Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Is the cause.
Senator Perkins opened the republi.
can campaign ut Emporia on Septem-
Der in n two hours speech.
The commissioners of Harper county
have ut last funded the debt of $110, 900
fraudently contracted in 1878.
The First regiment, Kansas National
Guards will go into camp ut Fort Scott
October 3, and remain until the sth.
The military authorities mt Fort
Leavcnworth are cleaning up the quar-
tiers in order to head off the cholera.
The statement published that Span
ish fever had broken out among the
cattle in Greenwood county is positively
denied.
JOHN A. Martin, the twelve-year-old
son of the late Gov. Martin, died ut the
hospital at the soldiers home the other
day of hip disease, caused by an injury
received while playing year ago.
While drawing water ut an old fash
toned well curb in Abilene, the other
evening Annie Tiff, aged go, fell into
the well, distance of eighty feet. She
struck on her head and was dead when
found.
Three tramps were taken in by the
city officers of Larned, upon being
searched $50 in cash and $50 worth of
silvcrwarc and other articles, the prop
erty of Mrs Lawrence Fox, were re-
covered.
During late storm lightning struck
and burned the barn of John Thierolfs,
near Wamego. Four fine horses per-
ished in the flames, together with har-
nesses, hay and grain, all to the amount
of about $4,000. Insured for only $500.
Labor day was celebrated ut Topeka
with n magnificent industrial parade.
business was susdended and the entire
population turned out. The business
houses prepared floats, all of the trades
unions were uniformed and the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe shops men
turned out almost to Il man.
The other night George Kilion,
station hand mt Winfield raised dis
turbance while drunk, and Officer Full
ton attempted to arrest him which he
resisted. The officer struck him with
cane when Kilion seized Fulton's revolv-
or and shot him, severing the jugular
vein. The murderer fed but was sub.
arrested
At the late Third district Christian
Endeavor convention, held in Lawrence,
c. NJ. Brown, of Ottawa, was elected
president for the ensuing year; W. F.
Haskell, of Marion; Effie Parker, of
Olathe; George Foster, of Douglas
county; Maud Sayers, of Franklin coun-
ty; vice presidents; Maud Sayers, of
Franklin county, secretary and treas
urer.
A car loAd of watermelons shipped
from Texas TO u firm in Topeka, upon
which the shipper had prepaid 500. %
freight, was stolen from the Santa Fe
yards in that city the other night
There were 020 fine melons in the car,
and who got them is the question the
Santa Fe officials are interested in learn
ing, as the company will have to stand
the loss.
Mrs Robert II. Mitchell, Of Fort
Scott, met the ladies of Ingalls, the
other morning and organized a
Columbian club for the repre-
of Gray county in the Kansas
exhibit Mt the worlds Columbian ex-
position. The following officers were
elected: Mrs. j. n. Yelter, president;
Mrs z. II. Turner, vice-president: Mrs.
NJ. p. Hammer, secretary, and Mrs. j.
+. Tyler, treasurer.
As the northjbound passenger train
IN the Joplin branch of the Memphis
Dad reached Neutral station the other
lay some neighbor boys reported that
hey saw several persons lay ties and
'ails across the track at bridge short
distance north of the station for the
purpose of wrecking the train. The
rain approached the place cautiously
md the obstruciions were removed but
The miscreants had fed. The train was
ull of passengers returning from the
'e-union at Baxter Springs
The weather report of Chancellor
snow, of the state university, for Au-
rust shows that il was an average Au-
rust. The temperature was very little
,elow the average, although the first
week was hot. the mean temperature of
hat week being 81 degrees. The rain
all was q. fraction of an inch lower
han the average. The humidity was
greater than usual. A
marked increase is noticed in the
niles of wind Travelled, the whole num-
Ter being $3.50 miles, s55 more than
he August average. There was not
n entirely cloudy day in the month.
The August report of the secretary of
he state board of agriculture shows
hat threshing had been completed in
OS counties of the state and that the
verage yield, as reported, was for the
astern belt, fourteen bushels per acre.
entHal belt, twenty bushels per acre,