Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS

II Col Blue has int~ca0eed bill In tn,
house Of representatives covering Quan
tren raid claims ting TO $500, 0OO
which the state has paid or assumed
ana which II Is sought to have the gov
eminent repay to the state
On December esd the state treasur
er's books showed the cash OH hand I,
be sa4s,4 "a so the smallest amoun
that has been In the treasury for sew
eral years. This was accounted for BY
the heavy appropriations and the
hardness OF counties In RENTING tas
collections. Only one county Sumner
had paid It's taxes.
NJ. Z. Lowe, ex-city scaveneer OF
OF Topeka, was recently arrested on
the charge Of being the party who re-
Gently robbed graves in that city and
sold them to the medical college. DR.
Minney. dean Of the college. and two
students were also arrested on the
charge Of arranging with Lowe for
the bodies. The three latter gave
bonds.
The body OF the man recently found
with his throat cut near Piper, Wyan.
dotte county, was later identified as
that OF Phillip Belt, u veteran who
had been IN inmate Of the soldiers
home. lie drew pension OF SIC per
month and had just drawn three
months pay when he disappeared. Cir
cumstances pointed TO murder and
robbery.
Stock in the vicinity Of Indcpcnd.
ence which have been fed upon corn
or the fodder which was covered with
water during the high waters last fall
were said to be dying under symptoms
which cannot be accounted for. They
would be suddenly attacked with some
disease resembling what Is known rs
the blind staggers and die In short
time, medical aid proving OF no benefit
In many cases.
Representative Curtis has intro
duced bill in congress for the PEN
sioning of the heirs Of the young men
killed ut Lawrence on the morning
Of the Quan,rell raid In 1869. There
were 81 of these recruits. They had
been examined and were to have been
mustered into the service rs members
of the 18th Kansas cavalry on the cath
OF August, 1868, but on the morning Of
the ed Quantrell's raiders killed II Of
them.
Kansas Is represented on the house
committees us announced by Speaker
Reed, as follows: Col Blue Is on the
appropriations COMMITTEES; Frederick,
judiciary and militia; Calderhead. bank
ing and currency and railroads and
canals; Kirkpatrick andBaker, invalid
pensions; Curtis, expenditures In in.
terror department, Indian affairs and
public lands; Long, accounts and post
offices; Miller. expenditures in the
treasury department
The state auditors records show that
number OF counties IRE delinquent in
the payment Of state taxes Up to the
end of 1894 the sum total OF this delin-
quency was s23s. 3s40l. For the year
1895 numb Der Of counties will become
delinquent by reason OF the error OF
the county clerks in extending the tax
roll upon the assessment, rs returned
by the local assessors, instead OF upon
the assessment rs fixed by the state
board OF equalization.
When interviewed rs to his opinion
of the presidents message on the
Venezuela dispute Gov. Morrill, said:
IAN Americans who are Americans in
patriotic spirit will indorse the mes
sage. 1t is bold. courageous and
timely. 1t is what the people were
looking for. and II England insists
upon war, they will respond as one
man to the presidents call for troops,
and in that event Kansas may be de.
pended upon to furnish her full quota"
A citizen OF Wichita is said to have
received letter from W. p. Patterson,
the hotel keeper Of Arkansas City who
had been sent to the penitentiary for
completely in the murder Of cattle.
man. and whose dead body las was
was shipped from the peni-
about year ago. Patterson
Is quoted as saying that he paid pen
ntiary official $1,000 for his liberty
and that his alleged corpse had been
procured from Chicago The story has
q tishy smell.
In answer TO an inquiry from the
state board OF health Acknowledgement
Dawes has given an opinion to the ef-
feet that parties who were practicing
for ten years previous to the
act, in 1870, are the only persons le-
gally entitled to practice besides those
who have graduated from some rep
utablc medical school. or hold certifi-
Gates from some qualified medical So
cicty. As to health boards, the attor-
says every board OF county
is local health board,
and II II refuses to appoint physician
Ms health officer 1t may he man.
iamused.
John Lipgay, q prominent farmer
living near Goddard, Scdgwick county,
went violently insane the other day
md drove his family from home. He
then barricaded his house and stood n
siege of five days, shooting ut every
,ne who came in sight, nearly killing
Two persons. lie was finally captured
BY the strategy of his daughter. He
was ravenously hungry and she ap-
oeared with food. The crazy man per-
ritted her TO approach when he saw
he food. When he put his Winchester
Town to eat the girl grabbed II, and
hen the sherlff's posse rushed In from
he orchard and overpowered him.
The assistant encouragement at
Wichita has secured from the probate
,ourt an injunction restraining the
Rock Island road from delivering
liquors TO the Wholesale dealers OF that
,ity.
There were two applications for
marriage licenses and only one appli-
alton for divorce ut Topeka the last