Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-08-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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1000 cattle on pasture In Ford county.
Pratt Is the only county In Kansas
that did not send q volunteer to the
srmy.
r. W. Blue, OF Pleasanton. ex-con-
gressman-at-lnrge, has moved to Vim
ita, l. T.
lola now has la gas wells, the last
one opened flowing 100000 cubic
feet daily.
Newton will have q fall festival In
October, to be called the Arkansas
Valley festival.
Jessie Osborne, q 15-year-old wife OF
Lyon county, wants divorce from her
husband, aged so.
There are $50 prisoners In the state
penitentiary at Lansing, an increase
OF A over last year.
Because his children objected, an
Atchison man 80 years old ran away
from home TO get married.
Miss Grace, daughter OF ex-Gov. John
A. Martin, Is now librarian Of the SOL
diers' home ut Lenvenworth.
Wichita was greatly excited over the
mysterious disappearance OF Miss May
Harrison, pretty miss Of II.
Independence voted $4,000 In bonds
to aid the new Kansas, Oklahoma Cen.
trail & Southwestern railroad.
Notwithstanding recent heavy rains
II Is said the Kansas corn crop will not
be over 20 per cent Of full crop.
Near Murdoch, Kingman county.
Allen Hughes murdered Bob Bomar, q
neighbor, In quarrel over dog.
An Illinois capitalist has made Q
proposition to build eight miles Of
electric street railway in Lawrence.
Rev. DIR. J. c. Miller. Of Newton, will
succeed the late DIR. Hewitt rs presi-
dent of the Presbyterian college at
Emporia.
Old soldiers Of Kansas will present
the name OF Maj T. J. Anderson, Of
Topeka, for national commander OF
the G. A. r.
The Kansas colored volunteers will
receive pay from date Of enlistment,
Secretary OF War Alger SO informing
Gov. Leedy.
Charles s. Briggs was appointed
county attorney Of Usage county In
place Of George NJ. Wolf, who was
forced to resign.
Martin Snyder, aged 10, was muir
dered and robbed by an unknown per-
son while on an outing with friends
near Wellington.
Martins drug store ut Muscotah,
which was being operated rs joint,
was burned to the ground by some
mysterious agency.
The epidemic Of Texas fever among
Montgomery county cattle was effect
lively checked by dipping in native
petroleum. Over 40 head died.
Fawn township, Montgomery county,
has been .quarantined and shut of
from the rest OF the world because Of
several cases OF Texas fever among
cattle in that neighborhood.
Secretary of State Bush has decided
not TO print election ballots for the
Kansas volunteers Mt the expense OF
the state. The various political parties
will have to furnish the ballots for the
soldiers.
Charles Stackhouse, OF Osage City,
who enlisted In company g, Twenty.
first Kansas, and was elected captain,
has resigned. owing to his preponder-
ance Of flesh, being unable to stand
the drills and marches
A Topeka telegram said Gov. Leedy
and other populists who will speak
for the fusion ticket had determined
that so far as they may be able to di;
rect 1t the campaign would be fought
entirely on local issues.
State Superintendent Stryker is
working to secure the adjustment OF
the study OF Latin rs 4 necessity for
admission to the state university; also
rs a requirement in the high schools.
lie says the time spent in studying
Latin is thrown away.
The long-contested judicial fight
among republicans in the Nemaha-
Brown. Donipllan district ended in the
nomination OF W. I. Stuart Of Doni-
phan. Judge Emery's Nemaha coun-
ty delegates had refused to enter the
last session of the convention.
Two Missouri Pacific passenger
trains collided on o straight stretch Of
track ut West Wichita The engines
and tenders were thrown from the
track, the boiler heads blown out and
eight persons were injured. The train
dispatcher had given the wrong or
derR
Warden Lands, OF the Kansas peni-
Tertiary, forced the designations OF
John Chase, head mine engineer. and
David Shull, top mine officer. Lands
accused the men Of crookedness. Chase
Is son of cx.Warden Dick Chase and
Shull Is an ex-member Of the legisla-
ture from Usage county.
The Burlingame & Northwestern
Railway company has been chartered.
1t proposes to build and operate q
railroad from Bnrlingame to Alma,
running through Harveyville, Brad
ford, Eskridge and Halifax. The road
will be "a miles in length, the capital
stock being placed at $4,000.
Ninety-two privates Of company d,
Twenty-frst Kansas, petitioned Gov.
Leedy to commission Maj II. N. BOYD
as captain OF the company to succeed
r. +. Vaughn, resigned. Col. Fitch
urged the governor to promote First
Lieutenant Cswlxins to the captaincy.
Gov. Leedy was undecided, but was
inclined toward commissioning Boyd.
Wyandotte county's population IL
65,b57, q gain Of o.o7s over last year.
Kansas City contributes 4e,o2S Of this
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