Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Alfalfa has made very rank growth
In western Kansas this season.
Three coiored men are said to be liv-
ing with white wives in Topeka.
Rosedale is to have a new grain ele-
vator with capacity of $50, 900 bushels.
John Knight, colored boy, was re-
Gently drowned while bathing near
Quindaro.
Charles Martin, of Salina, has been
appointed executive clerk of the United
States senate.
Lewis H. Norris, young man, was
killed by the explosion of thresher
boiler near Claflin.
Howell Jones and Judge N. F. Handy
have been appointed receivers for the
Grand opera house, Topeka.
NJ. F. Wood, of Montgomery county,
has been elected president Of the First
national bank of Cherryvalc.
Ringing Bros, whose circus was
wrecked Mt Concordia, have sued the
Missouri Pacific road for $4,000.
John Gushing, aged 10, youngest son
of Mrs. c. Gushing, of Atchison, was
drowned recently while bathing.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte & North
western railroad has been formally
turned over to the Gould interest.
The body of an unknown man was re-
Gently found floating in the Kaw river
Mt Argentine. The body was that OF
man about S5 years of age.
Henry Schultz, German IS years
old, was drowned while bathing in the
Kansas river ut Topeka. He had but
lately come to this country.
John Brice, of Argentine, attempted
suicide the other day, being his eighth
attempt at self destruction. Strong
drink the cause in each case.
Rene Leon, Kansas City, Kan, col
ored woman, recently attended ball,
danced, lay down to rest and was soon
dead Heart trouble the cause.
E. w. Currier, who is stock farmer
in Clark county, was in Dodge City to
receive some 600 head OF cattle from
Arizona, which he is to pasture for one
dollar per head during the grazing sea-
son.
Rube Davis shot and fatally wound
ed Dick Lyle at Valley Falls. Both are
colored men. Lyle was an unmarried
man who formerly boarded with Davis,
and became intimate with the latter's
wife.
Charley Thornburg, Of Pittsburg,
was drowned while bathing in Smiths
strip pit south of town. He could not
swim. His body stuck in the mud SO
tight that it was brought up only after
several attempts
r. b. Drury, a real estate agent OF
Atchison, has sued DIR. Challiss, admin
istrator Of the John A. Martin estate,
for 81, 900 which he claims was promised
to him for effecting the recent sale OF
the Atchison Champion to A. j. Felt
Railroad Commissioner A. r. Greene
was on the witness stand in the hearing
of the Symns injunction suit at Atchi-
son. He stated that he signed the
freight order of March 5 reluctantly,
being in doubt rs to whether it was
right and just.
Rev. r. 7. Berlein, of Atchison, cast
by being kind to an old lady in Penn
sylvania. Recently it returned to him
in the form of bequest of $50, 900 that
the old lady left him at her death,
which lately took place. She was so
years old.
Western Kansas never had such
crop in sight rs now. The wheat yield
out there is said to be simply fabulous.
The wheat now in sight in the western
third of Kansas this year will be suf-
ficient to wipe out nearly every dollar
of mortgage debts on the farms in that
third of the state.
C. w. Brocaw was recently drowned
in the Neosho river near Burlington.
Brocaw and several others quit their
work and took their families up the
river for picnic. The men were sein'
ing III water up to their necks, and
stepped off in water over their heads.
Two Of the others narrowly escaped
drowning, having gone under twice be-
fore being rescued.
The disappearance of Henry Amer is
causing his friends much concern. An
ger is a stockman living near Goddard.
He went to Wichita the other day with
a car of hogs, which he sold. Since
then he has not been seen or heard of.
His young wife of only year is dis
tracted. Amer is a man Of excellent
habits and there is no reason discovered
for a voluntary disappearance Foul
play is feared.
The assessors of Dickinson county
are having hard time equaliEing the
assessments of the various trustees
The county attorney, b c. Cranston,
advised last March that assessments be
ut full value and now says that ut was
only joke" The humor Of the affair
Is not fully appreciated and there are
hundreds of petitions coming In to have