Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-10-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Natural gas was discovered on tho
J. II. Rayner farm near Wichita.
Prof. Edwards, IN aeronaut, fell
1000 feet from q balloon ut Grenola
and was killed.
Col. Fred Funston. of the Twentieth
Kansas, says his soldiers are not alb
sorbed In politics.
The two-year-old child Of John
Haynes, near Keene, got into q hog
pen and was killed by the brutes.
Maggie Fletcher, q young Wichita
girl, was permanently blinded by q
horse splashing water In her face.
Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith delivered republican speech
Ut Topeka ON the night Of the 7th.
There are 20i Christian Endeavor
societies in Kansas, with over 5000
members connected with churches.
Capt Fred Buchan, Of the Twentieth
Kansas, has been placed in command
Of the Oregon troops ut San Francisco.
In his forthcoming report Labor
Commissioner johnson will advocate
that all state work be done by day Ia
Dor instead Of by contract
b. Jordan, near McCune, has so men
ut work picking apples from his fine
l6O-acre orchard. He has already sold
1000 barrels at s. per barrel.
Rather than 60 to school Nellie Ran
dali and Francis Mohundro. two young
Misses of Lawrence, ran away to Kan
sas City, where they were captured.
The grand lodge I. o. o. F. met in
Topeka the past week. The order now
has a total membership Of 10000 in
Kansas, an increase of 6s5 over last
year.
Citizens of Great Bend gave a BAN
quet TO company A, Twenty-frst Kan
sas, and raised enough money to pay
the railroad fare Of the boys back to
Leavenworth.
The regents of the Kansas state agri-
cultural college recently bought sl7,-
500 of Oklahoma territory school
bonds. The bonds draw six and seven
per cent interest.
Bart Hunley, farmer near Larned,
was charged with an unnamable crime
against his own daughter and his two
stepdaughters. Officers went TO arrest
him but he had fed.
The annual meeting Of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage association will be
held ut Paola October 2l-22. Among
the speakers will be Miss Susan b
and Mrs Carrie Chapman-Catt.
The Fort Scott & Memphis railroad
had two freight wrecks in one day last
week-one near LaCygne and one near
Garland. About 10 cars were derailed
and several cars of merchandise were
destroyed.
After a search of two weeks detect
ives located Miss Mamie Norton, for
whom SIS, 900 in property was waiting
at Centralia, Kan. Miss Norton was
employed rs stenographer in Denver
commission house.
DR.. L. d. Mckinley, of Topeka, was
chosen superintendent OF the Topeka
insane asylum to succeed DR.. c. II.
Wetmore, resigned. DR.. Mckinley Is
q democrat and has been physician ut
the asylum for several months.
The charge against J. j. Kunkel, the
Lawrence tailor, charged with poison.
ing his wife, continues the sole topic
of conversation at Lawrence. The de-
tense will allege that Mrs Kunkel
was insane and that she killed her
daughter and then took her own life.
A San Francisco telegram said the
Twentieth Kansas might be the first
of the troops to embark for Manila.
BY sickness, death and discharges the
Kansas regiment has been reduced
from its full strength Of 1857 men and
47 officers to 1,12l men and as officers.
Lieut. Guy Morgan, Twenty.second
Kansas, who was accused Of participant
ing in the dissertation of the confed.
crate graves ut Manassas, Va, was
tried by court-martial ut Camp Alger
last week and acquitted. He then
joined his regiment at Fort Leaven-
worth.
The state convention Of the Chris
tian church denomination ut Washing
ton last week, elected w. Chenault, Of
Fort Scott, president, and Mrs Ora
Of Topeka, secretary. Rev.
o. L. Smith, of Wellington, was elect
ed superintendent of Christian En-
denvor work.
Ethel Brewster, a16-year-old Topeka
girl, took morphine with suicidal in
tent, but the prompt arrival Of q ply
stefan and stomach pump saved her.
The girl was mixed up in runaway
escapade about week ago, and 1t is
thought that remorse over this affair
caused her to attempt her own life.
The congregation in the Christian
church ut Wichita cheered last Sum
day night when their pastor announced
that q mortgage for 5000 which had
been hanging over the church for Is
years had been fully paid OF. The
mortgage was burned on silver plat
ter ON the altar before the congrega-
ton.
Loren Baker, single man aged 30,
was found hanging to Q tree on the
Davies farm near Auburn, Shawnee
county, where he had q week before
committed suicide. Spiritualism was
the cause Of Bakers suicide. He was o
spiritualistic fanatic, and 1t had been
noticed that for some time his mind
appeared to be unbalanced. He had
expressed q desire 10 visit his spirit
friends at their place Of abode, and 1t
Is thought that he decided to hang
himself TO accomplish this result.
The new paper mill at Coffeyville
covers an area Of 5000 feet, has .
capacity of 20 tons of straw daily and
employs 40 men and 15o women and
girls
The arrest at Lawrence Of James
uandaraor md n raid of his houna for