Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-04-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS

W. J. Bryan and Gov. Leedy are adj
vertised to speak at Peabody May
The Kansas @. A. r. will hereafter
observe June 10 rs Mother Bickerdyke
day.
j. w. Drumm and j. s. Paget Of
Manhattan, were convicted Of making
counterfeit money.
Sumner was the first county to for.
ward her assessment (s479 TO tho
Omaha commission fund.
Capt Carey, an old soldier Of Cha
mute, was almost instantly killed by
being thrown from his wagon.
It is said Charles M. Sheldon, Of Bur-
lingame, will assume control Of the
Atchison Champion in few days
Joe Butler, in Jail ut Independence
for the murder Of City Marshal Kline,
Of Coffeyville, confessed to the crime.
"Shorty" Hammil. the mighty center
rush Of the Kansas university football
team, has enlisted In the war service.
Frank W. Frye, ex-postmaster Ut
Parsons, was arrested on the charge
of making false returns to the depart
| ment
Forty Mcpherson county school
teachers will quit the profession this
spring for more profitable employ.
ment
Allen county republicans allowed q.
H. Funston, candidate for governor,
to name delegates to the state and con-
gressional delegations.
A company Of volunteers was organ
lied at Leavenworth, and Rev. Alonzo
Bright, pastor Of the First NJ. e.
church, was elected captain.
Mrs. II. d. Heiserman, accompanied
by u constable, went TO the orphans
home at Wichita and forcibly took her
seven-year-old daughter from the place.
DIR. Wiley G. Woodruff was raising
military company Of state university
students, to become n part Of ma
tional organization Of university stu.
dents
The total enlisted strength Of the
Kansas national guard is 1,s7a. The
inspecting officer reports the guard to
be in very fair condition in every par.
ticular.
In jefferson county there will be no
republican convention TO select dele.
gates to the state convention. G. c.
Mccarthy, candidate for state treas.
urer, will name the delegation.
While riding q bicycle ON the streets
of Topeka A. o. Holcomb, wealthy
citizen, ran against q negro. He was
thrown from his wheel to the asphalt
pavement, receiving fatal injuries.
Miss Sophie McCauley, who died at
Fort Scott, aged 20, was Of q family of
six children who promised their father
on his deathbed that they would
never marry. All have kept the VOW.
Rev. Joseph Fife, an ex-Dunkard
preacher, physician and veterinary
surgeon living Mt Lost Springs, Marion
county, was arrested for accomplish
ing the ruin Of Katie Funk, German
girl.
All the Protestant churches in To-
peka, IS in number, devoted Sunday
evening recently to an anti.resubmis-
sion service. Over $500 in cash was
raised to carry on the temperance
work.
r. W. Turner. ex-consul TO Cadiz,
Spain, resigned his position rs secre-
tary OF the state board OF raiload COM
missioners and will ask for m appoint
ment in one Of the Kansas volunteer
regiments
The whole Kansas delegation in
Washington called upon President Nc
Kinley and urged him to appoint Col.
J. W. F. Hughes Us brigadier general.
1t Is supposed that Kansas will be al
lowed one brigadier general.
E. c. Little. private secretary to
Gov. Leedy, secured the names of 80
Abilene young men who will 60 to
fight Little may lead them, and 1t
was srg gested that he might become
commander Of the volunteer forces Of
Kansas.
The Manhattan, Alma & Burlingame,
line OF railway So miles long between
Manhattan and Burlingame and con.
Meeting the Union Pacific and Santa
Fe, was sold under foreclosure for
5000. 900 to q representative OF the
Santa Fe.
The convention of Fourth Congress.
sional District Republican League
clubs was held at Emporis last week.
Speeches were made by state and
congressional candidates. w. A. Mad.
ison, Of Lyndon, was elected secretary
Of the league.
Gov. Leedy pardoned Marion Clark,
of Coffey county, who was sent TO the
pcnitentiary for ten years for highway
robbery. Clark Is the 16-year-old boy
who was sentenced on circumstantial
evidence year ago and on whose nc
count ]. Custer. one of the jurors, com.
mitted suicide about two weeks ago.
Evidence had been secured that Clark
was innocent and Custer killed him.
self because Of remorse.
Gov. Leedy on the Goth issued his
call for volunteers and named the fol.
lowing towns rs recruiting points:
Kansas City, Lawrence, 0sawatomie,
TT. Scott Pittsburg, Columbus. INDIE
pendence, Winfield, Parsons, Leayen-
worth, Topeka, Atchison, Seneca, Hol-
ton, Salina, Abilene, Concordia, Clay
Center, Blue Rapids, Beloit Smith
Center. Horton, Hays City, Usage City.
Emporia, Eldorado, Leroy, Marion,
Wichita, Wellington, Hutchinson,
KinRman, Great Bend and Dodge City.
II was expected that company would
be raised at each of these placea
Mrs. Plumb, of Emporia, recently
won q $4,000 suit against Capt A. A.
Thomas. partner of the late senator.
In the supreme court of the District