Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-12-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Kansas national guard consists
Of l,4s0 privates and 1873 commissioned
officers, exclusive OF the governors
staff.
W. r. Haskell set n trap for coyotes
near Lakin and caught an immense
golden eagle, measuring OF feet from
tip to tip.
Rev. C. II. Vaughn, pastor OF the NJ.
r church Mt Dodge City, was deposed
for engaging in legal controversies
with his brethren.
j. L. Bristow, private secretary to
Gov. Morrill,, is said to be an applicant
for internal revenue collector for the
district OF Kansas.
Charles II. James, the business part
ner OF Gov. Morrill,, died ut Hiawatha
recently. He was the pioneer banker
Of northeastern Kansas
It Is said one of tho first appoint.
ments by Gov. Leedy will be that OF
Acknowledgement, and that Charles Nc.
Crum, OF Garnett, will get the plum.
L. Ledbettcr, OF Moulton, To-, recent
" purchased 1900 acres OF improved
land near Hiattvillc, Bourbon county,
for an aggregate consideration Of sii,-
600.
A new city hospital ut Pittsburg has
just been thrown open to the public,
the contamination OF years Of effort on
the part Of charitable organizations
there.
State Senator Armstrong, OF Great
Bend, wants a printing establishment
put in the state reform school ut
Hutchinson, where great deal Of the
states printing could be done.
A man In Dover township, Shawnee
county, did an unusual thing the other
day. At the last election he was chosen
justice of the peace, but he now writes
to the county clerk frankly admitting
that he considers himself incompetent
for the position.
The Topeka Capitals suggestion that
Kansas should send n train load Of
provisions to the poor OF New York
and Chicago rs u rebuke to the news
papers of those cities for ridiculing
the state, is being taken up and urged
as the best advertisement possible.
A bad boy in Downs recently refused
to obey his teacher and she broke
ruler on him. The parents raised q
fuss. and the board passed an order
that the teacher had done right. and
that II the supply Of rulers ran out in
Downs they would ship in more for her.
On the farm OF Judge Light, near
Winfield, is n new gas we'll with u re.
markable flow. 1t is down 100 feet
and the pressure throws out broken
stones from the hole. A board laid
across the top OF the hole with three
men on it was thrown Off like straw.
The only federal prison in the United
States Is ut Fort Leavenworth. A bill
now before congress appropriates $685..
900 toward building a new one, and In
q few days work will begin. 1t will
mostly be built by federal prisoners
aud when completed will cost about
sa50,OOO.
Secretary Coburn, OF the state board
Of agriculture, says the farmers OF
Kansas should go into the COW indus.
try more extensively. lie says the
dairy industry, properly and vigorous
~ cultivated, would soon place Kan.
sas in the first rank in commercial i'm
portance.
John p. Harris has finally given
notice that lie will contest the election
Of NJ. S. Peters to congress from the
Second district. Harris alleges fraud
10 Wyandotte county. Mr.. Peters has
engaged Congressman Miller, a repub.
lican. to represent his interests ut
A Topeka dispatch said that pledges
had been obtained from q sufficient
of members OF the legislature
10 insure the repeal OF the metropolis.
tan police law. Gov. -elect Leedy will
be asked not to appoint any police
boards until after the legislature has
a chance to repeal the law.
William Huckaby and May Archi.
bald, Of Stafford county, were married
It Great Bend the other day. but be.
'ore they got out Of town the girls
rate father appeared on the scene and
lad the groom arrested and cast into
prison for alleged perjury in swearing
o the age Of the girl, the father claim.
ng she was only IL
John Whitman Leedy, governor-elect
II Kansas, is a descendant of German
)unkards, and was born in Ankeny.
own, O. At the nge of Il he ran
way from home to join the One Hun.
lred and Sixty-third Ohio volunteers.
lie was not permitted to enlist, but
vas allowed 10 follow the regiment
Until the war closed.
The bill to divide Kansas into two
United States judicial districts, as
greed upon by the delegation in con.
'ress, proposes two judges Mt $500
ach. The Northern district will have
hree locations for terms of court
Topeka and Salina. For
he Southern district court will be held
I Fort Scott and Wichita. An attor-
ey and marshal. with deputies, is pro.
ided for each district.
D. NJ. Lower, of Kansas City, No,
nth his mother and sister. who live In
hutchinson, will bring suit in the fed
raj court ut Wichita to get possession
100 acres Of land in the center of
'ldorado The value OF the property
estimated ut s?50,0O0 They allege
nat the land in question WINS decided
y the father and husband, e. L. Low
:, after he had been declared insane,
nd the suit will be based on the law
Int he could not dispose of the prop
-ty until he had been declared sane
y n competent court
Pat Rabbit, clerk OF the court-elect
Crawford county, has been taken to
le insane asylum mt 0sawatomic and
idge Simons, Of Fort Scott, will ap-