Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-11-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
wellington will have q new cream.

wellington will have new cream.
cry.
Tho Santa Fe railroad will erect
large Ice houses ut Topeka and Argen-
tire.
Miss Cora Hortense Smith, Of Arkan.
sas City, owns ranch and 8, 900 head OF
cattle.
Sam Rupert, o Union Pacific con.
ductor, was killed ut Manhattan by be-
ing caught between bumpers.
It Is said that Fred Funston, son OF
ex-Congressman Funston, Of Allen
county, is with the insurgents In Cuba.
r. d McNfaster, election commits
sioner at Topeka, was recently arrest
ed charged with violating the election
law.
An appropriation Of 1894, 900 for the
soldiers homo ut Leavenworth has
been granted by the national board OF
managers.
Albert Robbins and c. Cadwalder are
in Jail ut Atwood charged with setting
fire to Farmer Jonah Fosters hay 10
get revenge.
Paul Hudson, son of Maj. j. K Hud.
son, of Topeka, Is now business man
ager OF the Mexican Herald, published
ut the City Of Mexico.
Wednesday, November 4, was quar-.
terly pension day at tho Topeka
agency. Three million dollars were
paid out to $4,000 old soldiers.
A Brown county man has invented q
corn husking machine which, 1t 10
claimed, will husk two rows Mt time
and take out about 800 bushels per day.
While Lewis and Ira Keim were
hunting near Mcpherson. the latter's
gun was accidental DISCHARGED, his
brother receiving fatal charge OF
shot
A ten-months-old Parsons child,
while playing near a candy bucket
containing about four inches Of water,
fell head foremost into it and was
drowned.
A man giving his name MS Frank Nc
Lain is in Jail ut Atchison for attempt-
ing 10 collect money from members OF
the masonic fraternity by false repre-.
sensations
Patrick Cullen, q veteran ut the
Leaven worth soldiers home, became
melancholy the other day and drowned
himself. He served in troop F, First
Missouri cavalry.
DR.. J. c. n6cld, who has visited
nearly every Kansas town with min
strel show and medicine" attachment,
was locked up at Topeka the other day
for disorderly conduct
At Rosedale lives Samuel Bouseman,
aged "a, who is the progenitor Of 100
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. At q recent family re-
union II developed that there were %
votes in the family.
Mrs. Mary Stevens, Of Lawrence, re-
fused to answer questions propounded
by notary public and she was COM
mitted to Jail until she would answer.
Her lawyer appealed to the district
Judge, who sustained the sentence.
Ulrich Gautenb ein, aged 10, Of Ster-
ling, was fatally shot while out hunt.
ing with relative by the accidental
discharge of q gun. The barrel OF the
rife became hot from continuous shoot
ing and caused the cartridge to explode.
The Suuflower Poultry. Kennel and
Pet Stock association will hold the an
nual bench and poultry show in Kan
sas City, Kan, December 1910. Lib
cral prizes will be offered and the ex.
hibition will be made an attractive one.
The grandmother Of Annie NJ. Cur
less, of North Topeka, objected to IN
admirer Of the young woman, and
when he called sent him home, where
ut Miss Curless beat the aged lady with
board SO severely that death was ex.
pected to result
While travelling on Santa Fe train
near Braddock, Mrs Clara Guswick, in
attempting to walk from one car to
another was blown by gust OF wind
of the platform. She was severely
stunned and lay on the ground several
hours before being discovered.
Elisha Brown, n farmer near Hum.
boldt, who assisted in the capture OF
Jack Apple, the outlaw now in state
prison, was found dead recently In n
field by the roadside, and 1t was be-
lieved Apples friends had carried out
their threats to kill Brown for revenge.
Patsy Hamilton, generally known as
"Kelly," died in the Jail Mt Leaven.
worth the other day. lie was 1o4 years
old. In 1871 he was sent to the state
insane asylum, and was returned in
1878 as incurable. He had been au
occupant OF the Jail continuously since
that time.
Reduced railroad rates have been
granted to the meeting Of the Kansas
Dairy association Mt Abilene, Novem'
Der 1920; Southeastern Kansas Teach
ers' association at Fort Scott, Novem.
Der 90 to 2s; Southwestern Kansas
Teachers association at Wellington,
November 27-2s
Editor Frank p. McLenuan, OF the
Topeka Journal, has been sued for
$40, 900 damages for alleged libel by
Conrad Mayer and Robert Hitchcock,
Of the O NJ B., secret anti-prohibi-
ton order. The suit grow out OF re-
marks In the Journal concerning their
connection with that society.
W. G. Porter, Jr., who recently
skipped bond" while under arrest ut
Kansas City charged with crooked
work while cashier Of bank there,
was recently located at Mena, Ark,
but Gov. Clark, OF Arkansas, refused
to recognize q requisition from Gov.
Morrill, for Porter's return to Kansas
for trial. <
At Mcpherson Farmer Sherman Row
land attempted TO dictate to his wife,
from whom he had separated. She
called an officer to protect her, which
angered Rowland, and he shot both