Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-04-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Ex-Gov. Lewelling declares in favor
OF George NJ. Munger's scheme for
state ownership Of stock yards
Alva Marston, wealthy farmer near
Highland, whose mind had become do
ranged, committed suicide with Q
pocketknifc.
Mrs. s. c. Miller. wife Of a member
Of the Topeka board Of education,
was fatally burned ut her homo by q
gasoline explosion.
Adam Treat, OF Hays City, who cele-
brated his lOlst birthday anniversary
recently, claims to be the Oldest free
mason In the country.
A reward OF 5000 was offered for the
capture OF the three desperadoes who
escaped from the Marysville Jail after
murdcrously assaulting the jailer
Mrs. John Sweeney, OF Lincoln coun.
ty, who died the other day, weighed
$50 pounds. She enjoyed the distinc-
ton of being the heaviest woman In
Kansas
b. p. waggener, the Atchison rail-
road attorney, is president Of s., 600, +.
900 colonization enterprise, chartered
to build railroads, sell lands and found
colonies.
The state penitentiary coal mines
sold IS, 67s worth OF coal during March,
Of which IS, 2Os was furnished state in
situations, s245 to the wagon trade and
s3Os to other consumers.
DC. Metsker, ex-mayor Of Topeka,
died ut the home Of his son-in-law,
United States Marshal Sterne. Mr..
Metsker was reported quite wealthy.
He owned large property interests at
Sedalia, Mo.
At Mineral. Cherokee county, Jack
Murphy attempted to collect rent
from Frank Wade, n tenant A quar-
rel ensued, resulting in both men using
pistols and Murphy was killed and
Wade seriously wounded.
L. X. Blair, president OF the Blair
Milling company at Atchison, who
started in business us Missouri river
steamboat clerk in the early days and
became Ont VI tuC iuOos ouSSSscAeA
inillers in Kansas, is dead.
George II. Peck will be the principal
orator ut the Second District Repub-
lican Editorial association meeting ut
Osawatomie May Is. That date Is also
the thirty-eighth anniversary OF the
organization Of the republican party
in Kansas.
At Newton, Charles Fisher, q local
coal dealer, sued NJ. McGraw for $40, 600
damages for alleged defamation OF
character. McGraw is the president
of an alleged coal combine and he Is
accused ofinjuring Fisher with whole
sale dealers.
The Ohio-Indiana gas syndicate, that
was contemplating the piping OF gas
from the gas fields Of eastern Kansas
to the important towns, has abandoned
the idea, arguing that the field had not
vet been sufficiently developed TO in.
sure returns.
State Bank Commissioner Breiden'
thai has notified all state banks that
on July the authority Of all banks.
which have not received certificate
under the new law, will be revoked.
A large number Of banks are dilatory
in this regard.
Charles Custer, q farmer near Bur-
lington, committed suicide under pecu'
liar circumstances. He had served on
Jury that convicted q i7-year-old boy
of highway robbery. The evidence
was circumstantial and Custer brooded
over the probability Of the boys limo
cence until reason was dethroned.
After living together as husband
and wife less than two years, Edward
Cotter and wife, of Fulton, separated,
the husband forcibly taking their un'
weaned baby. The wife brought sui,
to determine her rights. and Distric,
Judge Simons decided that the child'i
health and life depended upon the
mothers care, and gave her possession
of 1t.
Gov. Leedy expressed great disgust
In speaking OF President Mckinley
message to congress. Hesaid: "Johr
Sherman is not the only imbecile dowr
there In Washington. Six weeks ago
the United States had ample cause To-
intervention, but we have allowed the
Spaniards to outgeneral us at every
point. We had the report Of the com
mittee in the Maine affair, which die
not lay the blame on anybody, ant
now comes this message, which doesn'
mean anything. What the presiden
means by armed intervention withou
independence ! cannot see. l thinl
the power Of the almighty doller ha
hypnoiized and paralyzed the admin
istration."
A Fort Scott telegram said q schem
to colonize tracts Of thousands Of acre
of railroad lands in the heart Of tn
Kansas agricultural fields has beef
quietly developing in Woodson county
for some months and quite n numbe
of squatters are now improving claim
which they have been led to believ'
are open for settlement. Their expe
rience promises to be arepetition OF thu
serious troubles in Allen county
number Of years ago, during which 81
many farmers were driven from tn
homes they had built on railroad lands
The Woodson county scheme, 1t wa
alleged, was conceived by Judge ]. =
Mcdonald, q populist attorney ant
politician. He and some associate
have settled upon some Of the lands
and are Offering great Inducements :
men from all over that corner OF tn
state to take claims and improve them
They charge from SIS tos5o TO 'locate
claim for each man.
The Third district republican con
gressional convention met at lndepend
ence and nominated ex-Congressmal
! S. s. Kirkpatrick, Of Fredonia, BY ~
i. clnmation.
Il A T,oneLa teleOram said populist