Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-09-23
STATE NEWS PARAoRAPHED.

Gently.
T. J. Price & Son, OF Reading, sold
900 export cattle to Chicago men for
ep0, 1000. The Prices have 1000 more
ready for market.
George Irwin, the ex-Topeka news
paper man. writes from Manila to .
friend: ~ have left the army, bought
n newspaper here and will send to Kan
sas for my family"
Mrs. Dalton, mother Of the notorious
Emmett Dalton, is trying to secure
pardon for her son, who Is serving q
life sentence at Leavenworth for the
part he took In the Coffeyville raid In
1899.
Mrs. Blanche Butler, wife Of Henry
j. Butler, tho Fort Scott loan agent
who SO mysteriously disappeared IL
months ago, has been appointed as pri-
vate secretary to Congressman Butler.
Of Pennsylvania, brother Of Henry j.
David Beare, q farmer living south
east OF Kinsley, has been arrested,
charged with numbering his eldest son,
q boy OF IL. The boy mysteriously
disappeared about FIVE weeks ago and
circumstances point strongly to muir
der.
Gov. Stanley refused to pardon Frank
Grice, Of Marshall county, who Is In
Jail for whipping boy. The boy, who
was employed by Grice, did not curry
horses fast enough to suit Grice and
Grice beat him with the butt end OF Q
whip.
The soldiers reunion at Arkansas
City last week was big affair, the at
tendance one day exceeding $4,000.
Capt. W. +. Henry, Of Kansas City,
Mo-, led the campfires. Addresses were
made by prominent soldiers, civilians
and officials of the state.
Taylor Cook, sentenced to be hanged
for murder committed in Osborne coun-
ty ten years ago. is tired Of life in the
and asks Gov. Stanley to
sign his death warrant. He says II the
governor refuses to order the execution
he will take his own life.
A law was passed at the last session
Of the legislature placing undertakers
under the supervision of the state board
Of health and requiring them to prove
their competency by passing an exami-
nation or showing q certificate before
they can practice their profession.
The Topeka Commercial club does
not take kindly to w. E. Winners
scheme for an electric line connecting
Topeka and Kansas City. The reason
given Is that such line would tend to
make Topeka "a suburb of Kansas
City," and thus destroy local trade.
Arthur ]. gladden.. second lieutenant
in the Twentieth infantry, was at home
in Beloit last week in the capacity OF
officer. He left with 20 en-
listed men for Fort Leavenworth. 1t
Is doubtful il any other recruiting OIL
GER can show such q record In town
Of 5000 inhabitants.
Gus Hamilton, a Twentieth Kansas
boy, returned on one of the hospital
ships from Manila, arriving at his
fathers home near Vernon, Allen coun-
ty. one day this week. To receive the
boy the Hamilton family invited the
neighbors from far and near and gave
an old-fashioned feast in honor OF his
return.
Ralph Aichinger, whose young boy
was killed near COTS by Missouri Pa
cific train, sued the company for sio,-
900 damages The child wandered
away from it's parents during cele-
bration at wetmore and its body was
found beside the railroad track five
miles away. It had walked along the
track that distance before being struck.
A dispatch from Leavenworth on the
Goth said: Recruits for the Forty
fourth volunteers are coming in rapid
" now and the regiment had 500 men
on the rolls. All but ten officers are
out on recruiting duty and are begin
ming to send the men in very rapidly.
Kansas has been the best recruiting
field, Notwithstanding the fact that
two regiments are being raised in this
state.
Ten thousand people attended the
Kansas Log Rolling associa-
tion's meeting ut Cherryvale recently.
The association embraces $50 lodges in
that section. II was the biggest crowd
ever entertained, but all
had plenty to eat. In the team drill,
Fort Scott secured first prize. In the
band contest Fort Scott also won the
prize by one-half point over Columbus.
Next years meeting will be in Fort
Scott.
CORPORAL Alex Hunt and Fred Atch-
inson. company g, Twentieth Kansas
arrived at Fredonia last week. They
were discharged at San Francisco, the
former on account OF sickness, the lat
ter because of a gunshot wound. Hunts
discharge credits him with serving In
IA battles and Atchinson's eight. The
boys say the regiment was on constant
duty ut the front, not even removing
their belts, from February to June
"a. Atchinson lives in 0swego.
William Hahn, who. 1t Is charged,
has been posing as charming widow,
Is in Jail ut Topeka to answer the
charge of using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes. Hahn, it is claimed,
over the name Of "Wilhelmina Hahn"
advertised in paper for n husband
and requested answers sent to him ut
Springs, Wyandotte county.
TO these answers Hahn would
suggest that II the wiie-hunter would
send sib or gao the "widow" would go
and be his housekeeper long enough to
decide II the union would be agreeable.
Dozens Of men sent such sums, but the
widow never appeared.
A New York mining expert claims to
have found gold on farm two miles
west of Bonner Springs.
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