Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-02-25
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Wellington will vote on 500, 0oO
waterworks proposition.
l. r Jewell. n pioneer citizen and
editor OF Arcadia, Is dead.
Atchison ice dealers put up enough
1s-inch Ice to last two years.
Eugene Wolfe, q prominent young
democrat Of Topeka, IL dead.
Emporia Is agitating the building Of
n new courthouse for Lyon county.
Barton county Is out OF debt and
$4,000 are on deposit in her banks.
An "old.fashioned" woman of jew
ell county has made 500 worth OF rag
carpet this winter.
The Pittsburg & Gulf railroad depot
Mt Pittsburg was robbed while the
agent was at dinner.
Altogether. there were about i.eO0
bills introduced in both houses OF the
legislature this session.
A midnight fire ut Hunnewell, Sum-
ner county, literally wiped out the
business part of the town.
The family Of DIR. Troughton, at
Seneca, was quarantined because Of q
case OF smallpox In the house.
The Santa Fe throughout Kansas
will equip its grade crossings with
electric bells which will ring a warn
ing upon the approach Of a train.
Ex-County Clerk Frank d. Brooks,
of Lawrence, has been appointed as
clerk to the United States consul at
Smyrna, Turkey.
A first dividend of 90 per cent was
declared in favor of creditors Of the
First national Gross hank ut EN-.
poria, on claims aggregating s443. So5.
Frank Bradley, farmer near Huron,
drove up TO the house of his brother
and aft5r calling him out, shot him
self through the heart as he sat in his
buggy.
The Kansas State University Ath-
letic association elected Pearl Decker
football manager, Frank j. Jewett
base ball manager and Elmer Kelley
manager OF track athletics.
The law firm OF Baker. Hook & At.
wood-composed OF Senator Baker,
United States Judge Hook and John
II. Atwood-at Leavenworth, has been
dissolved by mutual consent
This story comes from Burlington:
William Davis, a farmer living south
of here. tasted six days under vow TO
not eat until his daughter Belle was
converted. She was converted at a
United Brethren revival meeting and
the fast was broken.
In addition to having n coal COM
bine, Atchison citizens complained of
short wei yhts TO small consumers and
the city council directed the chief OF
police to weigh coal Mt anv time, and
II the weight Is short the dealers
name Is to be publicly announced.
The municipal government OF the
city of Garland was dissolved by Judge
SimonS, of the district court. who
ousted from office every officer OF the
city from mayor to marshal, on the
ground that the town was illegally
incorporated as a city of the third
class a number of years ago.
State Bank Commissioner Brieden-
thai had serious trouble with the
cashier OF the Bank OF Leon, Butler
county, who refused to allow an in
spection OF his books and continued
business after his charter had been
revoked. Finally Mr.. Breidenthal
went into court and had receiver ap-
pointed.
Vandals entered the schoolhouse in
district 80, four miles west OF Newton,
the other night, and ransacked the
desks, scattering papers and books
over the floor. Several library books,
inc uding the teachers Bible, were
stolen. The black boards and teachers
records were covered with vile pictures
and obscene language.
The agents of an eastern syndicate,
supposed to be the one which has re-
Gently purchased the Lsnycn smelling
properties and gobbled up all the gas
lands in the vicinity of lola. have
been at work in Crawford county
buying up all the coal lands they can
get. They have made several pur-
chases outright, paying $50 per acre.
and have secured options on many
farms.
Vandals entered the Emporia Ave
nue. BAPTIST church nj Wichita and
friyhtfully mutilatcd all the furni-
turc, including n fine organ. with an
AZ. The seats and carpets were hacked
To pieces and every book in the extern
sive library was burned. Not satisfied
with their work OF demolition, the
vanials entered the baptistry and
turned on the water, flooding the en-
tire basement
At Hutchinson two young men, John
Gallup and Charles Cook, were rivals
for the hand of Miss Susie Moore and
she decided that she would bes,ow her
affections on the best man. Conse-
quently they met and fought and
Gallup's skull was fractured. Three
days later Miss Susie was arrested, it
being alleged that she was present
during the fight, and she will be tried
as nm accessory to the assault on Gallup
Frank Arps, a well-known young
man of Lawrence. entered the Law
renee national bank the other night
with key he had when he formerly
worked in the bank. The police found
Arms coat and hat in the bank, but
could not find the young man. Later.
Arps was found at his fathers gate,
without coat or hat and admitted he
had been in the bank, but that he
could give no reason for his strange
wanderings.
Frank Wiclerhorn, Fort Scott
boy who went to Manila with an Idaho
battery, invested his first earnings
si5-in a printing plant" which he
sold few DAYS ago for $3.50.