Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-07-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The city Of Wichita will build dam
across the Little Arkansas river.
A new courthouse, to cost $50, 900. Is
being agitated for Woodson county.
Texas fever was reported In q herd
Of cattle mile south Of Coffeyville.
Ex-Judge Theo Botkin gave upa PEN
rion Of ere per month to 60 the war.
Capt. Vaughn, Of the Jewell county
company, now Mt Camp Alger, Va, has
resigned.
G. b. Parks, q Fort Scott alderman,
was arrested for violating the prohibi-
tory law.
Work has begun on the Santa Fe
railroad branch between Cherryvale
and Coffeyville.
Frank Weinshank, Of Kingman, re-
signed MS q member OF the state live
stock sanitary board.
A great many cattle in Ellsworth
and adjoining counties were going
blind from contagious disease.
The Twenty.first Kansas regiment
was among the first OF the volunteer
regiments ordered TO Porto Rico.
The John A. Martin monument fund
in Atchison has reached $3.50, and the
monument has already been ordered.
There are 81, 1873 pensioners in Kan
sas, who received from the govern.
mcnt last year IN aggregate OF S., 749,-
$50.
A. ]. Felt will sell the Atchison
Champion to employees on the paper,
who will operate the plant in partner
ship.
Bank Commissioner Brcidenthal,
who has travelled over the state extern
sively. says the Kansas wheat CROP
will average sa5 per capita.
Department Commander Eastman,
of the Kansas G. A. r., says 1000 Kan
sans will attend the national encamp
msht at Cincinnati September 8 to 10.
Frank Wagner, OF company NJ
Twenty-first Kansas, was shot while
picking" peaches near Chickamauga
park by u farmer who owned the
orchard.
The Fifth district democratic con
gressional committee called conven
ton to meet ut Clay Center September
1 to name democratic candidate fol-
congress.
Webb McNall, state superintendent
II N,,r &C mn intn ths
state treasury from June collections
Since January he has turned sss,oO'
over to the state.
Reports from threshers over thu
state indicate that the wheat crop viii
be about Is, 600, 900 bushels short OF thu
first estimate, which placed the tota
yield ut 20. 0OO, 900.
A. Is. Clark, q prominent lawyer o
independence, was shot and severel,
wounded by w. c. Hershbcrger, whit
was recently divorced from his wife
Clark acting as her attorney.
In listing judgments for taxation
tho clerk of Dickinson county foun'
$500, 900 In Abilene alone, big part o
them against boom.time promoters
and are practically worthless.
Junction City people are very prou'
Of Gen. Chaffee. who is with Shafte
at Santiago. He was twice stationed
at Fort Riley and married junction
City girl, Miss Annie Rockwell.
Twelve persons, members OF tn,
families OF George and William Berg
man, three miles west OF Leavenworth
were poisoned by eating decayed but
termilk. A boy aged four died.
Senator Lucien Baker denied tn
repeats that the Twentieth Kansa
boys would not go to Manila He sai'
the war department would send then
there just as soon rs practicable.
The story sent broadcast over thu
country that Miss Leila Cook, OF Os
wego, this state, was engaged to Lieut.
Hobson, of Merrimac fame, Is positive
ly denied by Miss Cook and her mother
It is alleged that pith Of grasses II
diseased pastures, on which there wer'
found millions OF small worms, wa
the cause of the death OF severa
horses in Harvey and adjoining coun
ties.
George NJ. Wolf, the populist attol
ney OF Usage county, was requested :
resign by Attorney General Boyle
Wolf Is accused Of extorting none.
from joint-keepers. He resigned, a
requested.
Thirteen towns along the Lincol
branch of the Union Pacific railroad
from Salina to Colby, complain Q
wholly insufficient passenger service
The state railroad commissioners vii
investigate.
As n result Of skinning steer tha
had died of disease resembling
splenic apoplexy, c. d. Stowe, youn
farmer near Lawrence, had his arm s
seriously poisoned that his conditio
was critical.
s. p. Pullum, who was serving
penitentiary sentence from Neosh
county for forgery, was pardoned b
Gov. Leedy through the influence
an appealing letter written to tn
governor by Pullum's little girl.
Frank Rynard was mysteriously she
and killed near hatfield Green, Chas
..,rXv Savaral narties who henr