Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-09
Miscellaneous.

Several BOYS were badly injured Ut
Topeka while celebrating the Fourth.
The buffalo and the catfish were
never SO abundant in the Neosho river
Us now.
Kansas never looked lovelicr than at
present, and never promised u richer
harvest.
Refreshing showers fell in many por-
tons of southern and eastern Kansas
on the 10Th.
The republican state central commit
tee met Mt Topeka and adjourned to
July II without selecting chairman.
Harvey Ross. II years old, was re-
Gently killed near Denison by falling
from caboose and being run over by
the train.
The freight depot of the Fort Scott
road at Columbus was burned the other
night together with u CARLOAD of wagons
and farm implements.
Charles Staufer was drowned at To-
peka on the Fourth while boating on
Soldier creek. lie was in boat with a
young lady The boat capsized and the
girl was saved but Staufer drowned.
While trying to arrest two unknown
thieves. some miles north of Green's
burg. Kiowa county, the other day, A.
W. Balfour, constable of that town,
was shot to death. The officers are on
the trail of the murderers.
The assessed valuation of real estate
and personal property, exclusive of rail-
road property. in Wyandotte county for
the year 1892 aggregates $lO,OOl,S39.
According to these figures Wyandotte
county. though the smallest, is still the
wealthiest in the state.
George w. Greever, of Leavenworth
county, was recently killed by being
thrown from his horse against a barbed
wire fence. Mr.. Greever was born in
Virginia in 1881 and had been a menu
Der of the legislature for Wyandotte
and also Leavcnworth counties
The farm property of the late Judge
Ruggles. of Lyon county, was sold the
other day to Chicago man for 100000.
1t consists of 1900 acres, large por-
ton of which is under fine state of
cultivation. The estate took in cS-
change for the land u number of lotH In
Patterson's addition to Chicago.
Secretary Mohler, of the agricultural
department, says the wheat crop OF
Kansas is so large that the farmers are
unable to harvest it without additional
help. Reports from all sections of the
state and from all authorities confirm
the report that the crop this year will
surpass by far any one that has ever
been raised in the state.
At Il late hour the other night w. Is.
Dana. aged 30 years, was found i'll the
doorway of 3ST Minnesota avenue, Kan
sas City. Kan, in an unconscious condi-
ton. His skull was fractured and the
position in which he was lying showed
that he had fallen or had been pushed
down the stairs. He was taken to the
st. Margaret hospital, where he died.
Jean Veret was dangerously hurt
near Caloriiic, a station on the North
western railroad west of Kansas City,
Kan, on the Fourth. lie had driven
his parents to q grove and was standing
in his wagon when the horses took
fright and ran. lie was thrown under
the horses feet and badly mangled.
His head was cut and his jaw. collar
bone and three ribs broken.
A heavy wind and rainstorm struck
Atchison the other night. The African
Methodist church was unroofed and
several small buildings damaged. At
Baker Il stock car blew from the switch
to the main line and Missouri Pacific
passenger train No l, bound for Omaha,
struck it while running four miles an
hour, demolishing the stock car and
badly damaging the engine. No one
was injured.
At its late meeting in Topeka the
state sheriffs' association changed its
name from the Kansas Sheriffs' Coop
Grafton tn the Kansas Ministerial OH
GERS Association for the Suppression of
Crime, and instructed the officers to
have the organization chartered. A
resolution asking the next legislature
to offer standing reward of $50 each
for the capture and conviction of horse
thieves was adopted.
A suit has been filed in the district
court of Wyandotte county through
which it is expected to break up an i'm
dustry established by certain persons
in different parts of Kansas. The suit
is brought by the Southern Kansas Live
Stock association against ]. c. Edwards
to recover the value of four steers. The
amount involved is not much, but 1t is
the intention to test the old Kansas
law allowing stray cattle to be held for
dama1eS