Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

pointed postmistress at Baldwin City.
The state cncampment G. A. Il. will
be held Mt Pittsburg February 81, -
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Nearly $1,000 was paid to Finney
county farmers one day lately for cattle
to BE- shipped east.
Benson, the Mettmann murderer, will
be taken to Topeka to again have the
sentence of death pronounced upon
him
The snow storm of the 18th was the
heaviest ut some points that had been
for years At Emporia fully foot of
snow fell.
On the night of the 9th Il heavy snow
storm prevailed in northwestern Kan
sas 1t seriously interfercd with rail-
road traffic.
Rev. f. X. Brooke, pastor of Trinity
church in Atchison, will be ordained
bishop of Oklahoma and the Indian
territory at Topeka on January O.
Thc.state board of charities has pre-
scented report to Gov. Humphrey in
favor of largely increasing the capacity
of the state reform school for boys at
Topeka. Al present the school will not
accommodate onc-half the applications.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial as
ISOLATION met at Topeka on the 18th.
About fifty newspapers were repre-
scented. Resolutions on the death of
the late Frank Lynch, of the Leaven-
worth Standard. were adopted. 1t was
decided to hold another meeting in To-
peka, January IA.
Lizzie Williams, an eightcen-year-old
negro girl whose home is Mt Kansas
City. shot and killed Ed Parks, a negro
lad about the same age, at CoIfeyville,
recently. Parks was her sweetheart and
was visiting her at her boarding place
when the fatal shot was fired The
shooting was accidental rs they were
playing with II revolver and it was acci-
dentally discharged.
W. II. Hussey, county clerk of Has
lsell county. declared in recent inter-
view that the mistake in transmitting
the returns for member of the legisla-
ture from his county, and which showed
that Stubbs instead of Rosenthal was
making them out, and that he will do
all in his power to remedy the wrong
done Mr.. Rosenthal, who is clearly en-
titled to the certificate.
George O. Sharp, postmaster at Kick
apoo, is the oldest postmaster in the
United States, having served Uncle
Sam for over fifty years. He first held
office in Virginia in 1887, and has been
postmaster ut Kickapoo continuously
since 1857. He has been justice of the
peace for Kickapoo township for thirty
two years and was again elected No
vember last. He is over eighty years
of age and scarcely knows what it is to
have m ache or pain.
Ellsworth Wyatt, member of the
Dalton gang who was arrested i'll Terre
Haute, Ind, was jailed at Topeka the
other night while being taken to Okla
homa Sheriff Bensall, of kiowa county,
Kan, and Sheriff lliXson, of Guthrie Ok,
both OF whom had acquisitions for him,
accompanied him. Wyatt is charged
with the killing Deputy Sheriff Balfour,
of Kiowa county, July 4, last, and re-
ward of $1,000 was offered by the state
and friends of the murdered man for
his arrest and conviction. The COM
plant from Oklahoma was for horse
stealing and 81, 400 had been offered for
his arrest and conviction. When Okla
homa gets through with him Kansas
will take him in hand.
The supreme court has decided that it
is not necessary for q county attorney
to be lawyer rs long as he is recog-
nized by the judge of the district court
of his county as the county attorney.
The decision is made in case from OF
tawa county where Z. A. Halderman
was elected county attorney and had
not been admitted to the bar. One
Smith was convicted of murder under
his prosecution and appealed to the
supreme court on the ground that the
county attorney, not having been a
regularly admitted attorney at the bar,
had no right to practice in the district
court. The supreme court in deciding
the case says that where the county at
torney has been regularly elected to
that office by the people and is so recog-
nized by the district court and has reg
ular legal assistance the supreme court
cannot but sustain the decision of the
lower court in cases appealed on that
ground.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage associa-
ton met in Enterprise in annual ses-
sion on the sth with about $50 dele
gates present The convention was
called to order by Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns,
president of the association, and the
welcoming address was delivered by
Hon. C. B. Hoffman and responded to
by Mrs. Beleville-Bsown, of Salina-
Mrs Johns, in the presidents an
nual address, said: This is the
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