Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-08-10
STATE NEWS PARAcRAPHED.

]. c. Flemming, n real estate agent
of Kelly, was publicly horeswhipped
by Mrs. Mary Davis, wife of promi-
nent physician. Mrs. Davis alleged
that Flemming attempted to take lib
critics with her.
Mrs. O'Bannon, of Yates Center, is o
widow and there was mortgage OF
S247.5O on her humble home. A sub
scription paper was passed around
among the citizens and in short time
the amount was raised and the mort
gage lifted.
The populist state central commit
tee has decided not to close it's head
quarters at present. An organization
will be maintained until it is definitely
settled whether fusion can be made
with the democrats to divide the state
and county tickets.
Mrs. Mitchell, mother of DR.. Mitch
ell, of Atchison, is 81 years of age.
She was married ut IA and has borne
II children, only one of whom is dead.
She has ten living children, 100 grand
children, 100 great-grandchildren and
seven neutrality-suspicious.
Edward Thornburrow, of Nemaha
county, has closed deal for 240
acres of grazing land near Soldier.
jackson county. Thornburrow and his
brother own over 5000 acres of land
in Nemaha county, the most of it hav-
ing been left them by their father.
who died last fail.
The weather report of the Univer-
sity Of Kansas says the month of July
was the warmcst of the "a years rec
ord. The nearest approach to il was
July, 1865. The mercury reached 90
degrees on every day of the month,
and passed the 100 mark 81 days, IS
of which were consecutive.
A Hiawatha man has a peculiar
freak. His hair can be pulled out by
handfuls without giving him pain.
When q man recently doubted his
claim he satisfied him of its truth by
tearing large lock from his leg. He
will permit anyone to pull the hair
of his head with might and main.
DIR. w. A. Walker has been a prac-
ticing physician in Galena for more
than 20 years, and during that time
he has ofiiciated Mt the birth of 1,432
babies. one-sevcnth of the population
of Galena. If it were possible to get
all of these children together, the doc
tor would have enough people to
start little town.
It will interest hundreds of people
in Kansas to learn that the grave OF
Noble l.. Prentice, in Elmwood GEM
etery, Kansas City, Mo-, has been
marked by his widow with block OF
gray granite bearing the simple in
scription of his name. Near it is q
marker giving the date of his birth
and death. The memorial is beautiful
in it's simplicity.
CT. Stone, three miles south of Pea
body, owns Holstein cow, Empress
Josephine III. which holds the worlds
record for butter and milk. The COW
has record of 81 pounds Of milk in
one day; butter fat, 3.74, and s62A
pounds of milk in ten days. She has
been shown ut state fairs from New
York to Colorado and has always
taken first prize.
John Davis, ex-congressman from
the Fifth district, died at the home OF
his daughter in Topeka. For several
months he had been almost blind.
He was editor of the Junction City
Tribune many years and prominent in
the union labor, greenback and popu-
list parties. He was elected to con-
gress on the fusion ticket in 1890 and
again in 1902.
Capt. Hawkins. an Atchison negro,
served in Cuba with the Twenty-third
Kansas regiment, and then went to
the Philippines with n commission in
negro regiment there. But he did
not return with his regiment. He has
purchased two fine. farms in Luzon
and stocked them with 1000 head OF
sheep. In addition to this he has de-
veloped tobacco plantation.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lege has Just received from c. c.
Smith, of Lyndon, so pure brown leg
horn chickens. They will be used in
feeding experiments to determine
the best combinations of Kansas feed
for egg reductions. This feeding ex-
pertinent is one of the first in pOul-
try work ever undertaken by the col
Iege and the Judging school is the first
of its kind in the United States.
1t is alleged that ]. A. Gather. who
died on farm near Fort Scott
few days since after having been over
come by heat, eloped last March from
Washington, Ind. with Mamie Ur-
banks, a young girl who was living
with him as his wife. Gather is said
to have owned much property in In
diana, and left large estate at Fort
Scott. His Indiana wife gets oil the