Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

EX.uOVs uuu WliC WILL booh
leave on European tour.
A new Episcopal church was dedi-
Gated ut Hiawatha last week.
The Goth meeting Of the grand lodge,
X. Of p, will meet ut Wichita May II.
The sitting Of tho federal court ut
Fort Scott has beon postponed from
the first to the fourth Monday In May.
There was no money on hand TO pay
witnesses.
Special Master Clark has begun hear
ing testimony in the suit TO prevent
the state from enforcing the Jacquins
live stock law. The sittings are Mt
Kansas City.
Judge N. c. Mcfarland, who WINS
United States commissioner under
Presidents Garfield and Arthur, died
In Topeka recently. He was pioneer
citizen of Kansas, and left quite largo
estate.
Charles Barker, q Florence banker,
was recently caught for $1,000 by the
failure Of q Topeka bucket shop, and
he didn't do o thing but have the sec
rotary of the concern put in jail on tho
charge Of fraud.
The following officers Of the Kansas
Academy of Language and Literature
were chosen Mt the recent annual meet
ing ut Manhattan: President, L. II.
Perkins, Lawrence; vice president,
Mrs. c. +. WILDER, Manhattan; sccre-
tary, Miss Hamilton, Winfield.
Because n young lady at Lawrence,
of whom he was enamorcd, would not
encourage his attentions Gale l.. Spald-
ing made savage assault upon her
and would have chokcd her TO death
had not help arrived. 1t was thought
Spalding's mind was unbalanced.
A Topeka dispatch said State Insur-
ance Commissioner M'Nall would issue
an order declaring the Clarkson insur-
ance rating and map bureau OF Topeka
trust supported by all the fire insur-
ance companies of the state, and would
prohibit it doing business in the state.
The state board of agriculture. from
reports received from every locality In
Kansas, says the average condition
of wheat now standing is so per cent.
The total area planted is placed ut B.
100, 900 acres, OF which 81 per cent was
winter killed, leaving about 100000
acres now standing.
The board of pardons hns recon-
mcnded clemcncy in the case Of Will
liam Sells, convicted in Neosho county
In 1856 OF numbering his father, mother,
brother and sister, but the Neosho
county people made vigorous protest
against any such action, and 1t was
said Gov. Lecdy would not pardon
him.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
recent G. A. II. encampment ut Cha
mute voted to hold the annual reunion
ut Leavenworth this fall, Topeka an
nounces that u state soldiers reunion
will be held there also. The commit
tee says the Topeka reunion vii be for
"thc thousands of old soldiers who do
not belong to the G. A. r."
A Topeka dispatch said the board OF
railroad commissioners and the repre-
sentativcs of the leading traffic asso-
Citations would meet in Topeka in q
few days and try to agree on n salts
factory scale of freight rates. The
consent to this meeting is equivalent
to an assurance that there will be no
extra session of the Legislature.
There have been many strange stories
printed about the alleged airship, but
the climax to them all comes from
Woodson county. Farmer Hamilton,
near Yates Center, says the "airship"
not only appeared on his premises and
frightened all of his household, but
the captain of the "vessel' had the
nerve to swoop down and capture
young heifcr Leading citizens OF
Yates Center testify that Hamilton's
word has never been questioned.
The discussion us to who should sue
coed Sol Miller as the oldest Kansas
editor" brings ont the fact that John
5. Gilmore established the Fredonia
Citizen in April, 1870, and has since
owned and edited 1t. W. I. Voc has
been part owner and editor Of the In
dependence Tribune since 1871. W. T.
McElroy has been editor and proprie-
tor of the Humboldt Union continu-
ously since 1857. This beats the other
claimants of "oldcst Kansas editor
about three years.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
that only in the emergency Of heavy
Withdrawals OF deposits will he consent
TO bankers borrowing money, and in
no case will he permit the use of col
lateral to secure such loans Under
the old law banks were given TO bor-
rowing money and putting up double
negotiable paper or other collateral,
thus depriving depositors of available
assets In case of banks failure. Mr..
Breidenthal says that bank ought TO
be able TO borrow money on its own
credit, and il it cannot 1t ought to go
into liquidation and pay Its creditors.
The annual state encampmcnt Of the
q. A. r. and kindred organizations was
held at Chanutc last week. 1t was
voted to hold the next encampment ut
Wichita and the annual reunion ut
Leavenworth. Judge Theo Botlsin, of
Hutchinson, was chosen department
commander, and he named Lewis Han
back rs acknowledgement. w. D.
FEEDER, Of Great Bend, was elected COM
mandcr Of the Sons of Veterans and
the stastics showed this order TO DO
disintegrating. Mrs. Margaret Griffin,
of Emporia, was chosen president Of
the w. r. c.; the Ladies' Of the g. A. r.
elected Mrs. Emma Moll, Of Olathe,
president, and Mrs. Amy Pope, Of
Wichita, was chosen president of tho
Ladies' Aid society.
The long-standing feud between CT.
Senator Rush and Judge vandivert, Of
Larned, has again broken out and
friends of each party are carrying fire.