Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-09-06

: KANSAS STATE NEWS. /

ard voted $1,000 to bore for oil and
gas, but a Howard banker temper
arily stopped the bond issue by an
injunction suit.
What is claimed to be the largest
crowd ever assembled in Kansas at
tended the soldiers and sailors in
terstate reunion at Baxter on Thurs
day of last week.
M. G. Riddell, of Window, McPher-
son county, is tearing up his fall
blowing with rush. He uses 20
horse traction engine, which pulls
four double gang plows.
DR.. Frederick Mcfarland, a physi-
clan of Topeka, claims to have dis
covered a cure for consumption. It
is a gas and the scheme is to kill the
microbes that cause consumption.
Then the patient gets well.
Mrs. Manda Clark, an aged colored
woman at Salina, has been granted
a pension of So per month and $500
back pay. Asked If she would fit up
home and get married she ex-
claimed: Law, no; Uncle Sam is the
bestest husban' I want"
Chester Westbrook, a farmer near
Phillipsburg, killed his wife and then
committed suicide. The couple was
well-to-do, but had quarreled much.
Westbrook also had trouble with his
neighbors, with whom he was un-
friendly.
Prof. Hugo Kahl, who was a MEM
Der of the faculty of the University
of Kansas until last fall, has been
appointed chief curator of the en-
Genealogical department of the Car
negie museum at Pittsburg, Pa. Mr..
Kahl was chosen out of field of 100.
John Timm, of Emporia, who was
confined in the Topeka insane asylum
two years, has brought suit for $685.
600 damages against Sheriff O'Con-
nor, Attorney 1. +. Lambert and
other Emporia officials, alleging they
conspired to place him in a mad
house.
]. w. Dobson, deputy warden Of
the Kansas state prison, went to Ar
kansas City and rearrested Coleman
Grady, who had been on parole for
a year. Grady violated his parole by
playing cards and doing other things
contrary to the governors pardon
rules.
A girl from Stockton was bitten
by a rattlesnake on Wednesday
morning and died from the effects Of
the bite on Friday night. But what
are we to do with those medical
gentlemen who say that the bite OF
a rattler will be fatal on the first day
or fatal not at all?
Fred Roberts, city marshal OF Mel
vern, was assaulted on an excursion
train returning from Kansas City
by Clyde Ingles and Frank Trey,
young men of Melvern. AS a conse-
quence, Roberts is in precarious
condition, having had his skull frac-
tured by being hit with piece of sig
nal rod.
At Fort Scott, Mrs. Lille M. Cook
has sued for divorce from her hus-
band, Homer L. Cook, long promi-
nent business man Of Fort Scott, who
was recently sent to the asylum.
This is the first case in the history OF
Bourbon county where insan' " has
been adopted as grounds for d.
vorce.
]. H. Davis, a stockman OF jackson
county who usually feeds 300 to 400
cattle for the market every winter.
will not do so this year. He says
thin cattle are selling at too high
figure to bring any profit to the feed
er when put on the market. Davis
looks for feed to be comparatively
high all winter.
J. r. Weakley, charged with en-
bezzling about $4,000 of the fund.- IT
Cherry township, Montgomery
ty, was put in Jail at Indepen
Friday night. Weakley was treasurer
of that township and escaped when
the shortage was discovered. For five
years he has been a fugitive. He re-
turned recently to Kansas and To-
Gated in Sheridan county, where he
secured a contract for carrying the
mail between Hoxie and Phelps.
| Rev. A. p. Hamilton, a Methodist
preacher at Wellsville, is fighting for
possession Of his little girl, now held
by her grandparents, ex-Sheriff Hind
man and wife, of Lawrence. Hamif
ton placed his little daughter with
the Hindman family while he placed
his wife in the state asylum for the
insane. While he was away his
church, parsonage and household
goods were destroyed by fire. The
Hindmans refuse to return the child,
stating that Hamilton is violent