The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-02-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Beattie was recently drowned at va
mego by falling through the ice.
The executive committee o. the Kan
sas republican league has fixed ~ rcn
| l, at Topeka, as the time and plac60L
holding the annual state convention OF
the league.
The state bar association recently
held its annual meeting at Topeka It
was the most successful one in the
history of the association, one hundred
lawyers being in attendance.
In making run to fire at Topeka
the other day, Ben Carter. assistant
chief, was caught under the wheels Of
the reel aud killed instantly. Nels
Anderson, another fireman. was also
badly injured.
Mrs Margaret Palmer, the young
woman who has won reputation all
over the country as the silk worm
woman. has been convicted of obtain.
Ing money under false pretenses in the
| district court at Topeka
The Bandana club of Leavenworth.
proposes to attend the democratic COM
vention at Chicago next June In style
The club will go In uniform-gray
Prince Albert coats, gray trousers and
plug hats of the same shade.
w. w. Hetherington. president of the
Exchange National bank of Atchison,
died somewhat suddenly in that city
the other day at the age OF forty-ons
years He leaves wife and four chill
dren, all of whom were away from
home when he died.
The veteran Mason and grand treas.
urer OF the Kansas grand lodge OF
Masons, Christian Beck, was found ear.
~ the other morning on the floor of his
room at Leavenworth in critical con-
dition. Medical aid was summoned aud
he was resuscitated He is eighty -six
years old.
Richard A. Messimer, of Atchison.
was instantly killed by a Missouri
Pacific freight engine at Paul, Neb.
the other afternoon. Until a month
ago he was member of the Atchison
fire department. when he quit and took
position as brakeman. He was TWEEN.
ty-three years of age.
Mrs Augustus Wilson, editor of the
Wilsonton Journal, has been appointed
worlds fair press commissioner for
Kansas, representing the board of
lady managers. Mrs. Wilson is also a
member of the advisory board of the
worlds fair congress, and is devoting q
large portion of her time to the various
interests committed to her charge.
The preliminary examination of Sam
Minton. By Orner, Roman Chase and |
j. j. Leach charged with being men,
bers of the mob which killed Sheriff |
Dunn January 5, was concluded at |
Liberal on the 2Sth. The first three
were denied bail and were sent to the
Hutchinson jail for safe keeping.
Leach, being quite i'll, would probably
get bail.
just after dark the other night George
Cooper, colored man of North Law
renee, was called out of his house
seized by colored men. all masked, car
ried to the woods and beat almost to
death He was left unconscious but
recovered later and crawled home. He
had given testimony against several
colored men for stealing coal from the
Union Pacific yards. Several arrests
had been made.
A gang of military prisoners were en-
gagged in cutting ice ON the Missouri
river, opposite Fort Leavenworth the
other morning, when a mutiny devel-
oped among them and determined eff
fort to escape was made by large
All were rounded up" how.
ever, except two who got into the tim
Der on the Missouri side, but were be-
ing vigorously pursued.
The young crowd" of republicans
celebrated the thirty first anniversary
Of the admission of Kansas into the
union with banquet at Topeka on the
evening of the Goth. Young men, and
many whose hair was streaked with
gray, gathered from all parts of the
state. The speeches on the occasion
we're enlivening and the supper des-
cribed as being all that could be de.
sired.
Benson, the murderer of Mrs Nett
nan at Leavenworth, who was to have
been hanged February s. has been
granted an indefinite respite. This
makes the second respite granted him,
md is for the purpose of allowing the
United States supreme court to pass on
certain points alleged to be irregular
Turing his trial When the news OF q
tay of execution was conveyed TO him
lie became very happy and predicted
hat he would never be hanged
Val Hollister. a saloon keeper OF
had occasion to eject Sam
Neisler an obstreperous customer re-
emily. Weisler arming himself with
revolver. returned, shooting Hollister
ull of holes After he fred three
hots. all of which took effect in Hollis
er's body. the latter secured the weap-
N and turned it upon Weisler. the .
Juliet striking him just below the eye
after firing Hollister fell, exhausted
Both men were reported to be mortally )
!
Judge Johnson has rendered q de- !
ision at Topeka of impor: ance to =
hose who hold Kansas mortgages aud
oteS The court holds that the notes Z
nd mortgages constitute single con-
ract, and where, by the terms of the
Mortgage, the .totes become due for
on-payment of taxes or interest, that
rotest must be immediate. and that an
can only be held liable on his