Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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John Horton died ut Wichita the other
day from wounds inflicted with knife
by Artic Gates. Gates fed but was ar-
rested.
The Southern Kansas Poultry asso-
citation has determined to hold its an
nual poultry show at Wichita, Decem-
Der 2S to January l.
NJ. X. Nichols, late republican candi-
date for the legislature from the coun-
try district of Atchison county, will
contest. the election of C. A. Wo ID
worth, the populist candidate, who re-
ceived majority of twenty-nine votes.
Officers at the state penitentiary
deny most positively that they propose
to walk out in u body whenever War.
den Case rctires. They declare that
they are servants of the state and will
do their duty Us long rs the state needs
them.
1t has been settled that the next
official state paper of Kansas will be
the Topeka Advocate, which has been
accepted as the official paper of the peo-
pies party. The Advocate is weekly
paper, but arrangements are being
made to convert it into daily.
Mr.. Hosenthal, the straightout demo-
crat elected from Haskell county, but
who failed to get his certificate, de-
clares that the returns were falsified by
the county clerk, who is his personal
enemy. 1t is said the clerk has disap-
peared. There seems to be but little
doubt that Mr.. Rosenthal will finally
get his seat
The Kansas State Temperance union,
recently in session at Topeka, elected
officers as follows: President, Rev. u.
C. Miner; vice president, Samuel I.
Howe; secretary, f. o. Popenoe; treas
urer, Mrs. $. A. Thurston. The execu.
tive committee is headed sby James A.
Troutman and !. o. Pickering, the late |
prohibition candidate for governor.
In canvassing the votes for rcpresen-
tatives, the official returns sent from |
Haskell county showed that Stubs,
republican, received 1856 votes and Ro-
senthal, democrat, 1913 A certificate
was given Stubbs. This will result in
a contest, as it is claimed that the vote
as cast was just the rcverse-the clerk
of the county, it is said, made mis-
take in carrying out the figures and
gave Stubs Rosenthal's vote.
II. L. Martin, of Chicago. was arrest
ed at Wichita the other day for fraudu-
lent use of the mails He had been
operating over the entire west and is
said to have obtained in the aggregate
large sums of money from dealers in
different lines of goods, who sell under
government license. Martins plan
was to write these individuals and I'M
der prctense of having evidence to con-
vict them of offenses against Uncle
Sam demanded . certain amount of
hush money.
Tie supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the Judgment of the
lower court by which c. A. Benson was
convicted of the murder of Mrs Theresa
Mettmln on the military reservation at
Fort Lcavenworth. Benson sought to
escape m the plea that he slio::ia have
been tried in the state and not in fed
eral courts, for the reason that the
and on which the murder was COM
nitted was used for farming and not
Tor military purposes. Benson will,
therefore, hang.
Mrs. John Taylor, wife of a farmer
living south of Abilene, was recently
arrested on the charge of numbering
her husband Mr.. Taylor died Septem-
Der Is, and recently his body was ex-
numed and examined by State Chemist
Bailey, with the result that strong
traces of poison were found The fact
that the two had not lived together
was the principal reason of
suspicion attaching to her. She adj
nitted that poison had been bought by
herself and that it was in the house,
but did not know how he got it.
According to the official returns the
oopulists elected three of the seven dis
,rict judges chosen. They are: L. A.
Myers, OF the First judicial district;
William A. Randolph, of the Fifth, and
4. NJ. Jackson, of the Thirteenth. The
republicans elected W. d. Webb in the
second district, z. r Hazen in the
Third, +. w. Sturgis in the Twelfth
Ind w. &. Eastland in the Fourteenth.
These, with Thompson, of Sabetha;
Nackay, of Harper, and Bashore, of
Iingman, give to the populists six Of
he thirty-five judges of the state
Gov-elect Lswelliug declares that he
will pay no more attention to appoint
1ents until after his Inauguration. He
aid, in a late interview: my time
will be fully occupied from now on in
making arrangements for my family in
topeka and in preparing my inaugural
ddress My correspondence has been
o voluminous that it has been impossi-
lie for my Office to catch up with the
york, SO we will let all matters per
aiming to appointments severely alone,