Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-02-18
Kansas ITEMS CONDENSED.

Hays City will soon have an electrio
light plant.
A Chanute man will start newspa-
per In Cuba
Mitchell and Jewell counties want
new courthouses.
An Erie man will establish . can
ming factory there.
The State bank has been started at
Carbondale. Capital, $4,000.
8. o. Spencer, newly.appointed coal
oil inspector, 10 Q native Kansan.
A wabaunsee county farmers Kafir
corn crop averaged IS bushels to the
acre.
A Topeka dispatch said James L.
King would succeed Mrs. Annie Diggs
as state librarian.
A number OF cattle on the Holmes
ranch. near Abilene, broke through
the ice and persisted.
A man In Eureka was fined sl55o
for using profane language before the
wrong kind of people.
The $1,000 residence Of Thomas Ma
han, of Wichita, burned to the ground
ut midnight the other night.
In obedience to grand lodge orders.
six jointists were expelled from the
A. o. U. W. lodge at Concordia.
Daniel McAnteer, q wealthy young
Pnwnee county farmer. died Mt Larned
while undergoing an operation.
The Presbyterian church at Chetopa
was destroyed by FIRE. It had recent.
~ been enlarged and remodeled.
State Auditor Cole wants state 40.
countant that will check up county
treasurers Us bank examiner checks
up banks.
The three-year.old daughter OF Will
liam Glenn. of Kingman, was burned
to death by her clothes catching fire
from n cook stove.
Up to February IS State Insurance.
Superin te ndent McNall had collected
about s4a, 900 from foreign insurance
com pauies under the two per cent tax
law.
David Allen, who died at Mound
City recently. was about e5 years old.
He served in the union army through
out the civil war in q Kansas regi.
ment.
At Girard q civil war veteran was
examined for q pension and the doc.
tors found that his boly contained
eight musket balls, received In differ
ent battles.
By a recent decision Of the state su.
preme court j. NJ. Jones, OF Lawrence,
is awarded seat in the city council
that has been held for 90 months by
j. NJ. g. Watt.
Gov. Stanley offered reward OF
$500 for the conviction of the murder
er OF Charles A. Sewers, Wichita
Young man, who was found dead on
the railroad tracks near Merriam last
October.
Miss Jennie Jones, q Girard young
lady, committed suicide ut her home
1T three o'clock In the morning. No
cause was known for the awful trage-
DIV. She was to have been married
four days later.
D. A. Afford, OF Lawrence, father OF
Lieut.. Afford. killed in battle at Ma
Mia, telegraphed Senators Baker and
Harris ut Washington, urging their
aid in having the remains OF young
Afford brought back home.
Near Ellis the other day Engineer
Jud Rippey opened the window In his
cab, when in few q snowbird with
such terrific speed that Rippey Is now
in the hospital nursing an eye which
may be entirely blinded.
State Auditor Cole refused to pay
the January salaries OF State Grain
Inspector Culver and his 81 deputies,
alleging that the legislature OF 1877
ne yer regularly appropriated money
to pay the salaries of this department.
Col. Fred Funston cabled from Ma
Mia to Gov. Stanley recommending
that Second Lieutenant Showalter,
OF company B. Twentieth Kansas. be
promoted to fll the vacancy caused by
the death Of First Lieutenant Afford.
Mrs. Harriet Mealer, II prominent
society woman OF Lacrosse. was ar
rested by government official for draw
ing n widows pension while the wife
of another man. She kept the facts
concealed even from the immediate
mem bers Of her family.
John Krebs, OF junction City. whose
divorced wife was recently sent to the
penitentiary for numbering Mrs Liz
zie Craig, his housekeeper, has been
arrested on the charge OF adultery.
Krebs and the Craig woman lived alone
In his home for months.
The state camp. Modern Woodmeu
OF America, met at Topeka and elected
ID. C. Tillotson. Of Topeka, state con-
sui; =. &. Chubbic. of Beloit. state
clerk and J. NJ. Doyle, OF Belleville,
state advisor. Wichita was selected
for next meeting Of the state camp.
While the thermometer registered 20
degrees below zero the other night Q
big Ere broke out in Lexington and
but for the heroic work Of firemen the
town would have been almost wiped
out. As IL was, the Hotel Herington
and FIVE business houses were do
stroyed, causing loss OF neary $780,
600.
The spirit Of patriotism which has
pervaded the Kansas Legislature re.
suited in the unanimous passage OF
Fairchild's general bill removing the
u disabilities OF all ex-confederates In
the state. There is q provision OF the
const itution which prevents the
removal OF these disabilities except
upon the request OF the person
affected. As this bill Is general In
character, and was not asked Tor by