Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-05-27
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

A case OF smallpox was discovered II
the home of ID. y. Welsh, ut Newton.
A military academy for the training
Of young Kansas soldiers may be erect
ed at Leavenworth.
Maj. Tom Anderson, Of Topeka, u
being urged for warden Of the fedora
prison ut Fort Leavenworth.
Gov. Stanley advocates more com
modious headquarters in the statchous'
for Secretary Of Agriculture Coburn.
Iii Lane and other western Kansa
counties wheat raising has PRACTICAL.
been abandoned and farmers are giving
all their attention to cattle.
Prominent railroad officials have or
ganized company with SIS, 900 capita
to plant 2OO-acrc apple orchard a
Wathena, Doniphan county.
J. l.. Bristow, assistant POSTMASTER
general, is in Kansas investigating
several postmasters that are accused o
ncglecting their official duties.
A cloudburst near Medina and Thomp
sonville, jefferson county, caused u dis
astrous overflow of streams and WASHED
growing corn out of the ground.
Another dividend of ten per cent. fol
creditors of the First national Gross
bank, Of Emporia, has been declared
making in all 30 per cent. on claims
aggregating s46O,si7.
Twenty women ut Wellsville armed
themselves with whips and proceeded I.
the hotel where one c. Il. Gay, Kan
sas City whisky drummer, had his head
quarters and compelled to leave town
George +. Pond, Of Fort Scott, ha,
just received gold medal awarded t.
him by the government for deed o.
bravery performed in 1864 when he wa'
n member Of Wisconsin cavalry regi
ment.
The laying of the cornerstone o.
Kansas City's 100000 high schoo
building was attended by great crowds
Gov. Stanley was one of the speakers.
1t will be the finest school building in
Kansas.
G. G. Gage. n Topeka banker, who
had lived in Kansas since 1859, died or
the 10th. Three years ago he built in
Topeka SIC, 200 monument in memory
of the union soldiers who fell ut vii
son Creek, Mo.
The golden wedding anniversary Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Rudy, of olathe
was celebrated in the Congregational
church there. Ex-Gov. st. John. on
behalf Of citizens, presented the aged
couple substantial token.
The total assessed valuation of rail.
road and telegraph property in Kansas
has been raised from s5S. 4as, 09l to $780,
Or, $50. The Santa Fe comes first with
u valuation of ST.. 1865 and the Mis-
souri, Pacific next with Sl3,339,97I.
Gov. Stanley finally decided to give
the $500 reward offered for the muir.
derer of John 5. Collins, of Topeka, to
Sheriff Cook, who will divide II with
Detectives Harbaugh and Wood. Chief
of Police Steele, of Topeka, also claimed
the reward.
Mrs. Fannie Hubbard, widow of a
former Santa Fe conductor at Nicker-
son. committed suicide in a Kansas
City roominghouse by inhaling chloro-
form. Her husband left her considera-
BILE money, but in recent years she had
taken to drinking and ran through
with all of it.
A Topeka dispatch said ex-Gov.
Leedy favored the nomination Of Lieut..
Col. Ed c. Little for governor by the
populists. Mr.. Leedy, 1t was said,
thought Gov. Stanley and Gen. Fun
ston had sighted Little in elevating
Maj. Metcalf to the colonelcy Of the
Twentieth Kansas.
George W. Martin, president OF the
Kansas State Editorial association, says
the Canadian government has invited
the Kansas and Missouri editors to take
a trip over the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, from st. Paul to the Pacific coast.
The date set will be the 18th or Goth OF
August and the trip will occupy two
weeks.
The is-months-old girl of E. b.
Steele was run over and killed by a
Frisco passenger train near Sedgwick
while the mother and father looked on.
The baby crawled through wire fence
onto the track and when the train came
up unnoticed the parents could not get
through the fence in time to save the
child's life.
The members Of the ri Beta Phi fra
ternity ut the state university estab-
lishcd $500 loan scholarship as me
mortal TO Mrs. Lucinda Smith Buchan,
who died at Manila April Is. This
money is to be lent without interest
for long period to any member of the
fraternity who may need it in order to
pursue her studies at the university.
T. j. CASTOR, a school-teacher at Lib
crty, was awarded Judgment for slS,-
600 against the Frisco railroad for be-
ing put off train near Wichita two
years ago. When put off CASTOR had a
ticket over the Santa Fe, but he claimed
he had asked for Frisco ticket and
that the company's agent had made .
and gave him the wrong ticket
Capt. Fred Buchan, Of the Twentieth
Kansas, who brought his wife's body
home from Manila for q burial, in an
interview said the efforts being put
forth to take the regiment to Kansas
City for big banquet and reception
would prove futile. The boys, he said,
wanted to get home, and they were not
thirsting for receptions, banquets and
bras bands.
Attorney General GODDARD received q
''tip" that the lumber dealers Of Kan
sas had entered into combine to fix
prices.
The total mineral output Of Kansas
fo, 1oOo tvoa valued at Glr 1fQ ON nm