Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The district conference of the Christ
ian Endeavor societies lately held q
three days session Mt Larned.
Kansas City, Kan, has commenced
arresting persons for shooting within
the city limits. Footpads are exempt.
The remains of Col. L. c. Smeed, late
chief engineer of the Union Pacific rail-
road, were laid to rest at Emporia-
The funeral was very elaborate. Many
prominent railroad officials from abroad
were present.
The fall term of the state normal
school opened at Emporia on the 3Oth
with nearly thousand scholars already
enrolled and in Attendance and the out
look was for a much larger attendance
than ever before.
While boating on the Delaware, near
Thompsonville, the other day Grant
Evans and his sister Bertha and Miss
Maggie Worthington, the betrothed OF
young Evans, were drowned by the
capsizing of their boat.
Kansas got away with the three lead
ing prizes at the Knights of Pythias
drill at Kansas City. Mystic division,
of Girard, won the prize of $1,000;
Galaxy division, of Pittsburg, carried
off the second prize of $1,000, and Erie
division took the third prize, $1,000.
The livery stable of James Keefe at
Lawrence was destroyed by fire the
other evening. Mr.. Keefe was quite
severely burned about the face and
hands in trying to rescue three hack
horses which were in the stable at the
time. One very valuable horse was
burned to death.
John Dooley, farmer living few
miles from Leavenworth, committed
suicide the other day by shooting him
self through the head with pistol. He
| is supposed to have committed the act
through worry over the loss Of his wife,
who died about year ago, and because
of his drinking since then.
A gasoline stove explosion caused a
fire in the bottoms at Kansas City, Kan,
the other night that burned Daniel &
Comforts livery stable and about a
dozen horses. several gambling houses
near the state line and number of
smaller buildings. covering an entire
square. The loss was over $4,000
The other night the residence of Eli
Potter and the adjourning residence
of City Clerk Albright at Kansas
City, Kan, were burned. The Pot
ter residence was the most singular
structure in the west and was built and
furnished at an expense of $4,000. 1t
was insured for $4,000. Mr. Albright
placed his loss at $4,000; insurance, ST.
600.
Senator Perkins was robbed of 800
on sleeping car between Washington
and New York the other night. When
he retired he had his pocket-booli in one
pocket of his pantaloons. When
awakening the next morning the pocket
book was in another pocket, but 300
lighter, the dollars having been trans
ferred to still another pocket-that of
some thief.
The tenth state fair will be held ut
Topeka September IL, IS, II, Is. 1G AMI
II: and no meeting is of more impor-
lance to the people OF the state than this
fair There are Offered this year some
100000 in premiums. purses and spec
ials. An extraordinary effort has been
made to help place Kansas where she
belongs, at the head of the worlds fair,
by offering the largest premiums for
cereals and grasses that have ever been
offered in the west.
Harry Brown. who was wanted at
Auburn, Shawnee county. for criminal
assault. and who suddenly disappeared
from Topeka in September, 1886, as
suddenly returned home the other day
and put in an appearance for trial. The
finding of his valise and clothing in n
pool of blood at the time of his disap-
pearance led to the theory that he had
been murdered. Since he left the girl
who was the complaining witness
against him has married.
Pensions granted Kansas veterans on
the 25th: DECENTRALIZATION TInnehill,
Jesse :. Moore. Andrew j. Anderson,
George W. Jordan, Jasper Lee. Thomas
johnson. Edward Armes, Hugh r. Ma
gill, Albion IL. Whitcomb, Elias Tenn
pleton. William II. II. McKim, Lewis
A. Brake, John II. Harding, James
Shearer, Asa NJ. Sadler, Franklin Batch,
Henry ID. Beck. Marcus Moore. Harvey |
Aument, Jacob NJ. Clay, William X.
Watson. William NJ Brown.
At the regular meeting of the board
of regents Of the state normal school,
recently held at Emporia, the matter OF
a normal exhibit was discussed in
general way and the board decided that |
an exhibit should be made at the worlds |
fair. The details will be completed at
a later meeting. The normal begun its
summer session on Monday, August 30.
Over thousand are already enrolled
and the outlook is that the institution
will be crowded beyond its capacity.
Thomas Drew got rid of life in u
CHASTITY manner at Wichita the other