Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Congressman Funston voted against
and Congressman Frederick for the free
binding Irvine bill on its final passage
in the house.
p. =. Wheeler, n farmer living near
Axtell. fell from u windmill tower re-
Gently and was so badly injured that
he died in II few hours.
The freight and passenger depot at
Holiday burned about o'clock the
other night The fire caught in the oil
room. The loss is $4,000.
The United States grand jury Mt To
pela failed to indict Sol Miller, OF the
Troy Chief, charged with sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails.
The Kansas board of managers for
the worlds fair made contract with
Fellows &c Vansant for the construction
of the Kansas building at Chicago ut
$l9,995.
A landslide occurred on the Rock
Island road at the north edge of Lcav-
enworth the other night that covered
the track for distance of several hun
dred feet.
The coolest April since 1884, the
windiest since 1880 and the cloudiest
on the whole twenty-five years record"
is the report of Chancellor Snow on the
weather for April.
The second district republican con-
vention met ut Lawrence on the 2Sth and
E,,nutnV for
Sress The vote stood, Funston, 10;
Blue, 10; johnson, o.
In a saloon mt Caldwell the other
night Bert Williams. a bartender, quar-
relied with Charles Smith and shot him
four unexpectedly fatally. Williams
fed but was soon after arrested.
The thirty-cighth animal session OF
the Congregational ministers and
churches of Kansas met ut Salina on the
Sd with $50 representatives present.
The association was in session six days
The board of county commissioners
of Sedgwick county lately instructed
the assessor to tax all judgments the
same as other personal property. Most
of these judgments are held by eastern
monied men as relics of the Wichita
boom and great many are compare
lively worthless. The result, it is
thought, will be the cancelling of many
judgments.
Senator Perkins has introduced bill
for the relief of Henry Hicks, post
master at Cambridge, Cowley county.
In January, 1891, burglars broke into
his Office and stole all his stamps and
postal cards. The amount taken and
the amount expended by the postmaster
in the pursuit and arrest of the burglar
was s237. He now asks congress to re-
imburse him in that amount.
, The state convention of dentists, re-
Gently in session at Fort Scott, elected
the following officers: DIR. j. A. Roberts,
of Sabetha, president; DIR. c. Z. Esterly,
of Lawrence, first vice-president; DIR. l..
NJ. Green. of Junction City, second vice
president; DR.. j. p. Root, of Kansas
CITY, Kan, secretary: DIR. r. A. WATSON,
of Ottawa, treasurer Topeka was
chosen as the place for the next annual
meeting.
The Hutchinson Salt CO. has made
complaint to the railroad commission
that the roads have raised the rates
from Hutchinson to the northern part
of the state very considerable, and at
the same time inaugurated a rate per
ton per mile from Chicago to points in
Kansas that is less than One-half the
rate per ton from Hutchinson to the
same points, and they ask that the
rates of year and half ago be rein
stated.
The Interstate commerce commission
has announced its decision Of the cases
brought by the Anthony Salt Co., and
other Kansas salt manufacturers against
the Missouri Pacific, and other Kansas
roads. The case is dismissed as to
points in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
but it is held that rates on salt to
points south and southwest of Hutchin-
son, Kan, and st. Louis, Mo-, do con-
stitute undue preference in favor of
Michigan as against Kansas salt and
that they should be readjusted by the
Santa Fe system so that while observ-
ing the law as to the long and short
haul the advantage of distance belong
ing TO Kansas salt fields shall be given
to them in any territory supplied by
lines which lie as near or nearer to
Hutchinson than st. Louis.
The report of Chancellor Snow on eX-
periments with his chinch bug eXtermi-
nator for the past year shows that field
experiments were made in seventy-eight
counties in Kansas last year. The total
number of experiments made was 1881.
OF these pos were successful, 1877 were
failures and 100 were doubtful. Expert
ments made in other states bring the
total number that were successful up to
1,OTl. In his summary of crops saved
rs the result of his experiments Chan
cellor Snow says: ''In making their re-
,.c.-ts ne O., fba ha,,aff vaoaix,ad from the