Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-11-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

creamery In operation.
Topeka has IS church organizations
and co church buildings.
Wichita will soon have In operation
q 30O-barrel Touring mill.
J. p. Harris has decided to contest
the election OF NJ s. Peters from the
Second congressional district
Royal Matthews, of Mcpherson coun.
ty, Is the only republican state senator
from the Seventh congressional dis.
trict.
Mrs. Annie Rowland, on trial ut
Chetopa for killing her father-in-law,
was acquitted on the ground Of sclf-de.
Tense.
The republicans OF the entire Third
congressional district succeeded In
electing but one member Of the leyis'
lature.
One OF the largest, II not the largest,
coal mines in the United States has
just been opened up in Chicopee, Craw.
ford county.
A. W. Dennison, of Eldorado, pop
ulist appellate judge, is said to have
aspirations to succeed United States
Senator PETER
The annual report OF the Kansas
State Historical society shows that
there arc OF, 400 volumes now possessed
by the society.
j. +. Willis the famous middle-of.
the.road populist has sued the Farmers
Alliance for 5000. claimed to be due
him for lecturing.
Congressman Chester !. Lon-, OF the
Seventh district, is said to have an am.
bition for the appointment of consul.
general to Mexico.
Manager Cunningham, Of the Dodge
City soldiers home, resigned because
Of dissatisfaction on the part OF the
soldiers at the home.
Gov. elect Leedy and his associates
upon the state ticket are opposed to an
inaugural ball and one will probably
not be held this year.
Ex-Congressman Funston, of Allen
county, Is being urged by his friends
for secretary OF agriculture in Presi-
dent McKinley's cabinet
The Salvation army will establish q
hospital at Topeka. where the sick and
injured who are poor and friendless
will be cared for without price.
Dudley township, Haskell county,
will pass into fame rs the only town.
shin In Kansas which gave John NJ.
Palmer 4 majority for president.
d. c. Tillotson, OF Topeka, Is state
chairman of the free silver forces. He
has called state convention OF silver
clubs at Topeka January IL, 1897
A number of populist state officials
and legislators are said to favor tho
plan OF the state owning its own print
ing plant and do its own state printing.
The Kansas State Horticultural
society will meet at Topeka December
oil. A big display Of fruits and other
products will be an attractive feature.
1t Is probable that the coming legis-
lature will pass q law prohibiting foot
ball In the state, ut least at the educa.
tional institutions controlled by the
state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kiehl, OF Junction City.
returned recently from trip to Vel.
lowstone park. They travelled the
whole distance, $500 miles, in q COW
cred wagon.
The eligibility Of Presidential Elect
or W. II. Linton has been challenged.
It Is alleged that at the time Of his
election he was an Indian trader In the
Osage county.
The Hutchinson & Southern extern
sion to the Rock Island junction Mt
Medford is being rapidly built, and
trains will be running there by the
middle OF December.
There are 1910 federal offices to be
given out in Kansas under McKinley's
administration, counting post offices.
The populists will control G4s positions
under the state government
Miss Amy Allmon, q school-teacher
near Glendale, was attacked by rufiilns
during school hours and badly beaten.
She was struck with rocks and cinders,
and portion Of her clothing was torn
from her.
1t Is said that every republican Office.
holder under the present state govern.
meut will place his resignation in the
hands OF Gov. Leedy on the day OF his
Inauguration or as soon thereafter as
convenience will permit.
The statement that Mr.. Harvey, the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, is the young
est man ever elected to that Office in
Kansas, is incorrect. Mr. Harvey Is
IS, and Thomas A. Osborn, who was
elected lieutenant-governor in 1869,
was only %
Jacob Rodgers, n married man was
convicted at lola of numbering young
girl named Dslia Hutchinson and her
unborn child. The girls body was
found 10 stream, weighted down with
rocks The evidence against Rodgers
was purely circumstantial.
Republicans are claiming that Kan
sas will have one elector for Mckinley
for the reason that George T. Pitts, Of
Sumner county, fusion elector, was
at the time Of his election acting as
receiver for Wellington bank, which,
II is alleged, makes him Ineligible as
an elector
The G. A. R reunion grounds ut Ellis
worth will revert to the state II the
recommendations Of the q. A. R de.
partment committee are accepted by
the Legislature. Ellsworth donated
100 acres for the reunions, and the
state has expended $50, 900 on buildings,
but the location is deemed impractic-
able.
Mrs. Kumli, near Mcpherson, while
chopping kindling wood, accidentally
let the Ak slip from her hand and her
left hand was cut almost of. Before
medical aid could reach her she almost