Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The colored people in various parts
Of the state celebrated emancipation
day in becoming style.
Louis Schleitzbaum, aged Is years,
was drowned in Doniphan lake, five
miles from Atchison, the other day.
The Hutchinson national bank has
recommended business. The deposits
|, On the first day amounted to $4,000.
When Topeka timers leave their
houses unguarded burglars slip in and
steal their diamond cuff buttons and
surplus cash that had been drawn out
Of bank and left carelcssly scattered
around.
One of the boilers ut the Anthony
water works pump house exploded the
other morning about IL o'clock, killing
the engineer, c. L. Perry, seriously in.
Turing Lew Sargent and entirely de.
molishing the building and machinery.
John Thorpe, an official of the Kan.
sas penitentiary coal mine, received Sc
rious and probably fatal injuries the
other day while inspecting the bottom
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bracing timbers when large amount
If slate fell on his head and body. 1t
was thought his injuries were fatal.
II. j. Maybe. of St Joseph, Mo, who
mas city bridge contracs at Topeka,
was notified by the state labor COM
missioner to cease working his men ten
hours. He had made his estimates on
basis of ten hours and was going
ahead in defiance of the state law. He
At first was disposed to fight the law,
but finally yielded.
Gov. Lewelling has pardoned Frank
Durin, the joint keeper who fled from
Topeka to Germany some years ago
leaving fines and forfeiture amounting
TO $4,000 unpaid. He has settled all
the money claims of the state against
him and the pardon only relieves him
Of the Jail sentence. A condition OF
the pardon is that he shall not live in
Kansas.
At the request of ]. II. Ilettinger.
Director-General Davis has assigned
space upon Midway plaisance for an
ancampment of the Kansas National
guard at Chicago. This encampment
is arranged from September 10 to II,
inclusive The visit of the Kansas Ma
tional guard is looked forward to with
considerable interest by all national
guard men.
The citizens of Pratt county have
petitioned the governor to issue call
for special election to choose mem
Der of the legislature to fill the vacan-
" caused by the removal OF w. +.
Brown. Brown was a postmaster and
rs such was ineligible to q seat in the
legislature. The republican house I'M
seated him and declared that there had
been no election. The governor will
grant the prayer of the petitioners.
According to report issued by Sec
rotary Mohler. of the state agricultural
department, there are nearly 1,00O.OO(
acres of unoccupied government lands
in Kansas still open for settlement.
The counties containing the greatest
number of acres of public lands are;
kearney. 75,93a: Finney. 62,549: Chey'
enne, 59,Go4: Seward, 5s,233; Morton,
10. $50: Meade, 49,S04: Hamilton. 1879.
Wallace. Is. 1870; Stevens. 3s.5s6, Logan.
10. $50: Cove. -, 12O: Rawlins, 11.IGO;
Haskell, 15,6I2: Ellis, 1900: Greeley,
14.oSa: Grant. r. las. There are public
lands in twenty-eight other counties,
ranging from IL, O6O acres in Clark coun'
ty to 40 acres in Rush county.
Three of the robbers who recently
held up the United States express
wagon on the streets of Wichita and
robbed it of s.. 900 have been arrested
and IS, 900 of the money recovered. The
men arrested were Howard ii. Greer,
an eX-telegraph operator from Ell Dora
do; Arthur Hancher, express messen'
ger. and Jake Beck, clerk ut the Occi.
dental hotel in Wichita. The other
robber, negro, who skipped as soon
as he got his part of the proceeds, 81
800, has not been found. The three
men arrested planned the robbery and
the negro executed it. The men con-
fessed and the money recovered was
found concealed in an old fruit can.
A committee of western farmers was
in consultation with the state ex-
ecutive council at Topeka the other day
regarding the subject of making imme-
date provisions for securing seed wheat
for the western counties. The delega-
ton was confident there will not be
many removals from it's section, If seed
can be procured for fall sowing, and in
all probability it will tide these people
over the present hard times, so that
with crop next year they will be in
good shape again. Just how to Obtain
this wheat the council has not yet de
cided, but it will probably be collected
from the farmers of eastern Kansas and
will be considered as loan and paie
back to them next year.
The court martial of Col Hughes, OF
the Third regiment. mt Topeka for dis