Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-08-23
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In Bourbon county the republicans
nominated a negro, DR.. w. 8. Brook
ins, for coroner.
The Southwestern Grain Journal,
official organ of the Kansas grain
dealers, in its special crop report
says that under the most favorable
conditions from now on the Kansas
corn crop this year will not exceed
35,000,0O0 bushels.
A report on strange disease which
In killing cattle in southern Green
wood county has reached the live
stock sanitary commissioners. f. C.
Chamberlain, secretary of the COM
mission, says he believes the dis
ease is hydrophobia.
W. H. Frampton, Of Topeka, has
just recovered from a peculiar acct
dent. Last week he went fishing ON
the Wakarusa. He pulled out q
kthree-pound catfish. The fish put up
a fight, stabbing Frampton in tho
wrist with it's horn, producing q seri-
| Gus wound.
Robert Cline, of Linwood, picked
and sacked 103 sacks of potatoes in
one day last week. The sacks hold
two bushels each. The land is yield
ing 400 bushels to the acre, and,
while the price is low, the piclkers
are making good wages at, four cents
O sack.
j. W. Colley shot and killed his
brother-in-law, L. P. Simmons, at
Perry. The trouble resulted over
the alleged matchmaking of Colley's
family by Simmons. The latter was
recently found guilty of the offenss
charged by the federal court in Salina
and was fined $500. Colley surren-
dered to the officers.
Editor Gilmore, Of the Fredonia
Citizen, has discovered that James
Bigheart, who was recently elected
chief of the Usage Indians, was q
Kansas soldier during the war Of
the rebellion. He served as a private
for three years and two months in
company I, Ninth Kansas cavalry,
vnder Capt. H. n. F. Reed.
According to a ruling made by tho
United States district attorney Of
Kansas trade checks are illegal and
their issuance and circulation are
punishable by fine of $500 or inn
prisonment for five years. By trade
checks are meant the bit of metal
which in most cases bear the inscrip-
ton: Good for - cents in trade"
Near Sharon Springs Charles Sam
uelson jabbed his wife with pitch
fork because she was not pitching
hay as fast as he wanted her to.
1t looks like a pretty severe method
OF correction, but the wives Of Kan
sas need to have it brought home to
them that when they pitch hay, they
must pitch hay, and not try to
''sojer" like a hired man.-Kansas
City Journal.
Anna L. Welch, II years old, OF
Wichita. reported that she had been
made the victim of a mock mar
riage. She alleges that John Mich
olson induced her to marry him and
on August produced license and
they were married by Rev. ST. John.
Since that night she has not seen or
heard of Nicholson. There is no min
lister named st. John in Wichita.
A recent dispatch from Wellington
said: The partial failure of the wheat
crop in this county has not dis
mayed the big wheat planters, who
are now preparing their ground for q
bigger crop than ever next year. In
the south part of the county steam
plows are in use, and near South
Haven three of these monster imple-
ments are at work now turning over
the ground as fast as possible.
L. L. Uhls, superintendent of the
0sawatomie asylum, has been raked
over the Goals by Topeka officials for
admitting ]. c. Lowe, the wife-slayer,
into that institution. Lowe was an
attache of the state reform school
Mt Topeka. In fit of rage recently
he killed his wife. His relatives i'm
mediately set up insanity as de-
Tense. However, he was bound over
for trial on the charge of murder
and was released on $1,000 bond. Su-
perintendent Uhls admitted him to
the 0sawatomie asylum.
There is one town in Kansas that
has two distinct names, and Uncle
Sam delivers mail addressed to either
name. The town is midway between
Leavenworth and Kansas City on
the Kansas City & Leavenworth cleo
trio railroad and the Missouri Pa
cific established q station there and
named it Connor in honor Of lead
ing citizen of the neighborhood.
When the electric line was built the
owners of the line named the station