Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ne SJaJe cOnvlcJS puDilSn ncWSpu-
per called "Thc Trusty."
Clyde McMastcr, farming near Usage
city, has fifty acres OF tomatoes.
Wheat harvesting is progressing in
the southern portions of the state.
Five coyotes were shot recently by q
party of hunters near Fort Dodge.
The venerable father of the late Sem
ator Plumb has left for California on u
visit.
Lieut.. Gov. Andrew J. Felt has as
sumed control of the Atchison Cham
pion.
The Agora Magazine is soon to be
printed in Topeka. Its old home was
Salina.
The Chcrryvalc National bank is in
the hands of United States Bank Exam
liner Wilson.
James Lysaught, boy aged nine,
was drowned while fishing in pond at
Kansas City.
Robert Miller, boy seven years old,
was drowned in the river ut Topeka
lie was fishing.
The stoclsyards company ut Kansas
City has bought seven acres additional
land adjoining.
James Whalen, a boy, has been
drowned in the Kaw at Armourdale. He
was in bathing.
Nearly fifty Indian mounds have been
discovered on the farm of Daniel Han
ley, near Sumner.
The Seventh Kansas congressional
convention of the peoples party renomi-
mated Hon. Jere Simpson.
Theodore Bcrgold, an old citizen. was
killed ut Kansas City. Iewas walking
ON the Northwestern tracks.
l.. b. Wheat, of Leavenworth, has
several acres of pecan trees planted.
They bear in ten or twelve years.
Miss Mary Abar, newspaper woman
we'll known in Kansas, is city editor Of
the Appeal-Avalanche Mt Memphis.
Atchison school teachers for the fut-
IRE are to be paid according to the
amount of experience they have had.
Henry Taylor, a young man, tried to
kill himself by stabbing at Cummings,
Atchson county. He had been disap-
pointed in love.
A child of Mrs. Katy Smith, of Atch-
ison. mysteriously disappeared 1t was
suspected that divorced Mr.. Smith got
possession of it.
Charles Mckinney, colorcd man, &c
years OF age, was drowned nine miles
cast of Lawrence while trying to swim
across Wakarusa creek.
A twenty-four foot ditch wall fell in
on Leon Fleming and William Wade ut
Topeka. Both were rescued after an
hours strenuous eXertions.
The Frankfort Bee says Frank Wat
son shot himself in the right heel while
trying to put his revolver in his hip
pocket lie had been out shooting rab-
bits.
The criminal libel suit against George
w Moffet. of the Anthony Republican,
in which George L. Smelling was the
prosecuting witness, ended in verdict
of not guilty.
The peoples party ut Emporia nomi-
mated l.. V. Wharton. of Woodson, for
congress-, Fourth district. vice Otis.
The democrats met later and Endorsed
the nomination.
United States District Attorney Ady
has nollcd the proceedings against Mary
Rautahan. who was indicted for being
accessory to the murder of her mother,
Mrs Mettman. at Leavenworth.
Philip vinnidia, Central Branch
bridge carpenter, whose home is in
Atchison, WAS killed while ut work on
n bridge near Clifton, his head be-
ing between two heavy timbers and
crushed.
A terrible double tragedy occurred ut
Arkansas City. Bert Mccormick found
his wife in bed with Peter Brennan,
and immediately commenced shooting.
brennan returned the fire and both
men were killed.
The mortgage Indebtedness of Chau-
tauqua comfy for the month of May
was reduced s5.2O9.25. The mortgages
recorded for the month amounted to
S7,4l5.75 The releases for the month
amounted to Sl4,265.
Col. r. II. Gentry, of Kansas City, has
received telegram from f. L. Martin
to begin work at once on the Kansas
City. Fort Scott & Nevada Southern eX-
tension. The road is to be ifty-five
miles in length and Pittsburg, Kan, is
the probable terminal.
The state board of charities met the
representatives of various companies to
let the contracts for supplies for the
state charitable institutions for the
next six months The competition was
very sharp and there were more con-
testants than ever before.
A colony of Russian Jews will settle
in Edwards county this summer. The
Dodge City Globe tells of a colony that
came to Ford county few years ago,
poor rs church mice, and says that the