Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Ephraim Hayden, n mulatto, re.
Gently killed John Duffy. white, In q
quarrel at Valley Falls.
Three policemen were recently
bounced by the police board Of Topeka
for stealing beer from private cellars
Colean, the Fort Scott banker who
pleaded guilty to embezzlement, was
sentenced TO five years in the peniten-
tiary.
Judge Munroe ut Hays City has de-
cided that any man, whether member
Of the bar or not, can be elected q
county attorney and can perform all
the duties Of the Office except plead o
case In court
The council of administration Of
the G. A. r has fixed the date Of hold
ing the fifteenth annual encampment
ut Bcloit, April 81, 90 and g. The
headquarters OF the department will
be ut the Avenue hotel and will be es-
tablished Monday, April 90.
Gov. Morrill, has appo inted Maj. J.
X. Hudson to be state printer until his
successor Is elected and qualified. This
action was taken in view OF the fact
that according TO tho late decision Of
the supreme court in the state printer.
ship contest, some doubt was thrown
upon Maj. Hudson's title TO the Office.
At recent meeting of the executive
council ut Topeka Samuel T. Howe
was reelected chairman Of the state
board OF railroad commissioners for .
three-year term. The term Of Com.
missioner Joseph G. Lowe will expire
in 1897 and that of James NJ. Simpson
in 1898.
The state council Of the Amer lean
Protective association, at It's late ses-
sion in Topeka, elected officers as fol.
lows: President, A. D. Hubbard, To-
peka; vice president, s s. King, Kan
sas City; secretary Of state, G. W. II.
Ross, Leavenworth; +. II. Barker,
Kansas City, state secretary, and
George Pickard, Kansas City, treas
urer.
The one crop about which the most
inquiries are now coming to the Kansas
state agricultural department, not only
from Kansas, but from all the Missis-
sippi valley, is Kaftir corn. The litera.
ture rs 10 this valuable grain and for
age plant Is rs yet quite limited, but
Secretary Coburn says he will be glad
to furnish applicants with such infor.
nation as Is available.
Judge Alden, of Kansas City, Kan,
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pythias for Kansas, said recently that
the letter Of the pope placing ban on
secret orders had not affected the
pythian lodge in the state In the
least So far no Catholics had with.
drawn from the order There are six
or more deputy chancellors in the state
who belong to the Catholic church.
Some time since Mrs Fred ]. Harris,
Of Junction City, received $1,000 insur.
ancc on her husbands life and placed
It in bank. The money was then gar.
nisheed on an old Judgment Judge
Moore, of the district court. held that
since IL was the same money received
on the insurance It was exempt from
attachment under the new insurance
law, which makes policies exempt.
In the district court ut Emporia
Judge Randolph has decided that
chattel mortgage covering exempt
property, not signed by the wife at the
time of making, could not nfterward
be assented to by her; that the mort.
gage was void. He also decided that
a chattel mortgage covering part ex-
empt property, not signed by the wife,
was void rs to all Of the property.
Judge Dale, OF the Wichita district
court Is reported as having lately
made the announcement that under no
circumstances would he try any more
liquor cases under the prohibitory law.
His action was prompted by the fact
that juries invariably return verdicts
OF acquittal, in some instances without
leaving the box Only one jury this
term has been more than six minutes
returning 4 verdict of acquittal in 4
whisky case.
The supreme court has decided that
mo court has the power 10 Ak the time
for the execution of n death sentence
before the governor has named day
for carrying 1t into effect, when he re-
fuses to issue warrant for that pur-
pose" This disposes Of the much dis
cussed Edwards county case, wherein
1t was sought to take Arnold and Har.
vey, the murderers of Mayor Marsh, OF
Kinsley, from the penitentiary and ex-
ecute them without the warrant which
the governor refused to issue.
The thirteenth annual report OF the
state board Of railroad commissioners
Is voluminous document and contains
fund of information for those who
are sufficiently interested to wade
through 1t q labyrinth Of figures The
report shows great falling off in the
earnings Of Kansas roads during tho
past year. The report says: "of the %
roads Is are now In the hands Of re-
ceivers and two others have In the not
remote past been in like situation.
Only two OF the 90 roads making oper-
ating reports to this board paid divi-
dend for the year just closed, and
these dividends were light, one 2k per
cent and the other az per cent" The
board. however, Is gratified ut signs
of betterment The total number Of
employees Of the various roads in the
state Is 81, 1854, decrease for the year
OF 1000 The total compensation paid
to employees was $40, AS, 57L25, Q de-
crease Of q, LOG 0447a
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds have ordered n
favorable report on the bill appropri.
sting $50, 900 for public building at
Topeka.
Topeka promises to give the old sol
diers q royal entertainment at their
reunion In that city. The date for the
state G. A. r reunion In that city has
been set for the week Of September %.
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