Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-06-04

The Kaw Valley Fair association
will reopen bismarck grove ut Law.
SHace and give this falls fair there.
The Kansas Omaha exposition coih.
mission voted 81, 800 for ICES for Kan
'sas live stock exhibited during the big
SHOW.
The Twenty-sccond Kansas boys
were given an enth a siastic demonstra.
ton when they left Topeka for Falls
church, Va.
At Topeka Memorial day over 5000
people contributed toward buying q
present for the new United States
cruiser Topeka.
: Theo. Botkin, of Hutchinson, has
been appointed assistant adjutant gen.
eral of United States volunteers, with
rank OF captain.
A number of the leading young
stockmen of Wilson county are organ.
izing battalion Of cavalry which will
be purely democratic.
Capt. ]. S. lIeisy, OF Kansas City, has
q company OF mon all ready to go to
the front and tf.eir services have been
sSaNNaSN W w Y. i<ctuN.
While tryiD e to rescue his younger
brother, To- a Currins, aged IL, Of In
dependence. fell into the Verdigris
river and was drowned.
1t was reported at Topeka that Mrs.
Alice 'Irdway, for IL years assistant
librar nn of Kansas, had committed
suici de Mt Greenfield, Mass.
Congressman Jerry simpsons appli-
'Iation to Gov. Lcedy for authority to
raise reg rent was refused, the gov.
crnor urg. Vt Simpsons place was
in congress.
Kansas has two representatives, with
Buffalo Bilrs wild west show: Misses
Blanche Mckinney AID Mabel Hack
ney, both of IIaddam. They figure ON
the bills rs 'cowgirls."
Gov. Leedy telegraphed the secre-
tary of war requesting permission to
raise the states quote under the last
call for troops from less to 1000, so
that Kansas could furnish two full
regiments.
While NJ. w. Becker, travelling
man, was passing n side street in Par
sons blast in a sewer went off, send
ing up shower OF stones, one OF which
struck Becker on the back OF the neck,
killing him.
The Twenty-second Kansas regiment
arrived at Camp Alger, Va, without
uniforms or arms. There were several
cases OF measles in the regiment and
the men SO afflicted were sent to q hos
pital In Washington.
A benevolent order, the Cheerful
Peasants" was organized ut Topeka.
Its purposes are ITO secure homes and
other necessaries, comforts and lux.
nries, and to educate, feed, clothe and
shelter all who labor for life and loved
ones"
Over 300 delegates attended the Kan
sas Pharmaceutical associations meet
ing At Atchison last week. The asso-
citation has membership OF nearly 800.
I. Ardcry, Hutchinson, was elected
president and i. A. Snow, Topeka, See.
retary.
j. X. Woodside, aged SO, who died
Mt Olathe, left his entire estate, s40,-
900, TO the Covenanter. church at
Sparta, Ill. Woodside was unmarried
and lived q miser's life. To his
brothers and sisters, Is in all, he be-
queathcd 81 each.
At Concordia the special master sold
the Central Branch road, running from
Waterville TO the western limit, in
Guiding the Washington branch and
the branch north from Concordia ID
the Nebraska line. The lines were
knocked down TO the reorganization
committee for 81, 0l7,500.
The quota of Kansas troops under
the second call will be 1000. After the
Twentieth, Twcnty-frst and Twenty
second regiments are filed to the max.
imum there will be only about 600 left,
not enough for regiment. This will
disappolnt n number OF gentlemen who
aspired TO the colonelcy Of the regi-
ment
Tho assistant attorney general holds
that under the law Kansas volunteer
soldiers now in the field cannot vote.
Chairman Riddle, of the populist state
committee, received an opinion which
says that section 1913 OF the Kansas
statutes distinctly provides n way for
them to vote. aud that the boys can
exercise their suffrage no matter where
they are located.
Congressman Jerry Simpson tele'
Rraphed from Washington to Gov.
Leedy asking for the authority to go
TO Kansas and raise q volunteer regi.
ment
A telegram from Congressman j. d.
Botiin said tho president had r )m-
ised to appoint Judge Theo Botkin,
ex-department commander OF the q.
A. r. as assistant adjutant general.
= Matilda Watkins, q negrcss. whose
family Bible record shows her age At
III years, died in Kansas City.
In 1869 Gen. Wesley Merritt was sta
toned ut Fort Hayes. Kan, rs lieuten-
ant colonel OF the Ninth (colored) cav
airy.
Five state conventions In Kansas
this year: Democratic, free silver re-
publican. populisL republican and pro-
hibltion.
There Is q railroad war In Kansas
between the Santa Fe and Missouri
Pacific. growing out of the handling
Of troops.
There Is a great contest on now be-
tween many towns in Kansas to sec
which car raise old glory the highest
n The air.
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s +. Snow. conparT <. IHcpty-1rrt
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