Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-08-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Fire destroyed the creamery ct Min.
neapolis. Loss, $4,000.
German Catholics will erect q s33, 900
church edifce ut Topeka
Harry Sesbrook, OF Topeka. has
been appointed cadet ut West Point
Ten houses ut Hutchinson were bur
glarized the night Of the circus In that
city.
Tho soldiers orphans home ut Atchi-
son could accommodate 200 more chill.
dren.
Burglars entered Americas the other
night and looted nearly every store in
town.
Well-posted grain men say the Kan
sas corn crop will aggregate zoo, ooo, 900
bushels
Editor Martindale, OF the Lawrence
Jeffersonian, was arrested for assault
ing bill collector.
The Santa Fe has reduced rates on
coal from Usage City TO points within
100 miles ten per cent
The receipts Of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for July were sa,705.75 and the
expenditures 4,90S8o.
Ex-Speakcr Lobdell has disposed Of
his Kansas City Tribune to George w.
Martin, Of the Gazette.
Hutchinson will have whisk broom
factory, the only one In Kansas, and
II will employ 100 persons
Gov. Leedy is opposed to territorial
extension, particularly the annexation
of any part Of the Philippines.
A. c. Jobes, u Wichita banker, sue
ceeds the late ex-Gov. Osborne as d.
rector Of the Santa Fe railroad.
Congressman Simpson and Attorney
General Boyle will open the populist
campaign ut Wichita August :5.
The largest rain ever known in
Harper county fell on the 9th. six
inches Of water falling in less than II
hours.
The Curtis Mercantile company, the
largest concern ut Wellington, failed
with liabilities aggregating about
s43. 900.
Many citizens Of bourbon county are
agitating the voting Of SIS, 200 bonds
to bore for gas ut different pldces in
the county.
One district judge in north central
Kansas hasn't drawn his pay from the
state treasury for five years. He has
over $4,000 coming to him.
District Judge Simons, OF Fort Scott
held that the city poll tax ordinance,
which requires ten hours for days
work, Is valid, and that the state eight
hour law is not applicable.
Adjt Gen. Allen, OF the state militia,
says that the national guard of the
state will be reorganized just as soon
rs 1t is definitely settled that there
will be no other call for volunteer
A Harvey county farmer wants one
per cent Of the present wheat crop Of
that county to be set aside rs fund
for the Letters, who failed after hav-
ing raised the price Of wheat and help
ing the farmers.
Pearl McDaniels, u little Fort Scott
miss, accidentally swallowed small
bead. Some Of her playmates told her
1t would kill her, when she grew sud-
denly frightened and died before
doctor could reach her.
Miss Stella Mckinney. who was ex-
PEELED from the Bethel Baptist church
in Miami county, has brought suit for
SIS, 600 damages against members Of
the church for circulating alleged
slanderous reports about her.
Gov. Leedy named the following
delegates to the National Irrigation
congress ut Cheyenne, Wyo: W. ].
Fitzgerald, Dodge City; John E Frost,
E. B. Cowgirl and II. R. Hilton, To-
peka; ]. s. Emery, Lawrence.
A city ordinance at Lenora prohib-
its absolutely the sale Of liquor in the
town except by q prescription drug
gist, and q penalty Is provided for per
sons guilty Of giving away liquor or
resorting to any method OF treating.
A colonization company, with $780,
900 capital, was chartered at Topeka,
headed by ex.United States Marshal
Walker. The company's object Is to
get up excursions to Cuba and Porto
Rico, and buy and sell land and lots
there.
Capt W. D. Sherman, Of company K,
Twenty-second Kansas, died in the
hospital at Fort Myer. near Washing
ton. His home Is at Seneca. His
death will cause promotions as follows:
Louis Miller. TO be captain; Elliot A.
Davis, to be first lieutenant, and Sergt
Roy J. Martin, to be second lieutenant
F. D. coburn, secretary Of the state
board Of agriculture, has issued Q
folder giving interesting statistics re-
lative to Kansas products during the
pas. 20 years The aggregate value
for the 20 years for the principal prod.
ucts is 81, 4Sl, 0Bi, 7bl, or an annual av-
erage OF 1874, 1885, s7. The dairy prod.
ucts have averaged s4,774, 910 for ten
years, the best year being 1897, with a
value OF 81, 059, 752.
Miss Catharine Withers,the young
Fort Scott society lady who clandes-
timely left home to marry v. E. Atkin-
son, q dry goods clerk at Emporia, was
found at Wichita by her father and
taken home. Her parents were great
" gratified that circumstances had
prevented her marriage. Had Mr.. At
kinson received funds. which he ex.
pected in Kansas City, she says. they
wonld have been married.
The first Kansas volunteer to apply
for pension Is John Rising. of Wet
more, who recently was discharged
from the regiment at Camp Alger be-
cause he had the rheumatism
At,ornov Cenoral Rovla has brouOhk