Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-12-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

lected A. P. williams, Of Paola; for his
first assistant
An effort Is being made to have Hon.
Henry Watters1h lecture before the
state teachers meeting at Topeka,
December 80.
s. A. Riggs will contest the election
Of c. A. Smart rs Judge Of the Fourth
district The contest will 60 before
the state senate.
The democratic state committee col.
lected $4,000 during the recent cam.
paign and spent 81, 500 The gold stan.
dard democrats spent about 81, 800.
Rev. II. E Ballou, who was beaten
Tor congress In the First district by
Case Broderick, Is u candidate for chap
lain Of the state penitentiary under
Gov Leedy.
All members Of the populist senate
and house who have been approached
on the subject declare themselves In
favor OF reasonable appropriations for
the completion Of the state house.
The following gentlemen are candi.
dates for Pension Agent Clicks job:
Alexander Warner, OF Baxter Springs;
A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson; Mai 7. j.
Anderson and G. W. Clark, of Topeka.
The Southeast Kansas Teachers us.
ISOLATION, in session at Fort Scott,
elected W. C. Lansdon president; E. L
Enloe, vice president; Miss Lizzie
Boyle, secretary, and L. d. Ellis, treas.
urer. Next years meeting will be held
at Paola.
Rumor has It that the coming legis.
lature will pass law requiring all
bonds, notcs and mortgages TO be
listed with the county clerk for taxa
tion, the amount OF mortgage SO listed
TO be deducted from the assessed value
Of the land upon which II is lien.
Ex-senator j. ". Rush, of Larncd,
was said to be working plan TO insti.
tute impeachment proceedings against
Judge Vandivert, OF Kinsley Rush
had been sent to jail by Vandivert for
refusing, rs receiver, to turn over GER.
tain moneys held by him as receiver
for watcrworks company.
The line residence of D. NJ. Kirk
bride, at Wichita, was destroyed by
Ere early the other morning and the
occupants barely rescued. Mr.. Kirk.
bride bravcly rescued every member
by carrying them down ladder from
n second story window. The house
and contents were valued at si7,500
1t was said that the republican lead
ers, led by Cyrus Leland and State
Chairman Simpson, would meet the
populist-democrntic movement for q
constitutional convention by pressing
joint resolution in the legislature for
resu omission. Representative Ury, Of
Fort Scott, will lead the fight for re-
submission on the repu blican side.
There is said to be some rivalry be.
tween Cyrus Leland, national commit.
teeman, and Senator Lucien Baker as
to which one shall handle the bulk
Of Kansas patronage under President
Mckinley. Both are credited with
having equal influence. II is said that
both have agreed upon !. Z. Lambert,
Of Emporia, for United States attorney.
The father OF Marion Asbell, the
wife murderer who is now serving o
life sentence in the penitentiary from
Labette county, will exhaust every
means possible to secure new trial
for his hayward SOD. He Is reputed
to DO worth $4,000 and he has in.
structed his attorneys to use every
means known to the law to secure for
Asbell new trial.
The total vote Of Kansas at the re-
cent election was 90 per cent. of the
total population OF the state. The
total vote OF tho United States was 49,
100000. As there are about $4,000, 900
people In the United States, the total
vote amounted to IS per cent. Of the
population. Kansas probably cast
more votes in proportion to popula-
ton than any other state In the union.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal, in
his annual report, advocates some rad.
ical changes in the present banking
law. He wants the law, which now
makes 1t felony for q cashier to re.
ceive deposits when he knows the bank |
Is in failing condition, extended so as
to include all officers of the bank, as
we'll us the directors. He also wants
each officer OF bank to be put under
heavy bond. He insists, also, that
banks be prohibited from organizing
land and loan companies rs side issues
Frank Strian and ]. II. Ham, rival
candidates for probate judge in Phil
lips county, received n tie vote. In
stead Of "tossing" for the Office, they
requested the cauvassing board to al
low them to take the ballots and count
them. This was done and after q
canvass It was found that ten
votes that were thrown out should
have been counted for Strain. and six
for Ham, giving the former majority
of four. Thereupon Ham went before
the board and moved that the certifi.
cate be given to Strain, which was
done.
The last report of Secretary Coburn,
OF the state board OF agriculture, says
Kansas this year raised 81, 1873, 365 bush
els Of wheat, valued At $40, ole, 2so; of
corn, 22l, 4io, 4l4, valued at sa5. 6S3. 0l3;
Of oats, l0,3l4,772, valued at a,7O0, Csc.
The total acreage now sown to wheat
Is estimated ut three per cent less than
last year. There were In the state on
March last s48.sil horses, valued ut
SCI, III, 0a5; 93,44s mules, valued Mt 81.
sos sSs; 5l5,075 mich cows. valued Mt
sl3, 1874. 4i3; other cattle, 1905. SO7, val
ued ut so7, al, AT; sheep, is2, e26, valued
ut s4.s,254; hogs, 1,s3s,09l, valued at
es, sea, $40; total increase in value Of
live stock over last year. $500, 64l.
Capt j. +. Beesley, a prominent real
estate man of Girard, committed sui.
eide by hanging himself in his barn.
He was in good health and well fixed
II is said that an effort will be made
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