Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

CIldWHcc COUNTY BOt hWuy WIN tho
bulk of the premiums for best farm
products ut the Nebraska state fair,
which recently closedat Lincoln. The
aggregate amount brought away in
premiums was 1855.
DIR. Fred Speck, the oldest practicing
physician of Wyandotte county and
the oldest Odd Fellow in the state,
died ut Kansas City, Kan, recently at
the age of IS years He located In Wy
andotte thirty-five years ago.
BY an official order recently issued
from Washington the Larned and Gar
den City land offices are continued and
transferred to Dodge City; the Wa
Keeney and Oberlin offices are COM
binned and transferred to Colby, and
the Salina Office combined with the To
peka Office at Topeka.
w. ii. Fletcher. proprietor of the
Hook hotel mt Sabetha, hanged himself
the other night to railroad bridge
with a bed cord. He was in financial
trouble and believed his family would
be better taken care of If he was out OF
the way. Fletcher was 40 years old
and leaves Il wife and three children.
Gov. Lewelling is reported MS saying
that before he would call an extra SEES
sion of the Legislature to appropriate
funds with which to purchase seed
wheat for destitute Western Kansas
farmers he must know that there is a
general demand for such session and
that he will not act hastily in calling
one.
Two little children of Mrs Virgie
Wood, wife of young farmer near
Fort Scott, turned lamp over the
other night and their clothes caught
fire. The mother attempted to rescue
them and her dress was ignited. Be-
fore the flames could be eXtinguished
her flesh had been SO badly burned
that she died soon afterwards.
On September % the most important
meeting that has ever been held in the
state for western Kansas will take
place at Salina. it will be the meeting
of the irrigation convention which will
attempt to devise means for increasing
the water supply and thereby render
ing fertile and profitable lands in the
western counties of the state that are
subject to seasons of drought.
Henry Gerber, u German gardener,
S5 years of age, who lives alone in u
cottage on the county road half mile
beyond the western limits of Kansas
City, Kan. had his skull laid open ut
o'clock the other morning by deadly
blow with spade dealt by some un-
known person. The object was no
doubt robbery, as the house was found
to have been ransacked while he lay
unconscious.
Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, one of the
most prominent lawyers of the coun-
try, who has acquired Il national repu-
tation as an educator, author and prac-
titioner, formerly dean of the law de-
partment ut Ann Arbor, and now presi-
dent of the Northwestern University of
Chicago, will be the guest of the Kan
sas Bar association at its January
meeting. to be held ut Topeka, and will
deliver an address.
After many postponements and long
delays. the preliminary trial of Levi
Wilson on the charge of embezzling
$4,000 from the Daniel Shire estate,
came off before Judge Johnson at
Leavenworth and the defendant was
discharged on the ground that the suit
was not begun within the proper time
from the date alleged that the money
was embezzled. Wilson's bondsmen
will have to make good the amount he
took from the estate.
Dudley b. Hulce was found dead on
his farm, about ten miles southwest of
Lawrence, the other afternoon. The
entire top of his head was blown off,
and the barrel of u shotgun protruded
about fifteen inches past the top of the
head. 1t was supposed he committed
suicide. Hulce was n young man, about
IS years of age. He was recently mar
ried and apparently lived happily. He
owned considerable property, and no
cause could be assigned for his act
Members of the pension boards in
Kansas have been appointed as follows:
ID. ID. Brown, at Garnett; for Dickinson
county, Thomas Gum. Edward ii. La
fever and Oscar +. Scarf; Republic
county, William Ramp, W. G. Haning
and ]. II. Houck; Geary county, NJ. NJ.
Cloud, 2. Daugherty and n. L. Harris
horn; Clay county, d. c. Tyler, Andrew
Pearson and Josephus Stewart; Saline
county, Z. r. Switzer d. Z. Miller and
R. Sawtell; Washington county, N. NJ.
Smith and j. H. Hoover.
Two unknown men entered the house
of c. w. Nicodemus in the center Of
Newton the other evening at o o'clock
and gagged and bound Mrs. Nicodemus.
who was alone. Then they saturated
her clothing with coal oil and were
Just about to set her on fire when Nico-
demus returned and the men made their
escape. Two nights previous the same
men broke into the house and secured