Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-02-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The Hutchinson Hardware Co. has
passed into the hands OF IN agent for
the mortgages
Congressman Long has succeeded In
getting an appropriation Of $4,000
added 10 the houae agricultural bill, to
aid in western Kansas irrigation.
The dead body of William Piper, an
aged inmate of the soldiers home. was
found on the railroad track near Leav.
evworth the other night In early
days Piper was prominent lawyer Of
Leavenworth.
A petition was recently being cir
culated in Topeka by the state tenn.
perance union asking congress to pass
q law refusing United States liquor
licenses to persons who are not pos.
sessed Of state permit to sell liquor.
Mrs. Martin +. Conway, whose hus-
band was the first Kansas representa-
tive In congress, died at the home Of
her daughter In Lawrence the other
day. Mr.. Conway died many years
ago in an insane asylum ut Washing
ton.
The populist state central committee
met at Topeka on the evening OF the
14th and issued calls for two state con.
ventions, one ut Hutchinson March ~
to elect delegates to the national con-
veption, the other ut Abilene August s
to nominate candidates for state Of
ficers.
The republican state convention 10
choose delegates to the national re-
publican convention will meet ut
Wichita Tuesday, March 10. The con.
vention will name six delegntes.at.
large and nominate three electors.
The convention will consist Of 6i0
delegates.
Judge Vandervert, in the district
court at Kinsley, recently decided that
the fire guard TAX law passed in 1905
and applying to all counties west Of
the Goth meridian, is unconstitutional.
The law provides for q tax levy to be
paid for burning fire guards, and the
case was brought to an issue by the
Santa Fe refusing to pay the tax.
A Topeka man has patented paper
brick which he says will work revo-
luton in the pavement Of streets and
building OF walls. 1t Is made OF straw
and wood pulp 1t is made the same
as brick and at one third the cost. The
inventor says, with the straw that an
annually goes to waste in Kansas, he
can pave the streets Of every town in
New England.
John Putnam, veterinary surgeon,
was recently found lying upon the
floor of the house where he lived alone
Mt Larned, in q helpless condition.
When revived he stated that he had
been in that condition for four days
without food or water, having been
attacked with paralysis and had been
unable to move or call for help He
was properly cared for.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction has completed the appor-
tionment OF the accumulated interest
Of the annual school fund to the diff
ferent counties OF the state. II gives
to each pupil of school age Al cents.
Wyandotte county gets the largest
amount, IS, 100. A; Shawnee came next,
s7,17i. II; Sedgwick third, 80, III. 10, and
Leavenworth fourth, s5,55s.52. Nor.
ton county gets the smallest sum,
500 0G.
The Kansas City, Kan, school board
proposes to submit to the voters of the
city o proposition to issue 500, 600 in
bonds for the construction of addi-
tional school buildings. The report of
the committee to which the matter
was referred calls for five new build
ings and additions and repairs to those
now in use. At present the schools
are very crowded. The enrolment Is
1000 and the seating capacity only
1864.
Two thousand tons Of hay In Rosedale
and the large warehouse in which 1t
was stored took fire at eight o'clock
the other night and was completely de-
stroyed. A two-story building adjoin-
ing and Eve cars filled with hay were
also consumed. The warehouse and
dwelling were the property Of the Kan.
sas City, Fort Scott & Memphis road.
The hay was owned by J. A. Brubaker,
Of Westport, Mo. The loss was about
5000.
1t Is said that there is great danger
OF bloodshed in Meade and Comanche
counties, with the stoclsmen on one
side and citizens on the other. Some
time since several stockmen fenced in
q large area Of grazing lands belong
ing to nonresident owners, with wire
fence. Into this Enclosure they drove
several hundred head Of cattle recently
shipped from Texas Several nights
later the wire was cut in a dozen
places, the herd stampeded and scat
tered over the country, and more than
100 head disappeared entirely. Notices
were posted warning the cattlemen not
to fence such lands again.
The populist state central committee
which met in Topeka on the 14th COM
pleted its work on the 18th by making
IN apportionment OF delegates for the
two state conventions. For the Hutch
inson convention, which meets on
March IS to elect delegates to the ma
tional convention, the basis was fixed
ut one delegate for each county and
one delegate for each 400 populist votes
cast at the last general election. This
makes convention Of about 400 dele
gates. For the state convention ut
Abilene on August s, which Is to nomi-
nate state officers, the basis was fixed
at one delegate for each county
and one for each $50 votes cast for the
populist ticket, making q convention
of about 600.
R T. Fowler. q responsible cattle
man of Russell county, advises the
public that some man is going through
western Kansas and swindling people
by false representations in regard to
securing property Tor supposed heirs.
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