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

favor Of new constitution.
The corn crop In Kansas this year Is
81, ooo. 600 bushels above the average.
Col. Alexander Warmers bank NJ
Baxter Springs has gone to the wall.
The Standard Oil Co. will erect ut
Neodeshu refinery Of n capacity Of
1000 barrels per day.
A meat peddler ut Atehison was
found to be selling horseilesh MS SUBJ
stitute for regular beef
The supreme court has rendered n
decision that foreiga judgments in
Kansas cannot lie taxed.
Twenty Of the los counties In Kansas
elected women snperintendents Of
schools ut the recent election
In few weeks all towns In south.
eastern Kansas win be connected with
Kansas City by long distance 'phonea
Galena Is preparing to take in more
territory. There Is more town outside
Of the present limits of Galena than in
side.
L. d Webb and A. 8. Hull have sue.
ceeded State Superintendent Stryler
as managers of the normal college at
Great Bend.
Thousands OF she ep are beine red j.,
Butler county. The Swift Pac,.sino
Co.. of Kansas City, is ar.ong the
heaviest feeders.
Gov. elect Leedy SO, "a that in milking
appointments 10 vii give equal repre-.
sanitation to p".oulists. democrats and
free silver rev .,ublicans
Inc ere Emery industry In Dickinson
county by which over $500, 900 Is being
pui' out annually to farmers, is TO be
y supplemented with cheese making.
w. r. Hill. the founder Of Hill City,
Graham county, has been arrested by
federal authorities for making alleged
false testimony in several land cases.
The Kansas Editorial association
will visit Kansas City, Mo-, In body
January 90, going there from the state
convention at Topeka in q special
train.
The democratic state committee has
decided to take poll OF all the voters
in the state. and later put missionaries
In the field to conduct campaign OF
education toI free silver.
ste creditors OF the Lombard Invest
ment Co. nre instituting proceedings
to collect from the stockholders OF the
company, under the Kansas law which
makes stockholders of corporations
liable for double the amount Of their
stock.
A strong effort will be made by the
coming legislature to do away with
the Office of secretary OF the state
board of health. 1t is alleged that the
office Is purely ornamental and the
$1,000 year salary q waste of public
money
In recent interview ut Lawrence
Gov. elect Leedy disclaimed any I'M
friendly feeling toward the game Of
football. and intimated that his mes
sage to the legislature would contain
no reference to legislation prohibiting
the sport
A b. Crary, a Dickinson county farm
er who few years ago was worth $50.
600, has gone to the soldiers home at
Leavenworth to remain the rest OF his
life. 1t Is said he Is now financial
wreck, made SO by indiscreet outside
speculations.
The two Kansas insane asylums are
badly overcrowded, and many counties
are compelled to take care of some Of
its unfortunates 1t is estimated that
1t will require IN appropriation of
sioO, 900 by the coming Legislature to
these eounties.
A Washington telegram says Kansas
have asked hid of Chair.
man Hanna to carry on vigorous edu-
campaign the next two years.
II Is proposed to establish headquar-
ters at Topeka and put man in charge
who will distribute literature and at
lend to other requirements
The women OF the Christian church
1t Marion have undertaken to pay .
mortgage on the church edifice from
the proceeds OF 4o.acre field which
they rented. A good crop was raised
his year from 1t, each of the women
doing her part toward the cultivation.
They are now husking the crop OF
,orn.
Representative.elect Smith, OF Sher-
nan, declares strong opposition 10
further experiments in irrigation on |
he uplnuds of western Kansas, and |
will introduce bill to do away with
my more expenditures Of money for
hat purpose. lie says western Kan
'as is grazing region pure and sim
,le; that there is wealth in cattle on
he Kansas plains, but that failure and
poverty will be the only reward Of
cereal planting.
At Garden City Farmer Ballinger got
Judgment against tho D. NJ. Ferry
seed Co., OF Detroit. for seed sold to
,he company last year. A great num-
Der OF Kansas farmers sold this com.
,any seed, and when II was shipped
he company claimed 1t was not good |
md failed TO pay the contract price
rhe test case mt Garden City was
watched with interest, and the deci-
ion means great deal to the farmers
Who furnished the seed.
II Is said that the state board OF rail-
Dad commissioners In its decision in
he case in which the Kansas City
,oard OF trade asked that grain rates
" reduced, has practically admitted
hat II has no authority over the rail-
Dads of the state, and that the orders
4 the board are treated with indiffer-
nee; they obey its behes,s when it
uits them and would ignore the
oard altogether II they did not fear
nore stringent laws by the legislature.
George Cole announces positively that
10 will not be n republican candidate
or governor In 1893, but admits that
10 would like to make the race for
tate auditor again.