Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-01-06

N. Hoyne, u saline county TURNER, ahu
escaped.
]. b. Moore, of Wichita, fell II feet
from the limb Of tree and sustained
fatal injuries.
Gen. Funston arrived ut Manila De-
cember 81. He will probably succeed
Gen. Wheeler.
A Lcavenworth man Is planning to
erect n $4,000 mausoleum in the
cemetery there.
Gov. Stanley appointed Ed II. Mad
ison, of Dodge City, judge OF the
Thirty-first district to succeed Frank
Price, resigned.
w. 4. Perkins, n Ncmaha county
farmer, has just finished cribbing $4,000
bushels of corn. 1t was produced on
27O acres by himself and two young
boys.
A Lincoln Center man, who says he
has been investigating the matter all
his life, AYERS that an ear Of corn
with an odd number OF rows never
grew.
The republican state committee will
be convened early in February to call
the two state conventions. Topeka,
Hutchinson and Wichita each want Q
convention.
Citizens of Gueda Springs organ
lied shotgun patrol to keep people
from Winfield and Arkansas City from
visiting that place. II Is alleged
there is smallpox in the latter cities.
c. NJ. Mitchell, q student in the To-
peka medical college, was found dead
In the Santa Fe depot at Newton.
lie had been in Albuquerque for tu-
berculosis and was returning to his
home near Olathe.
by vote Of It's citizens. the city Of
Salina January ASSUMED control Of
the private library there and 1t will
hcncef0rth be maintained as n public
institution, and tax has been levied
for its maintenance.
j. w. Dice, an Allen county farmer,
discovered the skeletons of two inn
mense buffalo 30 feet below the sur
face of the ground, while digging on
his farm for water. The buffalo were
found standing erect.
Henry c. Spear, formerly n wealthy
loan broker of Topeka, and interested
In large western railroad companies,
was relieved of debts aggregating
S5i3.OO0 in the bankruptcy court at
Chicago the other day.
II Is said that ut conference OF
Sixth district democrats at Colby re-
Gently H. was decided to demand The
congressman this year IL the price OF
fusion. Tully Scott, Of 0berlin, was
the candidate agreed upon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppard, of Greeley
county, became the parents Of their
thirteeath child OH Christmas moIn-
ing, showing that superstition and the
Lords own festival may go hand in
City Journal.
1t was reported that deal had been
consummated wherein the Santa Fe
sold to the Frisco railroad the right
of-way chartered from fancy. Mont
gomery county, to Blackwell, Ok,
running directly southwest. from
Caney. The consideration was said to
be S110.C00.
The KANSAS College Presidents as
ISOLATION will ask the next Legislature
to establish for Kansas colleges GER
tain standard which must be attained
by all colleges offering the bachelors
degree. No state in the union has as
yet adopted the system and the Kan
sans think this Is good time to set Q
standard.
At their annual meeting in Topeka,
Kansas horticulturists complained OF
the treatment their state organiza-
ton receives at the hands of the state
legislature and administration. They
are opposed TO the consolidation OF
the society with the state board OF
agriculture and want more liberal ap-
preparations for next year.
Many new buildings have been
projected ut Galena recently, and the
city council the other night voted to
buy site for n city courthouse for
s., 500. The courthouse will cost $780,
600 and will contain the Jail and fire
department headquarters. The NJ. L.
church congregation hes just begun
the erection of n $1,000 church.
Kansas county clerks, in session at
Wichita, passed resolutions calling
upon boards of county commission
ers TO demand the assessment OF all
ut actual value. II two.
thirds of the boards agree TO do SO
the attorney general will be asked to
any assessor who fails to
return property ut its full value.
While Henry 1Iouser and young
woman were returning home from
Humboldt the other night Santa
Fc train struck their buggy, COM
pletely dcmolishing 1t. killing the
horse and throwing the young people
30 feet into the top of hedge fence.
Although badly scratched by the
neither was seriously hurt.
The probate Judge of Shawnee coun-
ty made the discovery that druggist
Of Topeka has been renting" his
liquor permit TO IN unlicensed phnr-
This probably is the only
case of the kind on record in Kansas.
Many subterfuges have beer rcsorted
to by whisky men to sell liquor law
fully, but II remained for this Topeka
man to trent" permit.
The fee and salary law passed by
The legislature of 1897 was upheld by
Judge Gillett in the district court ut
Cyrus Taylor, of Hutchinson, one OF
The Twentieth Kansas boys, has re"
tured TO Manila to marry Filipino
girl, it is said.