Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


for ST., 200.
Anthony Is trying to compromise
her bonded debt OF $4,000 at % cents
on the dollar.
The Kansas League Of Republican
clubs will hold q state convention In
Topeka June II.
There Is an epidemic OF measles ut
the Topeka reform school, bs Of the 400
inmates being afflicted.
Clara Taylor, q grown woman, was
convicted ut Empire City Of willfully
burning baby's fingers.
Ex-Gov. Humphrey is out In an in.
terview booming William Martindale,
Of Emporia, for governor.
Seventeen states are represented at
the Kansas university and there are
two students from Japan.
The annual meeting Of the Kansas
Reform Press association will be held
ut Emporia July 10 and20.
The Santa Fe will build a new $685.
900 depot and hotel at Dodge City and
So, 900 depot at Hutchinson.
Goodland has bought the state irri.
cation plant near that town and will
use IL to run the waterworks plant
An Atchison woman accompanies her
girls to all the dances, and when ten
o'clock comes she yanks them home.
The two-year-old daughter Of John
Rufener, near Hope, drank gasoline
while alone and died in few moments.
There are about 1900 men employed
In the various mines about Pittsburg,
making pay roll Of 100000 month.
Pearl Wellman, q young evangelist
who has been preaching in Lyon coun.
ty schoolhouscs, has become insane,
and fancies that he is Christ.
A Topeka telegram said the o. NJ. B.
lodges, anti-prohibition, would boycott
the Santa Fe and Union Pacific rail.
roads because the attorneys for these
roads were agitating the enforcement
Of the prohibitory law.
Glenn Skinner, Of Oak Valley, won
the examination for n cadctship to
West Point from the Third district.
w. G. Gamble, of McCune, was second,
there being difference in their grades
of only one-third Of one per cent.
Pittsburg has been made the division
point of the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad,
creating monthly pay roll Of $4,000.
Pittsburg now has five railway systems
Fort Scott & Memphis, Pittsburg &
Gulf, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and
Frisco.
Prof. d. Z. Sanders, who has been
president of the Kansas normal col.
lege at Fort Scott 10 years, has re-
signed to accept the presidency Of q
college at Dillon, Mont. lie will be
succeeded ut Fort Scott by Prof. G. w.
Martin, of Baker university.
In a speech before temperance
mass meeting in Topeka Gov. Leedy
said the failure to enforce the prohibi.
tory law was chargeable to the execu.
tive committee Of the state temperance
union. His position was strongly as.
sailed by all the other speakers, in.
Guiding ex-senator PETER.
During February, March and April
Of this year the receipts al the Kansas
penitentiary were $50, 1877 against $780,.
5S5 for the same period last year. The
total expenses were S3s,6o7, against
$50, 995 last year. This left balance
of 5000 for this year, while there was
deficiency Of 50, 459 last year.
The grand lodge Of Knights OF
Pythias, in session at Wichita, elected
W. A. S. Bird grand chancellor; Gus ].
Neubert, grand recorder, and A. c.
Jobes grand treasurer. The Rathbone
sisters elected Mrs. Mamie Holcrafi
grand chief; Mrs Mary Higgins, grand
secretary, and Minnie Weigant, grand
treasurer.
C. II. ]. Taylor, the well-known ne.
gro democratic politician who served
us minister to Liberia and register OF
deeds of the District of Columbia un.
der the Cleveland administrations, an.
nounces that he will return to Kansas
and "stir up the negroes of Kansas
and Missouri and lead them to break
away from the republican party"
Emporia was afflicted with q mys
tcrious night prowler who had com.
pletely terrorized all the women in
town. He would boldly force his way
into the apartments Of young women
and try TO carry them away. In one
night he visited so residences where
men folks were away and left only
when the screams Of women aroused
the neighbors.
The state meeting of free silver re.
publicans ut Topeka last week was not
well attended. The resolutions adopt
ed declare against the retirement OF
grecnbacks; advocate the payment OF
all demands on the treasury with silver
instead Of gold; favor q protective
tariff; condemn trusts, and indorse
President Mckinley In appointing the
bimetallic committee. |
Webb McNall was chosen chairman OF
the state central committee and d. c. |
Tillotson secretary.
A. A. Soreng. a Norwegian farm
hand near Ottawa, was struck by |
bolt of lightning recently and his es-
cape from death Is miraculous The
bolt struck him on the back Of the
head. tearing of q piece of scalp.
passed across his left shoulder and
breast and continuing down his left
leg where II burst open his shoe, leav-
Ing 4 bright red mark the whole
length of his body. The hoe he was
nsing was torn into splinters. Medi-
,al aid was summoned and after three
hours he regained consciousness.
The sound money democrats of Kan
,as will hold series Of meetings
throughout the state this summer.
Ex-Congressman w. D. Bynum, Of In
Llama, will be one Of the speakers.
Joseph Ralph Burton has assured