Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-02-11
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Charitable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dix Hob
son. Pomeroy, Nichols Of Seward. Knipe
Meagher
Miscellaneous.
The executive council is busy will
the question OF appointments.
Otis Wade, n brakeman, was killed
by Frisco train near Lyons the Other
day.
Senator Brown has introduced bill
to provide the public schools with free
text books.
Henry c. Burnett, formerly of Law.
renee and an old newspaper man, died
recently in New Mexico
DIR. McLallin, editor of the Topeka
Advocate, peoples party organ, is to be
commissioner of elections for Topeka.
A bill to provide penalties for the
adulteration of butter and cheese has
been introduced into the senate by Mr..
Sem.
Judge John Martin. recently elected
senator, reached Washington on the
9th and for time was upon the floor
of the senate.
Ed Leake, Kansas City Belt railway
switchman, was instantly killed under
a car in the Belt line yards at Armour
dale the other morning.
Col. Sam Walker, well known as q
prominent actor in the early free state
troubles died recently in Lawrence at
the age of II years. He was one of the
first settlers in the town, locating on
the townsite in 1854.
The other day the sheriff of Atchison
county received dispatch from Mus
cotah signed by James Fomby, which
read: Come ut once. am in danger
of being mobbed." The sheriff fastened
to his relief and instead of finding o
mob found Fomby to be lunatic.
At the recent annual meeting of the
State Bar association, held at Topeka,
officers were chosen US follows: Presi-
dent James Humphrey. Of Junction
City; vice president, II. L. Alden, Kan
sas City: secretary, c. j. Brown, Tope-
ka; treasurer, Howell Jones, Topeka.
A bill introduced in the Kansas sem
ate by Senator True provides that
railroad shall be compelled to put in a
private crossing whenever it is required
by q property holder, and further pro-
viding that q property holder may have
an open crossing put in ut his own ex-
pense.
DR.. 7. W. Brock attempted to cross
the Missouri river ut Leavenworth on
the ice the other day in q double buggy
when the ice broke and precipitated the
doctor and team into the river. He
had narrow escape from death. It
was an hour before one of the horses
was gotten out
Herman Lang, n young farmer living
at Jarbalo, Leavenworth county, died
the other night of hydrophobia. He
was bitten last July by rabid dog and
was treated with maidstone, which he
thought had cured him, but few days
before his death, while taxing n drink
of water, he was seized with convul-
sions which continued until he died.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Tacker, of Ar
mourdale, were chloroformed by burg
lars the other night, and when the
thieves departed they left the doors Of
the house open. When the parents re-
covered consciousness they found their
twin babies, boys only five days old,
that were sleeping in crib. so chilled
with the cold that they died in short
time.
Mr. Crumley, of Elk county, has in
troduced into the populist house a bill
to regulate and establish reasonable !
maximum charges for the transporta-
ton of passengers, freight and express
on the different lines of railroads in the |
state of Kansas, and providing for n
state board of railroad commissioners |
with general powers of supervision
over the transportation lines within
the state and giving tOsuch commission
full power and authority within certain
limits to control, fix aud regulate the
charges and rates to be collected by
railroads and transportation lines for
carrying passengers, freight and ex-
press over such roads and lines in Kan
sas, and to prevent unjust and unreas-
enable discrimination in such charges
Secretary of State Osborn will ask
the legislature to investigate the I'D.
of his predecessor, William
Higgins. Mr. Osborn has discovered
that Mr. Higgins turned in no fees to
the state treasurer, as required by the
act OF 1891. He finds that the average
receipts of fcss in the Office is about $40
4 day and, taking that as basis, Hig.
gins owes the state about $1,000. Hig.
gins admits that no fees were turned in
and says that this action was taken not
only by the secretary of state, but by
Ill the state officers affected by the
avs of 1891, on the ground that the
lees were a part of their salaries before
he law was passed and they could not,
lnder the constitution, be deprived Of
hem during the team for which they