Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-11-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

cd at Neodesha.
Manhattan will have q trade carni-
val on November IS.
District Judge Mckay, Of Harper, 10
said to be only five feet high.
A big flour mill ut Harper will be
run on the cooperative plan.
Al Hepler q six-foot vein Of coal
was discovered only ~ feet beneath
the surface.
Sixty thousand head OF new cattle
have been taken into Phillips county
this fall to be wintered.
The government has established q
signal and experiment station ut Har-
per, with 81 sub-stations.
lola has become q city OF the second
class. The recent enumeration gives
her population Of 2,765.
An early morning fire ut Girard de-
stroyed a mammoth barn, valued at
$4,000, with no insurance.
United States Senator Harris will
raise fine sheep on u large scale on his
Leavenworth county farm.
Farmers of northwestern Kansas
will give the Campbell method Of soil
culture test the coming year.
Street cars in Atchison will DO
equipped with vestibules, In accord.
ance with the new Kansas law.
Capt Hendry. who succeeds Lewis
Hanback, rs adjutant general, formerly
published the Nickerson Argosy.
Gen. John II. Rice and wife will cele-
brate their golden wedding anniver-
sary at Fort Scott on December 1.
During October 49,S6s head Of feed
ing cattle were shipped into Kansas
from the Kansas City stock yards.
1t is said Judge John Guthrie will be
Topeka's new postmaster and that he
will take the Office January next
A new county high school building,
three stories high, lis feet long and 90
wide, will be erected at Independence.
John c. New, Jr., was found dead in
his yard near Eureka, and murder for
the purpose Of robbery was suspected.
Farms for rent have become SO scarce
In Kansas that rents on shares are be-
ing generally succeeded by cash rents.
Charles Haas, a young farmer near
Tecumseh, has invented flying ma
chine" which he thinks will be q sue
cess.
The Muscotah Record publishes tho
names of boys who don't go to school,
and whose parents should send them
there.
In q neighborhood near Oberlin a5,-
900 bushels of wheat and rye were
thrashed in an area OF five miles
square.
The first frost of the season in Kan
sas this year breaks all records, no
such late fall being known in the last
half century.
The Mann brothers, at Wilder, John
son county, are the potato kings Of
Kansas, their product this year being
about 1a5, 900 bushels.
Mrs. Louis Titus, of Armourdale,
was convicted Of running joint, the
second woman to be convicted OF the
offense in that county.
Among the political surprises in
Kansas this year was the defeat OF ex-
Gov. Click for the senate from the
Atchison-J ackson district.
Many newspapers throughout the
state, especially in the western por-
ton, are enlarging on account OF In
creased advertising patronage.
The report recently sent out from
Manhattan about mob congrcgating
to lynch Ike Warren, Sheriff Lard's
murderer, Is pronounced fake.
Colored republicans of southwest
Kansas have organized the Southwest
ern Protective league, which will work
for colored representation on the state
ticket next year.
Six churches at Mcpherson have
united in q big revival meeting. The
evangelist, Rev. E. A. Thompson,
would not allow the number OF CONVEX
blOnS W uc TcPohtcu'
Among the speakers at the state irri-
CATION convention ut Lawrence will be
Gen. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg, Ill;
ex-senator Carey, Of Wyoming, and
Congressman Shurtlitf, of Utah.
The Hiawatha World says there are
a5 practicing attorneys in Brown coun-
~ There were more cases at the re-
cent term Of court than usual, and II
each attorney got his share he would
only have four cases.
Bert Shafer, an Osborne county
farmer, says he shucked 1913 bushels OF
corn in one day recently. loading and
unloading 1t himself and caring for
his team. This is the first record to
be "hung up" Next!
The burial of destitute colored SOL
dier in the G. A. r. burying ground Mt
Hiawatha caused one white woman to
have her husbands body removed TO
her private lot, and others declared
their intention of doing likwise.
Southeast Kansas is getting to be q
fruitful field for daily newspapers.
Cherokee county has more daily papers
than any other Kansas county, there
being six within the county, as
follows: Two Mt Weir City, two ut
Columbus and two at Galena.
The state bankers convention Mt
Wichita last week was big success.
A. Dobson, Ottawa, Is the new presi-
dent; +. NJ. Bonebrake, Topeka, secre-
tary, and J. w. Thurston, Topeka.
treasurer. Next meeting will be ut
Leavenworth. The state was divided
into four groups, and meetings will be
held annually by groups. A commit
tee was appointed to confer with ex.
press companies upon the matter OF
rates for shipping currency.
Judge Fitzwilliams, at Leavenworth,
has declared void that part OF the new
misunderstanding law which requires
employers to furnish written reasons
for discharging employees.