Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-06-23
Minor State News.

The AtchisOn census taker founu
one family of 16 children and another
of Il.
McNair & Alexander, big cattle deal.
ers near Ashland, Clark county, have
failed for s542,O1l.
Last year Dos students attended the
state agricultural college and there
were 60 graduates.
City Marshal Parker, of Galena, was
instantly killed by q shock from q
broken telegraph wire.
Hays City has raised the money
with which TO send her Russian band
to the Kansas City convention.
Rev. c. +. Reisner, pastor OF an
NJ. f. church in Kansas City, has gone
to Europe on three-nonths' trip.
The Savoy hotel Mt Galena, the
largest wooden building there and an
old landmark, was destroyed by fire.
The Iowa syndicate which recently
purchased the government sugar
plant ut Fort. Scott will operate a
sugar mill there.
Marshal Prentice, of Lawrence, with
IS assistants raided Schneck's joint
in that city and arrested II men who
were there gambling.
The state G. A. II. reunion will be
held ut Hutchinson September "a to
30. An effort will be made to have
Gen. Fred Funston there.
The largest building in Caney,
owned by Bartles & Henderson and
occupied by stores and Office men,
was destroyed by fire. Loss. $4,000.
The medals for the Ottawa members
Of company X, Twentieth Kansas,
will be presented at the celebration
there July 4. Company X will engage
in a sham battle with company E,
Of the national guard, on the Fourth.
The shops which the NJ, X. & T.
will build ut Parsons include car
repair shop, blacksmith shop, tank
and wheel shop and boiler shop. The
car shop will be the only wooden
building, the other structures being
of brick and stone.
Roy Stiles, a young man about rs
years old, committed suicide at Ottawa
by drinking ctrbolic acid. He was q
graduate Of the Ottawa high school
and was considered an exemplary
young man. It was rumored that he
had been gambling.
Fire at Thpyer destroyed buildings
belonging to c. o. Lawrence and c.
Z. Evans, causing loss of $4,000
A bucket brigade saved the business
section. Half an hour before the fire
originated the city council voted to
purchase q fire engine.
Ex-senator PETER Is delivering lee
lures on spiritualism, although he in
sists that he is not spirltualist.
However this may BE- no one can
say that he doesn't look the part.
The farmers of Ness county bought
1000 pounds of bisulphide of carbon
to drive the prairie dogs out. The
trouble is that the population may
have to 20 with them.
The annual report of the Kansas
State Historical society will contain
some interesting information con-
corning the discovery of Pueblo In
dian ruins in Scott county, which are
supposed to be at least $50 years old.
Z. r. Nichols, who has been acting
president Of the state agricultural
college at Manhattan for the last year.
was elected president Of the institu-
ton by the regents. The entire fac
ulty was reelected.
The George w. Click farm at Shan
non was sold to ]. d. Kinds, cattle
breeder of Winchester, for $4,000.
The farm will again be stocked with
Ehorthorns. $685.
Kittie Smothers, q Lawrence negro
girl who recently graduated from
the Kansas state university, has been
elected assistant principal of a negro
school at Guthrie, Ok