Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

for an advance of half u cent per bushe
for mining coal.
Application has been made to Gov (.
Lewelling for the pardon of Fred Bas-
sett. son OF Judge Bassett, of Lawrence,
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
for six months for shooting and wounds
ing university student who was cross
ing his fathers property about year
ago.
Secretary Mohler, of the state board
of agriculture, said recently that he
had been over good part of the state,
nearly as far southwest as Hutchinson,
and that he thinks the outlook. espe-
cially for corn, is fattering. There
will be a fair yield of wheat and an
abundance of spring grains and fruits.
Wiley Welsh, who was sent to the
penitcntiary twelve years ago from
Woodson county for stealing an over
coat and a team of horses, has made
application to the governor for par
don. He says that he never committed
the crime, but that public sentiment
was so strong against him that fearing
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and was sentenced to seventeen years
in the penitentiary.
Fourth-class postmasters lately APP
pointed in Kansas: At Edison. Sher-
man county, Madison n. Smithie; ut
Lecompton, Douglas county, W. Il.
Smith: at Lenape, Leavenworth coun-
ty, William Shannon; ut Merriam,
johnson county. James NJ. Campbell;
Mt Osawkie, jefferson county, n. w.
Brammell: ut Cedar Point, Chase coun-
ty, l.. Lawrence; at Mayetia, jackson
county, c. Giipnant.
Tn answer to an inquiry as to whether
an offender under the prohibitory law.
who has been tried by the county au-
thority. can be tried again by the city
courts for violating prohibtory ordi-
nance, or vice vesa. Acknowledgements
Little has given the opinion that, al
though the courts of the different states
are at variance upon questions of this
sort. u citizen of Kansas should not be
twice put in jeopardy for the same of
Tense.
Acknowledgement Little now pro-
poses to make an advance upon the
banks of the state. He holds that the
recent agreement of certain banks to
charge for collecting checks, etc. was
in the nature of combine, and he has
issued circular letter to all county
attorneys informing them that such
agreements are in plain violation of the
antitrust law and calling upon them
toinstitute criminalproceedings against
all offenders.
The president has COMMITTED to inn
prisonmcnt for life the death sentence
of Edward Pickens, full blooded
Chickasaw Indian. who was convicted
of murder in the district of Kansas.
The ground for Communication is that
Pickens is of very low order of intel
ligence, whose surroundings have not
been favorable to the development of
moral sense, and there was some prov
ocation. The court officers all recon-
mcnded clemcncy.
BY prcconcerted arrangement be-
tween the mayors of the cities of Well
ington, Winfield. Arkansas City, South
Haven, Caldwell. Hutchinson and New
ton simultaneous bombardment of
the heavens was commenced about
noon on the 25th and. whether us re-
suit or not. all the country between and
for some miles beyond the radius
marked by these towns was deluged
with the heaviest rain that had fallen
for eight months. But the heaviest
rain for months also fell in other parts
of the state and in Missouri Mt the same
time.
Charles Schaeffer. the newly appoint
ed consul to Vera Cruz, recently applied
to the district court ut Wichita for nat
uralization papers. Mr. Schaeffer is n
Prussian by birth. lie came to America
when quite young and has been cXer-
cising the rights of citizenship for thir-
ty wears, but has never before found it
| necessary to have any record of his cit
izenship 1t seems his father failed to
take out the necessary papers, or If he
did left no record of them, and now
that Mr.. Schaeffer is going abroad he
desires to be able to claim American
nationality undisputed.
| A decision was rendered in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county the other
day affecting the fees of shcriffs where
property is sold under foreclosure. Tn
der the old mortgage law the sheriff
eceived certain percentage on the
sum for which the property was sold,
but the act passed last winter says the
sheriff is not entitled to such percent
age when the mortgages bid in the
property. The contention was that
the new act was in effect in this rela-
ton, but the court held that no part of
the law operates in cases arising out of
mortgages made before the statute was
passed.
The acknowledgement has arranged
for the encampments of the Kansas Ma
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