Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-07-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

gers Is killing horses west of McPher.
son.
A drug store" ut Mcriden was raid
ed by officers and II barrels Of liquor
were secured.
Ex-senator PETER has written q let
ter accepting tho prohibition nomiua-
ton for governor
The police force ut Atchison has
been reduced one-half, which will save
the city 5000 month.
The Atchison Champion has again
reverted to A. J. Felt, Charles Shell.
don giving up the management
Paola has IN 1l-ycar-old elocution-
list, Miss Gertrude kooncr, who has
won several medals in oratorical con-
tests.
In n speech ut Wichita Gov. Leedy.
declared in favor OF Hawaiian annex
alton and Endorsed McKinley's war
policy.
Wyandotte county furnished lit
negro recruits. They were strong,
husky fellows from the packing
houses.
During race at St Joseph, Mo-, o
pacing horse, Joe Cantra, owned ut
Chanutc, this state, ran into the fence
and was killed.
A. c. Mehnert q wealthy farmer
near Fort Scott, was found murdered
in his dooryard. lie lived alone and 1t
Is supposed robbery caused the crime.
The executive council will put IN
electric lighting plant in the state
house, to cost $4,000. The building Is
now lighted by private contract, at o
cost OF s., 800 q year.
At Hutchinson the other day Rev.
W. A. Van Gundy led his 1a.year-old
son into the courthouse with halter
around his neck, and said he wanted
the youth sent to the reform school.
State Labor Commissioner Johnson
says the average annual pay OF Kan
sas coal miners Is si0?.50, and the av-
erage cost Of living, s4Oi.ss. leaving
the miner o. cents clear ut the end OF
the year.
Ada Ross, q i3-year-old schoolgirl Of
Empire City. was arrested and taken
to Fort Scott charged with violating
the postal laws in having sent an inn
proper letter to another girl with
whom she had quarreled.
1t was reported in Topeka that Clyde
Mattox, an Oklahoma desperate with
whose sensational trials and final par
don from prison most Kansans are ia
miliar, was now fighting with Roose-
vel,s Rough Riders" in Cuba.
Fire ut Mcpherson destroyed the
First National Bank block, in which
were located the Citizens bank, sew
eral mercantile establishments and
offices. The town was temporarily
without fire protection. Loss, s75, 900.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church of the Southwest Kansas con-
ference has decided to establish q
Deaconess home In Wichita. The con-
ference at Lyons last spring author
lied this action.
The six packing.houscs in Kansas
four at Kansas City and one each at
Topeka and Wichita-turncd out fu-
ished products last year valued at
sG2, I.G. III. They paid s3.3ii,sVG to
1910 employees, $3.50 of whom were
men and GS. women. :, =
At Girard the other day St Lor
attorney suspected of''trying to H.
a Jury in the district court in the cas-,
of the Manufa, 'ircrs national bank. T,
of Pittsburg, vs. ex-Sherif Adsit, was
ordered ~ the sheriff to leave town
and he complied at once.
State Treasurer Hefebower states
that $4,000 OF Quantrell raid claims
have been received in his Office. There
is but So, 900 available for the payment
OF these claims, and Mr.. lIcaebower
says he will pay them in the order In
which they were received.
Prof. Bailey, OF the Kansas state
university, was made an honorary
member OF the American Institute OF
Homeopathy because OF his recent dem
onstrations OF the proof OF the law
OF similars in electro-chemlcal action
by the principle OF ionization.
1t has been decided that Thursday,
September /, will be set apart as Kan.
sas day at the Omaha exposition. On
this day speeches will be made by
Gov. Leedy and ex.Gov. Click Us presi-
dent OF the commission. Speeches will
be made by other prominent Kansans.
These addresses will be In the main q
recital of the states resources. There
will also be an exhibit OF Kansas prod |
ucts.
Judge j. +. Mcdonald, of Fort Scott
who was q member OF Gov. dwellings
board OF pardons, and who recently
colonizcd lot OF farmers on railroad
land in Woodson county, was reported
as having disappeared. His law part
uer, L. p. Bennett, was also reported
missing. The colonists have been or
dered to vacate the lands and there Is
much feeling against Mcdonald, who
Is said to have collected fee from
them.
Secretary +. d. Coburn, OF the board
OF agriculture, is DESTROYS OF communi-
eating with any who have had expert
cncc in rearing hogs mainly on either
alfalfa, kaffir corn and the sorRhums
(both as pasturage or grain, also bar
lev. Mr.. Coburn believes these crops |
afford in large measure the basis for o
greatly increased and very profitable
pork production In much Of Kansas,
and is DESTROYS Of ascertaining for pub
lie benefit what Is being done along
such lines
The bankers Of Brown county organ.