Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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A Wichita paper suys the report that
Mrs. Lease hus permanently located In
New York Is correct.
The Masonic home ut Wichita, which
opened to the public only few days
ago, has 10 t. care for.
The Santa 70 railroad traverses 70
counties In Kansas and pays taxes ag'
gregating 5000, 900 annually.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
Kansas hanks are In better condition
now than for several months.
The state school fund commissioners
recently purchased slO7,OOo OF King
man county refunding bonds.
The convicts In the state penitcntiary
made Warden Lynch Christmas pres
emit Of handsome gold watch.
Mai. Tom Anderson, Of Topeka, who
wants to be pension agent under Nc
Kinley, managed Horace Greeley's
campaign in Kansas In 1871
The state board Of irrigation will
ask the coming Legislature for add.
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CATION work in western Kansas.
On Christmas eve, 1917, Lewis Cass
first promulgated the squatter sovcr.
eighty dogma which was the basis OF
all the early day struggles in Kansas
Corn is selling ut places In western
Kansas ut 81 cents bushel, the low
est in the history OF the state. Farm.
ers IRE using great deal VI corn for
fuel.
The johnson City journal asserts
that within Stanton, Morton' Grant
and Stevens counties there Is not n
single paupar, and it submits this fact
in reply to those who are continually
bemoaning the poverty and suffering
In western Kansas
Ex.Gov. st. John announces that he
will attend the annual meeting Of the
state temperance union at Topeka
January io and la ~ want to see,"
said the ex-governor, "whcther those
wSo control the unicn mean business
OF only want to pass few resolu-
tons"
Gov. -.lect Lccdy's closest friends
say he will oppose the wholesale in
designations OF republican methods
and republican stewardship. lie Is
quoted as saying that It might be wise
to investigate some penitentiary con-
tracts, Us the expense would be only
nominal.
The board of reformatory managers,
in a report to the governor. recon-
mends n change In the criminal law
SO that no boy under 10 shall be sent
to the penitentiary for his first crime.
unless II be murder, but instead shall
he sent 10 the state reformatory at
Hutchinson.
Gov. Morrill, on Christmas day par
doned Willis jackson, convicted in
Sumner county in 1879 OF numbering
William Mcdowell, cook, and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment Recently
man named Elkins died and on his
denthbed confessed that it was he. and
not Jackson, who killed Mcdowell.
John Hitler, a German farmer, stood
on the streets OF Atchison tho other
night and ticliled under the chin every
woman who was without an escort.
lie claimed this was common custom
in Germany, and did not know he was
committing an offense, but the police
Judge said German customs didn't go"
in Atchison and fined Hitler $40.
Thomas W. Davenport and Mary L.
Lamborn, OF Fall Leaf, were married
Mt Lawrence recently, which proved
the final act In an unfortunate family
affair. The two young people had
been under arrest charged with the
brutal murder Of the girls father, and
The case against them was dismissed q
few days previous to their marriage.
Western capitalists have secured the
cooperation of farmers in an irriga.
ton ditch to connect the Arkansas
river with the Cheyenne bottoms. A
preliminary survey has been made and
200 teams will be put to work as soon
as the right of way is secured. When
completed the ditch will run into an
art fetal lake with I'm area OF 6i,5oo
acres
In his biennial report Secretary Of
State Edwards says that OF 10000 char
tiers issued from that Office probably
not more than 1000 Of the various COM
panies and associations so organized
are in existence. This leads him to
suggest that a law be passed giving
the secretary Of state power to pass
upon all charters fled, with power to
revoke any that urc deemed unworthy.
The coming Legislature Is almost GER.
tain to amend the present ballot law
In several particulars 1t is said over
so bills will be presented to this end.
The appointment Of Judges and clerks
will probably be taken from the town.
ship trustees and election commission.
ers and given to the different political
parties. The provision regarding the
printing OF ballots will also be Changed.
In 1858 John Brown celebrated
Christmas by going over into Missouri
with his followers, where he liberated
"a slaves. The governor Of Missouri
offered $1,000 reward for him, and
President buchanan increased 1t $3.50 |
Brown conveyed the negroes to Jack
son county, this state, and there IN at |
tempt was made to capture him by men
from Atchison. They were whipped
away, however, and the affair passed
into history as 1.-The Battle Of the
Spurs"
p. S. Elliott. Of Washburn college,
who last month won the honor OF rep
resenting that institution In the state
oratorical contest, Is accused Of pla- !
giarism by fellow-student
A sensation in social and business
circles was created ut Emporia by the
Of Ed Fuller, we'll
known travelling man, who In alleged |