Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS

The Pawnee county bank and tho
Larned State bank, both of Larned,
have closed their doors.
Frank Howard shot and killed him
self in Finney county the other day be-
cause Il young woman he was attentive
to refused his offer. of marriage.
Stephen M. Scott; state lecturer of
the Farmers Alliance, has issued an
appeal to members of the organization
to contribute aid to the striking coal
miners of the Cherokee district.
The body of the sixteen-year-old son
Of William Knostman, of Manhattan,
was recently found floating in the river
at Lawrence. The boy was drowned
Mt Manhattan three weeks previous
Maj. W. p. Overton, one of the first
settlers of Wyandotte county. died sud-
denly Mt his home in Kansas City, Kan,
the other morning at the age of CT
years. He was veteran of the Next
can war, being with Col. Doniphan in
his celebrated march across the plains.
George F. Murray, of Comanche
county, was recently killed while blast
ing in n well. He went into the well
too soon after firing blast and was
overcome by the fumes of sulphur. He
signalled to be drawn out but before
reaching the surface fell back and was
killed.
The other night n bolt of lightning
struck the prairie in Hodgman county
and set fire to the dry prairie grass. A
heavy wind famed the fire and a sec
ton five miles wide by ten long was
devastated. Three farmhouses and
several barns were burned and twenty
COWS and ten horses persisted.
Gov. Lewelling has received letter
from George r. Peck, general solicitor
of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad. informing him that the man
agement of that road welcomed the
governors efforts to secure lower
worlds fair rates and that it would
cordially cooperate with him.
In view of the large number of liquor
licenses being issued by the internal
revenue collector to dealers in all the
cities of Kansas. the friends of the
state prohibitory law are making ex-
traordinary efforts to secure its better
enforcement and are appealing to the
state officers to aid in the prosecution
of violators.
A. C. Shinn, vice president of the
American Timetable league for Kan
sas, has issued u call for bimetallic
state convention to meet in Topeka,
July 90. The financial situation will
be discussed from a bimetallic stand
point and delegate will be elected to
the national bimetallic congress to be
held in Chicago August l.
Mrs. Maggie Anderson made de-
termined effort to commit suicide at
Leavenworth the other day. She shot
at herself three times, and succeeded
in hitting herself once. i'm the leg. She
afterwards jumped into a cistern. from
which she was taken in half drowned
condition. She is said to have tried to
kill herself because the police were
about to arrest her husband for some
trifling offense.
The commissioner of the general land
office has recommended that the
Larned land office and that at Garden
CITY be combined into one office to be
.ocated at Dodge City. The report
states that the business of the two of.
fees is about enough to make one
office. and that Dodge City is between
the two towns now having the Office.
The commissioner has also decided to
move the Kirwin Office to Oberlin.
Homer Baker, young man of Kan
sas City. Kan, got into quarrel in
Kansas City, Mo-. saloon on the night
of the Sd and fatally stabbed William
A. Caldwell, of Armourdale. He then
returned to Kansas City. Kan. and
registered at the Ryus house under an
assumed name. with woman. Next
morning, learning that Caldwell was
dead, he purchased a pistol, returned
to the hotel and in the presence of his
paramour, shot and killed himself. He
was the son of a motorman on the Ele-
waited road.
About midnight, on the Fourth, an
explosion in Gamers gun store. on
Minnesota avenue. Kansas City, Kan,
wrecked the building. shattered scores
of windows in the vicinity and injured
three men who happened to be stand
ing across the street The escape OF
all of them from fatal injuries was lit
tie short of miraculous, and had it oc-
Cured earlier in the evening, when the
street was crowded, the number OF IA
talities would have been great The
Herald Office on the opposite side OF
the street was badly damaged. and the
total loss of property was estimated at
between $50, 900 and $4,000.
| The governor has of late been receiv-
ing many letters from western Kansas,
urging an extra session of the legisla-
ture for the purpose of providing seed
wheat and other relief for the needy
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