Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Santa Fe is seriously affecting the NOV
ing of freight.
Gov. Lewelling has appointed DR.. Z.
L. Pattee, of Manhattan. surgeon-gen-
eral of the Kansas national guard.
j. +. McMullen, a lawyer of Winfield,
has been convicted of having embez-
zled $4,000 from the Winfield Building
Il Loan association of which he was
secretary.
Lawrence Ochs, 81 years old. was
found hanging to the end of clothes
line suspended from a rafter of his barn
in Kansas City, Kan, the other morn
ing. The deed was due 10 despond-
ency. His wife died last September
and he has brooded over it ever since.
c. II. j. Taylor, the colored demo
cratic lawyer of Kansas City. Kan. has
been appointed by President Cleveland
recorder of deeds for the District OF
Columbia. The position is said to he
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 u year.
Fred Douglass held it few years ago.
An unknown man was found dead by
the railroad track two miles south of
was a wound on the top of his head,
but it was not known whether he was
killed by the cars or murdered The
man was about 80 years old and fairly
well dressed.
IT is stated that the case against DIR.
]. l.. Viewer. surgeon of the soldiers
home. now pending before the board OF
managers. has been adjourned to
Leavenworth. Charges We're preferred
against Gov. Smith by DR.. Viewer, and
the hearing of these has also been ad-
journed to Leavcnworth.
Judge Reed. of Wichita. has rendered
decision on the new mortgage re-
demption law and holds that the part
of limiting sheriff fees in foreclosure
cases to $40 is in force on existing con-
tracts. but that the eighteen months re-
demption does not affect the mortgages
made before the law went into effect.
The hide establishment of benjamin
Mclean & Co., in Armourdalc. was
lately taken possession of by the sheriff
of Wyandotte county, under attach
ments aggregating 100. The firm
is one of the oldest institutions in Kan
sas City. having been established in
1866 by the late Benjamin Mclean. 1t
has branches in New York. Chicago.
Pueblo. Col. and Santa Fe. y. NJ.
Chairman Breidenthal, of the peoples
party state central committee. says that
30 per cent. of the replies to his letters
to county committees asking for the
sentiment of the popnlists ON IN extra
session of the Legislature are oppose" 10
it. He says he sent out the inquiries
to test the feeling. and that unless it is
shown that majority of the people
want an extra session it will not be
called.
Cyrus Leland. United States collector
of internal revenue. swore out war
rant ut Topeka the other day for the
arrest of Il. s. Osborne. secretary of
state. on charge of criminal libel in
stating that he CLeland) had received
coal from the state mines ut Lansing ut
a nominal cost and sold the same to
parties in Doniphan county. Leland
says there is not particle of truth in
the statements of Secretary Osborne.
The Encouragement has decided
that the superintendent of insurance
has the power to compel insurance
companies to submit to the jurisdiction
OF the courts of the state in litigating
their losses. and may revoke their au-
thority to do business in the state for
removing. or attempting to remove,
actions commenced against them in
the state courts to the federal courts,
when such attempted removal is in
tended to delay the trial of the cause.
About thirty editors of all parties
ganized the Kansas Editorial associa-
ton by electing Charles +. Scott. of
lola. president: DR.. 5. McLallin, of
Topeka, vice president: j. L. junk
in, of Sterling, secretary, and [.
q. Cowgirl, of Topeka, treasurer.
Thirty-two delegates were chosen to
attend the national editorial conven-
ton which is to sit in Chicago from
May is to ~. The next meeting of the
Kansas association is To be in October.
Nineteen men brought on from Phila-
delphia to take the places of strikers at
Topeka, decided that they had been de-
ceived and asked General Manager
Frey to furnish them return transport
tation. The governor and other state
officers joined them in making the re-
quest. which was refused by the gen.
eral manager. The latter in letter to
the governor said that these men 'are
all able bodied, strong and healthy and
can have work ut good wages and that
he does not consider them proper sub
jects for charity"
In reply to an inquiry from the super
intendent of insurance Assistant Attor-
ney-General Allen has written an opin-
ION in which he holds that, as the SUI