Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

lately. Loss, s25, 900; insurance s14, 900.
Tommy Morgan, Il years old, was re-
Gently drowned in the Kaw river at
Kansas City, Kan.
w. C. Perry, of Fort Scott. has been
appointed United States district at
torney for Kansas.
The elevator of Mcleod Bros, at
Marietta, together with 10000 bushels
of wheat burned recently.
Two boys named Skinner and Gonna
lon. were recently drowned in the
Verdigris, near Independence.
A cyclone destroyed number OF
| farm houses near Larned few days
ago, but no fatalities were reported.
A. w. Little, the slayer of B. f.
johnson, has been held to the Wyan.
dotte district court for trial without
bail.
1t is announced semi-oflicially from
Washington that w. E. Perry will be
United States district attorney for
Kansas.
Two negro boys named McGruder and
Enox quarreled at North Topeka over
five cents, when Mctiruder stabbed and
killed EnoX. Both were toughs.
A tornado destroyed considerable
property and killed two children OF
William Jackson in the northwestern
part of Logan county the other day.
The police raided the lottery gam
bling rooms of Eli Little & Co., in Kan.
sas City. Kan, the other day upon com.
plant of Il man from Alabama that he
had drawn prize which the concern
refused to cash.
On account of recent agitation. the
clubs of Lawrence have decided to close
mp and quit business. All were notified
that if they did not, prosecution would
be begun by the county attorney under
the nuisance clause of the prohibitory
| law.
The other morning about forty
women. wives of striking coal miners,
gathered at the Leavenworth Home
shaft and tried to prevent the men from
going down 10 work. The men were
jeered and Missed but no violence was
offered.
The state officials have taken up the
crusade waged by eX-Superintendant OF
Insurance Mcbride against the bond
investment companies and are going to
drive them all out of business in the
state. There are ten of these COM
panies in Kansas.
A bridge on the Union Pacific three
miles west of Abilene was burned the
other evening. Thought to have been
set on fire by hot ashes from the east
bound passenger train. A farmer saw
the fire and saved an extra train and
the evening passenger train from an
awful wreck.
Recent orders issued from the Union
Pacific general Office are to the effect
that trains Nos. and .. running be-
tween Kansas City and Denver on the
Union Pacific, will be abandoned until
further notice. Train No. 5, the june
ton City accommodation, will run to
Salina instead of Junction City.
Jake Weisman. of Leavenworth,
buried 81, 200 in gold in his cellar, Looked
up his house and went to the world s
fair. When he returned his house was
! still locked, but his gold was gone. He
i got out n search warrant but ID failed
| to discover the lost treasure. While
the search was in progress unknown
parties restored the money.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed
in Kansas August IL: At Abbeyville,
Reno county. Samcs Mclean. vice Mrs.
Jennette Wyer removed; ut Alta Vista,
| Wabaunsee county. Il. A. GantZ, vice
! Fora Woodland removed; at Allen, Lyon
county, j. Grimsley, vice +. Marcy re-
moved: ut Brewster, Thomas county,
r. Heming, vice &. NJ. Strain removed.
Reports received at Topeka state that
n great many people in camp along the
southern border of the state are in des-
titute circumstances. For n distance
of 100 miles west of Arkansas City many
people are camped in tents and wagons
who have been there for the past four
or five months awaiting the presidents
proclamation to open the Cherokee
strip.
Gov. Leweliing has named the fol-
lowing additional delegates to the con-
vention in regard to a gulf route to for
eign markets from western states,
which meets in Chicago September IL:
George Wagner, II. A. Heath and Con-
rad Myer, of Topeka; Scion o. Thatcher,
OF Lawrence; c. B. Hoffman, of Enter
prise: r. A. Sankey, of Wichita, and +.
A. Hartmann, of Wellington.
The Topeka club gained its case in
the appeal from the decision of the JUS
tice. Judge johnson held that sec
ton of the city ordinance concerning
the ''use" of liquors under which the
arrests were made was invalid because
it was not included in the title OF the
ordinance, and that even If it had been
SO included it was substantially the
same as section 10 of the prohibitory