Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-05
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHED.


hall.
1t is said that the Fort Hays military
reservation Is about to be sold to set
tiers.
Newton Is erecting a handsome mon
ument to dead soldiers in the park
there.
burton has for the third time within
three months been visited by disas-
trous fire.
Fire originating in u defective fue
destroyed four frame business houses
in Usage City.
The Hutchinson q. A. r. post passed
resolutions strongly indorsing Pension
Commissioner Evans.
A cooperative canning factory has
been started at Moorehead. A cooper
ntivc store is already in operation there.
lmcl's lake, south of Spearville, Is
full OF water for the third time only In
81 years. II covers two sections OF
land.
Barney Martin, of Norton county, Is
accused of sending obscene matter
through the mails on u postal card to u
neighbor.
On hearing OF the death of one OF
his parents, DR.. John b. Taylor, of Nc
Cunc, took carbolic acid and died in
great agony.
An accident insurance company paid
$50 TO Topeka girl who had burned
her fingers while putting carbolic acid
ON her corns.
School district trcasurers are by n
ruling of the internal revenue collector
required to stamp their bonds with q
b0-ccnt stamp.
Howard Gottschall, farmer near Sa-
lima, thrashed u 30-acrc field of wheat
which yielded Lila bushels-37 2-15
bushels per acre.
A soldiers monument will be erected
in the park at lliawatha. A gun IA
feet long, weighing $500 pounds, will
be mounted upon it.
The post offices at Wakeman and
Sharps Creek. in Mcpherson county,
were discontinued because no person
would serve rs postmaster.
William Oliver, n farm hand, COM
mittcd suicide at junction City because
he could not leave liquor alone. He
had been married only ten days.
Thomas Lake, Of Girard, got up from
a sick bed, wandered TO the Memphis
track and tried to board n
freight train and was ground 10 pieces.
AT Wichita recently boy was born
TO Alexander Thompson and wife.
being the seventh son of n seventh son.
The parents believe they have n
prophet.
The friends of Congressman Ridgely
say there is no truth in the story that
he promised Senator Hugh Farrclly to
stay out of the Third district congress
sional fight in 1900.
The war department will at once fur
nish the Kansas national guard with
!. 200 rifles and other equipment to take
the place of that pressed into service
by our boys at Manila.
u. S. Sporc, n wealthy farmer near
Newton, has an apple tree in his or
chard from which 5000 apples have al
ready been taken this year and there
are still over 5000 apples on the tree.
The attorney general announced
that he would prosecute the Atchison
Underwriters association. which he al
lcgcs was organized to effect a combine
TO control insurance rates in that city.
The Central Kansas Telephone com
pany has under consideration n line be-
tween Council Grove and Salina. which
will be completed about the 18th of Au-
gust. This will connect practically all
the towns in Morris, Dickinson and
Saline counties.
Johnnie Gibson, Burlington boy Of
IL wears, found pocket-book contain
ing $500 in money and ut once took IT
to w. l.. Brewer. the owner. The boy
had to fight to keep n crowd OF urchins
from taking the money from him. He
Is son OF poor people,
All employees of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott Il Memphis road are re-
CURED to carry the same make of
watch, equal To the American move
mcnt. which shall be II jewell, patent
regulator, adjusted to heat and cold,
and three positions, the variation OF
which must not exceed so seconds.
The Emporia council passed an
ordinance making it misdemeanor to
plant n cottonwood tree anywhere on
The TOWNSHIP and requiring all cotton
wood and willow trees within IS feet
Of any waterworks main or city sewer
to be destroyed. 1t Is claimed that
the roots of these trees grow into and
obstruct the mains and sewers.
The fifteenth annual reunion of the
Sixth Kansas cavalry will be held in
Kansas City September %, 90 and 81.
They have extended an invitation TO
nil the survivors of the Kansas regi-
mrnts. Ten thousand suitable SOU
venirs will he sold and the proceeds
turned over to the state treasurer to
be applied to the Kansas Soldiers
Monument association.
+. W. bartlett, whose death Mt Lon
don. MS result of ptomaine poison,
was recently reported. was the con-
ductor OF party of tourists, including
Lawrence and Kansas City people,
among them Prof. A. 5. olin, of Kan
sas university. The entire party is
said to have been made sick by the
same cause that resulted in Mr.. Bart
lett's death.
The newley-discovered salt beds near
Mcpherson county, prom
iscs well and may prove rich find.
Rev. s. L. Pendleton, of Herington,
his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination for congressman
at-large.
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