Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


orally remem bered on the 2od by the
patriotic school children OF the state.
A barn in North Topeka was lately de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire and three
work horses belonging to very poor
man were consumed.
Kansas came to the front with the
largest delegation at the St Louis con-
ference. There were three hundred
delegates and attendants from the
state.
T. II. Young. of Lcavenworth county,
laid down the other afternoon to take
q nap. apparently in the best OF health.
When called for supper he was found
to be dead.
Lieut.. Delahay, of the United States
navy, retired. died at Leavenworth the
other day. Owing to i'll health he had
been on the retired list for several
years He was son Of the late United
States district judge, Mark w. Delahay.
David Z. Davis, under sentence Of
death for the murder of his wife ut
Leavenworth, has been taken to the
uenitentiary to spend the balance OF
his life, the supreme court having af-
firmed the sentence of the district court
in his case.
The little daughter of Sedgwick
county farmer named Franklin was
burned to death the otherday. Frank
lin was burning off n field OF cornstalks
and did not know his child was near
until he heard her screams He was
too late to rescue her.
A post Office inspector recently
caused the arrest OF John Belcher,
clerk in the registry department OF the
post office at Wichita, and Sebo Tuck
er, letter separator, on the charge OF
purloining registered mail. They were
trapped by means of decoy letter
While William Seward. son OF Z. B.
Seward, a prominent farmer living
near Sterling, was out hunting the 9TH
err day, with companion, he was acct
dentally shot and killed. He was at
tempting to pull the ramrod out OF his
gun when it went off, the charge enter
ing his side, causing instant death.
The past nine months farmers in
fifty-seven Of the 1O5 counties OF the
state have released Si3,T70,o00 OF debt,
but the renewals and the new mort
cages recorded for purchase money
make the net reduction little over
So, 900, OO0 Nearly all counties report
much wheat still in farmers hands, the
disposition being to hold for higher
prices.
A Medicine Lodge dealer the past
winter shipped 10000 bushels OF cane
seed. 1t went mostly to Texas, and q
local paper remarks that sorghum can
be grown profitably just for seed. 1t
produced last year twenty bushels to
the acre, and the average price for the
seed have been 40 cents Sorghum hay
makes the best and cheapest feed for
stock that can be had.
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of
the Masonic grand lodge closed its Ia
bors at Leavenworth with the election
and installation of the following Off
GERS: David b. Fuller, Eureka, NJ. w.
grand master; William d. Thompson,
Minneapolis, X. w. deputy grand mas
ter; George w. Clark, Lyons, r. w.
grand senior warden: James X. Mccall,
Wichita, Il. w. grand junior warden;
Robert L. Torrington, Emporia, grand
treasurer, and John II. Brown, Kansas
City, Kan, grand Sc .retary.
When the case against Ri Orner, one
of the six men accused of participation
in the recent murder of Sheriff Dunn,
was reached in the circuit court at
Springfield, Judge Botkin stated that
he did not want to sit rs judge in the
case, as he had freely expressed him
self as to the prisoners guilt Judge
Ellis, attorney for the accused, then
fled affidavits against Judge BotSin
and the latter prepared counter aftida-
Wits denying prejudice or bias. A mo-
ton for special Judge for all the cases
was then overruled. Thirty armed
bailiffs were in attendance.
Superintendent Wihans has issued a
circular to school officers and teachers
relative to raising the $4,000 wanted
for making the educational exhibit for
Kansas at the worlds fair. About q
month ago circular was sent out, to
which about two hundred replies were
received and with hardly any eXcep-
ton they contained assurances that
the school men and women of the state
are more than willing to go to work to
raise the money needed. 1t is intend
ed that the exhibit shall represent
every feature of the educational work
of the state, and it is hoped aud exc
pected that all the schools public or
private, OF all grades, will cheerfully
do what they can toward defraying the
necessary expense.
Robert r. Rose, of Buchanan county.
Mo-. sued the city Of Atchison eight
years ago for $4,000 for injuries
alleged TO have been sustained by fall
ing on defective sidewalk. IT. case
dragged along in the courts until last