Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Rosedale was visited by 5000 FIRE
the other day.
The Washburn college students run
q boarding club ut 81 per head week.
Wheat prospects in central Kansas
are pronounced the finest for many
years.
The free delivery system In country
districts Is being tried In Wyandotte
county.
Farmers Ia northern Kansas were re-
ported buying great numbers Of cattle
for feeding purposes.
A. p Riddle, superintendent OF In
insurance, Is ut his homo In Minne-
apolis slowly recovering from stroke
Of paralysis.
Mrs Elizabeth Whitehead, Of Edo
RADIO, celebrated her s5th birthday last
week and 20 children and grandchil-
dren dined with her.
According to the statements OF DR..
Kirkpatrick, secretary OF the state
board of health. there are 800 illegal
| pruCtltlOuerS III hbusuS.
Rev. j. W. Stewart, OF Ottawa, ono
OF the best known Methodist preachers
In Kansas, has been called to the
church at Carthage, Mo.
Tho Lutheran synod OF Kansas, In
session at Lawrence, adopted resolu-
tions strongly favoring the enforce.
ment Of the prohibition law.
The Topeka society OF the Battle Of
the Blue, which occurred ut Westport,
No., October 90, 1864, celebrated tho
3ed anniversary of the event.
The Kansas Lutheran Synod, In ses-
sion ut Lawrence, elected Rev. Wag-
ner, OF Topeka, president, and Rev.
oberholtzer, of Salina, secretary.
The 1897 meeting Of the state irriga-
ton convention will be held ut Law.
renee. The meeting will DO made the
occasion of n great irrigation fair.
A lone bandit entered the depot ut
Saffordsvillc at three o'clock the other
morning and relieved the frightened
agent of oil the ready cash in sight.
Col. A. NJ. York, who made the spec.
tacular expose of Senator Pomeroy In
tho legislature of 1873, Is said to be liv-
ing quietly and prospecting in Texas.
1t is suggested that a great number
OF men In Kansas will have to join the
Salvation army after election to keep
up their practice of marching In
parades.
A military company has been formed
Of boys in the Leavenworth high
school. They will be drilled as cadets
and q stack OF arms will be furnished
by Uncle Sam.
E z. Wilson, Of Kansas City, Mo-, q
free silver speaker, recently preferred
charges Of offensive partisanship
against United States Attorney Perry
to the Encouragement.
At Arkansas City James L. Huey
committed suicide by locking himself
In his room and turning on tho gas
He was once quite wealthy, but recent
reverses had made him respondent
G. W. tanning, q prominent mer-
chant OF Lyon county, was arrested
for opening a letter addressed to his
brothcr-in-law, who happened, in this
instance, to be an enemy of tanning.
Two boys In Haskell county recently
applied q lighted match to squirrels
tail to see IL 1t would burn. The
squirrel ran under the house and the
bla zing tail soon set the building on
fire.
A charter has teen granted to the
Kansas ex.Slaves' State Pension asso.
citation. whose avowed object is to lob
tain a pension for all ex.slaves and for
their general welfare and benefit 9TH
erwise." Headquarters are ut Topeka
d. +. Wallace, crazy hired hand
near Jewell City, tried TO kill himself
by saturating his bed with kerosene
and setting fire to 1t. Failing in that,
he set fire to his employers barn,
which was consumed, together with q
lot OF grain and four mules.
John Casad, Of Labette county, is
the father Of 10 sons and six daughters,
all OF whom nre alive. The local pa
per declares that ut 70 years OF age
Mr.. Casad is us vigorous and happy as
though he had never been worried by
the bringing up Of single child.
II transpires that United States
Marshal Nicely was held up on the
streets Of Topeka during the recent
carnival and robbed OF $1,000. The
matter was suppressed for n time In
order to effect the arrest Of the sus.
pects A man and woman, both col
ored, are now in jail charged with the
crime.
The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary societies of the English
Lutheran church Of Kansas, In session
at Lawrence, elected Mrs. Alice G.
Bond, OF Ottawa, president; Mrs. VIII
liams, OF Peabody, recording secretary;
Mrs. oberholtzer, OF Salina, corresponds
ing secretary and Mrs. Hoffer, EN-
poria, treasurer.
An Atchison paper says that instead
OF making golden rod the national
flower, everyone should pull every
plant up by the roots that his hand
can reach. The golden rod blossom IL
the cause of the epidemic OF hay fever
every fall, and also causes disease re
sembling consumption in horses that
are left In fields where the golden rod
grows
II Is related that in Gray county
|. there is q school district in which bu'
a single family resides The family
consists OF q man, his wife and mint
, children. The man, his wife and one
son elect themselves trustees Of the dis
|, trict and employ one of the daughters
of the family rs school.teacher ut
salary OF s35 q month. Nonresident
: taxpayers foot the expenses.
Roy Evans, an Emporia boy, viii
pitch for the ST. Louis National league
! baseball team next year. Another