Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-04-15
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

o public library.
The Methodists will erect new
church In FredoniA.
Abilene's new electric plant has over
LOO lights In operation.
Independence elected city ticket
that favors street paving and city wat
erworks
Jack" Downing, well'known
newspaper man, Is the new postmaster
at Hays City.
Gov. Stanley will address the law
class of Kansas university on Tuesday
morning, June G.
Mrs Ewing Herbert, the talented
young wife Of Editor Ewing Herbert
OF Hiawatha, Is dead.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
says the factories in Kansas are In
bad sanitary condition.
The earnings Of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for March were si6,4io.97 and
the expenditures $40. 66i.73.
The Hutchinson e. Southern railroad
hub btkuh thc
from Wellington, southeast
The supreme court decided that q
district judge cannot sit in the trial OF
case where he was formerly the at
torney for one side or the other.
DIR. j. NJ. Mills, q Williamsburg
druggist, was In Jail ut Ottawa for
wife beating. lie is morphine ficnd.
THE banks OF jefferson county have
on deposit. subject to check. 81, li6.'
605. Sc, or SOS. so for each man. woman
and child in the county.
The First Congregational church at
Leavenworth, one OF the finest in Kan
sas, was damaged 5000 by fire. The
fine library was completely destroyed.
A letter from Lieut. Col. Ed C. Lit
tie, Of the Twentieth Kansas, said he
had recovered from his accidental
wound and reported for duty February
81.
On n recent meeting night an A. O.
U. w. lodge at Winfield initiated 2S9
mem bers, which Is said to be the
largest number ever initiated by any
one lodge in the state OF Kansas.
A Leavenworth dispatch said that
Gov. Stanley had persuaded Warden
Lands, OF the state pcnitentiary. to
resign. ]. II Tomlinson, Of Minneap'
oils, is slated for the wardcnship.
The remains Of Walter X. Gilman, u
member OF the Twentieth regulars
who was killed at Santiago July 8,
was brought back TO his old home at
Baldwin last week and buried with
military honors
The receiver of the defunct First
national bank at Emporia has filed
suits against the estate OF II. c. and
c. S. Cross for s360,00o, which he
claims was wrongfully taken from the
bank by the two Crosses
The Christian church Of Abilene
called II. v. Scholes to be permanent
pastor. Mr.. Scholes is former cow
boy and led the cowboy band OF Wood
bine for Gillett lie has betm preach
ing since Gillett's failure.
Charles Griffin, OF Lawrence, q grad.
uate of the state university, who has
been studying ut Harvard recently. has
been offered the position of lecturer
on economies in the university Of ia
pan, ut Toxic. at 81. 900 por year.
While temporarily deranged Miss
Alice Grace, q domestic In n Chanute
family, wandered away and was found
dead in the muddy wagon road west
of town, her face downward, and II
was supposed she smothered 10 death.
Bertha Bender. n !3-year.old girl at
Longford, Clay county. committed sui
eide the other night by hanging her
self in the haymow OF the barn. She
was in perfect health and had been In
good spirits and no cause was known
for her rash act
There was wild excitement ut Erie
over big strikes Of oil, gas and ore.
Drillers al depth of $50 feet struck
the oil and gas sand, So feet thick,
with the gas showing q pressure OF 275
pounds. At Sid feet they struck rich
lead OF zinc ore ten feet thick.
W. f. Hendry, editor Of the Nicker-
son Argosy, was hanged in efiigy ON
account of the stand he took for tenn
perance in the city election. Mr.
Hendry was ignored in the republican
caucus and the ''we" element nomi-
mated their ticket and elected II.
When company Il. Twenty-third
Kansas, reached Lawrence after being
mustered out. the boys were met at
the depot by band, the G. A. Z. posts
and several hundred people. The
black soldiers were then escorted to q
hall and given n reception and ban.
quet
Capt. Robert Crozier, appointed by
President Mckinley to represent the
army ut the czae's peace congress, Is q
SON OF the late Robert E. Crozier, Of
Leavenworth, who served rs senator,
Judge OF the supreme court and dis
trict Judge. Young Robert Crozier en-
tered West Point from Leavenworth.
Hugh Cameron, the Kansas hermit,
called ut Gov. Stapley's Office recently
with q picture Of the crucifixion and
requested that It be hung mp ON the
wall of the executives Office. He said
he had walked and carried the picture
from Camp Ben Harrison near Law
renee, sS miles from Topeka, during
the previous night
The Lanyon Zinc company, capital
ICED at 90, 000, 0OO, Is doing business In
Kansas without charter and there
fore has no standing In the courts and
could not collect debt. Under the
Bush law the company must pay in
cash 20 per cent of its capital stock,
or s5e7, 900, before IL can he chartered.
This IL has not done
Roy Richards, OF the Twentieth Kan
sns, wrote to his parents at Leaven-
worth that he killed Mt least ten Fill.
A. 1.a nd Ms.