Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

O00, 900 cotton mill. The plant will
give employment 10 1000 people.
Clay county will decide at the No
svem6er election whether 1t wants
SAC, 900 court house or not.
The Hutchinson News has suspended
its morning issue, and will hereafter be
published as an evening paper.
Ellsworth has secured within eight
weeks Touring mill. college, a stave
and barrel factory and planning mill.
John ]. ingalls, recent speech at Pro-
hibition park appears in the Jewish Ca
zette in the Hebrew language. 1t Is
headed, "A Yankee, the Son OF a Yam
kee."
Sterling had prize fight last week.
ard the Bulletin says 1t was a disgrace
to q city OF thirteen churches. The
number, however. might have had
something to do with it.
The main building Of tee new COL
lcge ut Winfield Is reported TO be in a
dangerous condition. The steeple will
have to be removed before the class
rooms can be occupied.
It is estimated that the corn crop In
Kansas will this year he something in
the neighborhoOd 10000 900 bushels,
worth in the neighborhood OF $50, 000,-
200. This will help 10 restore eastern
confidence in Kansas credit.-Burliug-
ton Nonpareil.
The rate OF releases OF mortgages IN
Kansas as compared with the records OF
new mortgages, us reported by the reg
lister OF deeds is over 40 per cent in fa-
vor OF the releases, which shows that in
very few years the entire present
mortgage debt of Kansas will be paid
oif.-OsKaloosa Independent.
or the 100 counties in Kansas eighty
FIVE have organized worlds fair asso-
citation for the purpose Of raising their
apportionment OF the 100000 which
Kansas started out to provide for its
representation at the exposition.
Twenty-Five counties have already
raised their full share.
A committee from Wichita waited
upon Governor Humphrey the other
day and asked that change be made
in the board OF police commissioners Of
that city. The committee charged that
the prohibitory law was violated in
that city with the knowledge OF the po-
lice commissioners and that the only
steps taken to prevent It was system
Of fines.
The Interstate reunion OF the old
soldiers to be held at Kansas City, KS,
beginning September eth and ending
on the 18th, BIDS fair to be great af-
fair. 1t is to be q reunion Of the old
soldiers living in Kansas, Missouri.
Iowa and Nebraska-four states and
there will be an immense gathering OF
the old boys. A half rate has been Sc
cured on all the railroads.
The manner in which the legislature
of Kansas spoiled Senator Ingalls, de-
sign for the great seal OF Kansas is told
by F. G. Adams, OF the state historical!
society. Ingalls, was at that time Sec
rotary OF the state senate. His design
was blue shield at the base OF cloud.
out of which was emerging one silver
star to JOIN the constellation in the
armament, comprising the thirty-four
then in the union, with the motto. AID
Astra per Aspera. This was neat. ar
tistic conception, but it did not suit
some OF the members, who wanted
blows, cabins, buffaloes, and a prairie
landscape-leaving little of Mr.. Ingalls,
design except the motto and the stars.
The Topeka Capital shows from re-
ports OF register Of deeds u remarkable
record OF farm mortgage releases in
sixty counties OF Kansas for the month
of July. This compilation, which does
not include any proceeds from the
years bountiful crop, shows that while
July was not a debt-paying month, the
net reductions in sixty counties was
1881, 458 The total excess of farm
mortgages released in forty-eight coun-
ties for the period averaging three and
q third months prior to August l, 1891,
was 81, 427.037, or 294 per cent. 1t is
believed that there will be release OF
$40, 000, 900 OF money of farm mortgage
Indebtedness in Kansas before the end
OF the present year.
The village OF Meriden, on the Santa
Fe road, not far from Atchison, Is con-
siderably excited over white cap af-
fair which occurred about half a mile
from town Saturday night. Will
Greendyke, boy II, was pulled out OF
bed about midnight by q crowd OF
masked men. and taken to fence near
by, where he was strapped to a post and
treated to q severe horsewhipping. AS
soon as they had finished their work
the midnight visitors turned him loose,
and after threatening that they would
visit him again, rode quietly away.
The Greendyke boy is the son OF hard
working farmer, and is said to be thor
oughly worthless. He has ruled the
family for months, and a few days ago,
when his father attempted to correct
him. he jumped on the old gentleman
and choked him. His sister, q young
lady, interiered in defense OF her faith.
CT, when the unnatural young brute |
kicked and cuffed her so severely that |
she is in bed in consequence. The
neighbors are pretty well satisfied that |
the boy received his just deserts, and
no effort will be made to find the white |