Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-14
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


vey has sent an expert to Trego coun-
ty to investigate the reported gold
find in the shale of that county.
Edmund G. Ross, United States SEN
ator from Kansas from 1865 to 1871,
the man whose vote saved President
johnson from impeachment and Gis-
grace, is working at the case at a
printing Office in Albuquerque, N. M.
According to the official weather
report for Kansas, compiled by the
chancellor of the state university, the
past month has, on the whole, been
an average Kansas August. The rain
fall is slightly below the August aver
age.
There are six post Offices in the
United States named Kansas-in
Walker county, Alabama; Edgar coun-
ty, Illinois; Graves county, Kentucky;
Seneca county, Ohio; Jefferson coun-
ty Tennessee, and the northern part
of Indian territory.
Ernest Agnew, who was second
lieutenant in the Twentieth Kansas
and Miss May Sexton, both of Man
haitian, were married and left i'm
mediately for Manila, where Agnew
has been assigned to q lieutenanry
in the regular army.
A Greenwood county farmer expert.
mented with blue grass this year. He
raised $3.50 bushels of grass seed on
240 acres of land. He sold the seed for
So q bushel, or $10,050. The cost of
the original seed and the labor was
81 $50, so he cleared $4,000 on the crop.
Probate Judge Mason, of Lyon coun-
ty, is wearing watch, the case of
which is made from gold which he
dug with his own hands in California
in 1s49. The works, which he bought
in California in 1850. cost his $240.
Probably better ones could be bought
now for S..
F. NJ. Powell, n Mayetta barber,
committed suicide with morphine. He
left note behind asking his friends
to see that he had more flowers on
his casket than were placed on the
casket of his sister who died few
days ago. Ill health and dependency
caused him to take his life.
Gov. Stanley has issued commits
sion to d. o. McCray, as immigration
commissioner for Kansas. Mr.. Nc
Cray, with Arthur Capper and W. A.
Thompson, have organized the Kan
sas immigration bureau, new enter
prise, to advertise the resources OF
the state and to bring homeseekers
and investors here.
The executive committee of the Tax
league of Fort Scott, as result of the
discovery that the mayor and council
had been paying the attorney who de-
tends the liquor dealers against pros
ecution, voted unanimously to begin
proceedings to remove Mayor Good
lander and number of city officials.
The most nervy and astonishing
thing ever seen at Anthony was when
the blind son of Farmer Californian
swung himself into wagon behind
a team of runaway horses. grooped
around until he found the lines, and
then brought the team to standstill.
The boy was standing by the wagon
when the team started to run. He 10
wholly blind.
According to figures tabulated by
Adjt. Gen. Fox, of the K. N. G., Kan
sas lost more volunteer soldiers by
death in the Philippine campaign
than any other state. The total
deaths in the fighting Twentieth
amounted to 6s. Nebraska came Sec
ond with Ga and Dakota third with
63. Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska
each lost three officers.
Mrs. NJ. X. Haines, wife of the
former Topeka ticket broker who is
serving life sentence in the Missouri
penitentiary for killing a Union
avenue saloonkeeper in Kansas City
some months ago, has gone insane.
Worry over the fate of her husband
and business troubles drove her in
sane. She imagines everything 10
alive with microbes and refuses to
eat anything.
Attorney General GODDARD has de-
clined to institute suit for the re-.
moval of Sheriff Everhardy, Of Leav-
enworth county, and the Afro-Ameri-
can league has appealed to the gov
ernor. The attorney general says
that while the sheriff might have
saved the ueOro Alexander. from the
mob which burned him at the stake.
the evidence to prove this neglect OF
duty is not sufficient to convict.
Is the Kaw river government
stream or state stream is q question
that will soon be tested in the courts.
State Fish Commissioner Wiley,
backed by the opinion Of B. II. TraSI
cy and the attorney general, claims
that it is state stream and subject
to the laws of Kansas. The fisher
men around Lawrence claim that 1t