Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-01-27
KANSAS IrEks CONDENSED.

viii meet &C Topeka April IL.
A Newton cattle buyer paid sso.7o
each for 20 Short Horn steers.
Williamsburg organized q stock
company to bore for gus or oil.
The MaBonic hall ut Abilene, just
completed. 10 one Of the finest in the
west.
Morris G. Butts, Of Kansas City, win
erect $4,000 Ice plant ut Empire
City.
The Northrup state bank ut lola
has been incorporated into q national
bank.
Fire at Olathe consumed five frame
buildings at the southeast corner
Of the square.
j. =. Smith, a wealthy farmer Of
Cove county. became insane through
religious excitement.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, aged "a, COM
mitted suicide ut Wellington because
she was burden to her relations.
Secretary Gage is opposed to Con-
gresham Bowersock's bill to cstab-
lish mint at Kansas City, Kan.
District Judge Clark, at Lyons, de-
clared unconstitutional the law Of
1898 reducing telegraph messages.
Sixty brakemen on the Santa FEES
Emporia division have been laid off on
account of falling off in business.
The populist and free silver state
committees will meet ut Topeka Feb
ruary to call their state conventions.
Prof. Marvin, Of the engineering
school of Kansas university, is making
a comparative test Of oil western-made
bricks.
Lyman L., son OF cx-Goy. Lyman U.
Humphrey, Of Independence, is editor
in-chief Of the Kansas University
Weekly.
Charles Lamkin sued his brother-in-
law, DIR. Yohe, Mt Leavenworth, for
$4,000 damages for alternating his
wife's affections.
The Santa Fe has quit running pas
senger trains over the Hutchinson
Southern line in Oklahoma owing to
the smallpox epidemic in Kay county,
Ok.
Josephine Emery, q normal student
at Emporia, died under unusual cir
cumstances. In closing n door she
bruised a felon on her hand. The
pain caused the fainting and she did
not revive.
Ethel Tucker, an Ottawa young
lady, who last October started to
Manila to join her lover, Irwin Todd,
of the Eleventh cavalry, arrived there
December 9 and was married to Todd
that evening.
The executive council refused to
allow the Twentieth Kansas regiment
to give dance in the hall of repre-
sentatives during the coming reunion.
fearing it would establish a danger
Gus precedent.
Henry Feiler and wife and two
sickly babies passed through Hop
kins, Mo-, the other day on cart
drawn by q COW. presenting a scene
Of abject poverty. They were going
back to Kansas.
Walter Sherburne, of Blue Rapids,
died in Topeka hospital recently
after suffering two months from dis
ease contracted with the Twentieth
Kansas in the Philippines. Re had
o good record as fighter.
The Lanyon zinc company has ut
last made the proper showing and has
been admitted to do business by the
state charter board. 1t proposes to
spend 100000 in the erection Of
additional smelters and refining works
at lola this year.
Gov. Stanley announced that he
would offer no reward for the arrest
Of members of the mob that lynched
the Meeks brothers ut Fort Scott.
The governor said that, while lynch
ings should not be tolerated, he can
see excuses for them.
DR.. ]. C. Miller, president Of the COL
lege of Emporia, has received letter
from Andrew Carnegie accepting the
design forwarded by the college for
the new library. He directs DIR. Mil
Ter to proceed with the building and
he will honor the drafts containing
DR.. Miller's signature.
The state board Of health issued Q
proclamation declaring Sumner, Cow
ley and Harper counties under quaran-
tine against Kay county, Ok, lying i'm
mediately south of the two first
named. The smallpox epidemic has
assumed dangerous proportions in
Kay county, with Blackwell rs its
center.
Mrs. Ida Watts, whose husband was
found dead in an alley in Armourdale
(zansas City, Ham, in February, 1899,
has sued to recover $4,000 damages
from John j. Rickart, q saloonkeeper.
Mrs. Watts alleges that her husband
became drunk ut Rickart's saloon and
WINS so helpless from inebriation as
to fall in the alley, where he lay until
frozen to death.
At Larned in the breach Of promise
suit of II. Kirk against Mrs. Mary Egg
gleston, the jury returned verdict
in favor of Kirk for $l6O. Kirk
boarded with Mrs. Eggleston several
months and claimed that she Dor
rowed money from him by leading