Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-11
miscellaneous.

Cowley. Chautauqua, Elk, Harvey, Harper.
Sedgwick and Sumner
Miscellaneous.
There were only five votes in the
Kansas senate against the equal suf-
frage resolution and seventeen in the
house.
A resolution has been introduced into
the legislature looking to an investiga-
ton of the state grain inspector. He is
charged with exacting extortionate fees.
The governor has appointed L. Van
Vorhis. of Lawrence: DR.. &. Bohrer, OF
Chase, and Julius II. Stewart, Of Good
land. members of the board of mana
gers OF the soldiers home at Dodge City.
The Leavenworth county commission
ers have notified the township assessors
that unless legal assessment on
cash basis is made, they not only will
get no pay but will be amenable to
state laws for perjury.
R.C. Foster has been appointed COM
missioner of elections of Kansas City,
Kan, and William Pray (rep), A. w.
Cunningham (pop), and George w.
Mitchell dem commissioners. Foster
succeeds w. b. Taylor, who has held
the position since the office was crea-
ted.
The charges made by q Topeka paper
that sum of money had been sent
from Kansas City to the governor. his
private secretary and James +. Legate
to influence the appointment Of the
police commissioners of that city, is to
be investigated by senate committee
during recess.
The governor has made the following
appointments: Frank Harold, commits
sioner of elections for Topeka; Anthony
Gallagher, of Coffey county. state mine
inspector, and T. L. Hull, Eureka; Ed.
NJ. Turner, Marysville; John !. Brown,
Minneapolis, members of the state live
stock sanitary commission.
The sheriff of Atchison county has
gone to Los Angeles, Cal, in response
to a telegram stating that F. NJ. fow-
Ter. the lawyer who recently ran away
from Atchison, leaving his family and
MANY debts behind, had been arrested
The sheriff was armed with Il warrant
charging Fowler with embezzlement
March was payday in the state
house ut Topeka and every officer and
employe in the building received his or
her money except Railroad Commits
sioners Hall and Vincent and their con-
testants, Anthony and Mitchell. No
demand was made for these salaries
and none will be until the supreme
court passes upon the disputed question.
Superintendent of Insurance Mcbride
has refused to re-license the CONNER
cial Union Assurance Co. of London,
England, and the Peoples Fire lnsur-
ance Co of Manchester. n H., to do
business in the state. The companies
are charged with violating the law
which forbids companies to write poll
cies on Kansas property except through
agents residing in the state.
Republican senators held n caucus in
Washington few days ago and in the
case of Judge Martin 1t was decided
that the question whether Mr.. Martins
seat should or should not be contested,
was one that must be decided by the
republicans of Kansas. II they insist
upon an investigation into the matter,
the republicans will conduct such an
| inquiry in the senate, but otherwise no
steps will be taken in the senate.
The governor has made the following
appointments of worlds fair commits
toner's under the new law: First dis
urict, Ex-Gov. Click (dem), OF Atchi-
son; Second district, H. II. Kerns
(dem. }, Bonner's Springs; Third district
Senator L. p. King (pop.), of Cowley
county: Fourth district 7. j. Ander-
son rep }, of Topeka; Fifth district, A.
p Collins (pro) J, of Minneapolis; Sixth
district, Mrs. NJ A. Clark (pop). OF
Beloit; Seventh district, NJ. Cobun
(pop.), of Barton county.
The report of the superintendent OF
insurance for 1892 shows that the total
amount of fire insurance written by the
regular old-line fire companies amount-
ed last year to s142. 146, 1913; by the Kan
sas mutuals, s11, 800, 35l; total, 1888. 49,
474. The premiums received by the old
line companies amounted to s2,02S,-
1874 20; by the mutuals, S215, SSl.S5; total,
g., a44, O66.Oa The old-line companies
paid losses in Kansas amounting to sl,-
OH, ass. 20 and the mutuals' losses aggre-
gated si0O, 476 90. Allowing IS per cent.
for expenses of management, which Is
the average per cent, the old-line COM
panies made net profit OF over 10 per
cent on their Kansas business