Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-30
THE WET.

THE WEST.
JUDGE CLAIBORNE of St. Louis, says
suit clubs are lotteries.
PROF. SCHURMAN, professor OF phi
losophy ut Cornell university, has been
offered the presidency of the university
of California Mt Berkeley, Cal.
CINCINNATI carpenters and bosses have
settled their difficulties for the coming
two years.
REV. JOHN CURTIS BURROUGHS, who
for ten years was assistant superinten-
dent of the Chicago city schools, is dead.
DIR. Burroughs was born in Stanford, n.
Y, in 1918.
ONE of the Wyoming cattlemen held
as prisoner wrote letter to friend
and which was found on his person, in
which he said that it cost over $1,000 to
kill Champion and Ray, and that hired
assassins were to receive % day and
$50 for every man killed.
CHARLES MILLER, the eighteen-year-
old boy who while tramping across the
country over year ago in company
with Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo En-
erson, of st. Joseph, Mo-, murdered his
companions in u box car in Cheyenne
for few dollars, was hanged the other
day.
THE Chicago racing associations sum-
mer meeting commences June and
ends June 23. There will be seventeen
days racing, with five races on each
day, including stake event, with the
exception of June 81.
A GIGANTIC trust of trunk manufact-
urers, including the greater establish
ments in Milwaukee. Racine, Chicago,
Oshkosh. Cleveland. st. Louis. Cincin-
natl, Detroit, Louisville and other cities
in all portions of the United States has
been effected. The big combine is known
as the National Trunk Co., and its
headquarters are in Chicago.
THE captured cattlemen, twenty-five
in number, and twenty Texans, are now
confined in Fort Russell. Wyo
The Chicago Blaine club has adopted
resolutions demanding that Blaine
shall be the republican nominee, and
urging similar organizations through
OuS W W. llhCNloN'
Two widely known Chicagoans, Louis
Vail and II. il. Bryant, died recently.
Mr.. VAIL was wealthy glue manufac-
turcr who has been prominent in poll
ties, and Mr.. Bryant was one of the pro-
prietors of the Bryant 4 Stratton busi-
ness college.
AT meeting of the Chicago freight
committee of the Central Traffic associ-
alton it was voted to meet the rate ON
wool made by the Grand Trunk and its
western connections from the Missis-
sippi river to the seaboard and apply it
by way of the Niagara frontier. The
Chicago & Grand Trunk was not repre-
scented ut the meeting.
THE democrats of the Thirteenth Illi-
nois district unanimously re-nominated
William NJ. Springer for congress.
A PARTY of cattlemen from Wyoming,
hunting cattle thieves in johnson hole,
Idaho. the alleged rendezvous for all
horse and cattle thieves for hundreds of
miles. came upon the habitation of two
parties known us Burnett and Spencer
and in their efforts to arrest them. both
Burnett and Spencer We're killed and it
was found that they had in their posses
sion over fifty stolen horses.
THE state convention of the Colorado
silver league have adopted resolutions
that in the event of the democratic and
republican national conventions failing
to nominate for president and vice-pres-
ident men with pronounced silver views
it will be the duty of the voters to sup
port any party that may promise the
speedy reinstatement of silver, and
''this silver convention, representing,
us it does, the people of Colorado, ire
spective of party, pledge our faithful
and unequivocal support in favor of the
political party that will faithfully carry
out the purpose of the free coinage of
silver"