Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-03-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The governor has issued q proclama-
ton designating April Is MS Arbor day.
The coal miners strike at Atchison
Is said to have been amicably adjusted.
The annual convention of county su.
perintendents will be held at Newton
May IL to IA inclusive.
Kansas will have TO "hustle" or
other states will outstrip her In re-
ported gold discoveries
Kansas City, Kan, will vote April
on the proposition to issue 500, 900 in
bonds to improve the city schools.
1t Is stated that Judge Theodosius
Botkin will enter the race for state
senator for the Hutchinson district
J. W. Gleed, Of Topeka, has been
made general attorney for the st.
Louis & San Francisco road In Kansas.
The salary is IS, 900 per year.
Gov Morrill, has rc-appointed NJ. NJ.
Beck, OF Holton, rs member of the
board OF penitentiary directors for q
three years term beginning April.
Fire at Gypsum City destroyed q
number of business houses. including
the post Office and stores Of George
Heck and p. II. Alberson. Loss about
SIS, 200.
II. c. Wilmoth, the Kansas City,
Kan, bigamist, who was said to have
married nine women, got off with one
year in the penitentiary. None Of his
wives appeared against him.
Ira N. Terrell, the ex-member of the
Oklahoma Legislature who escaped
from jail while under sentence for
murder and who was captured at Fort
Scott, Kan, has been taken to the
Kansas penitentiary.
The building committee of the Kan
sas City Kan.) university board has
awarded the contract for the erection
Of Mathcr hall, the main building OF
the university. The Mather building
alone will cost s3o,OOo.
Rev. Bernard Kelley, ex-United
States pension agent, has quit politics
and again entered the ministry OF the
NJ. f church. He Is now presiding
elder Of the Independence district of
the South Kansas conference.
At Leavenworth the other day Will
liam Allen, aged 20, and pioneer citi.
zen, died very suddenly. lie was at
tending funeral and delivered q
prayer, and just rs he said the final
amen he gasped and fell over dead.
Rev. c. w. Stephenson, OF East Sagi-
nav, Mich, has accepted an invitation
to deliver the annual alumni Grafton
ut Kansas university commencement
in June. There will be about l25
graduates in all departments this year.
David Coulter, who shot and killed
l5-year.old Edward Illston, near To-
peka last fall, and who was recently
found guilty in the Shawnee county
district court, has been sentenced to
81 years in the penitentiary. He is
only Is years old.
Section men recently found man
lying near the b & NJ. tracks not fur
from Iowa Point. lie was In an UNI
conscious condition and died soon
after. lie was believed to be Ger
man tailor aud his death was the re.
suit of cold and exposure.
Mrs Myrtle Siusher, who several
months ago was married in Kansas
City, Kan, ut the age Of Is years, has
applied for n divorce on the ground
that her husband fails to maintain
her. The chances are that she will be
a divorced woman before she is 10 years
old.
Ashland Wilkes, the famous sire OF
John r. Gentry, was sold at Wichita
the other day at private sale to j. F.
Scott, Of Lexington, KY, for $4,000
cash. Mr.. Scott is the man who de-
ve!oped the speed in John r Gentry
and sold him few weeks ago in New
York for n good sum.
Charles Mccarthy, the diamond Jug
gler of Leavenworth, who swallowed
a diamond when detected stealing II,
Is again In Jail. At his trial the jury
failed TO agree end he gave bonds, but
went to Kansas City and got into the
workhouse. Upon his return his bonds
men surrendered him.
Arrangements have been completed
for the meeting Of the Indian Educa.
tional association In Lawrence from
July 10 TO Is. It will be attended by
Indian school instructors from the
south and west, and many from other
parts of the country. II Is expected
there will be 200 or 800 teachers pres
emit.
On the night of February IS Charles
Rodman, a Harper county farmer, was
murdered In his barn by unknown par.
ties Later William Maddox, one OF
the best known citizens, q man named
Clark and Mrs Rodman were arrested
for the crime. Mrs. Rodman confessed
that through Maddox she had paid
Clark $50 10 kill her husband because
he had ill-treated her.
DR.. b. J. Perrine, OF Vinland, Doug.
las county, died the other day from
blood poisoning caused by his being
bitten by child suffering from diph'
iberia. DR.. Perrine was treating the
child and he had occasion to put his
finger in It's mouth, when II bit him.
Blood poisoning set in, and he died
Tho little one had malignant form OF
the disease, but recovered.
In the United States court at Topeka
Judge Williams decided the Kiowa
county bond case, in which the county
was seeking to avoid the payment OF
SO, 900 of funding bonds and $40, 900 OF
bonds issued to the Kingmau, Pratt 4
Western railway. holding that the
county is liable for the payment Of the
funding bonds, but Is not liable for the
bonds issued TO the railroad, because
they were not issued by authority.
Geroge Benson, an old soldier, was
shot and seriously wounded at Nicker-
son the other day by man named
Smith. The trouble was over board
bill Benson owed Smith.
The governor has appointed A. p.