for the
states of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado,
Arkansas, New Mexico and the Indian
territory, and the report shows that
this agency leads all others in the
United States in the amount paid out.
The total deposits of the Kansas
POoiIo,
banks and bankers deposits, demand
certificates and time certificates at the !
four calls made by Mr.. johnson, state !
bank examiner, are as follows: October |
ID, 1901, SIS. ia, 1885, 80; January 9, 1892,
ST., S77, 977. 90; March 90, 1892, Sls l21,-
$50. IS; June 1, 1892, slS, 434, 1902. The
total number of banks reporting, pri-
vate and state, was AS.
The other day q can of gasoline upon
the platform above the well on L. s.
Phillips place, near Newton, was over
turned by pigs and the gasoline ran in
to the well. Next day the well was
pumped out and Phillips dropped a
match into the ventilator. An explo-
sion followed and Phillips was badly
burned and the sight of one eye serious
" injured. Mrs. Phillips, who stood
further away, was also severely burned.
A religious debate at a country church
q few miles from Hutchinson between
two ministers, one of the Methodist
and the other of the Christian faith,
had tragic termination the other
night As j. w. Randall, who defend
ed the Christian doctrine, was complet-
ing his argument he dropped dead.
When the awe-stricken spectators had
recovered their presence of mind
physician was summoned, who pro-
nounced death the result of heart fall
ure. The remains ofthe deceased min
lister were shipped to Paris, Mo-, his
home.
All Harper county was recently in an
uproar over the alleged abduction Of
one of the county commissioners and
the attempted carrying off of a second
member. 1t was the day on which the
board of county commissioners was to
meet and levy n tax to cover county
railroad bonds to the amount OF $780,
900 long overdue, and which 1t is
o1aiynad ara fraudulent The DeoDle |