Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

j. +. Bell, Santa Fe brakeman was
recently killed by the cars ut Strong
City.
The Fifth avenue hotel ut Topeka
was recently leased for q term of nine
ty-nine years
Ex-Attorney- General Bradford has
formally announced himself rs candi-
date for congressman -at-large.
The secretary Of war has issue gen.
eral order for the establishment ut
Fort Riley of q school Of instruction
and drill practice Of light artillery.
The agitation of the question of rail-
road tariffs in Kansas is causing an I'M
usual number of complaints to be for
warded to the state board of railroad
commissioners for investigation and
adjustment.
Samuel Brandt the landlord Of the
Russell house. at Russell, committed
suicide the other night by hanging
himself in his barn in that city. The
cause was trouble over hayward son,
boy of eighteen years.
Ike Wiley, a burglar well known
from St Louis to the Pacific, was
caught at Wichita the other morning
while entering building with all his
tools ready for work. He is wanted in
several places.
Fred Lance was caught between two
freight cars near the Santa Fe depot
at Emporia the other morning and
nearly cut in two after which he was
dragged nearly block. He was in
the employ OF the Santa Fe and was
prominent in the A. o. U. w. select
knights.
Bert Burns, aged ten; Roxie Willie,
aged eight. and Sammy McGrew, aged
ten years, sons Of respectable people,
were arrested ut Wichita the other day
for robbing three stores and starting
two fires. The money drawer in each
store was robbed and considerable
money secured by the youthful thieves
The Kansas freight rate fight has at
last been taken to the federal courts
An injunction was recently issued by
Judge Riner, in the United States dis
IEICb COuIU LCobA oahAu6 ShS
railroads from putting into effect the
recent order Of the railroad commits
sioners in regard to the rates on sugar,
coffee, beans and canned goods.
The executive committee of the peo-
Piles party has issued a proclamation
calling upon the people of Kansas who
indorse the declaration of union and
independence of ali industrial forces
and the platform promulgated by the
St Louis conference, to meet in mass
convention in their respective county
seat towns on Saturday, March &c, to
ratify the action of the conference.
THE ministerial delegates to the
general conference elected by the Kan
sas annual conference, lately in ses-
sion at Kansas City, Kan, are: Rev.
e. S. Dearborn, of Topeka; Rev. j. W.
Alderman, of Atchis m, and Rev. S E.
Pendleton, of Holton. The altcrnates
are Rev. ]. A. Lippincott, of Topeka,
and Rev. w. A. Quayle, OF Baldwin
City. Lay delegates, ID. c. Newcomb,
Atchison; I. i. Sweet, Topeka.
The experiments of Melbourne in
Kansas have left an unexpected crop
of rainmakers who claim to have dis
covered his secret, and who are now
ready 10 supplant irrigation. Two
companies have been incorporated and
have proposed 20 make contracts with
counties at 5000 county, engaging to
secure from one to two inches OF rain
under each contract These companies
will sell the secret at $500 per
county.
At Leon the other day Otis Tabing
and Mason Morris got into quarrel,
and as Tabing is only seventeen years
old his father took it up After con-
siderable quarreling between Morris
and Tabing, the former drew a revolt
yer and the latter secured shotgun.
Tabing grabbed the gun and scuft1e
ensued, during which the Tabing boy
grabbed his fathers pistol and shot
Morris four times, from the effects of
which he soon died
The mayor OF Kansas City, Mo, re-
ceived letter from a man in Jewell
county, Kan, the other day telling the
story that the writer Is q widower
.forty-seven years old, with two girls,
twins of seventeen years; that he is
drawing a pension of sl2 per month
and able to support a wife, and he
writes the humane society or the mayor
to let him know of good woman for
wife, rs where he lives there are 1.-TWO
men TO one woman"
Senator PETER has presented to the
senate q petition from Kiows and other
western counties asking the govern
ment to make an appropriation for
irrigation purposes The petition sets
forth that It has been fully demonstrate
ed that the soil OF western Kansas.
with the aid of water, is not inferior to
the best lands In the United States IL
fertility. and therefore It Is the duty of