Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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A 5000 creamery will be built ut
Cawker City.
A Marshall county man this year
sold $4,000 cabbages.
Pittsburg has q new city hospital,
thoroughly modern in every way.
A new silver paper called the Demo.
crat has been started ut Eldorado.
Cyrus Leland. the noted politician,
has built fine opera house at Troy.
William J. Bryan will not make any
speeches during the pending campaign
In Kansas
Emma Dent, an Ottawa girl, has So
prano voice which her friends think
will earn her fame.
Manhattan boasts Of having the
largest telephone exchange Of any city
Of It's size In the world
The Auditorium ut Wichita has been
remodeled and rearranVed SO that Its
seating capacity is now $500.
An inexhaustible supply Of zinc ore
has been discovered near Ellis which
Is said to be 95 per cent pure.
The Santa Fe has completely sepa-
rated its coal mine interests from tho
railroad management proper.
The l. o. q. F. grand lodge was In
session at Leavenworth the past week.
There are 432 lodges in the state.
Rev. j. E. Brant, OF Fort Scott, whom
the independent prohibition" party
named for governor, declines to run.
Gov. Morrill, was compelled to can.
eel several political appointments on
account OF the illness Of Mrs. Morrill,
Capt. Birkett, who recently shipped
cattle from Greenwood county to Liv'
erpool, Eng, got s7s head for them.
It Is estimated that 10000 head Of
cattle will be fattened in Jewell
county this winter. Jewell led in corn
this year.
W. r. Maxwell. prohibition nominee
for congress In the Seventh district,
refuses to allow his name 10 go on the
official ballot
Tho state convention Of colorcd mis-
sionary Baptists was held ut Kansas
City recently. There are $4,000 colored
Baptists in the state.
George Lasswell, until two years ago
prominent cattleman OF Shawnee
county. Is under arrest In Topeka
charged with forgery.
John II. Couch, Of Fort Scott, has
been nominated by petition as the
mid populist nominee
for appellate Judge in that district.
Alfred Cummings, veteran OF the
Mexican war. was murdered while
alone in his house At Leavenworth.
Robbery Is supposed to have led to the
crime.
While Miss Maven was driving q
horse and cart up steep embankment
near Ellsworth, the animal reared up
and fell backward upon the girl, kill
ing her instantly.
w. G. Souther, q veteran Kansas
newspaper correspondent and old.time
printer, who claimed intimate friend
ship with Abraham Lincoln, died in
Topeka the other day.
The cost OF publishing the official
ballot In one newspaper in each county
In the state will amount to $50,
The ballot will contain eight tickets
and be 22x30 inches in size.
Mrs Mary Ginter, Of Kansas City,
who had made four previous but un.
successful attempts to end her life,
finally succeeded the other day In OBJ
tanning enough poison to shuttle her
of.
George NJ. Noble, q prominent To
polka lawyer who was arrested in Kan
sas City, Mo-. during carnival week for
insulting waitress ut the Union depot
hotel, confessed his guilt and said
liquor made him do It.
The Central Kansas Evangelical
church was held ut Abilene recently,
and was largely attended. j. II. To
bias, Abilene, was chosen president; j.
K. Young. Jewell City, secretary and
Charles Linge, Canada, treasurer.
An Italian named Torriani, who
died recently in New York hospital,
confessed to having robbed the graves
In topeka cemeteries last winter, foi
which q number OF officials connected
with q Topeka medical college were
arrested.
Perley Kimball. an 1s.year.old boy
of Riley county. drove his team under
n tree for shelter during n storm
Lightning struck the tree, knocking
the bow down, tearing his clothing In
shreds and burning his back to q Bills
ter. The boy knew what was going
on all the time, although he was una
BILE to move for an hour.
The grand lodge Of Good Templar'
was held at Topeka recently. Resolu
tions were passed declaring that Tho
prohibitory law was as well enforced
as any state law on the statute
books, and all temperance people
were urged to renewed activity II
temperance work. C. A. Bateman
of Lawrence. was elected grand chic
templar and ]. +. Fullenwider, OF Ell
dorado, grand secretary.
| c. j. Norton has compiled statistic'
for the Kansas Farmer showing tina
| II 200 bushels Of potatoes are raised t.
the acre, the cost to the farmer is no
more than cents q bushel. II ONLY
half 4 crop Is raised, the cost is cent
a bushel II s. so Is allowed per acr'
for the rent, wear and tear OF tools
etc, the cost of raising ten acres o
potatoes will he .oss5 cents per tushel
By careful economy, the price can b
reduced to less than cent a bushel, j
there Is q perfect stand OF potatoes
with IL, 900 hills per acre.
At Leaveuworth the other day Mar
ous and Frank Jones, brothers, be
came involved in q quarrel. whei
Marcus struck Frank vicious blow
on the head, infiicting fatal wound.
| Five Santa Fe trains, two passenger
and three freight, mixed up In o col
lision in the yards at Argentine, owini
to n heavy fog. No passengers wer'