Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-07-08
STATE NEWS pARAoRApHED.
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day at Girard on the Fourth.
The young son Of ex-County Treas
urer w. b. DeVereaux lost an eye by
the bursting OF a toy cannon while
celebrating the Fourth.
Lieut.. Haines, In charge Of the re-
cruiting station ut Topeka, has re-
ceived authority from Washington TO
open branch stations ut Cherryvale and
Winfield.
Frank Burkholder, John Gump and
other farmers near Fort Scott lost cat
tic, hogs and sheep from hydrophobia.
The animals were bitten by rabid
tcrrit the week previous.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
j. IL. Bristow has appointed Lacey
Simpson, son of James NJ. Simpson, OF
Mcpherson, to be his confidential clerk,
at n salary Of $1,000 year.
Judge z. 7. Hazen, of the Shawnee
district court, has rendered decision
that slot machine containing no
blanks is not a gambling device, as de-
fined by the Kansas statute.
W. A. Thompson, deputy warden Of
the penitentiary, denies q report that
Warden Tomlinson gave orders to shoot
prisoners in case Of mutiny. melted by
the outgoing prison officials.
A telegram from Director of the
Census Merriam ut Washington an
nounces that Senator Baker will be
permitted to name the census supervisor
and enumerators in the Third district.
State Treasurer Grimes the other
day received $50 of Kansas military
scrip issued in 1862 by State Treasurer
J. L. Hayes and used in protecting
Kansas homes during border troubles.
Mrs. Lena b. Jackson has fled suit in
the Shawnee county court against David
Yoeman to recover IS. 900 damages for
the death of her husband, David Jack
son. Yoeman killed jackson in quar-
rel recently.
The high waters of the Republican
river broke the mill dam at Concordia
and about 100 feet was swept away.
The dam supplies power for the mill
and electric lights, and Concordia was
dark for time.
Very little irrigating is done in CEN
trail Kansas this year compared with
previous seasons. The rainy season
has made II to some extent unnecessary
and the expenditure of previous years
was not entirely satisfactory.
William Warner, of Melvern, Usage
county. filed n suit in the federal court
against the Consolidated Barbed Wire
company, of Lawrence, for $500, 900 for
alleged infringement upon woven
wire fence patent owned by the plain
tiff.
Mrs. William Friend, OF Kechi, seven
miles north of Wichita, had u quarrel
with her husband because he chastised
one OF their six children severely, and
when he went to work she went to n
barn aid hung herself with clothes
line.
While painting the steeple OF the
German Methodist church at Enter
prise, Samuel Beaver and Edward
Hungerford fell to the ground, n dis
lance of IS feet, their scaffolding col
lapsing. Both were badly hurt, Beaver
perhaps fatally.
The Kansas editors have invited Web
Wilder, Senator PETER, Gen. John II.
Rice. Father Baker, Jake Stotler, w.
II. Rossington, j. X. Hudson, John
Speer and few others of the oldtime
journalists to go with them on the Cam
adian excursion.
In public address at Maryville, No.,
on the 4th ex-senator W. A. PETER, Of
Kansas, warmly defended the policy of
the national administration in the
Philippine islands and declared it to be
the duty of every loyal citizen to stand
byit. He assailed the trusts.
II hear that our lodge held some
kind OF funeral services over me-"
writes Robert Fuller, a southern Kan
sas boy, who is serving in the Philip
pines with the Colorado regiment. Il
didn't die, though the smallpox came
mighty near getting me, and now l
can read my own obituary"
Edwin Shumway, the 14-year-old boy
who was arrested in Junction City for
turning switch and ditching the
Union Pacific flyer" at 0gdensburg
June ~, was brought to Manhattan
and tried in the probate court. He was
sentenced to tho reform school till 81
years of age. The complaint was filed
by his father.
Eastern school-teaehers by the hun
dreds have the Kansas fever. They
want to come here, but don't like to
give up their schools there until as
sured of schools here. Within the past
month State Superintendent Nelson
has received no fewer than 100 letters
from eastern teachers, saying they
wanted to come to Kansas to teach, and
asking him where to find employment.
Nelson has replied to each, stating
that Kansas now has more teachers
than can find employment.
A call has been sent out by Bank Com
missioner Breidenthal to all of the build
ing and loan associations in the state,
requiring statement of the condition
Of their affairs at the close of business
ON June 80 It is the first call made
under the law passed ut the last session
Of the. legislature placing building and
loan associations under the supervision
and control of the state banking de-
partment. There are 81 such associa-
tions in the state. The pc"alty Of fail
ure to meet Mr.. Breidenth.,'s require
ments is revocation OF charter and
forfeiture of right to transact business
in the state.
Scores of machines were running in
the wheat in Dickinson county Sun
day. The early part Of the week was
too wet for harvesting.
A new populist newspaper will be
started at Topeka by A. II. Hoslkins, OF
Mauhattan IL will he called the Kan