Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-09

The prospective opening OF the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe reservation, includ-
ing counties C, ID, E, +, G, and II of the
Oklahoma territory, has caused much
activity on the part Of the Santa Fe
management in preparing for the ex-
pected rush of settlers. Counties ID, Z
and + in the northwestern portion OF
the reservation are nearer the Pam
handle line of the Santa Fe than any
other railway and the sale of tickets to
Kiowa, Kan, Woodward, /. T., and Hig-
gins and Canadian, Tex, all OF these
points being right upon the border OF
the new promised land, has become very
large. Good wagon roads lead directly
from these stations into the reservation.
Deducting the allotments to the Indians
in severalty something more than 10000
quarter sections will soon be open to
presumption by homesteaders.
A CYCLONE near Cherryvale, Kan.,
killed q woman and injured sixty per-
sons.
Gov. BOYD, of Nebraska, has issued q
proclamation calling on the people OF
the state to aid cyclone sufferers of Mel
son and vicinity.
CARROLL county, Mo-, was visited by
tornado on the Sd. Kirhsville, Mo-,
was also struck on the same dav.
TIE Union depot ticket office at Oma-
Ia was robbed the other day of $4,000
worth of tickets.
The dressed beef firm of Swift & Co.
has entered suits at Chicago aggregat-
ing $500, 900 against number OF trans
portation companies to recover the
amount of increased charges for trans
portation made under the order OF the
Interstate commerce commission.
AT meeting at st. Louis on the 5th
lumber dealers of Kansas City, st.
Louis and other Missouri points and
Arkansas revised the price list adopted
by the Southern Lumber Manufacture
ers' association at it's February meeting
in New Orleans rs far as yellow pine is
concerned, making cuts ranging from
25 cents on fencing to So on flooring.
MAMIE RoBERTs, of Oskaloosa, Ia,
who sued her father and uncle for s90,-
900 for falsely incarcerating her in an
insane asylum, has secured verdict
for 5000, the jury remaining out forty
one hours. A motion was made for n
new trial.
AT Kansas City, Mo-. on the 5th the
democratic general ticket, with the eX-
ception of Michael Ross, candidate for
the MINER house. WAS elected.
TIE supreme court of the Choctaw
nation convened on the 9th at Tuska-
homa with Joseph Garland, chief justice;
jefferson Gardner and j. W. Evcridge,
associate justices presiding; C. Nelson,
Encouragement, and T. b. Kibben,
clerk.
CAPT. HALL arrived at Guthrie, Ok,
on the 5th from the Cherokee strip with
two companies of cavalry. They
elected several hundred boomers from
the strip and burned their houses. The
entire 100000 acres of the strip will
now be put under military patrol and
all boomers, hunters and settlers will
be kept out.
ATTORNEY JOHN F. BEGGs, who was
charged with completely in the murder
of DR.. Cronin, but on trial was acquit-
ted, died on the 5th of pneumonia.
JAMES KITCHEN shot and MORALLY
wounded James Huddleson Mt Hamil-
tor, o., recently, the ball passing through
Huddleson's liver. They were neigh
bors and their families disagreed.
TIE post office at Warren. ILL.,, was
burglarized recently and robbed of a.
900, mostly in postage stamps.