Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-12-23
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
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Diverted from Its Purpose.
Suit was filed in the Wyandotte
county courts to gain possession Of
800 acres Of land on the bank Of the
Missouri river, valued at 100000.
The land was donated by the original
owners many years ago for use as
public levee and steamboat landing.
Since the railroad supplanted the
steamboat, the land has been taken
possession of by the railroads run
ming into the city, and Is now occu-
pied by tracks, elevators and ware
houses. The suit Is brought by the
heirs of the original owners, who
claim that since the land has been
diverted from the purpose to which it
WINS dedicated, the title reverts to
them. There are As plaintiffs and 60
defendants to the suit.
Candidate of the Young Democrats.
L. L. Brown, who started the move
ment to organize the Young Mems
Democratic league of Kansas, the
young democrats would have as can
didate for governor Frank L. Gordon,
q cattle man of Barber county. He is
q college graduate and came to Kan
sas nearly fifteen years ago from Lib
erty, NO., where his father is engaged
in the banking business. Brown says
he has consulted democrats in oil
parts of Kansas upon Gordon's candi-
dacy, and that the Barber county man
will poll big vote in the next dem
ocratic state convention.
Death of Mr.. Ingalls, Favorite Child.
Mrs. II. p. Shick, daughter Of ex-
Senator John ]. Ingalls,, of Atchison,
died at Reading, Pa, of pneumonia.
She had been i'll little over week.
Mrs. Shick was Constance. the young
est daughter in the Ingalls, family.
Her husband is president of the Read
ing stove works and quite wealthy
man. Mrs. Shick was born at Atch-
ison in 1874 and was the youngest
daughter of the senator. She was the
favorite of the family and great pet
and chum of her father.
Will Demand Full Pay.
A dispatch from Paola said: Jurors
of the district court here will try to
secure regular pay for the days when
they are excused by the court. 1t has
been customary for many Of them to
return home during intermissions,
charging only mileage. Judge Burris
told the jurors this week that they
are entitled to the regular pay Of 81
n day II they stay in town. County
Attorney Lane says II they make this
charge he will refuse to approve the
bills.
The Groom In OF.
Jones Mitchell, aged % years, and
Marie Reyes, aged IS years, were mar
ried at Kansas City, Kan, by Probate
Judge Snyder recently. Both are ne
groes and es-slaves and both have
been married several times. Mitchell
claims TO have been married three
times before the civil war, and to have
served throughout the war In the
union army. lie says he was born at
Capia, Miss, in 1902. and recalls incl
dents of the war Of 1912.
Enormous Taxe. at Osweeo.
The people at Oswego are probably
paying the highest taxes OF any in
the state. Several years ago the
town voted bonds to get couple OF
railroads. The bonds are now COM
ing due. In order to meet them the
people this year are paying IA per
cent. taxes. II will take two years
at this rate to pay the bonds.
Mormons In Southwest Kansas.
In southwest Kansas Mormons have
q large settlement, their headquar-
tiers being at st. John, Stafford coun-
~. Recently about 60 elders held a
conference at Attica. 1t is rumored
that headquarters will be moved to
Attica, where n temple will be built
on the ruins of the Attica sugar mills.
Black Eve tn the "Promotera."
II. II. Dunbar and his coterie of
promoters" who were laying claim
10 all the property in Argentine and
the surrounding country by virtue of
an Indian deed, received a black eye
in the federal court ut Topeka when
Special Master Wicker fled report
holding that the deed held by them
was worthless.
Can Pull Fourteen CoacheI.
The new passenger engines on the
Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis
road are attracting much attention.
They are said to be the largest four
wheeled engines west of the Missis-
sippi and capable of pulling II
coaches OF a speed of mile minute
over ordinary track.
Departure of Col. Warner.
Col. Alexander Warner has closed
his unfortunate Kansas career by sell
ing his home place Mt Baxter Springs.
He will return 10 his old home in Con-
necticut. Col. Warner was arrested
on q charge growing out of the fail
ure OF his bank, but the jury &c
quilted.
War on Newton Saloons.
The w. c. T. u. Mt Newton has COM
menced a war on saloons there. In
one day three bartenderv were ar-
rested and their places closed. Ex-
County Attorney Allen is the legal
counsel Of the temperance element.
I.egate aa = Lobbyist.
James +. Iegate, a well-known
Leavenworth politician, Is reported to