Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Elmer Coiner was killed at dance
at Toad-a-Loup, near Argentine, the
other night.
The state fair at Topeka was great
success. A large crowd attended on
big Thursday.
Mrs. Murray, baker ut the state i'm
beetle asylum, has made serious
charges against DR.. Pitcher, head Of
the institution, which will doubtless
be investigated.
Gov. Lewelling has ordered the Met
ropolitan police of Kansas City, Kan,
against the gambling shops and other
dens of vice in that city.
During the month of September the
state purchased s2S, 100 of school bonds;
bonds were paid off amounting to $3.50,
and 50, S7S, sos 13 in bonds were on hand
ut the close of the month.
The governor has offered reward Of
$500 for the arrest of the brute who re-
| Gently assaulted Miss Barr at Fort
Scott. This has been added to by citi-
zens and the total reward is $500.
The state board of pardons now has
sixty applications for clemency before
it. Among them is Robert Snyder, of
Butler county. who is serving life
sentence for the murder of his wife.
In the district court at Topeka Judge
Hazen overruled the motion for new
trial in the libel case against Secretary
of State Osborn, and notice of appeal
was given. Pending the preparation
of the papers in the supreme court case
sentence was suspended
The report of State Treasurer Biddle
for September shows the total receipts
for the month to have been s40,0l6. SO
and disbursements s143.576.44 with
balance on hand at the close of the
month of ss56,93l.03. The state peni-
Tertiary earned s6,SO9.Ol during the
month.
The executive committee of the Kan.
sas bar association has arranged the
programme for the annual meeting of
the association, which will be held ut
Topeka, January 90. Judge Henry
Wade Rogers. president of the North
western university, of Chicago, will
deliver the principal address.
A negro brute called ut the residence
of L. c. Barr, in Fort Scott, just before
noon the other day and asked his
daughter, young lady of IS years, for
something to eat. She was alone at
the time and refused him. wherenpon
he assaulted her in brutal manner
and fled. The whole town was aroused
and hundreds of men were looking for
the villain with the determination Of
lynching him.
August Noltemeyer, German immi- |
grant, arrived at Wichita the other
day, and when he was preparing to
leave the train his valise was missing.
which contained 5000, 5000 of which
was in German monev. There was no
clew to the robber. Noltemsyer was
on his way to the Cherokee strip and
stopped off at Wichita 10 meet some
acquaintances who could give him in
formation relative to the new country. !
He could not speak word of English.
Reports of the grand officers ]. o. O. |
+. show there are in Kansas 404 work |
ing lodges with total membership of
y, 913, an increase of 2,35i during the |
year The order has $3.50. SIS. ~ invest !
ed in real estate, bonds and other prop |
crty and has paid out for relief Si9.- i
5OS.S2. An interesting history and de-
scription are given of the Odd Fellows !
orphans home constructed Mt Silkville, |
Franklin county. There are forty |
rooms, accommodating seventy-five |
children. In connection with the home
is farm from which there was large |
crop harvested this year, the cash re-
ceipts from this resource being $4,000
Two convicts. who escaped from the
penitentiary and were recaptured, were
recently taken before Judge Myers ut
Leavenworth to be sentenced to prison
again under provision of the state law
which declares that prisoners who at
tempt to escape can be taken before
district judge and sentenced to serve
their terms over again. Judge Myers
refused to sentence the prisoners and
declared the law unconstitutional in
asmuch as it violated the constitution
of the United States and the state of
Kansas by depriving man of his lib
erty without n trial by jury. The judge
also held that penitentiary officers
could not hold prisoners day longer
than their regular terms under any
prison rule or pretext
The secretary of the state board of
agriculture is trying to devise some
plan whereby western Kansas farmers
will be enabled to get seed wheat this
fall. He suggests that in each county
needing seed wheat the county clerk
in the name OF the board of county
commissioners, call a meeting of the
citizens. and that the people in mass
authorize and direct the
county commissioners to ascertain in
way may seem best to them
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