Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Lawrence have organized . brass band.
Grasshoppers were destroying al.
falfa In Wallace and other western
countiea
In Dickinson county the sportsmen
have organized TO prosecute all viola
tors Of game laws.
Seneca will soon have telephone
connection with Centralia and other
surrounding towns
The poll books for Kansas soldiers
in Cuba will be sent TO the island by q
man TO be named by Gov Leedy.
Rev. Henry A. Bell, q well-known
minister OF the United Brethren
church, died ut Abilene, aged ST.
Farmers Of ten counties in north
eastern Kansas will invest in tornado
insurance company to be modelled after
the county fire insurance organiza-
tions.
Gov. Lecdy has returned to Topeka
after an absence of three weeks ut
Gueda Springs. His health Is greatly
improved, although his eyes are some-
what affected yet
Will Bonner, aged II, OF Newton,
was struck with q Ratchet thrown by
Ed Monahan, n playmate, which cut q
large cash In his leg, extending to the
knee joint He will be MANNED for
life.
Col. A. G. Stacey, IN old Kansas
newspaper man, now residing at New.
ton, was indicted by the federal grand
jury for sending obscene matter
through the mails about his divorced
wife.
The carnival feature of Topeka's
festival week closed with q mixed
flower and float parade In the day and
the annual procession Of the Karnival
Knights In the evening, headed by
Queen Rose, Of Hawaii.
The camp OF the Twenty-first Kan
sas ut Fort Leavenworth Is now under
command Of Maj Harry Parker, and Is
guarded by 90 men. The officers be-
lieve that they will be retained in the
service, at least until spring.
Soldiers of the Twenty first Kansas
returning home ON furlough were
given royal welcome. At Hutchin.
son, Eldorado. Garnett, Emporia,
Wellington and other places the boys
were banqueted and made much OF.
Anna Pate, 15-year-old white girl
ut Topeka who was arrested for dis
turbing the peace, astonished the Off.
GERS by producing q marriage certif-
cate showing that she was married to
o negro preacher named William Price.
]. Z. Meeker. of the firm Of Fleming
& Meeker, jewellers ut Chanute shot
himself accidentally and died almost
instantly. lie was agent for the
American Express company and promi.
nent in local politics, society and bust.
ness.
William Blalack, who in 1855 pleaded
guilty to second degree murder in the
Cherokee county district court and
was given life sentence, has secured
q new trial on the plea that his con-
fession was made through fear Of mob
violence.
James Collier, a private in the
Twenty-second Kansas, who died In u
Philadelphia hospital, was buried at
Atchison with military honors He
was the youngest member Of company
L, not having reached his seventeenth
birthday.
The report OF the state mine super.
intendent shows that Leavenworth
county coal miners are the best paid
In the state. Last year the average
wage per day for them was e.. 10 as
against si.94jI in Crawford county, tho
next highest
At Vermillion G. W. Crawford, o
well-digger, was overcome with air
damp. The worlxmen on top pulled
him up, but just as he reached the top
his feet slipped out Of the rope and he
fell into the well, a distance Of IS feet,
breaking his neck and back.
At Somerset, Miami county, while
digging in we'll, William Ballard and
Burt Purvis, young men, were killed
by airdamp John Gatlin, who went
TO their rescue, was also rendered un-
conscious and Bob Copper, who got
Gatlin out Of the well. had narrow
escape.
During the recent hot spell passen.
gers on the Union Pacific told n story
that seemed incredible. They said
thnt the heat warped the rails, making
the passage OF the train exceedingly
difficult. At Silver Lake the rails bent
out like bow and moved the ties Q
half-foot.
Thousands OF old soldiers in Kansas
who IRE drawing pension will be in
terested in an order recently promul-
gated by the post Office department
authorizing postmasters TO cash pen
sion checks. 1t is estimated that $780,
300 will be saved to the pensioners Of
the United States each year by this
order.
At the state meeting at Topeka Of
Turner's, q German society, first hon.
Ors in the mems class were carried Of
by Topeka. Marysville was second,
Hanover third, Leavenworth fourth
and Lawrence fifth. In the ladies'
event first prize WINS won by Topeka
In the individual turning, the muscu-
lar men from Marysville won first hon.
ors.
The twentieth annual session of the
northwest Kansas conference OF the
United Brethren church, just closed at
Lebanon, was one of the largest and
,,,oat vrofitahIe 0atherinOs of the kind
held in years Bishop ]. s. Mills, OF
Denver, ofllciated, and was assisted by
Elder c. U. Mckee, OF Buell.; j. McMil-
Ian, of Concordia, and T. D. Critics, OF
Russell
Louis Medcalf, who was camping on