Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-12
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feed the Knollin & Co. sheep ranch
near Solomon, which feeds 10000 to
10000 sheep every winter, has closed
down and feeding operations trans
ferred to southwestern Kansas coun-
ties.
Lafayette Smith, aged 16, and Clara
M. Harvey, aged Al, were married re-
Gently at Topeka. The father of the
bridegroom assured the magistrate
that the marriage was satisfactory
to him. The bride promised to take
good care of the boy.
S. r. Taylor, formerly president of
the Kansas state normal school, has
been chosen president of the new
Cumberland Presbyterian university
at Decatur, Ill. James Millikin, the
millionaire banker of Decatur, has
given 100000 to the university. 1t
is to be an industrial institute, Chris
tian, but not sectarian, that will give
instruction in any trade or profess
sion.
A. A. Muench. an inoffensive farmer
of Doniphan county, was attacked in
saloon at st. Joseph, Mo-, by two
ironworkers named Adams and
Yackie. When the farmer finished
his work Adams had all his floating
ribs and kidney torn loose. He will
die. Yackie was badly injured. There
were so many witnesses to prove that
Muench endeavored to avoid fight
that he has not even been arrested.
An effort is being made by some
Leavenworth parties to sell Staiger's
island, in the Missouri river, to the
state for use by the prison board.
1.-The state had better go slow about
buying islands in the Missouri river"
said state official. "One month the
island is there and the next month
it is gone. 1t may reappear again
in a year or so on the Kansas side
and, again, it may appear on the Mis-
souri, side"
Rev. W. NJ. Berkeley, of Kansas City,
Kan, has brought suit for divorce
against his wife, alleging among other
things that she would not remain at
home. At Atwood, he says, she made
such serious charges against him that
he was tried by the church and was
eXoneratcd. But her tendency to
leave him had not deserted her and
he says that at the present time he
thinks she is living in Mankato with
another man.
Under law enacted by the last leg
islature railroad employees may vote
wherever they happen to be on cleo
ton day. Before voting, however,
they must swear that they are away
from home in the discharge of their
duties as railroad men. Each bal
lot cast by such voter must be
marked by the judges, sealed in an
envelope and sent to the clerk of the
county where the voter resides, to be
counted.
In lola the other night, says the
Ottawa Herald, gentle and loving
wife took a scantling and went down
to a joint where her husband was
spending his money. She got him
started home and every five rods she
hit him a swat with the scantiing
which could be heard for blocks. She
said she dearly loved her husband
and could not endure the thought
of him filling himself up with whis-
ky.
The ranchmen of southwest Kansas
will harvest the largest crop of forage
and feed stuffs this year ever known
there. The heavy rains of late July
and August and the following weeks
of excessive heat the plants made a
remarkable growth, and now show
height and abundance before un-
known. Cattlemen are refusing mar
ket prices for all stock under three
yenrs old, owing to the abundance of
feed and the outlook for better prices
next season.
John Sullivan Dean, the. newly-ap.
pointed United States district attor-
ney for Kansas, lives at Marion. He
is an Ohioan by birth, and came to
Kansas about 1883, settling at Pea
body. He opened law Office there
and practiced at that place until he
was elected county attorney. He
then moved to Marion, where he has
since resided. The only official po-
sition he ever held was county at
torney. He was delegate to the
republican national convention in
1896, and was a candidate for con-
gress in 1898, but was defeated for the
nomination by ]. M. Miller, of Nor
ris county, the present congressman.
The Kansas state agricultural COZ
lege has just received a shipment
from Canada of four pure bred Ayr
shire cattle, bull and three heifers.
The bull was prize-winner at the