Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ihtEtccu LchVcuWoTtu ouCuchofu
gave an entertainment to their friends
the other evening. II was q swell af-
fair.
Judge II. c. Sluss, of Wichita, has
been nominated by the president to be
associate justice Of tho court Of private
claims.
The annual meeting OF the Kansas
Day club will be held ut Topeka JAM
uary 20. A number Of prominent
speakers will he present
u. +. Graves and George L. Sherman,
of Kansas, have been appointed com.
positors In the government printing
Office at Washington, under civil scrv.
Ice rules.
Leonard Rowell, formerly county
surveyor Of Washington county, while
recently playing blaclsman with his
pupils mt his school mt Emmons, rup-
tured IN artery In his breast and died
instantly.
State Labor Commissioner Bird was
acquitted Of the charge Of oppression
In office" when the case recently came
up for trial In the district court ut To-
peka- The charge was retaining part
OF the salaries Of clerks
at the closs Of his present term OF
court Judge James Humphrey will re-
move from junction City to Lawrence,
where he will take the place Of the
late Judge Thatcher on the faculty Of
the state university law school.
The man who was murdered by
tramps near Emporia and supposed to
have been ]. C. Harris, n printer,
proved to he unknown. Mrs Harris
viewed the remains and testified Mt the
inquest that the body was not that Of
her husband.
The State Reform Press association
at its late meeting in Lawrence elected
officers us follows: President, Abe
Steinberger. Girard World; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Laura L. Lowe, Mound City
Torch; secretary and treasurer, Ly-
man Naugle, Wellington Voice.
William White committed suicide at
Leavenworth few days ago by cutting
his throat. The suicide was the result
of trouble with the son Of his wife by
n former husband, In which the wife
took the part Of the SON and sworc out
q warrant for her husbands araest
In the Clint Osbon case, in which tho
defendant shot and killed Charles
HANDLE, n llolton attorney, about n
year ago. and which was taken to
Douglas county on n change of venue,
the jury returned n verdict against
osbon of guilty Of murder in the Sec
ond degree.
George McCune, an attendant ut the
Osawatomie insane asylum, was prob
ably fatally injured few days ago by
Charles Mold, lunatic from Fort
Scott The two had some trouble and
when McCune's back was turned Mold
hit him on the head with water
pitcher, breaking his skull.
About s o'clock the other night
Rolby Harvey and Joe and Fred
Rickerts, three young toughs, rode
up to John Vogle's place in the
suburbs OF Leavenworth, and, in cow
boy style, fred seven pistol shots into
the place, and then dismounting they
riflcd the money drawer Of $40 in cash
and 81 check.
The Grimes will case, which attract
ed widespread attention in Kansas @
few years ago, has been decided in
favor Of the plaintiff (the widow of
John 7. Grimes, 0f Atchison), in the
supreme court and the property. which
consists Of nearly 100000 worth Of
Atchison real estate, will be divided
among seven heirs.
Notes given by farmers OF western
Kansas for seed grain, in accordance
with law passed by the legislature
approprlating money for that purpose,
fell due on December /, and the state
treasurer has sent out demands upon
the several county treasurers for the
collection and remittance upon the
same. They amount to about $50, 900.
In tearing down cellar wall Of IN
old farmhouse near Larned, that was
destroyed by 6re some months ago,
NvorlSmen uncarthed five human skcle-
tons. They were supposed to have
been Indians killed in battle when the
Pawnecs overran that section years
ago and nearly cxterininatcd the Chey-
enncs and Arapahoes In battle in the
locality.
The dried and shrivcled body of
Jacob Funk, Jr., was found hang
ing in n thiclset in Atchison coun-
~ some time ago and later Frank
Ridge, a teamstcr, was arrested at
Kansas City charged with the murder
Funk and Ridge worked farm in
partnership in Nodaway county. Mo-,
and in April, 1904, Funk mysteriously
disappeared, ind now Ridge will have
to explain matters or stand trial.
An epidemic Of hog cholera is said
to be raging in Harper, Barber and
Sumner counties II Is estimated that
over 200 hogs have died there during
tho past three weeks and that there is
no hope for the abatement OF the dis
ease. Several weeks ago n car load OF
hogs was shipped into that section
from Nebraska, and It developed that
they were diseased. Many farmers
have lost more than 100 head each.
There are now in the Kansas pcni.
tentiary. according to the report OF
the warden. s74 convictS OF these $50
are white, cit negroes, 5 Indians and :
Mexicans There are IA female pris-
oners Oklahoma furnishes 100 Of the
convicts Twenty counties Of the state
have no prisoners in the pcnitentiary,
while Wyandotte county heads the
list with IS, more than double the
number OF the next highest county,
Montgomery, which has 80.
Abraham Bradley, aged rs years,
resident of Topeka, wasrecently found
q few miles south of Wichita In dy.
ing condition. He was en- route to Ok.
lahoma TO visit his son, and while
asleep walked Of the fast train.
Crawford Moore. who recently shot