Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Leavenworth coal miners are asking
for an advance of half a cent per bushel
for mining coal.
Warden Chase, soon after taking
charge of the penitentiary, removed
sixteen guards and appointed new men
IN their places.
June was Kansas day Mt the post
Office department in Washington.
Thirty-four new fourth-class postmas-
tiers were appointed.
A beer wagon from Kansas City, Mo-,
was seized ut Kansas City, Kan, the
other morning while delivering beer
and the driver jailed.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has ordered the roads entering
Solomon City to give the Solar Salt Co.,
of that place, jobbers' rates on salt.
The Encouragement has given an
opinion that the Australian ballot law
does not apply in special elections. for
voting school bonds in the townships.
Attachments aggregating sla5,000
were recently served on the packing
house plant of Francis Whitaker &
Son. of Wichita. A receiver was APP
pointed.
ID. A. Perkins, of the firm of Rylev &
Perkins. real estate and insurance bro
kers. Topeka. while visiting friends in
Kansas City, was held up by highway
men the other night and robbed of S505.
The people of Larned recently pro-
duced Il shower by firing cannon. At
the same time the people of the eastern
part of the state were in favor of fir
ing" the clerk of the weather for Civ
ing too much rain.
The current of the Missouri has been
changed by the high water ut Atchi-
son, one farmer on the east side losing
forty acres of land in twelve hours.
The same man lost eighty acres by the
floods three years ago.
The residence of w. A. Svehla, near
Wilson, was destroyed by fire the other
night. A two-year-old child was asleep
in the second story. Svehla's sister, 20
years old. attempted to save it and both
persisted in the flames.
The Santa Fe depot at Kingman was
burned the other day. Part of the Office
fixtures were saved. A freight car load
of sugar, five cars of separator and trac-
ton engines were also burned. The
loss amounted to $4,000.
Patents were lately issued to the fol-
lowing Kansas inventors: Edward c.
l,nrInn hn1frn twin ('hAfnna.
George X. Jackson. cultivator, ReeceT
Oliver Mulvey, apparatus for carbuter-
ing air. Wichita: Henry Poole, corn or
cane harvester. Canton.
Martin Mcdonald was terribly in
jured in the Home mine near Leaven-
worth the other day. He was bracing
timber ut the bottom of the mine when
a slate fell and completely buried him.
When taken out his head was found to
he crushed and leg broken. lie cam
not recover
The mineral products of Kansas last
year aggregated sa,a60.00O divided us
follows: Lead and zinc ores. 8. 900. 900:
metallic zinc. 2,251. 900: coal, $1,000. 600;
building stone, S50J.0o0: salt. $3.50. 900;
plaster and cement, $780, 900: oil and
natural gas, 100000: clays, s25O.000;
mineral paints, 100000.
Alonzo Wardell, of Huron, S. d.,
chairman of the executive committee ~
the National Farmers alliance was re-
Gently in Topeka looking for offices.
He has direct charge of the insurance
department of the alliance, and it is his
intention to make Topeka the head
quarters of that bureau. The national
headquarters are now at Indianapolis
Tho officers of the fairs comprising
the Interstate fair circuit, held bust
ness meeting ut Olathe recently, and
adopted constitution and bylaws, be-
sides transacting great deal of bust
ness essential to the success of the fall
meetings. They reported excellent
prospects for successful fairs, and are
giving great deal of attention to the
perfecting of the speed programme.
Chancellor Shows weather report for
May says: Zone of the coolest and wet
test Mays on our twenty-siX years
record, and. Notwithstanding the eX-
cessive precipitation, one of the clear
est. The rainfall of this single month
was ZOE inches and equal to the total
of the preceding four months of the
year. which is now 1879 inches. This
is 2.O7 inches above the average for the
same months the preceding twenty-five
years"
The Kansas sheriffs met at Topeka
the other day to discuss the question Of
fees under the new mortgage law, which
provides that lin any case where the
property is bid in by or for the prior
creditor the sheriff shall receive his fee
for the sale, but shall not be entitled to
charge any commission on said sale
AS most property sold by sheriffs is bid
In nv or for the creditor, the principal