Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-11-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

LIN VObo AOE obbklOb JuukOo ~ shO
1ate election was; Sixth district, COM
posed of the counties of Linn, Bourbon
and Crawford, s. H. Allen, Alliance.
$3.50; T. & West, Republican, 7,1l&
Majority for Allen, 1,osS. Twenty
second district Doniphan, Brown and
Nemaha, j. +. Thompson, Alliance, g.
O5i; 6. L. Ryan, Republican, Sos Ma
iorlty for Thompson, 2sa Twenty
fourth district Harper and Barber, g.
w. Mckay. Alliance, 2,7Sl; Isaac A.
Lowe, Republican 1881; George Z. Nc
Mahon, Democrat 800. McKay's plu-
rality, 800.
THE police commissioners OF Fort
SCOTT have been experiencing some diff
6culty in enforcing the provisions OF the
prohibltory liquor law, and lately re-
moved the police Judge and reorganized
the police force. The old police judge
refused TO surrender the BOOKS and
records OF his Office and the commission
ers appealed to the Governor who re-
piled: Il have full confidence in your
discretion. ability and nerve to do your
duty under the law. You shall have
my full cooperation and assistance in
your efforts to compel the enforcement
of the law"
OWING to dissatisfaction with the
management OF the Knights OF Aurora,
the members OF that order in Kansas
have withdrawn from it and formed q
new secret order to be known as the
Fraternal Aid Association, with the fol-
lowing officers: j. X. Dutton, Of
Wichita, past president; Will I. Walker.
OF Emporia, president; John p Kill
gore, OF Leavenworth, treasurer; John
H. Calvin. of Topeka, secretary; Levi
Horner of Lawrence, medical exam
liner; j. b. Coon, OF Pttsburg, sergeant
alarms; j. Z. Sanderson, OF Farming
con, assistant sergeant-at-arms. Trust
ees j. I. Lindor, OF Parsons; ]. A. Rag
nell, of Mcpherson, and E. p. Young, OF
Winfield.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the goth: Original, Lindsey T. Hem
bricks, Cloverdale; William Grumbein,
McCracken; William E. Fehrenbach,
Cherry; Alanson Reese. Chico; Peter
Bedor, Jr., Red Stone; William A.
lethwait, Cairo Increase, Burrell
Brown, Lawrence; Stillman, Goodno,
Washington; Anthony Pittzer, Cherry
vale; Horace D. Grant Independence;
Potter W. Kenyon, Corinth; Singleton
Prexton, Pleasant Dale; Daniel Hunter,
Holton; Josiah Miller, Hillsdale;
FfezeitIah Hickle, Troy; Hosea Daen-
ley, High Point; William w. Pike,
Ulysses; Thomas McGraw, Saunders;
George A. Councilman, Wittrupp; Israel
Patnode. Wamego; Con Smith, Bigelow;
Robert T. Jellison, Ramona; John Rose,
Fontana; Jacob C. Newbold, Milan;
Robert Vanasdell Cherryvale; Gilbert
Lewis, Emporia; Henry W. Slime. indie
pendence; David Creek, Inyo; James P.
Chapman. Coffeyville; Martin Vandyne,
Wetmore; jefferson McQuilkin, Topeka;
Tlavius J. Julian Kiowa; Albert Davis,
>GriGsley: Page A. Asbury. Dexter; Ben
jamin Bair. Elgin; John Standenmair,
Wathena- Reissue. William C. Wilson,
Lenora. Mexican survivors, Walter G.
Berry, Logan.
THE seventh annual convention OF
the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
was recently held ut Atchison. Susan
b Anthony, vice-president Of the Ma
ttonal organization, was in attendance.
The addresses of welcome were deliv.
cred by Augusta J. Knower and Prof
Wynn and were responded to by Gem
.evieve Lee Hawley, Of Fort Scott, and
Sarah G. Denton, Of Attica
JANIS II. REEDER, OF Ellis County,
who was elected to the Legislature as
an Ingalls, Republican by two majority,
thinks he was elected fairly. but be-
Iieves that he will be ousted as soon as
the House organizes and George Miller,
his competitor, seated.
FIRE the other night destroyed the
harms, broom corn house. factory and
farming implements on C F. Hartman's
''Green Park" stock farm. near Wash
ington The origin Of the fire is UNI
known. Loss, 5000; insurance 81, 200.
ABOUT 10 o'clock the other night
Roger Dick, aged IA. son OF James l..
Dick, treasurer OF Ellsworth County,
was Academia killed by the discharge
of gun in tho hands Of his companion,
at whose house they had stopped, when
Ireturning from hunting.
THE Governor has pardoned John
Brophy, sent to the peniten tiary from
Wyandotte County in 1888 for ten years
for highway robbery. Brophy was only
rs years old when sentenced and the
evidence showed that while he was
technically guilty his greatest crime
was being caught in bad company, and
he got into the trouble while spreeing
With his associates
A CHARTER was recently fled with
the Secretary Of State for the Omaha,
Kansas Central & Galveston Railroad
Company, organized to construct and
maintain railroad Of standard gauge
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