Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-03-17
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

tor, has taken charge OF o hotel as
Baldwin City.
Four deaths have occurred at In
dependence and vicinity recently from
blood poisoning caused by gunshot
wounds.
Mrs. Rosa Smith died very sudden
" In an Atchison church while kneel-
ing In prayer. She had rheumatism
Of the heart.
The net earnings Of the Kansas pen
itentiary for February aggregated
$5,24O, q big increase over the earn
ings for the corresponding month
last year.
II Is believed In Atchison that ]. p.
Pomeroy is about to build a library
building in that city, rs memorial
to his dead father, ut cost Of some
thing like 100000.
Gov. Stanley addressed an audience
at Arkansas City the other night In
the interest of the Y. NJ. C. A., and
1t WINS the largest religious gathering
ever held in that city.
It Is said that Gov. Stanley has de-
cided to put democrat on the state
board of charities to succeed Dolan,
and that he has in mind John
f. Watrous, Of Burlington.
The fusion forces of Shawnee county
will nominate ex-United States Sena-
tor John Martin, of Topeka, for dis
trict judge to run against Judge
Hazen, the present republican judge.
The city marshal ut Chetopa mr.
rested two professional counterfeit
ers who had S171 of spurious dollars
on their persons. They had also
passed several of them before being
arrested.
A disastrous fire visited Augusta
early the other morning and every
body in town turned out and fought
the flames to prevent the whole town
being burned up. As 1t was, the dam
age aggregated 100000.
The board OF directors Of the peni-
after conference with Gov.
Stanley, decided that the price Of the
product OF the binding Irvine plant
will be ten cents pound, or as near
that figure rs the cost Of production
will permit.
Ex.Congressman John Davis, Of
Junction City, has gone totally blind.
No man in Kansas has more friends
the populists than he. He
was one of the founders Of the popu-
list party and served two terms in
from the Fifth district.
A distressing accident occurred at
Topeka recently. While going at a
high rate of speed IN undcrtaker's
was upset and the casket
n dead baby was thrown
ont, the coffin being smashed to
pieces and the baby's body rolling out
In the mud.
The "Katy" depot ut Humboldt was
wrecked by safe blowers, who over
shot with which they in
tended to blow open the safe. The
roof of the building was blown of
and the walls shattered. All the con-
tents of the building were broken and
scattered, and the safe was demol-
ishcd.
Charles Wilson and George Maris. of
Shawnee county, sold a07 head Of cat
tie from n ranch near Hoyt for SILL
)i7, giving what was supposed to be
clear title. Afterwards. il is alleged,
the purchaser learned that a Kansas
City commission firm had mortgage
On the stock and Wilson and Maris
have been arrested.
Memorial tablets, one I'm memory OF
Rev. r. W. Oliver, the first chancellor
Of the University OF Kansas, and the
other In memory of Lieut.. Alfred c.
Afford, Twentieth Kansas, IRE soon
to be put in the chapel Of the Uni
versity of Kansas. The fund for the
Afford tablet was started by Eugene
r. Ware, of Topeka.
A special from Topeka to n Kansas
City paper said: Two new booms
have come INTO fusion speculation
since the recent conference OF the
three committees: Col. +. c. Little
and Judge David Martin, and both for
governor. John W. Leedy Is respon.
sible for Little, and, Internationally,
]. W. Orr for Martin.
According to the reports received by
the state labor commissioner, Marion
county is one of the few counties in
Kansas whose poor farm is self
Another well managed
poor farm is that in Dickinson coun-
BY. There the farm almost pays ex-
penses of maintaining the poor de-
pendent upon the county for support.
John Leonard and William Boiler,
both deaf mutes, attempted to drive
On the ice in the Missouri river above
Atchison. The buggy went through.
citing men and horses into foot OF
water and several feet of mud. The
men could not extricate themselves,
md being dumb, could not call for
ielp. They were accidentally dis
covered and extricated, but were al
most dead from chill.
a Philadelphia pickle firm has Of
'ercd to buy the product Of 600 acres
II cucumbers and pro. 'ect is on foot
% secure 100 acres near Lawrence
IN the line of the proposed electric
'ailrond. The cucumber crop ma
ures just as the school term ends
md with the public schools, the gov
Indian school and possible
nance of getting few pickers form
he state university students tends to
he success Of the project.
F. S. Zumbro, n pioneer farmer Of
Arlington, writes to the attorney
yeneral that turkey buzzards are re-
Iponsible for the spread Of hog