Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-05-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


soaking rain on the night of the 18th.
Nelson Bidderback, of Wichita, was
recently robbed by footpads in Topeka.
Nearly every county in the state will
have teachers institute the coming
summer.
NJ. ID. Henderson has been elected
secretary of the new board of railroad
commissioners.
Salipa was gaily decorated upon the
recent meeting of the grand lodge X.
of =. in that city.
Zen. James Il. Weaver, late peoples
party candidate for president, was re-
Gently in Topeka.
Fire at Muscotah the other night de-
stroyed six frame buildings 1t was
the work of an incendiary.
DIR. j. j. Blackwood, veterinary sur
geon of Valley Falls. recently commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat. No
cause known.
A destructive hailstorm recently did
great damage in the vicinity of Hays
City. Calves, chickens, rabbits. birds,
| etc. We're killed.
The reports of the city assessors Of
Leavenworth show that the population
on March l. this year, was 20,021, fall
ing off in the past year of 10.
The will of the late Lucien Scott, of
Leavenworth, has just been filed for
probate, and shows he was about the
wealthiest man in the state. lie left a
fortune of nearly $4,000, OOO
The governor has offered a reward of
$500 for the apprehension of the parties
concerned in the lynching of Dan
Adams. a negro, who stabbed the sta
ton agent of the Union Pacific ut Sa-
lima short time ago.
Luke q. Herring, editor and propri-
etor of the Sumner County Standard,
who had been suffering from cancerous
troubles for the past two years. died at
his home in Wellington the other day,
leaving IL widow and two small chill
| dren.
sc. Mason, professor of horticulture
in the state agricultural college, has
published an address in which he urges
the people of Kansas to plant more trees,
and says if this is not done the supply
of timber for fuel and farm use will
soon he scant.
IT is stated that Senator PETER will
soon start out on a lecture tour. he hav-
ing already contracted to deliver thirty
lectures during the summer months.
| He will open the season in the Chicago
South Side Chautauqua assembly, where
he has been engaged to deliver six
lectures. two in June. two in July and
two in September.
The output of the Kansas penitentiary
coal mine for the next year has been
let to o. $. Hiatt, of Lcavenworth
county, at OK cents per bushel for lump
and CRATE coal and cents for nut. His
bid was considern bly, higher than any
of the other three bidders. His bid is
also cents higher ON nut and cent on
CRATE than has ever been paid before.
Mrs. G. T. Jehu was killed by an
electric car on the Chelsea Park line ut
Kansas City. Kan. the other night.
She was going to drug store. walking
on the track, and seeing car APP
preaching stepped on the other track,
when she was struck by a cur going in
the opposite direction. She was 81
years of age and lately from Stafford.
Labor Commissioner Todd is prepar-
ing to add to his Office q labor en-
ployment agency. There is no APP
preparation for this work, but he
hopes to meet the expense of post
age from both the unemployed and
the employers who will be invited to
inclose small sum in stamps in their
letters. He and the clerk in his office
will do the work.
Leavenworth will have big time on
decoration day. Arrangements are be-
ing made for grand street parade
that will be participated in by the mil
itary from Fort Leavenworth, the old
veterans from the soldiers home, Grand
Army posts, Sons of Veterans, and a
number of civic societies. The parade
will be followed by an grafton, and ut
night there will he big campfire.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
founding of the home of the friendless
in Leavenworth was celebrated on the
18th with fitting ceremonies. The
ladies in charge of the institution held
n reception that was attended by many
of the leading citizens. After the re-
ception speech-inaking followed and a
grand dinner was served. The home
was handsomely decorated for the oc-
casion.
The state Sunday school convention
lately in session at Lawrence, elected
the following officers: President, c. n.
Queen; recording secretary, Miss Jesse
Shaft: treasurer, A. c. Merritt. The
resolutions were short and pointed.
They favored teaching temperance in
the Sabbath school and the closing Of
the worlds fair on Sunday. They rec