Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ing tree that he had cut down.
The senate, after heated contest,
finally confirmed the nomination Of ii.
Ii. Artz to be acknowledgement
The governor has nominated j. w.
Prudential. chairman of the populist
state central committee, to be bank cx-
amincr.
The five-year-old daughter of John
d. Reig, of Newton, was so badly
burned the other day that she died in
few hours
The governor has appointed j. +.
Todd, of Butler county, labor commits
missioner in place of Frank II. Betton,
of Wyandotte county.
Mayor Hacker, of Leavenworth, has
ordered Manager Elliott Alton to here
after keep the Crawford opera house
closed on Sundays. He has also ordered
all pool and billiard halls closed on Sun
day, ministers of the city having COM
planned to him.
Any one having knowledge of the
present address of Henry c. Croll, late
lieutenant company l, 10th Pennsyl'
vania drafted militia, will confer n
favor by sending the same to Lewis II.
Lutz, headquarters Ringgold artillery
camp No. II, Sons of Veterans, Read
! ing, Pa.
Dr. S. McLallin, who was appointed
commissioner of elections for Topeka
by Gov. Lewelling, is Ineligible, be-
cause the law creating the office pro-
vidcs that only persons who have bee
householders for three years may hold
the place, and DR.. McLallin has lived
there less than that period
While recently out hunting James
Higgins, son of the foreman of the
Lawrence canning factory, was acct
dentally shot by 4 gun in the hands of
a companion. The load tore the flesh
OFF Higgins right arm, broke two ribs
and tore the flesh from his breast in a
horrible manner His wounds are very
serious.
A call has been issued for n meeting
of the republican women of Kansas. at
Topeka, March 10, the date of the meet
ing of the republican state league, for
the purpose of organizing women's
republican association for Kansas,
which shall be auxiliary to the national
association presided over by Mrs j.
Ellen Foster
The Santa Fe east-bound passenger
train struck wagon load of people at
Syracuse the other evening, killing one
man and probably fatally injuring sew
eral others. The team was killed. The
train proceeded, but the sheriff tele-
graphed to Garden City to have the
train men arrested Names of the
killed and injured were not given.
Secretary Mohler, of the state board
of agriculture, has received reports
from part of the state which say that
the wheat crop throughout the western
half of the state is in fine condition,
while the crop in the eastern counties |
is injured on uplands where there is no
snow. Generally the crop is reported
in fair condition and has not been in |
jured by freezing and thawing.
President Fairchild, of the agricult-
ural college, called special meeting
of the board of regents of that institu-
ton to consider the matter of funds for
continuing the work of the school. The |
interest of the endowment for the past
sixteen months is locked up in the state
treasury and there is no prospect of its
speedy release. Meanwhile there is no
money to pay salaries aud other eX-
penses
On the 9TH the executive council
elected John Hall, of Neosho county,
the democratic member of the board of
railroad com missioners, and on the fol-
lowing day elected p. B. Maxson, of
Emporia, and w. d. Vincent, of Clay
Center to fill the places occupied by
Messrs. Anthony and Greene. Prior to
the election the council declared the
positions held by Messrs Anthony and
vacant.
The Richardson general merchandise
stock, which was being sold at Newton
under mortgage, was nearly all con-
sumed the other morning by fire, which
started in an upper story from pan of
hot ashes set in the hall. All the cloth
ing, shoes and notions in the stock were
destroyed, n few groceries and ladies'
dress goods being all that was saved.
The damage to the stock was estimated
ut 10000; insured for $1,000
The attorney for Col Moore in the
Moore-Funston contest case, wherein
Moore is contesting Funstou's seat in
congress, has been taking testimony at
Lawrence to be presented to the COM
nittee of elections in the lower 'house
1t Washington. The contest in Doug
as county is based on alleged illegal
7otes cast by the superintendent of the
United States Indian school and vari-
JUS of his employees and other minor
In the Moore-Funston contested cleo
ion case when the commission was
aking testimony at Kansas City, Kan,