Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-22
SOME KANSAS HAPPENINGS.
A war on .rramps In IIansas.

SOME KANSAS HAPPENINGS.
A war on Tramps In Kansas.
Tramps and h0boes will be the sub
jects of vigorous Legislation In Kansas
this win ter. provided the railroad
managers of this state are able to con.
vince the Legislators that the road,
are entitled to protection. During
the last ye;lr the Kansas lines have, N
times, been confiscated by throngs o.
tramps A bill will be pushed by the
railroads making II q criminal offense
for tramps or other persons to attempt
to ride upon trains without p srmission
from the proper sources.
Wants to Make HIS shortage Good.
About is mo nths ago G. N. w. Garlic
son, manager of the Pond Lumber
company OF Winfield, suddenly disap.
peared, leaving shortage In his &c
counts Of about $1,000. The generally
accepted theory was that he had com.
mitted suicide. Lately. however, his
father-in law, Mr.. Swartz, Of Dwight,
sent the company 500, which he said
came from Mr.. Carlson, whose inten-
ton II was to make the entire shortage
good, but he refused to tell where Car
Lesson Is.
Harvey County FREQ from Debt.
County Treasurer Robert Dougherty,
of Harvey county, sent check for ST.
1887 to State Treasurer Hcfiebower
in payment of the state tax and inter
est and princi pal on the school fund.
Harvey county does not owe cent TO
any person or corporation. There IL
not n cents worth Of sanding
bonds or county warrants. No one
holds any viience of debt a sainst the
county and there Is clear balance In
the treasury of s45, 1854
Kan as Presbyter iau synod.
The Pre- sbyterian synod of Kansas
convened Mt Hutchinson On the 14th
with over 100 ministers present The
meeting was opened with n sermon by
the retiring moderator, Rev. A. +.
Irwi'l, of Hutchinson. Rev. Z. j.
Bro wn, of Conway Springs, was elect.
ed moderator, and Rev. b. S. Allison,
II Holton, vice moderator. An ad
dress on foreign missions was made in
the evening by Rev. A rthur j. Brown,
Of New York.
No Passes for the Voters.
Taylor Riddle. pr ,pulist str "a ,h,,
RAN, wrote TO all '.he railr a. T., Wa,
sac asking II the wou' :, ,ran, rsn No.
for transported Ion + ,r students of co
leges' emplo' les of state institution
ana others away from their votin
places ne roads answered that the
VII, not. The letters say all partie
VIII u treated alike this year ard n
vote RS who are away rom hc.ne wi
h-ve chance to pay fare 81 lose thei
votes.
Tho On Of Lord.
In the capture of the man known q
Frank Harri', alias Ed Ilellnan, an
other name s, caught burglarizipg Re,
MIR. Iur' Ier's house, in Kansas City
Kan, the police have on their hands
more noted parsonage than they a
iirs', supposed. A woman, passing u
b.arris' aunt, confessed to the polio
! that his real name is Samuel Dawson
and that his grandfather is Lor
Samuel Dawson llackett, of England
Kansas Generously Treated.
The 1, motormen that went iron
Wichita to I'LL the places OF the strili
lag men of the street car company q
Waco. Tex, returned home and sal,
that the people in the Texas city
backed up the strikers and told tn,
Kansas men the whole story OF tn
trouble. gave them money to pay thei
fare back home and advanced then
the money that the company had givei
them to take them to Texas.
Botkin Was Not y Soldier.
Lieut. A. +. Williams. Of the Twenty
second Kansas, published n statemen
il which he says Ralph Botkin. son .
Congressman Botkin, on account o
whose severe illness the war depart
ment has been criticised, was never en-
listed and did not see service in tn,
army. Lieut. Williams says the gov
ernment was no more responsible fol
young Botlsin than it was for any O.
the other camp followers.
MutIlated by q Train.
George Clark, one OF the oldest EN-
ployes Of the Kansas City, Pittsbure
& Gulf railroad, was instantly killed
the other night in the yards of thai
road in Pittsburg. lie stepped off the
main line to avoid n train, when ar
engine on n sidetrack struck him, cut
ting off both his legs and mutilatine
him terribly. lie was about As year.
Of age.
VIII Run Into Kansas City.
Arrangements have been perfected
whereby the Leavenworth, Kansas q
Western railway will run its trains
into Kansas City from Leaven worth
over the Missouri Pacific. This road
was once known as the Kansas Central,
and extends from Leavenworth to Mil.
touvale, Kan, a distance OF about lsO
miles
Hoy Crushed by Coal Wagon.
Ray Priest, the seven-year-old son Of
]. X. Priest, was killed at Erie. He
was trying to climb upon the side of q
wagon heavily loaded with coal His
foot slipping off the brake block. he