Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


w. w. Gallins, an old soldier Of
Overbrook, fell from o barn he was
building and broke his neck.
DR.. NJ. NJ Cloud. of Kingman. has
been appointed physician at Grand
River school, Standing Rock, N D.
E A. Wordeman, of Arkansas City,
has been appointed receiver Of the Ar
kansas City & Southwestern railway.
The Kansas society Of Friends re-
Gently held q ten days meeting at
Lawrence. Next year they will meet
ut Wichita
The State University Athletic asso.
citation elected j. w. Green president,
Tom Wagstaff secretary and R. K.
Moody treasurer.
Tho Office OF United States Commits
sloner Perry, At Kansas City. Kan, has
been declared vacant, Mr. Perry hav.
ing removed from the state.
Tho Kansas State Baptist associa-
ton, in session at Topeka, refused to
pass resolutions censuring Gov. Nor
rill's attitude on the temperance ques-
ton.
The sheriff was called in to stop o
church row ut Troy between the Chris
tian church folks and the Latter Day
Saints, in which over 100 people took
part
''The First Territorial Legislature
1857. 1855" Is the subject Of an address
which Gov. Morrill, will make TO the
State Historical society at the annual
meeting In December.
The Kansas City (Kan.) medical col
lege has been chartered with $4,000
capital The directors are c. Z. and
w. L. Seamen, G. w. Fitzpatrick, g.
E. Tead and j. A. Smith.
Ewing Herbert, one OF the best
known young newspaper men OF the
state, will go to New York and act rs
advertising manager Of Truth, ut q
salary OF 5000 per year.
Mrs. Ross Burns, OF Topeka, has pur.
chased for $1,000 the large painting,
1.-THE Battle of the Blue" and will pre-
sent 1t to the Shawnee county district
court to ornament the court room.
The Y. NJ c. A. has ten city, Is coll
lege and one railroad association, with
an active mem bership of 360s One OF
these Is an association OF Indian young
men ut Haskell institute, with II mem.
bers.
Rees & Downey expect to clear more
than s25, 600 on their apple crop this
year. They will put GOO additional
acres In fruit trees and propose to
have the largest orchard In the United
States.
A railway man who had Travelled
over the state said the attendance
from Kansas to the g. A. 3. encamp.
ment at St. Paul would be very light,
the veterans preferring to wait and ut.
tend the state reunion Mt Topeka.
E. r Potter, young man who,
while assistant postmaster at Abilene
embezzled $40 belonging to the gov
eminent, pleaded guilty In the federal
court Mt Leavenworth and was sem
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
The body OF child, prematurely
born, was recently found in IN aban-
doned we'll ut Russell. 1t was In q
gunny sack under six feet of ashes.
Joe Cady, who was arrested for undue
intimacy with his step-daughter, is nc
cused OF the crime.
The 18th anniversary OF the found
ing of the Swedish Luthern college ut
Lindsborg was celebrated recently.
During the Is years the college has
graduated 265 students. This years
enrolment Is 43L The college Is pros
pering in every way.
At Peabody the other day Arthur and
Ollie Slower, aged nine and seven, were
left ut home alone. They got to play.
ing with q revolver, and while in
Arthur's hands the weapon was dis.
charged and q bullet struck Ollie in
the right eye, ranging downward and
killing him instantly.
Rev. Don s Colt, who recently re-
signed the pastorate Of the M. E.
church ut Wichita to accept call
to Allegheny City, Pa, Is having
trouble about the matter. Before Rev.
Colt reached Allegheny City the Pitts
burgh conference had designated q
mem Der OF its own body to take charge
of the Allegheny City church.
Rev. NJ. II. A. Van der Walk, OF the
Netherlands, Is touring Kansas observ-
ing the workings of the prohibitory
- IL ..,, ha ha1iayaa tho lavy Ia n
success, In spite of the fact that liquor
Is dispensed with more or less freedom,
and will continue to grow more salts
factory as the people become convinced
that IL can be made success.
The annual meeting Of the Anti
Horsethief association was held at
Hutchinson recently. It has 100 lodges
and over 1000 members, the largest
lodge being Mt Humboldt X. d Gull
bertson, OF Sterling, was elected presi'
dent; J. W. Newland, of carlton, vice
president; George Kaufman, Of Gales
burg. secretary and treasurer.
The grand lodge of Select Knights
A. o. U. W., In session at Hutchinson,
elected W. 7. bancroft, Kansas City,
past grand commander; Ben d. Lillard,
ottawa, grand commander; E NJ.
Forde, Emporia, grand recorder; l. II.
Nettleton, Ottawa, grand treasurer;
Ed II. Wheeler. Colony, and w. 7. Ban
croft, Kansas City, supreme represent
atives; A. NJ Davis, Colony, grand
medical director.
The drill in On artesian well ut abb
lene broke at depth Of $50 feet. The
efforts to strike q flow Of water had to
be abandoned and the drill containing
diamonds to the value Of 500 was lost
officials of the Mystic brotherhood,
the secret anti-prohibitiou society, say
the order Is not pledged to any partic-
ular candidates for state Offices, but
are working 10 secure control OF the
legislature.
During the carnival ut Lesvenworth
the other night three men entered Nc
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