Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-10-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Judge w. Is. sutton, OF husseii, wiz
open law Office In Kansas City Kan.
Parsons will soon be using natural
gas pumped from the Neodesha fields.
William Hcnsley, q Reno county
farmer, hanged himself because cholers
killed his hogs.
The senior class OF the state univer-
sity elected ]. .. Buttermore, OF
Olathe, rs president
A FIRE OF unknown origin at Canton
destroyed four houses, two livery
stables and II horses.
Among those who pleaded guilty at
Fort Scott to liquor selling were three
leading hotel managers
The Mother Bickerdyke home ut
Ellsworth was dedicated on the 9th by
the G. A. r. and w. r. G.
1t Is estimated that the wheat plant.
ed this fall will exceed any previous
year In the states history.
]. NJ. Jones, ex-deputy revenue col.
lector under Nels. Acers, was arrested
at Parsons for running joint.
International money order Offices
have been established In Kansas at
Coffeyville, Ness City and Scott.
A glee club has been organized at
the state university to make the an
nual mid.winter teur Of the state.
A car load of young fish will soon be
shipped by the United States fish COM
mission for distribution in Kansas.
Miss Flora E. Merrihew, Of Kansas,
has been appointed seamstress at
Rainy Mountain school, Kiowa, Ok.
While on a drunken spree Arthur
Simpson, q Barton county farmer, fell
from his wagon and broke his neck.
John Drew, who died at Burlingame
recently at the age OF 9s, had been
member OF the /. o. o. +. for IS years.
Burglars blew open the bank safe at
Chase, Rice county, and secured $4,000
in cash. A posse pursued, but did not
capture them.
Charles II. Miller, the republican
nominee for sheriff in Leavenworth
county, was once United States mar.
shall Of Kansas.
District Judge Randolph, OF Emporia,
would like to supplant Stephen II. Al
len rs the fusion nominee for associate
justice next year.
At Wellington recently Enoch Coles,
aged "a and Mrs Mary Renfrow. aged
~, were married after IN acquaint
ance Of only one week.
Fire that started from thrashing
engine in Pawnee county burned 10000
tons OF hay and several thousand BUSH
els OF wheat in the stack.
In cleaning up the Hoover house, ut
Hiawatha. $3.50 was found in an old
shoe, probably the savings OF Capt.
Hoover. who died recently.
In Harvey county over $4,000 OF
farm mortgages were released in one
day recently. Many OF them were past
due and some interest defaulted.
In his last weather report Chancellor
Snow said the month just passed was
the warmest for 80 years, and only five
previous Septembers had less rain.
r. T. Webb, q convicted jointkeeper
at Neodesha. was fined $1,000, sent to
Jail nine months and made to give a
bond for good behavior for two years.
Several attempted assassinations at
Frontenac, a mining town in Crawford
county, have led to the belief that a
secret guild of murderers exists there.
Mrs. Birdie Sprague-Waggoner, OF
Atchison, an elocutionist and reader,
has signed contract with Rev. Sam
Small TO travel with him the coming
season.
Robbers invaded Blue Mound the
other night, secured several watches
from jewelry store and rode away on
two fine horses they stole from q
farmer.
s. W. Vandivert, of Kinsley, former
lv Judge of the district court, has
formed law partnerships New York
city with Sam Gardenshire, formerly
of Topeka.
Republican editors Of the Seventh
district, ut their recent Hutchinson
meeting, Endorsed Editor Clark Conk-
ling, Of the Lyons Republican, for
governor in 1898.
The people OF Topeka are ''sore" at
the conduct of the state militia during
the festival, and the young soldiers
are blamed for the $4,000 deficit the
festival committee had to face.
After a conference with Senator
Baker at Leavenworth the other day,
| w. E. Sterne, of Topeka, confidently
predicted that he would be named for
United States marshal about Janu-
ary ].
Ex-Gov. Morrill, has taken possession
of his sOO.acre farm half way between
Leayenworth and Kansas City, for
which he traded his Leavenworth bank
stock. 1t will be great fruit and
stock farm.
Following the various corn and apple
carpiyals and other similar affairs in
Kansas. William Allen White, OF EN-
poria, has arranged for Emporia to
have ''Kow Karnival," to consist OF
an exhibit Of fat cattle.
The state fair at Wichita last week
was great success, the exhibits being
especially creditable and the attend
ance far in excess Of expectations. w.
]. BRYAN addressed q great crowd ut
the fair grounds on Friday.
]. A. Hammond. Of Smith county,
has q nine-year-old daughter who
weighs 1893 pounds. At birth she
weighed less than eight pounds, and
not until few years ago did she be-
gin TO manifest inordinate growth.
II her present growth continues she
will easily be the largest woman in
the world.
Gus Peake, while attending q theater
performance at Fort Scott the other
night, accidentally fell from a balcony
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