Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-09-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inero was frost NJ fhOln on I'M
morning Of the 7th.
At Eldorado the Santa Fe will built
heoO,o0o stone depot
Highland university, in Doniphar
county, Is ~ years old.
The Santa Fc railroad will erect {
brick depot at Great Bend.
Ex-Gov. St. John announces that h
will support PETER for governor.
Every nominee on the republican
ticket In Clay county Is unmarried.
There was snow ut 0berlin and othei
points In northwest Kansas on the 18th
In Kansas there arc 40 G. A. R
posts. with total membership of 13,'
SEQ.
Over 600 students enrolled ut the
Kansas state university on the open
ing day.
DIR. w. d. Martin, who was identified
with early free state troubles. died Of
Baldwin.
The scheme to build IN electric road
from Leavenworth to Kansas City has
been revived.
Julius Wilson, OF Kansas, has been
appointed compositor in the govern
ment printing Office.
The Twentieth Kansas boys at Camp
Merritt Cal, were paid on the 18th
for July and August.
The state grain department earned
es,9a7.9S during August and the ex.
penses were s3,5S7.93.
The populists of Wilson county de-
feated eX.Congressman jeff hudson
for Legislative nomination.
p. II. Coney, of Topeka, is the Kan.
sas member Of the national council OF
administration Of the GA R.
Postmaster General Emery o. Smith
Is slated for political speeches in To.
peka and Wichita early in October.
II. n. Boyd, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, will take his company Of Topeka
girl cadets to the Omaha exposition.
Ex-Attorney General Dawes was
nominated for the legislature by the
republicans Of Leavenworth county,
on q platform demanding resubmis.
sion.
1t was said that three inches of rain
fell in Kansas on the 18th, and not a
foot Of soil in the state escaped n wet
ting. II put the ground in excellent
shape for sowing fall wheat
The Twenty.second Kansas boys
reached Leavenworth last Sunday and
are now camped near the fort, in a
healthy location. The regiment has
had only five deaths, all told.
The spiritualists OF the state are
holding a protracted campmeet:ng ut
Camp Leedy, Topeka. It's claimed by
many spiritualists that Topeka is the
psychic center of the United States.
Several weeks ago the Santa Fe
depot ut Garnett was burned. with its
contents. A temporary structure was
erected. and the other night IL caught
fire and everything in II was destroyed.
A company with sa5o,OOo capital has
been chartered TO build an electric
street railway in Lawrence. 1t will
run from Bismarck grove south over
Massachusetts street TO Haskell insti.
tute.
In many country districts no atten-
tion is being paid TO the new Textbook
law. school boards and teachers using
the old books. State Superintendent
Stryker threatens to make several ar
rests.
Samuel Newcomb, in jail at Wichita
for larceny, made the fifth attempt ut
suicide, nearly cutting his arm off
with a razor. Other attempts ut self.
destruction were made by swallowing
glass.
DR.. Hogoboom, OF Topeka, formerly
chief surgeon Of the Santa Fe railroad,
will go to Honolulu to permanently re-
side. He believes the transatlantic
trade will make Honolulua city of 100,-
900 population.
Rev. S. v. Leech. the Atchison Meth
odist preacher who was forced to re-
sign his charge because he kissed
young woman member of his church,
has been rcinstated by Bishop Fowler,
who says Rev. Leech was wrongly sus.
pended.
Gen. Miller has recommended Maj.
John A. Rafter, surgeon OF the TWEEN.
tieth Kansas, to be surgeon for the
First brigade. Maj Rafter's promo
ton is the fruit Of his constant work
to have the condition of his camp the
most wholesome on the Preside.
The following boys of the Twcntie
Kansas have died since the regiment
was sent to San Francisco: Bertrand
Fergus, Clifford Greenough, Lewis
Moon, Harry Pepper. orville knight,
Wilson McAllister, Cecil Flowers,
Rufus Allen and Elmer Mcintyre.
Harry Mcclure accidentally over
turned gasoline lamp in salt mine
Mt Annapolis, the liquid saturating his
clothes and igniting from the miners
lamp on his hat. The skin was burned
from his entire body, leaving him IN a
pitiable condition, with no chance OF
life.
The largest corn crop In Dickinson
county is 100 acres on Charles Ku bach's
farm, which, despite the short corn
year in that locality, will yield GO
bushels TO the acre. Kubach listed II
ten inches deep, then SUBSIDIZED 16
inches below that giving the roots 20
inches of loose earth.
Surgeon Duncan, of the Twenty
second Kansas, who was convicted by
q court-martial for alleged careless
ness in permitting the desecration of
graves near Manassas Va, is free.
Gen. Davis set aside the verdict and
made uncomplimentary reference to
the action Of the court.
A tramp infested with smallpox got
of the train ut Pawnee and created a |