Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-14

mill.
The Chapman creameEy VA DO start
Cd again.
The Severy Telegram has succeeded
the Record. ,.,..
The daily wages Of mechanics in Kan
sas last year averaged o23S.
A single firm in Cofeyville last week
shipped 1880 dozen eggs.
Congressman Anderson goes 70;
Egypt az consul Of the United States.
Colonel Gilmore Of the Wilson County,
Citizen Is now director Of the peniten-
tiary.
Wichita voted bonds to the amount of
$50 900 in aid Of the Wichita q Ell Paso
railroad.
The alliance agent at lawrence 10
short about a., 900 for grain received
from farmers.
Fifty-four families raised cocoons last
year and received an average Of e23.32:
per household.
Pittsburg business men have contrib.
uted e25, 900 to advertise that town o.
the worlds fair. =
The Washington Post says Blaine,
has Busted the B0urbons with Brains, T..
Brazil and Business.
The water works at C0nc0rdia arc,
paying expenses and making Q little.
money for the city besides.
Erie win give some genius . bonus
who will devise the means Of Kidding:
the town Of its surplus dogs.
Kansas farms are mortgagcd for
o235, O00, 900, and Ohio farms are plaster
Cd for ave times this amount.
Matters are shaping up at Emporia
for red-hot municipal election. Ono
Of the issues will be free coinage.
Web Wilder will engage in the publi1
cation Of o financial and insurance jour
nal at Kansas City after June 30.
On account OF the scarcity Of cases the
grand jury Of the United States district.
court ct Wichita has been discharged.
The amount Of taxation levied 0ns
Kansas last year was 90, 49,, 800. an:
average Of S2.72 for each 500 Of assessed
value.
Thomas county holds special election
March to vote $40, 600 to buy seed
wheat, corn, oats and potatoes for the
farmers.
Fifty-six carloads Of coal aggregating
2S,035 bushels, has been distributed by
the state among the needy settlers In
fifteen counties.
General Lyon Of the Kansas Depart.
ment Of the Knights Of Pythias muster
ed In uniform rank Of twenty-nine:
knights at Chetopa.
Two Atchinson women-Mrs. N. A..
Maher and Miss Fannie Harding
graduate from the st. Joseph medical
college next month.
EmpOria has union soldier just 90.
years old, who recently received peu-
sion. His days are being shortened by
exposure in the army. -
A Phillips county fruit grower pre-
vents the bugs in his peach orchard
from becoming too previous by putting
ice around the roo of the trees.
The Wichita Eagle wants the age of
consent raised to twenty-five years.
Colonel Murdoch thinks the boys are
able TO to take care Of themselves.
Wichita offers Garfield university to
Kansas on condition that it be maintain
ed as anormal school. Hereis chance
for the state to secure an elephant on,
tempting terms
A number of colleges which could not
gain admission to the state oratOrical
association have formed a seperate
They intend to hold
their first annual contest in Atchison
May %.
The Girard Press has looked up the
records Of the Santa Fe general Offices,
and finds that one OF the alliance mem
bers from that county. Mr.. A. j. Cory,
travels on q PISS, L, No, 451, good un-
til April l, 1851, over all the Santa Fe
lines in Kansas.
How Is this for marriage notice. It;
recently in Kansas paper.
Miss Rose Hobson and man named Howe
we're united in marriage at the homo OF the
BRIDES parents on Woodland avenue, on Satur!
lay morning at nine o'clock.
"A man named Howe" must have felt
battered by the notice.
The women OF Fort Scott, met in mass
convention few days ago and placed q
ull city ticket in the field. The candi-
lates for mayor and cOuncilmen are all
men of good moral character, while all
he candidates for members Of the
chool board are women Of acknowledge
d intelligence and business quail
ications.
It Is useless to oppose woman suffrage
n this'state. The women have an equal
loice with men in every farmers sub
alliance in Kansas. They have already
Von the day. It Is only the question Of
ne legislature or two before they will
70 as freely admitted to the ballot box
Q the men. The question has got past
discussion. The women have "got
here. State Journal.
Some farmers in Cloud county recently
with dynamite Is 0subsoil
r. Light charges were placed in the
round at distance of about six feet
part. The soil was not seriously