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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
TRICK OF A SWINDLER.
Apple-Enting Stranger Who Does
Sleight-of-Hnnd Work with
Diamonds.

Men who are more than six feet tall
and who eat apples are regarded with
distrust in every jewelry store in State
street, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The reason of this is theft that oc-
Cured in one of the most prominent
stores. The work was neatly done,
and the combinatio of tall man eat
ing an apple makes every clerk and
floor detective suspicious.
A distinguished looking stranger
with white hair and white beard
strolled into a State street store one
day recently and asked to see some
diamond rings. The clerk reached for
them, leaving one tray filled with the
expensive rings on top of the show
case.
Here they are" he said, after plac-
ing the second tray beside the first.
AS he did SO the tall man, who had been
munching at fine russell apple, threw
the core into the street.
He and the clerk went over the
rings in the tray, but he could find
none that he wanted to buy. AS he
turned to go the clerk discovered that
a ring worth $3.50 was missing. The
clerk disliked to accuse the distin-
guished-looking stranger with having
stolen the ring. There was prospect
of suit for damages against his en-
ployer and his own discharge If the
accusation should be found ground
less. Still, if he let the man get away
with the ring it would mean that he
would have to pay for it. Torn be-
tween these positions the clerk finally
limited that the customer must have
seen the ring.
"Of course I saw it. had it in my
ha,.d only a moment ago. All, catch
YOUR meaning. You want to infer that
l. Be careful, sir; do you know who
I am? won't put up with any such
nonsense"
The stranger, despite his protests,
was searched, but the ring was not
found. The jeweler was apprehensive
of big suit for damages until the de-
tectives found that the tall man is an
old-time hotel thief who wins out
often on the strength of his iIpIres-
sive appearance. The way he got
away with the ring was TO slip it into
the half-eaten apple he held in his
hand and then throw the apple into
the street where confederate
picked it up AID got away, and the
tall man could stand search with
safety.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
Jury Trying Lulu Prince Kcunedy mt Kan
sas City Renders Verdict OF Murder
In tho Second Degrce.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 17.-Accord-
ing to the verdict of ~ men in the
criminal court Lulu Prince Kennedy
committed murder when she killed
her husband in the corridor of the
Ridge building the evening of January
10. The verdict is that she shall spend
the next ten years of her life in the
state penitentiary.
The jury was out not quite 10
hours, the case having been placed in
its hands ut one minute to ten o'clock
Friday night and the verdict being
rendered just before ten o'clock Sat-
urday morning.
When the verdict was read the
crowd seemed to expect that the de-
PENDANT would break down. Those
who had looked squarely in the cold
determined eyes and noted the set,
firm chin, did not. Mrs. Kennedy
listened to the verdict just as every
one else did. There was not a shud-
der, no exclamation, no suggestion
of a tear. If there was surprise or
disappointment her demeanor did not
show it.
From the first the jurors were in
favor Of furnishing Mrs. Kennedy.
On the question of sanity, ten of the
Jurors voted that she was sane and
two that she was insane. Just be-
fore retiring Friday night the jury
took a ballot on the degree of guilt.
This resulted in ten for second de-
gree murder and two for manslaught-
er in the fourth degree. The first
ballot Saturday morning was unani-
nous for second-degree murder.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22

of the coming of the pale guest. Her
grandmother had been a penurious
old lady, and as yet Rose had no OPP
rortunity to introduce the little
honey touches with which woman
OF her disposition inevitably sur
rounds herself. For Rose was cozy
little body, who had leen cheated out
of her birthright Of love and domes-
tic happiness by an unfortunate mar
rage with q scamp. She was 40 now,
but comely and desirable, as Penning-
ton Brush knew to his sorrow.
When Pennington arrived ut the
factory he determined to sit outside
and smoke until he heard old Mr..
Porter's buggy. The night was still,
and he was sure he could hear it
when it drove up to Roses door. How
ever, as the old people were to stay
all night, they might take it into
their heads to walk across the fields
instead of driving around the road.
He decided they must have done so,
for soon he heard the wagon bearing
his old rivals body creaking over the
hill from the opposite direction. He
saw lights in the parlor windows and
in the porch, and he knew by the
sounds that Rose was receiving her
runaway husband into her home
again after IA years.
A telegram had come the day be-
fore telling her he was dead, and his
last request had been that his body
should be sent to her for burial. 1t
touched her ceeply. To think that she
had been upon the point of yielding
to Pennington Brush's repeated plead
ings the very hour she had received
the intelligence of Brewster's death
and his belated remembrance of her.
self.
Presently Pennington heard the
rumble of mems voices again rs they
came out of the house. and the wagon
iolted back the way it had come. He
could hear it going down the oppo-
site side of the hill. until at last the
sound died away in the distance. Mrs.
Brewster meanwhile was alone with
the dead, for old Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
had failed to arrive. She stood in
the middle of the forlorn parlor, lamp
in hand, gazing at the coffin, which
had been placed between the two
front windows. She felt it was her
duty to lift the cover and look at the
man within, yet Mt the thought
shuddering horror took hold upon
her. She took herself to task. Was
this the way to feel towards poor
mortal who asked her forgiveness in
this strange manner? She recalled
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
MARVELLOUS AFRICAN TALES.
An Englishman Tells OF Region Stocked
with Game and Inhabited by
Ape Men.

London, June 1S.-Sir Harry Ham,
ilton Johnston, special commissioner
eor the Uganda protectorate, has re-
turned to London after an absence of
two years. He brings stories of
Uganda rivaling Henry II. Stanley's
description of Darkest Africa" Sir
Harry relates that the country sur
rounding Moantelgon is totally de-
populated as result of inter-tribal
was and is consequently marvelously
stocked with big game that are as
tame as English park deer. Zebras
and antelopes can be approached to
within ten yards and there is no sport
in killing them. Elephants and
rhinoceros are also abundant and, ac-
cording to Sir Harry, lions in Ugan-
ada are too busy eating hartebeeste
to notice passing caravan. The pre-
historic giraffe has been discovered
in this country by the commissioner,
who proposes to maintain the region
referred to as a national park. He
photographed race of ape men in
the Congo forest differing entirely
from Stanley's pigmies and secured
photograph records of their language
and music. He says that ~ varieties
of rubber trees are found in this
country in inexhaustible supply.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22

The next instant Rose Brewster was
sobbing Historically in Pennington's
arms.
"Oh, I couldn't have stood 1t an
other minute. I should have gone
crazy il you hadn't come as you did,
because I couldn't have kept him
there much longer. Don't leave me,
don't leave me, Pennington"
"No, darling, never again. Keep
still, dcarie, and get me something
to tie this pretty bird with before he
comes to-"
mo, no; let him go, Pennington.
Remember, he was once my hus-
band"
''Indeed I'll not let him go-except
to Jail. Well put him where his fu-
neral will do some good next time he
has one. Maybe it isn't the man who
was your hus band at ALL"
ION, yes, it is" walled Mrs. Brew
ster. ut must be. No other man
could be so meant"
After 1t was all over and there had
been a trial instead of funeral,
Mrs. Brewster told how it happened.
When she stopped to set the cover
of the coffin down she heard the man
breathe, and knew that he was liv-
ing. In a moment it flashed over her
what the rascal intended doing. The
men who brought him were undoubt-
eddy accomplices. Hearing of her lit
tie fortune, and knowing her to be
lone woman, they had come to
brighten her to death and rob her.
With superb presence of mind she
brought the pistol from her bed
room, and none too soon, for when
she returned the scoundrel was sit-
ting up in his coffin, making ready to
get out. There she had held him
with an unloaded pistol-while he
begged and threatened. When the
strain became unbearable she began
calling for Pennington. with little
hope that he would hear, and when
he crashed through the window, his
eyes blazing with fury, he seemed to
Rose Brewster like an angel from
Heaven.
The neighbors said it served her
right; she should have married PEN
nington Brush ten years before. And
Pennington was in the habit of talk
ing them out to the barn and show
ing them a coffin, which he said he
would sell cheap, because it was sec.
ond-hand.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA.
savages from Ashanti, Dahomey, Senegal,
Ouita and the Congo Form Strange
Colony mt Buffalo Exposition.

Buffalo, n. Y, June 17.-There has
arrived here what is perhaps as
strange crowd as has ever passed
through the hands of the officials Of
Ellis island. They are natives from
the heart of equatorial Africa, to peo-
pie the African village, midway
feature of the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton. Sixty-two of them arrived on
the French line steamship La Lor-
raine, and about 40 more are expected
by later vessel, to complete the
colony. They are drawn from Ashanti
and Dahomey, from the Loango. Ga
boon and Senegal, from Quita and the
Congo. They own as chief Lo Oben-
daga, a proud old negro, who sat
with three of his wives apart from
the rest of the group. At home he has
SO more wives awaiting his return,
for he is head of the Ogowe tribe, a
small but fierce band which has
waged war successfully on weaker
neighbors.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22

the day they were married. She
thought him very handsome then,
with his straight nose and long,
blond mustache. She resolutely set
the lamp down and removed the up
per part of the coffin lid. His face APP
peared to her suddenly and so fright
fully near. He was old now-like her
self; his face was pinched by the
reckless years, and his long mustache
was gray, but he was Henry Brewster,
the same who had broken her heart
in her young womanhood. She
stopped to put the cover on the floor,
then rose quickly and stoou gazing
on the motionless features. Sudden
ly she turned as though struck with
an unbearable horror and went out
of the room. Her eyes were dilated
and her face was more deathlike in
its frozen pallor than the face of the
man in the coffin.
Pennington Brush went to his room
about IL. He had blown out his
light and removed his coat when he
heard cry or call. He listened, and
imagined he heard a woman's VOICE
calling his name. He hurried out of
doors and sped swiftly ur the path
towards Mrs. Brewster's. He stepped
lightly upon the porch, determined
not to brighten he. by knocking, If
it had been but trick of his mag
nation, she asleep and everything
quiet within. He peeped cautiously
through the parlor window, and tho
sight which met his gaze froze the
blood ia his veins. Rose Brewster
sat in the middle of the room, point
ing a pistol at the man who was sit
ting bolt upright in his coffin. As
Brush gazed, almost doubling his
senses, Rose called with all her might
and main:
Pennington, Pennington Brush!"
The window went in with crash,
the broken glass falling upon the car
pet in showers. The coffin was upset,
and the supposed dead man lay un-
conscious from blow planted hearth
" by Pennington Brush where il
would ~ likely to have the greatest
eject.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
WHITLEY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Missouri Man Given Responsible Place
by the supreme Court OF the Phil
ippinc Islands.

Manila, June 16.-The Philippine
commission has appointed the follow
ing supreme court judges: Chief JUS
tice, Cayetano Arellano; Florentino
Torres, ex-attorney general; j. F.
Cooper, of Texas; Gen. james F.
Smith. of California, formerly collect
or of customs; Charles A. Willard, Of
Minnesota; Victonina Mnpa, of Iloilo;
Fletcher Ladle, of New Hampshire.
The commission has appointed L. r.
Wiley, of Missouri, to be attorney
general. His assistant and solicitor
will be natives.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
unnrecadentad Rains.

Omaha, Neb., June 1s.-The I'M
precedented rains which have fallen
through Nebraska and western Iowa
during the past week were climaxed
by downpour of nearly two inches
which fell during yesterday and last
night. The average of precipitation
for the state for the week has been
about As inches, and in the Elkhorn
valley over five inches of water has
fallen.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
NJ NE.


4 fingered long In a garden.
Where the sweetest blossoms grew,
Where the air was filled with fragrance
And the buds were bright with dew;
AL my hear; was light and joyous,
Filled with beauty, peace and rest
Till one little flower faded
Twas the one loved the best.
7 walked the streets of city,
Where the busy hum Of trade,
Was enlivened by the music
That the laughing children made;
And ! smiled my recognition
or the gayety ard nirth.
TIL ore childish voice was s!!enced-
Twas the sweetest one on earth.
u stood beneath the radiance
or the broad. blue, midnight sky.
And my soul was held in thralldom.
BY the glittering hosts on high;
And the song the stars were singing.
Filled me with purpose clear.
Till one little star-Slsam vanished
Twas the one my heart held dear.
Now my faith is looking outward.
Through the vale of time and tears,
To q bud that's opening for me
In GODS garden of the years;
And see a rev light shining
In the old familiar way.
And hear dear voice singing
Songs o. Paradise to-day.
-Eun!ce w. Lucky, in Pacific Monthly.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
IfAIow hone YOU realize, Pen

nj wv L nope you reailze, Ten-
IN nington Brush, how perfectly
awful it would have been!"
81 don't know as it would have
been particularly awful. You were
divorced from him, anyway"
"But how would have felt if / had
said would marry you, and then res
ceived the telegram five minutes later
telling me to get ready for my hus-
bands funeral?"
"He amt been your husband for II
years." persisted Bennington Brush,
land, if he had, he's dead now. any
how, and they are a-bringin' him
home on the five o'clock, though what
in the world they are luggin' him
back to you for, after all these years,
is more than / can see"
Mrs. Brewster shivered, although
the night was warm for September,
and wrapped her arms in her apron.
Pennington feared she was taking
cold. yet still he fingered.
"You don't feel-that is, you can't
make it seem right-to give me an
answer tonight, l SUPPOSE"
Indeed, I cannot" she said, with
curling lip. "You ought to be
ashamed of yourself to press such a
question On woman looking Tor her
husbands remains to come over the
hill at any minute"
dumb him!" muttered Brush; she
cut me ost of an answer just this
way Is years ago, and made miser-
able man OF me"
mot just this same way, Penning-
ton" Mrs. Brewster said, soberly
enough; but Pennington saw twin
%le in her eye. 1t made him savage.
"You care so little about him you
can make joke of him, yet you hold
me at arms length on account OF
him. I presume you will feel called
upon now to go into mourning for him
for q man who deserted you II
years ago and has never shown his
face since!"
Mrs. Brewster sighed.
81 suppose / ought" she owned,
then looked apprehensively up the
lonely country road, where the SOL
emn load might now appear at any
time.
Pennington Brush turned on his
heel.
eff he had known that your grand
mother left you her property, and
that you came into possession last
week, he'd a-come back alive instead
of the way he is coming. He was
mean enough" Then he relented.
-'Rose, let me stay in my old room in
the tower tonight, where l slept
when your grandmother lived here
alone. You will need me-"
"No; you go along to your own bed
in the factory. Old Mr.. and Mrs. Por-
ter are coming. They'll be here in a
minute, now, so go along"
swell, just as you say. Good night,
Rose"
wardly made a move as though he
would kiss her. She skrank back hor-
rified.
Pennington Brush! And he COM
ing over the hill yonder?"
Pennington looked quickly towards
the hill, but there was nothing in
sight save the bare summit and the
sdarkening sky above. He babe, her
good night again and walked rapidly
away towards the cheese factory,
where, since Rose Brewster had taken
possession of her grandinother's
home, he had slept in a little room
In the attic.
Rose watched him until he disap-
peared in the cheese factory door.
She shuddered again and went in to
take look around at the stiff rooms,
ldoubly gloomy now. in anticipation
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
New Regiments Nearly All Filled Up.

Washington, June 1s.-The new
regiments organized under the re-
organization law are about COM
pleted. The two regiments farthest
behind are the Thirteenth cavalry at
Fort Meade and the Twenty-eighth
infantry at Vancouver, but the en-
listments of last week amounted to
over 500 and it is expected that those
of the present week will practically
complete all the new regiments.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
Princes to BE Tried in October.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 1s.-The
cases of C. W. Prince, Will Prince and
Bert Prince, father and brothers Of
Lulu Prince Kennedy, charged with
being accessories to the murder of
Philip II. Kennedy, were called be-
fore Judge Wofford Monday. By.
agreement all were put over until the
September term, which means they
will be called again some time early
in October.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
His Grounds.

"AMd on what grounds do you base
your application for divorce?" asked
the lawyer of his client.
"Exertion, sah."
"You mean desertion, I suppose.
Your wife has left you, doubtless"
mo, sab, she hasn't left me, sah."
"Then you can't ask for divorce on
the ground of desertion."
81 said exertion, sab. OATS de
ground perzackly. She done exert her
self continually to make me mizzable,
sab. Put it on de ground oh exertioA.
sah."-Detroit Free Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
Brazil Pays America for Mob's Work.

Washington, June 1s.-A cable
gram received at the state depart
ment yesterday from United States
Minister Bryan at Petropolis an
nounces that the Brazilian govern
ment has paid the indemnity request
ed for the destruction by mob of a
Baptist chapel in the province OF
Nictheroy, maintained by the Ameri-
Gun Baptist mission.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
.snoners,, to BE Expelled.

Anadarko, Ok, June 1S.-Orders
from the secretary of war were yes
terday received by Capt. Savers, post
commandant at Fort Sill, to take suffi-
cient cavalry, with rations for two
weeks, and proceed to expel every
"sooner" and miner from the Kiowa-
Comanche and Wichita reservations
and give positive orders for them to
stay out of the lands to be- opened.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
WIN Rurton Oust Leland.

Topeka, Kan, June 1s.-To take care
OF George w. Findlay, Senator Burton
viii seek to dispossess Cyrus Leland
of the Office of United States pension
agent and that is what the senator has
gone to Washington for.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
Arl,.on Saw. He Is .Not in IT,

Washington, June 1s.-Snator ALI
son, of Iowa, speaking of Gov. Shaw's
telegram urging him to enter the
presidential race, said he had already
announced that he would not be a can
didate. "I have not changed my
mind" said he. 81 am not in it."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
A Tornado Mt Dorchester. Neb.

Lincoln, Neb., June 1.-THE village
of Dorchester, 80 miles west, was
caught by tornado Saturday after
noon. Buildings in the center of the
town were picked up bodily and
hurled into the streets, barns were
unroofed and demolished and Ntrecs
uprooted. None Of the inhabitAnts
were injured.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
PHILIPPINE REVENUES.
An Increase Of SlO.B15 for the First Three
Months of 10O1-Total Revenues
Aggregate 02,190,394.

Washington, June 16.-An increase
of $94O,515 in the customs revenues
of the Philippine islands for the first
quarter of 1901, as compared with the
same period of 1000, is set forth in q
statement by the division of insular
affairs of the war department. The
revenues for the first quarter of the
current year amounted to $2,190,394.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
Kearney Cotton siiil to Close.

Kearney, Neb., June 1s.-It has
been decided by the owners to close
the Kearney cotton mill. For some
time past, particularly since the clos
ing of the Asiatic markets, occasioned
by the Chinese war, the mill has been
operated Mt loss.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
large Cargo of sugar from Hawaii.

San Francisco, June 1s.-The steam
ship Hawaiian, which arrived yester-
day from Honolulu, brought the
largest cargo of sugar ever sent out
of the Hawaiian islands. 1t consisted
of 5000 tons, valued at $750,000.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
I.oom,- Tr.n.ferred 10 Portural.

Washington, June 1s.-Francis B.
Loomis, minister to Venezuela, has
been transferred to be minister to
Portugal, vice John N. Irwin, Of Iowa.
resigned.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
Earl Rnssan Chnrred with Riramy.

London, June 1s.-Earl Russell was
arrested Monday on a charge of hav-
ing contracted bigamous marriage
in the United States. The nobleman
appeared to be quite unconcerned.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
BAXTER SPRINGS NEWS
KANSAS.

CHARLES l. SMITH, Editor audProprisson
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-03
Australian Oranges.
25 Exchange Place.

What apple culture is in England that of the orange is in New South Wales, the Parrame tta9 district, near Sydney, being to Australia what Kent, with its countless luxuriant orchards, is to the United Kingdom. The scen- cry of the Parr5nratta river, remarks our Sydney correspondent, is not. un- like that of the Thames above Rich- mond, only more romantic and beauti- full, especially during springtime, when the wonderful profusion of wild flowers imparts an additional charm to the picture. Even the masses of rock, which in many places rise boldly from the edges of the stream, are decked with bright-colored clusters of Australian native flowers of the most lovely and varied description. The trees also claim a large share of admiratio not only from the lover of the beautiful in nature, but also from the utilitarian, for they include the orange, with its bright green foliage and dainty white flowers or rich golden fruit, both often being seen on the tree at one and the same time. The orange is not only a picturesque ad- iunct to the garden, but also more than repays the trouble and cost of cultiva- tion. In the Parramatta district rich and luscious oranges are plentiful as blackberries in an English country lane during the autumn me.--London Globe.