Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-29
KANSAS. STATE NEWS.

Atchison was robbed OF 6700 In cash.
Neodesha has just completed mu.
nicipal waterworks plant which cost
Sl7,s5a4
; The Manhattan Nationalist II. A.
Perkins paper, was badly damaged by
m incendiary FIRE.
There was heavy snowstorm Mt
Garden City and other western Kansas
points on the 25th.
Secretary Coburn's quarterly reports
will be used as textbooks in the Iowa
agricultural college.
The smelters ut lola and La Harpe
will be enlarged at once, giving en-
ployment to more men.
Texas fever has broken ont in the
northern part OF Montgomery county
and several cattle have died.
Editor I. E Leftwich, of the Larned
Eagle-optic was seriously injured on
n defective sidewalk in that city.
The heavy rain and sleet have done
much to kill small bugs that recently
infested southern Kansas wheat fields.
Col Fred Funston, of the Twentieth
Kansas, was married to Miss Edna
Blankart, Of Oakland, CAL, on the 25th.
The St Louis. Kansas & Southwest
ern railroad, line GO miles long be.
tween Arkansas City and Anthony,
was sold for si5O,0OO.
Gov. Leedy named W. S. Glass, coun.
ty attorney of Marshall county, to be
judge Of the Twenty-iirst district vice
Il. b. Spillman, deceased.
An explosion OF gas at the home Of
Thomas Oyster, in Paola, almost caused
the death Of Miss Nellie Edwards As
1t is, she may lose her eyesight.
Unless the Emporia school board and
city council soon agree over tax levy,
which is in dispute, the schools Of that
city will be closed for want OF funds.
The coal companies of southeastern
Kansas were doing n great business,
but were greatly handicapped by the
incapacity Of the railroads to furnish
enough cars.
A petition was being circulated at
Independence asking Gov. Leedy to
pardon Rudolph Brockman, now serv-
ing life sentence for numbering his
only daughter two years ago.
The latest statement Of the condi-
tion Of Kansas national banks show
individual deposits OF Sc, los. PIC; SUR
plus, 81, 4S9, 33i: undivided profits, $780,
96i; average reserve held, 34.09 per
cent
Douglas county lawyers are agitat-
ing plan to change the courts Of the
county. They want county judge
appointed to try all cases, except those
OF minor nature, now brought before
justices OF the peace.
While on n wheat stack C. W. Sig
man, Of Sherman county, lost his bal.
ance, falling upon a pitchfork he had
placed against the stack with prongs
upward. One prong entered his heart
killing him instantly.
7. A. Hudson. farmer near 0lathe,
was killed in his barn by bull. He
had just cut a tumor from the animals
neck when it plunged upon him and
pressed him against the barn, squeez-
ing the life out of him.
John Lemon, aged 80, q wealthy
farmer near Paola, made over his real
and personal property 70 his wife,
then drew $1,000 from the bank and
left town, mailing his wife letter
that he was going TO the Klondike.
District Judge Bland, Of Atchison,
holds that where mortgage was given
prior to the recently.enacted 1S-months
redemption law, and an extension was
granted after the passage Of the law,
the mortgage is foreclosable under the
old law.
Gov. Leedy commissioned o. j. Bur-
ton as second lieutenant of company
d, Twentieth Kansas, vice Thomas
Richey, resigned. In this appoint
ment the governor ignored the recon.
mendations OF both Col. Funston and
Lieut. Col Little.
Gov. Leedy has offered reward OF
$500 for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer OF Mrs. Clara Oliver, q
widow, who was found brutality muir
dered near her home on Norton coun.
~ farm. Mrs Oliver lived alone with
uoE tWO bulbll CnlluTcu.
Lewis Rowe, Fort Scott merchant
who died recently, left q will which
disinherits his wife. His entire estate
goes to his daughter and to Ada Moore,
q nurse who attended him in his last
sickness. Family troubles were the
cause OF the disinheritance.
The following members OF the TWEEN.
tieth Kansas were discharged previous
TO the starting of a part of the regi-
ment to Manila: Privates Henry Nc.
Kenney. Frank Mccoy, Edward Lew
rance, William L. Sexton and Z. j.
Miller and Corporal r. Z Elder.
The secretary Of state has forwarded
to the Kansas volunteers now in the
field or in camp n printed list Of the
state, congressional, judicial, senate.
rial, Legislative and county nominees.
In several counties the list of county
nominees was not given, because the
county clerks failed to certify the list
mp in accordance with request Of the
secretary of state.
A recent dispatch said Gen. Mer-
riam has ordered thOiollowing officers
and men TO proceed to the Philippines
on the transport Indiana, which will
sail In q week: Col. Frederick Funs.
ton, ,Majs. Whitman and Metcalf, Sur
Reon Rafter. Assistant Surgeon Smith,
Adjt Walker, Quartermaster Hull,
Chaplain Schllemann, regimental nom
commissioned staff and band, and com.
panies C, D, E, q, II, !, L and NJ,
Twentieth Kansas, making q total OF
81 officers and $50 enlisted men.
The poor commissioner of Topeka
persuaded Jane Bailey, n negress, to