Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-08
SOME KANSAS HAPPENINGS.
Two Men slaas the Noninasion.

Two Men iiads the Nonsinatioa.
W. T. Bush, secretary Of state decid.
cd that the name Of Judge @. w. No
Kay, Of Anthony. cannot 60 on the Of
fetal ballot In the Twenty-fourth dis
trict rs the democratic uomine for
Judge. NJ. Bush takes this position
because the democratic central com.
mittee did not comply with tho re-
quirements Of the election law In nomi'
mating Judge Mckay. The protest
which Mr.. Bush sustained alleges
that two or three democrats got TO.
gether and agreed that 1t was too late
10 call democratic convention, and
agreed to put McKay's name on the
ticket A certificate Of nomination
was accordingly fled by them q few
days ago.
September weather In Kansas.
The weather report of Chancellor
Snow, of Kansas university, for Sep.
tember, says the last month has been
unusually warm, clear and calm. Only
Ave Septembers in 81 years record
have been warmer. only six have been
clearer and only two have had less
wind. The rainfall was considerably
above the September average. bring
ing the total precipitation for the nine
months Of 1903, now completed. above
the yearly average Of the past 80 years
Only three Septembers on record have
had more rain.
May Be Romanoer's Story.
A Wichita dispatch said Grace
Barnes, aged four years, fell from q
Rock Island train near Pratt while It
was going 80 miles an hour. The child
was sitting by her mother. leaning
out of an, open car window. The
mother paid no attention to her and
when the train reached Pratt little
Grace was missing. Mrs Barnes told
the conductor, who backed the train
about two miles and found the child
lying in high grass where II had fallen
uninjured.
Contingent Fund Was Used.
Eighty-six soldiers Of the Twenty.
first Kansas regiment arrived in To-
peka from Leavenworth. They were
considerably emaciated by typhoid
and malaria They wero sent to their
homes in various parts Of the state In
Pullman ours. The war department
provided transportation for them only
rs far as Topeka, and Gov. Leedy used
his contingent fund in buying them
necessities and delicacies and paying
their railroad fare.
Hoard OF Charities Want Moro Land.
Farming is the prescription OF the
state board of charities this year.
More land and more tools for tilling
will be its appeal to the Legislature for
most Of the eight institutions under
its control. In outof-door work 1t
sees u healthful occupation for many
of the unfortunate people under state
charge. The board agrees that farm.
ing is q good way to keep boys in the
reform school and others out Of mis-
chief.
Mixed Jury Falls TO Agree.
Tho innovation OF calling six negroes
TO sit with six white mon on iuries
trying cases in which negroes are in.
terested was recently introduced at
Fort Scott, but proved failure, when
six negroes hung 4 jury by insisting
upon the acquittal Of Ed Henderson, q
prominent negro citizen, charged with
wronging 13-year.old white girl.
A Lucky Kansas Girl.
Detectives in Chicago were looking
for Miss Minnie Norton, stenographer,
for whom SIS, 600 is waiting in Kansas
In q letter received in Chicago from
Mrs. r. s. Trimmer, of Centralia, Kan,
she asked that o search be made for
Miss Norton, who, she says, Is heiress
to land worth si2, 1000 and jewels and
cash to the amount Of $4,000.
Released on Furloagh.
Eight hundred soldiers OF the TWEEN.
ty-frst Kansas left Leavenworth for
their homes on q furlough 70 report
there October %. They will not be paid
until their return, when they will re-
ceive two months pay. A very large
number had no money and transpor.
tation was furnished by company COM
manders
Portrait OF Dol w. Y. Cloud.
A portrait Of Col. w. +. Cloud, Of
Kansas City. Mo-, was presented to the
state historical society by the Second
Kansas Regimentsl association. by
reason Of the shifting fortunes OF war
Col. Cloud commanded three different
regiments-the Second Kansas cavalry
and Tenth and Fifteenth Kansas In.
fantry.
Divorced from Evangelist Lane.
In New York city an absolute d.
vorce was granted Mrs. Ada Lane from
Rev. John Lane. pastor of the Baptist
church at Larned, Kan, and an evan
gelist Of some note. The plaintiff
charged him with intimacy with his
present wife, Kate E. Brown, Q Kansas
girl
Suicide Ended y Lie of Crime.
Lou Stewart q notorious character
at Ottawa, ended her life Of crime by
jumping into the Marais des Cygnes
river from the Locust street bridge,
1870 feet high. She fell into only two
feet Of water and she sank into the
mud.
They Want Col. Roosevelt
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