Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Citizens OF Bronson will bore for
gas.
A cattle-dipping station will be built
ut Chetopa.
Prelps grain elevator at Columbus
was destroyed by FIRE. causing sio,-
900 loss
! A San Francisco dispatch said 800
men OF the Kansas regiment would
probably sail for Manila before the
25th OF October.
]. v. Sanders, populist nominee for
county attorney Of Chase county, was
perhaps fatally injured by falling
l down stairs ut a hotel in Cottonwood
Falls.
William Wilmoth, q young farmer
near Edna, was fatally injured by the
explosion Of - pounds OF dynamite
which he had Ia the house examining.
The hrulse was badly wrecked.
Miss Jessie Folsom, Mcpherson
county school-teacher who went down
into the cellar of her schoolhouse for
coal, found s35 in pennies. agold piece,
q silver dime and four silver watches.
W c. oldfield, q Missouri Pacific
engine near Independence and had
his arm severed by the car wheels, has
sned the company for sS7, 900 damages.
As a result OF the recent snowstorm
30 miles OF telegraph wire on the Santa
Fe between independence, Kan, and
Kansas City was down and over 500
poles will have to be replaced. The
other railroads Jared almost rs bad.
Methodists of Newton celebrated
the twenty-ifth anniversary Of the
erection of their first church there.
Addresses were made by Rev. W. A.
Quayle, DIR. ]. p. Goblin, Rev. NJ. NJ.
Haun. the church's first pastor, and
others.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Kansas G. A. r. REUNION associa'' Z
was held in Girls. void park, w ,,,. o'
There were nearly 100 TENT ,,tohaa 10 .,
the park ard liberal r concentration,
OF veteran IS from eve - county In south
ern Ka .,s.s y 'o"n'y Al s'u'"
- stCnes for the soldiers monu
,aent in East park Mt Newton hav,
arrived and will be put in position al
once The stones are very large on es
one weighing -, 600 pounds Tho mon
ument will be surmounted by q cannon
ten inches in diameter and weighing
10, 600 pounds.
The scheme to amend the divorce
laws of Kansas, making three
mon this residence in the state sufii
cient to institute divorce proceedings
is being pushed by number o
lawyers, as the enactment of such Q
law would prove u banana to tn,
legal profession.
The board OF education at Fort Seat
appealed to the city authorities TO rs
sist in enforcing the compulsory educa
ton law and as q result the police
were ordered to arrest every boy o.
school age caught upon the streets
during school hours without written
excuse from his parents
Councilman A. Benson, of the Sec
ond ward in Topeka, complained tc
the health officers that there was tar
In all the wells in Parkdale, q suburb
OF Topeka How 1t came there he
does not explain, but more than loo
wells were reported to be so polluted
that water from them was unfit to
drink.
Marie A. Ems, n stenographer,
brought suit in the court az common
pleas Mt Kansas City recently, through
her attorneys, Hale. Craig & Fife, to
recover SIS, 900 damages from Oliver NJ.
Schee for breach of promise. The de-
PENDANT Is one OF the wealthiest and
best known farmers Of Wyandotte
county.
The Woman's Relief Corps and
Ladies' Aid society at Solomon held n
reception in honor OF the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas volunteers before they re-
turned to Leavenworth. The guests
numbered over 800. An interesting
programme, consisting OF music and
recitations, was given, after which
there was banquet
Secretary Coburn's latest report from
the state board of agriculture is de-
voted entirely to the pork-producing
| interests Of the state. In glowing
terms he tells Of the hog as wonder.
ii mortgage remover. In 1897 there
were 8, 1893, 494 hogs in Kansas, valued
ut s!1,997, 40, an increase Of $4,000
hogs over the previous year.
After running his horse in the races
at Marysville, Charles Birney had it
taken to u stall and rubbed down,
when Ed Dclair threw n bucket Of
cold water over the animal. This so
cnraged Birney that he assaulted De-
lair, who took out his poeletknife asld
cut Birney across the bowels and
breast, inAicting fatal wounds.
At Pittsburg the other night Will
Mccoy, Mineral City min or, got into
game of poker here in Eaton's gaming
house. He lost money and then, DO
ing seized with regret, held up Eaton
with n revolver and took his money
back. Eaton had Mccoy arrested for
highway robbery, and Mccoy in turn
had Eaton arrested for ruaning q
gambling house, which, nader the
Kansas law, is felony.
DR.. A. II. Robinson, one of Hutchin-
sons prominent dentists, fell down q
fight of stairs the other night and
died from the effects of the fall When
found his body was lying at the foot
of the stairway Of his Office. He was
taken TO his home and doctors sum.
moned, but he never rallied except TO
state that he fell. II is supposed,
from the symptoms Of his suffering,
that in the fall blood weasel in the
$50.