Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-08-04
Minor state News.


Friends of Senator Baker carried the
republican primaries in Sedgwick
county.
Capt. S. II. Andrews, prominent In
G. A. II. circles at Lawrence, Is dead.
He came TO the state in 1887.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, Of Topeka,
who has benin London several weeks,
sailed for New York August /.
The three republican Legislative can
didates in Cherokee county were in
structed for Burton for senator.
Arthur Thompson, ten miles west
of Independence, claims he was held
up and robbed of $50 while on his
way to town.
Walter L. Drysdale, Of Lawrence,
passed the West Point examination for
admission as cadet. Drysdale was
appointed by Senator Baker rs an al
ternate for Grin +. Tyler, of Kansas
City. Kan. Tyler failed to pass.
Hundreds of Kansas farm hands,
the same kind of men that composed
the fighting Twentieth Kansas under
Funston. are now joining the army
for service In China. Fifty enlisted
under Lieut.. Uline in three days ut
Wichita.
Up. Campbell, Of Wichita, populist
nominee for congress in the Seventh
district, has refused TO entertain the
proposition of Mr.. Duval, the demo-
cratic candidate, that the populist
congressional committee be allowed
to designate the candidate.
The Northeast Kansas Epworth
assembly met ut Cawkcr City last
week. Judge Postlethwnite. of jew
ell county, is president of the assem-
bly,. This Is not only u great re-
ligious, but an an educational event
MS well and is largely attended, many
people tenting during the session.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lcge has just received the pure bred
Guernsey bull Shylock. of Darlington
1870. This is'one of the greatest dairy
animals ever brought into Kansas.
The dam OF Shylock gave $50 pounds
of butter in six months; the average
Kansas cow gives 90 pounds In year.
Gun carriages to mount the three
Spanish cannon at Fort Leavenworth
were received recently. These cannon
were captured Mt Santiago and were
shipped into Fort Leavenworth In the
fall of 1908. They were manufactured
in France during the reign Of the first
Emperor Napoleon and were captured
from his armies when they invaded
Spain.
W. L. Boggs, farmer OF Saline
county, in the Saline river valley, has
lust thrashed his wheat crop. which
yielded II bushels to the acre. At
present prices, the land produced SIS
worth of wheat per acre.
Hub johnson, who broke pairie In
Republic county in the early days, Ii
now worth 100000. He went bare
footed in the early times, and the
sole OF his foot became SO hard that
he could strike match on IL as easily
as he now can on the sole Of his shoe.
The failure OF the hay crop In the
central states will cause big demand
for Kansas hay this fall.
Miss Josephine Spencer, of Ster-
ling, has been elected secretary Of
the Young Peoples Christian Union
of the United Presbyterian church Of
the United States.
Mrs. II. II. Whitaker, one Of the
pioneers Of Lyon county, was thrown
from her buggy and killed on the
Leading business street of Emporia, In
plain sight of hundreds Of people.
Charles Kubach. on his farm south
west of Abilene, last week completed
thrashing the wheat from $50 acres,
getting s.O7B bushels, an average Of
over IS bushels. he sold Il from the
ninchlno lpr e. cents, . total Of ,s'k,3