Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-05-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

appointed consul ut Vera Cruz.
The late rains, il is stated, have in
sured good wheat crop to Reno
county.
Argentine and Kansas City, Kan,
have gotten into rumpus over grain
inspection.
II is stated that the state normal
school has arranged for an excursion to
the worlds fair. A special train will
leave Emporia just after commence
ment. designed TO accommodate the
faculty. alumni and students and their
friends.
Ex-Trcasurer Lands. of Stafford
county. was found guilty by II Rice
county jury recently of stealing $4,000
of the county's funds and sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary. 1t is
said that he will never live to complete
his term, as he is now broken down
man.
At the late meeting of the Kansas
commandery of the Loyal Legion in
Lcavenworth George Il. Anthony was
chosen commander; Maj. Il. Cushing,
u. S. A., senior vice commander: il. w.
Pond. Fort Scott, junior vice command
or, and Capt. +. ii. Hathaway, u. $. A.,
recorder.
The governor was recently notified
by telegraph that 800 head of cattle
shipped into Chautauqua county were
stopped at Juniata and quarantined by
"A posse of thirty farmers. who were i'm
formed that the cattle were from the
fever district. The live stock commits
sion went down to investigate.
A cutting affray took place among
the employees of st. Josephs hospital ut
Leavcnworth the other day, during
which John Ethel received Il dangerous
wound He was stabbed by John Roth,
who accused him of eating ahead OF
the rest and of taking all the meat.
The assault occurred mt the dinner
table. Roth was arrested.
Mrs. Anna Potter, who received TWEEN
ty-fvc votes for mayor at the late cleo
ton in Kansas City. Kan, filed IA state
mcnt of her campaign expenses in ac-
cordance with the new law. According
TO her affidavit the twenty-five votes
that Mrs Potter got cost her Il fraction
over s3.l each, for her expense account
shows that she spent S19.1G. The most
of it went for brass music.
The boycott on the Union Pacific
railway. maintained since last October
by the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Bur
lington railways. has been raised so
far as the Santa Fc is concerned.
Tourists may now go to the Pacific
coast over the Santa Fe and return on
the Union Pacific. or they may go to
Denver on the Union Pacific and con-
tinuc their journey on the Santa Fc.
Frank Segor, young farmer. disap-
Deared from his home near Wichita the
other day and the next morning his
body was found on an island south OF
the city. a bottle of morphine that
he had purchased was found empty in
his pocket and also note of farewell
20 his wife and three children. Finan-
cial worry as well as the modification
of having been arrested were the causes
of the suicide.
Judge Iiazen, of the district court, ut
Topeka. has decided that the mortgage
redemption law enacted by the last
Legislature does not apply to existing
contracts. The decision was in a case
10 forcclose second mortgage on a
farm in Shawnee county The decision
is the second in its line in the state
since the enactment of the law. The
first was by Judge Reed, of Sedgwick
f4nr l,. l,xs
At the late meeting of the Homeo-
pathic Medical association Mt Topeka
the following officers were elected:
President, DIR. +. X. Thompson, of Nc
Pherson: vice president. DIR. q. II. AM
,derson. of Lawrence: recording secre-
tary, DIR. G. +. Mcnninger, of Topeka;
corresponding secretary, DIR. Eva Hard
ing. of Topeka; treasurer, Dr. Peter
DIETRICH, of Kansas City. Board of CEN
,ors: DIR. &. II. II. Johnson, of Law
renee: DIR. +. Il. Mcintyre, of Topeka;
Dr. w. A. Minnick, of Wichita.
Gov. Lewelling has telegraphed to
the president of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas road, calling his attention to
the law of Kansas requiring all Kansas
corporations to maintain their general
Offices in the state, and warning him
that steps would be taken by the state
to revoke the charter unless the gencr-
al offices should be moved back to Kan
sas from ST. Louis. The governor also
notified Acknowledgement Little of his
action and unless the company moves
its offices back at once suit in quo
'yyarranto will be instituted in the SUI
preme court
Kansas secured batch of fourth.
class postmasters on the sth, all to fill
vacancies caused by designations. They
were: q. NJ. A. Samuels, ut Boicourt,
Linn county; w. J. Stone, at Fulton,
Bourbon county; G. w. Daniels, at Gar
field. Pawnee county; Miss c. L. Porter,