Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-10-14
STATE NEWS pARAcRApHED.


acre field Of broom corn for $3.50 In the
field.
There are 670 students ut the state
agricultural college, $50 more than ever
before.
b. b. Niles, 4 wealthy grain-buyer Of
Topeka, died of apoplexy while riding
in his buggy.
The lola city council has extended
the city's limits, taking in 70 blocks,
valued at $4,000.
At the Emporia street fair there was
on exhibition four-year-old pig that
weighed 1890 pounds.
While temporarily insane, resulting
from sickness, Mrs. John Reichman, o
pioneer settler of Atchison, attempted
suicide.
Harvey, the railroad eating-house
man, offers to feed the Twentieth Kan
sas boys en- route from San Francisco
for half price.
Soldiers from Miami county in the
Twentieth Kansas will be entertained
by citizens of Paola and 0sawatomie
on different days.
A fire from tramp's cigarette start
ed In haystack on Warren Crandalps
ranch at Crandall and destroyed SOC
tons OF tame hay.
James Wardick, private in COM
pany e, Twentieth Kansas. died in the
military hospital at San Francisco Of
quick consumption.
y. Marble, jefferson county stock.
man, blew out the gas in n Topeka
hotel. lie was nearly dead when found,
but the fact that his window was wide
open saved his life.
Things are said to be coming cx-Gov.
Leedy's way in Galena. 1t is reported
that he was offered $4,000 for his in.
terest in II piece OF mining property,
holding out for 100000.
Hundreds of delegates attended the
state Baptist convention at Ottawa
last week. Citizens of the town erect
ed large dining room on Main street,
where everybody was fed free.
The secretary of the state horticul.
tural society now says that Kansas
will have az per cent. Of an apple crop.
The total number of bearing trees is
1855, 1855; not bearing, 3,64l,3S5.
Miss Frances Wilson, the republican
nominee for treasurer OF Allen county,
has no opposition. the young lady who
was named by the other side having
withdrawn her name from the ticket.
While loading shocked corn near Sa-
lima, Isaac Winchester found a package
of postage stamps valued ut s7s. They
were supposed to be part of the booty
taken from the Assaria post office D
few nights previous.
On the night of May 10, 1898, W. c.
Boyd was killed in Hutchinson by
Harry Postlethwait. Now Z. c. Clark,
n leading lawyer of Hutchinson, who
defended Postlethwait, has been con.
victed of being accessory after the
fact to the murder.
In 1900 the three political parties
will hold separate county conventions
in the los counties OF the state, making
1855 in all. In addition there will be
s state conventions, 81 congressional,
100 senatorial. 375 representative and
80 judicial, making 1850 in all.
Greenwood county republicans failed
to file their certificates of nomination
for county offices, and in consequence
cannot have their ticket printed on the
official ballot. The county is close po-
and 1t may be that this negli-
gence will insure the election Of the
fusion ticket.
At Fort Scott the county attorney
brought suit against the executor oil
the estate of Joseph McCord, deceased,
to recover SsS,3S4 back taxes. The
alleges that McCord made false
returns of his property for seven years,
evading the payment Of SIS, 923 OF taxes,
the penalties upon which would amount
to 500, 900 more.
J. I. Martens, Of Leavenworth, q
private Of the Twentieth infantry, was
drowned in the Pasig near Manila.
He was boarding schooner in front OF
the Office of the captain Of the port
when rope to which he was holding
broke and he fell into the river. He
rose only once, but as no help could
reach him he disappeared.
Considerable excitement exists at
over the death Of John Sipes,
a lumber yard employe. who fell in the
road writing and vomiting, dying
soon after. An investigation revealed
poison in the vomit and the stomach
was sent to Kansas City for analysis.
His wife had been married four times
prior 10 her marriage with Sipes.
1t required an aggregate Of $50, sso.3l
to run the state charitable institutions
during September, apportioned as fol-
lows: Topeka reform school. So. e35.5S;
soldiers orphans home, s.SOl.2 -; blind
asylum, sl.G9s.1S; Topeka insane asy-
lum. S1O.4l5.65; deaf and dumb school,
s.. T2O.7T; industrial school for girls.
81, 023. 80; 0sawatomie insane asylum,
$40, O4027.
win A. Snow, the San Francisco
reporter who was drowned
while going out to meet the Twentieth
Kansas boys, is son Of Chancellor
Snow, of the Kansas State university,
and graduated from that institution In
1891. He WINS 80 years old and was
only two months ago. After
he taught in the Illinois
State university at Champaign, also In !
The Leland Stanford university.
Ethel Boyd, 17-year-old Cherryvale
girl, was taken from travelling snake
show ut Leavenworth by officers and
sent home.
The post Office Mt Burdett, Pawnee
was looted by burglars who
blew the safe open with dynamite and
secured considerable cash.