Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-07-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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ger service.
Wilson McAlister, OF company NJ,
Twentieth Kansas, died ut Camp Mer-
ritt, San Francisco, Of measles
Dickinson county's assessed valua-
tion increased 100000 this year,
mostly through personal property.
While participating in IN exciting
baseball game at 0lathe, Frank Winder
fell dead on first base OF heart disease.
Theodore Raucher, baker at Atchi-
son, recently fell heir TO $1,000, 900
through the death of his father In
Germany.
The principal business thoroughfare
of Lawrence, Massachusetts, street.
will be paved with brick distance OF
two miles.
Walter George and Matthias Jeorg,
of Mankato, were taken In by Uncle
Sans officers on the charge Of raising
81 bills TO twenties.
Two large stores at Caney. Mont
gomery county, were completely de-
stroyed by lightning Adjoining
stores were damaged. The total loss
is sa5, 1000.
A prominent horticulturist says the
apple crop In the Kaw valley will not
be sufficient to supply local demands,
an April hailstorm having badly dam
aged the buds.
The Fifth district G. A. r. reunion
will be held ut Junction City Septem.
Der $40. A feature will be the dedi.
cation Of o s., 900 &. A. II. monument
at junction City.
Judge Alden, OF the Wyandotte coun-
ty district court, decides that the new
Kansas law providing for recording
assignments OF real estate mortgages
is unconstitutional.
The first battalion of colored troops
was made up of volunteers from To-
peka, Lawrence, Ottawa, Paoln, Kan
sas City, Emporia and Fort Scott
four companies in all.
The attorney general decides that
city or district school boards cannot
exclude children between five and
seven years on account OF the crowded
condition Of the schools.
Gov. Leedy was considering the ad-
visibility of paroling n number Of coll
orcd inmates from the state reforma-
tory ut Hutchinson upon condition
that they enlist in the volunteer army.
A Topeka dispatch said Gov. Leedy
had offered the lieutenant colonelcy
OF the two Kansas negro battalions to
George W. Ford, OF Fort Scott, who
is treasurer OF the negro masonic
lodges Of the state.
While sitting alone before an open
window in her home just south OF Fort
Scott, Mrs. James Mayberry, wife of a
young farmer, was fatally shot by some
unknown person, the shot coming
through the window.
Larned has dewey square" in
which is 1O0-foot tlagpole from which
floats .6xl5 feet flag. 1t is surmoun.-
ed by an are light, and 10 feet above
the ground is encirclcd by q band
stand capable of holding % musicians.
The state labor commissioner will
ask the next legislature to pass law
prohibiting ndulteration of flour. His
reports from Kansas mills show that q
large percentage OF mills la Kansas
adulterate flour either with corn or
glucose.
Paola will have big crowd at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
Miami county courthouse July 81. The
masonic lodge will conduct the cere-
monies and Justice David j. Brewer,
OF the United States supreme court,
will deliver the grafton.
James Eagan, son OF rich farmer
near Topeka, was persuaded by his
fathsr to desert his young wife and
attend school ut Baker university.
Young Mrs. Eagan Immediately sued
her father-in-law for damages, and
jury awarded her $4,000.
Walter Woods, OF Concordia and Roy
Neely, Of Topeka, privates in company
=, Twenty-second Kansas, who were
recently appointed to minor positions
on Gen. Miles staff, accompanied the
latter to Santiago and were the first
Kansas volunteers to set foot on Cuban
soil.
On June Is q two-days-old infant
was drowned in the Arkansas river ut
Wichita Officers began nm investiga-
ton aud three weeks later arrested
Joe Kleinniger and Henry Church for
the crime. The dead child, 1t is al
legged, belonged to Kleinniger's daugh-
ter and Young Church, IL is charged,
was the father.
A number OF bank depositors in diff.
fercnt parts Of Kansas are making an
effort 10 evade the internal revenue
law by issuing receipts for money
drawn from the banks, instead of draw
ing checks and using revenue stamp
on each one. One bank went SO far us
to print receipts to assist its dcpositors
TO draw money in that way.
Returns OF assessors furnished TO the
Kansas state board OF agriculture from
70 counties show 10, 900 bushels, or
nearly 90 per cent. less corn rs having
been in the hands of their farmers
March / this year than ut the same
time in 1891. Jewell county farmers
were holding on TO 4,l79,O0o bushels;
Republic, 3,754,0oo; Brown, a,i55. 900,
and Nemaha, 9,s9i. 900 bushels In the
same 70 counties there wass4 per cent,
or TAI, 900 bushels moro wheat held on
the farms this year than the year be-
fore.
The company Of negroes from Wyan-
dotte county broke all records for
physical perfection, only one man be-
ing rejected. White companies lost
from three TO 80 men each.
The assistant United States attorney