Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Adjt Gen. Allen announces that he
will reorganize the Kansas national
guard.
Cattle feeding In central and north.
ern Kansas Is heating all records this
winter.
New stucco works are being built at
Burns, where there are valuable de-
posits Of agatite.
The barn OF William Gibson near
Lawrence was burned and with II TO-
900 bushels OF onions.
At Pittsburg q serious coal famine
was threatened, caused by the inability
OF railroads to furnish cars.
The statehouse ut Topeka is now
lighted by the states own electric
plant, built at q cost Of $1,000.
Gov elect Stanley and the Wichita
Commercial club are pushing for IN ex-
hibit OF corn and its cooked products
ut the Paris exposition.
Henry Keenan, and Mary Randall,
inmates of the Osborne county poor
house, eloped the other day, leaving
behind q notice that they wanted to
get married.
The insurance on the life OF C. s.
Cross, the suicide banker OF Emporia,
aggregates $4,000. Mrs. Cross will re.
tain this to keep her husbands mother
and his child
It was said that the Indebtedness OF
Grant g: Gillett, the ex-cattle king OF
woodbine. would aggregate over s2,-
0OO, 0OO 1t was also stated that Gillett
fed with over $500, 900 cash.
Privates in the Twentieth Kansas at
Manila and in the Twenty.third
(negro) regiment at Santiago are writ
ing home that they are weary OF army
life and want to come back.
Adelaide Towers, daughter Of q
farmer near Lincoln. run off to St
Louis to marry r. W. Z. Meyers, q
stranger. She could not find him
when she reached the city, and she
was penniless.
The recent blizzard caught j. II.
Cranwell, his wife and child some
miles from violenta, Sheridan county.
camping in q wagon. The horses
could not move in the sleet and the
child was frozen to death.
The probate Judge Of Wyandotte
county performed juvenile marriage
recently. the contracting parties being
Willie McShane and Lizzie Uptmore,
each II years of age. Their parents
consented to the marriage.
Albert Stice, q discharged soldier OF
the Twenty.second Kansas, who was
dancing with Mrs. John Gilman, ut
Oswego, when that lady dropped dead
from tight lacing, was so shocked by
the affair that he died two days later.
Two young girls Of ]. D. Paddock.
of Anthony, were kidnapped from a
Wichita hotel, where they were visit
ing with their father. 1t was thought
they were taken by their mother, who
was lately divorced from Mr.. Paddock.
The charity bazaar at Wichita closed
with the auction sale at which Cow
elect Stanley served as auctioneer.
Among the things sold was Cuban
machete, found on the Santiago bat
tlefeld and sent to the ladies by Gen.
Shafter.
A lone highwayman entered Ecker's
drug store in Kansas City, Knn., just
south OF the police station, just after
dark the other evening and covering
the clerk with q revolver robbed the
store of slO2 in cash, then made good
his escape.
The private boxes 10 the state treas
ury vault in the capitol building. used
by state officers and employees as de.
positories for private funds, were
robbed recently OF over $1,000 by some
unknown person who evidently had q
key that fit the treasure boxes.
Railroads have granted ~ fare
rate to the state board OF agriculture's
meeting at Topeka in January. The
rates are also for the benefit Of the
swine breeders. stock breeders and
poultry associations meetings, which
will be held in Topeka ut the same
time.
Lewis Rhoades, a former 'employe Of
the Rock Island railroad Mt Phillips.
burg, has sued the company for $40, 900
damages because he is no longer able
to masticate. Rhoades alleges that
last April his head was crushed by q
locomotive in such q way as to deform
jaws
At Independence last week William
English was tried for stealing horse,
but was discharged because IT was
proven that the animal stolen was q
gelding and not horse. He was re.
arrested for stealing gelding, but
the Judge again discharged him on the
ground that he could not be tried
twice for the same offense.
Charles N. Lee, who was serving q
life sentence in the Kansas peniten-
tiary, was pardoned Thanksgiving
dry. In 1894 he was sent up from
Pittsburg for the murder OF William
Chapman. The evidence was circum.
stantial, worked up by detectives to
secure the $500 reward. Recently q
convict in the Oregon penitentiary
confessed to having murdered Chap
man.
The cost OF running the various state
charitable institutions during October
was as follows: Winfield imbecile
asylum, 60, 100; industrial school for
girls at Beloit, si.4iS.2s; Osawatomie
insane asylum, sis. ITO s5; Topeka In
sane asylum, si5.627.79; school for
blind ut Kansas City, si,78L5o; state
reform school at Topeka, $3.50. 2s;
olathe deaf and dumb asylum. S.
657.0i; soldiers orphans home at