Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A cotton gin has been set up at VIM
field, Kansas.
Stock is in better condition now than
Is common at this time OF the year.
Shows of the past two or three weeks
have been very beneficial to wheat
Sterling runs up string OF six d.
vorce cases in the Rice county district
court.
Grant McAlexander, the last Kansan
who graduated at West Point, Is fight
ing Indians on the frontier.
General Rice and Farmer Smith
locked horns on the Mckinley bill at
the Copeland the other night.
Wheat is reported as in good condi-
ton generally, though in few localities
the Hessian fly is troublesome.
The population OF Kansas on the first
day of June, 1890, according to the
United States census, was l. Az, 4So.
Oklahoma, says the Newton Rep,bli-
can, asks for aid with one hand and
votes bonds to railroads with the other.
Hon. Sacob Sttotler, OF the state board
of charities, favors converting the re-
formatory at Hutchinson into an insane
asylum.
Shawnee Sounty Sunday School Asso'
citation meets in the First Presbyterian
church, Topeka, the 9th and 18th days
OF this month.
Wellington has two cases OF small
pox, but fortunately the people in that
town live so far apart that there is no
danger of the disease spreading.
Friends OF Samuel L. Stansbury,
formerly lieutenant in the Ninth Kan
sas cavalry. will find him at the Nation
al Soldiers home at Leavenworth.
Washington Post:
The premier skips in gaudy hose,
The ballet trips In plain,
Jerry Simpson goes AT n sockless gait,
But he gets there just the same.
There are two distinct elements in
the Alliance contest-the PETER ele-
ment and the Elder Element, and just
now the Elder element seems to be on
top.
The advance from ten to fifteen cents,
which the BARRIERS OF Topeka have made
in the price of a shave. is accounted for
upon the theory that hayseed is highly
destructive to razors.
The county high school at Effingham
is under roof. and will be completed
April LIST. 1t is the second structure OF
the kind in the state. The other one is
in Dickinson county.
A prophet has risen who says that
the world will be densely overcrOwded
before it is 200 years older. People
who own suburban property at Wichita
would better hold on to it.
Az Arkansas City couple who have
been married twenty-five years, have
never had quarrel. They are
strangers alike to the excitement OF
conjugal strife and the joys of reconcile n
alton.
Atchison Globe: An Atchison woman
belongs to so many different clubs and
societies that her friends have to wait
until some of them meet at her house
before they are sure Of finding her at
home.
According to the Kansas state board
of railroad commissioners, the roads do
ing business in this state show gross
earnings for last year ammounting to
1926. III. O3l19, and operating expenses
aggregating 81, 709, 054.31.
The Douglas County Farmers Insti-
tute met at Lawrence, January Sd, held
an interesting session. and elected Off
GERS for 1891. Also resolved that Kan
sas Senators and Representatives be re-.
questsd to vote for the Conger compound,
lard bill.
The Brown County Farmers Institute
will convene at Hiawatha, Thursday,
February, 9Th. and hold two days ses-
sion. Ex-Governor Click and two OF the
professors OF the Agricultural college
will be present with valuable papers
upon important subjects.
A Washington correspondent des-
cribes Congressman Turner as q tall,
we'll built man, with a pleasant face
and a sandy mustache, who always
wears q white necktie. Turner is
pleasant looking enough, but II he Is
tall he must have grown since he left
Kansas the last time.
At the poultry show at Topeka last
week buff cochin pullet laid her first
egg since her arrival in America from
Lincolnshire. England. Her owner
took q pencil from his pocket, and
wrote on the egg, 'I'll mark this egg
Topeka, January IL, and when Matched
win name the bird Topeka"
Nobody seems to know just how fat
the Office of state printer is. 1t is.
claimed by some Of the papers that it Is
worth $4,000 q year, others place
the profits at $50, 900, and by some they
are estimated as low as 10000. It Is
pretty safe to say that the Office pays
expenses, or Cliff Baker would not Boz