Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-09-15
STATE NEWS PARAcRAPHED.
Coffeyville voted $4,000 bonds to
huild mn electric liOht plant.

The Olsted stoves will be manufac-
tured in Lawrence. This means much
for that city in business way.
While playing pull away" at school
William Kimball, n 13-year-old boy 10
miles southwest OF Salina, was fatally
injured.
j. v. Randolph, who died ut Empo-
ria recently, was n pioneer settler and
his wns the first marriage that took
place in Lyon county.
DIR. II. A. Pickcrell, of beverly, ar
rived In Salina TO be treated for tho
hiccoughs. lie had tried more than
30 remedies without avail.
A feature of the emancipation ccle-
bration ut Kansas City, Kan., will he
q free-for-all baby show, the mulntto
having an equal chance with the In
FAINT of most sable hue. Gov. Stanley
will make n speech.
At Fredonia the other night when
Deputy Sheriff McCray went to feed
George Shull and Ched Jackson, in Jail
for highway robbery, they struck him
over the head with shovel handle.
After q lively fight for five minutes
they made their escape.
The state contest board decided the
contest for the democratic nominal
ton for district judge in the Chase
Coffey-Lyon district in favor of Dennis
Madden, of Emporia. This Is n serious
blow to w. A. Randolph, the present
Judge, who was candidate for re-
nomination by the fusion forces. RAN
dolph and Madden each claimed to DO
the regular nominee.
+. A. Runyan was arrested ut Yates
Center charged with the embczzlement
of $4,000. The arrest was made on o
warrant sworn TO by County Treas
urer j. S. Culver, in behalf OF the Off
GERS of the Citizens state bank, OF
which Runyan was cashier. At the
time of the banks failure Runyan
turned over 10 the creditors every
cent of property owned by himself
and wife.
Seven prisoners made their escape
from the United States military pris-
on at Fort Lcavenworth the other
night. They sawed through one OF
the bars of the cage in which they
were confined and getting into the
corridor found little trouble in break
ing away the brick wall. With rope
fastened to the bars of the cage each
prisoner crawlcd through the hole
backward and let himself down with
the rope.
Judge Hook, Of the federal court,
issued writ ordering the county
commissioners of Stevens county to
levy special tax to pay n Judgment
of $1,000 for defnulted interest on
$500 improvement bonds, issued in
1885, for building bridges, school
houses, etc. The commissioners set
up the plea that it will be impossible
to pay either principal or interest as
nearly thrce-fourths of the land in
the county has been sold for taxes.
Mrs. NJ. j. Wickersham. aged 20. OF
Fort Scott, was killed by her grand
son, Ora G. Scott. who sank hatchet
five times into her brain. Scott Is
but 90 years old and just returned
from California on account of being
deranged. He was formerly a clerk
for Kansas City commission COM
pany. Scott made no attempt to es-
cape and is now in Jail. He says he
was compelled to do this terrible deed
by man who had him hypnotized.
A recent telegram from Lewiston,
Me-, said: One hundred men are
securing the woods ABOUT Durham,
ten miles from here, for Miss Lizzie
Bell, daughter of prominent citizen
of Topeka, Kan, who In religious
frenzy has disappeared. She has
been attending Evangelist Sanford's
meeting at Shiloh, where the Holy
Ghost society has temple dedicated
to the Living God. and had been SUI
fering from insanity due to religious
excitement.
Henry Ross. of Gueda Springs, met
with an accident which restored. his
voice. Two weeks ago Ross was sud-
denly and without warning stricken
dumb. lie was preparing TO go to
specialist in St. Louis when he re-
covered the use of his vocal organ.
He was carrying an empty water
pitcher in his hand when he stumbled
and struck his forehead with it, in
flicting n serious wound. An instant
after the accident he said: "My God,
have killed myself" He has been able
to talk us well rs ever since the acci-
dent.
The suit of the state OF Kansas
against the state of Colorado to en-.
Join the latter from divcrting the wa
tiers of the Arkansas river may not
be filed in the United States supreme
court this fall by Attorney General
GODDARD. Rains have been falling in
great profusion in western Kansas and
eastern Colorado and us result the
Arkansas river has more water in
II than has ever been known. As the
suit was to be based upon the propo-
sition that Colorado, through its vast
system Of irrigation bitches, had
robbed Kansas of its water and the
lands in the Arkansas valley had been
greatly damaged, the attorney gen.
eral may have TO wait until n dry year
in order TO get evidence that will en-
able him to maintain such an action.
About 40 officers of the First regi-
ment, Kansas national guard, went
into camp last week near McCook nth-
letic field, Lawrence. for threc-days'
officers school OF instruction. The
school was under the command OF
Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, colonel Of the
First regiment.
Lincoln county's new courthouse ut