Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-28
KAMsAs VOTES.

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the house.
Hutchinson Is shipping horses 10 Old
Mexico by the Car load.
Abilene people are considerably agi-
tated over the scarcity Of water.
It cost q Linn county man an average
Of 81 day TO winter 10 head Of calves
and yearling.
Senator-elect PETER says that he il
Tor 'the suffrage Of women, whether she
wants II or not"
Last year there there were sixty
camps Of Sons Of Veterans organized in
the state Of Kansas.
Joe Shackleford, late Of the Belle
vile Telescope, has invested in paper
In Connersville, Ind.
According to the Globe eleven citk
sens OF Atchi'on are employed a. baR
tenders at st. Joseph.
There Is deaf mute lady setting tyne
in the state printing Office at Topeka,
and she belongs to the printers union.
Realestate men at lola cannot remem-
Der the time when there was such q
demand for farm property as at present.
There were II, 6l2 teachers employed
last year In the schools Of this state.
Tho number Of school houses is g.
81.
Smallpox Is reported at little town
named Allen in Lyon county and cases
are also reported near Sedan In Chau-
tauQua equity.
The reform press Of the state is 10
hold q convention at Hutchinson on the
Ath, to which the 116 reform editors
have invitations.
Attorney General Ives decides that
county commissioners are criminially
liable when county warrants are issued
In excess OF the levy.
A careful and impartial canvass OF
Abiline by the city marshal discloses
the fact that there are 128 dogs in that
town subject to taXstion.
Last week q Sedgwick county farmer
sold fourteen bushels OF apples in Wich-
ita for 81 cash. His orchard last year
Melted MIN over 81, 900 per acre.
w. F. Rightmire has moved his law
Office to Topeka though It was decided
last fall by vote of the people that he
should remain at Cottonwood Falls.
At the teachers examination at
Leavenworth the other day eighteen
applicants presented themselves for
certificates, but only nine Of them pass
ed.
Captain Jacob B. Chase, one Of the
four men who located the original site
OF Topeka died recently at his
home in Newburyport, Mass, aged 70
years.
Emporia News: The fact that John
Waller has been appointed to consul.
ship in southern Africa IL substantial
Evidence that the president bears Kan
sas no Ill will.
OF the thirteen alliance members
elected to congress last fall five are
from Kansas. Georgia sends three,
Nebraska two, Minnesota one and
South Carolina one.
Fredonia's canning factory has twelve
car loads of tin coming to be manufac.
tured into cans for next summers work.
The company will take care Of 976, 900
worth OF truck" next season.
Elders mortgage bill has passed tha
house and will be considered by the
senate. Il gives two years stay In
the process Of foreclosure, but win not
effect mortgages already made.
The attendance at Bethany college OF
Lindsborg, this year is 3l5. The insti.
tuition last year was not only self sup
porting but netted gain Of 5000 and
1t will do better than that this year.
Jacob Letter, an old soldier Of Jewell
county recently wrote TO President
Harrison TO hurry up his pension, a. he
was about to lose his farm. In two
weeks the pension allowance and ten
years arrearage came, and the farm
was saved.
It is understood that II Major Hood Of
EmpOria removes to Kansas City to
take the presidency Of the American
National bank, Senator Plumb viii pur-
chase the majors home, which is tho
finest in Emporia and one Of The best In
Kansas.
The supreme court has atfirmed the
Judgment of the Marshal county
district court in the case Of Ira N.
Hodges and A. G. Emmons, the bankers
who received deposits when they knew
the bank was insolvent, and they will
60 to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Judge l. D. Bailey of Garden City
says that $4,000 acres Of crops will Be
irrigated this year in western Kansas.
TwO-thirds OF this area will be In Fin
ney county and the remainder win he
equally divided between Ford and Kear-
ney counties. The cost Of irrigation Is
about Sl.25 an acre.
The following are exempt from jury
service in Kansas: A member q any
volunteer fire company, Clergymen,
practitioner of medicine, attorney,
clerk or other officer Of court Ferry
keeper. postmaster, overseer, coroner,
constable, miller or professor In any