Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-30
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHEp.

rental for the post Office building at
Beloit.
w. II. Webster, of Rocks county, hos
just completed sowing LOO acres of
wheat.
The Moherman Angora goat ranch
at Wellsville has sold 500 goats this
season.
A Kansas farmer has introduced q
new steam plow, which does the work
of "a horses and eight men.
Fred Stadler, of Hays City, has re-
ceived $00O-a-year clerkship in the
subsistence department of the army.
DR.. H. NJ. Charles, of Washington,
will succeed w. S. Hancock as super
intendent of the state reform school
at Topeka.
In district court at Winfield the 9TH
err day eight jointists pleaded guilty.
Winfield has just passed through a
great religious revival.
At Cherryvalc, in a quarrel over n
dog, Henry Linton, aged 10, was
killed by blow from ballbat in the
hands of man named Bird, many
years Unions senior.
Mrs. Ayres, of Hiawatha, who was
married to Jacob Ayres in August,
has sued for a divorce because she
alleges that he is so jealous of her
that he will not permit her to visit
her own family.
Morton Albaugh, state bank com.
missioner, says there is $sO,OOO,0OO in
the banks of Kansas, while only one
half of it is in use. He asserted that
banking in Kansas is on n sounder
basis than ever before.
S.. G. Brown, railroad brakeman,
was arrested in Atchison on a charge
of assaulting J. L. Wade, his landlord.
Mrs. Brown, his wife, charges Wade
with calling at her home, putting his
arms around her and kissing her.
Wade denies Mrs. Browns charges.
W. d. Buchanan, of troop d, Four
teenth cavalry, located at Fort Riley.
was found dead in his cell at the
Junction City Jail. Buchanan had
committed suicide by hanging, hav-
ing made rope of towel. Buchan-
an murdered Policemen White and
Cooper at Junction City.
Lantry Bros, Of Chase county, an
nounce that all their grading ma
chinery, several hundred teams and
Snn 10 hnrarc ,ra ~ ba rarrnynd 10 Con
Francisco Immediately. The Lantrys
have a S1,0OO,0OO contract with the
Santa Fe to fill in large section of
the bay almost surrounding that city.
d. ]. Tangney, proprietor of the
Topeka Avenue hotel in Wichita, was
struck on the head early Friday
morning by heavy hammer in the
hands of a burglar whom he sur
prised in the act of robbing the hotel
Office. Mr.. Tangney was not expect
ed to recover. The burglar escaped.
William II. Klusmire was convicted
in district court at Oskaloosa of kill
ing his wife near Holton, the case
going to Oskaloosa on q change Of
venue. On the stand Klusmire said
that his wife had committed suicide,
and that he had buried the body to
avoid the disgrace that would follow
publicity.
The president has appointed Will
liam Cozier chief Of ordnance, with
rank of brigadier general. Crozier
is a native of Kansas, his father, the
late Robert Crozier, having been
Judge of the Leavenworth district
court many years. He was appointed
to the military academy in 1872 and
has made q splendid record in the
army.
In many parts Of Kansas the dry
season this year turned the attention
of farmers to local irrigation and the
storing of rainfall. Logan township
in Sheridan county has put in opera
ton plan of grading the roads across
the gullies, hollows and ravines in
stead of bridging them. This not on
ly makes good roads, but good dams,
suitable outlet being provided to car
ry on any overnow.
John Gerrigues, secretary Of liq-
uor firm in Kansas City, Mo-, whose
guess that the total vote for gov
ernor Of Ohio would be s27,566, will
probably bring him the $4,000 prize
in the Kansas City guessing contest,
is former resident of Leavenworth
and for n number of wears was citv |
editor of the Times. Gerrigues is q
graduate of st. Marys college at st.
Marys, a Catholic institution.
Gov. Stanley's attention having been
called to the advent of a shipment Of
New York foundlings to Kansas, he
will ask the state board Of charities
to ascertain If the men who brought
them here have furnished a guaranty
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