Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-02-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


horses kick.
Mrs. Matlocls, Of Burton, the mother
of seven children, eloped the other day
with the hired man.
Ex-senator w. w. Martin, OF Fort
Scott, wants to succeed Col. Thomas
Moonlight rs minister to Bolivia.
Gov. Lcedy has promised that he will
not reappoint any police commission
ers for Fort Scott when the terms OF
the preseut board expire In April.
RI. Netherton. former state uni
yersity student, is under arrest ut Law
renee for grand larceny. lie was uni
versally popular aud formerly taught
q Sunday school class.
They have SO many bad school chill.
drcn ut Fort Scott that there is talk OF
securing a room to be set apart for in
corrigibles and to put IN educated po-
liccman in 1t rs teacher.
The residence of c. w. Harvey, near
Galena, burned recently, and his in
valid wife, who was alone save with
even-year-old boy, had narrow
escape from being burned to death.
Rev. Charles II. Fem, pastor OF the
First Congregational church at Leav-
euworth, while taking exercise ut the
Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium, fell upon his
head so heavily that 1t caused concus-
sion of the brain.
Judge Hazen, Of Shawnee county Is
sued an order perpetually enjoining Z.
II. Snow from interfering with d. X.
Hudson as state printer. This means
that Mai. Hudson will serve out his
term, ending June 80, unmolestcd.
Owing to the non-payment OF taxes
by the abandoned Frisco road, school
districts in the southern pnrt OF SUM
ner county find themselves short OF
funds, as the railroads taxes were de-
pended upon for means to run the
schools.
While out hunting near Emporia 10
year-old Evan Williams met u peculiar
accidental death. A charge OF shot
entered under his chin and passed out
Mt the top OF his head. The fash OF
the gun ignited his clothing and the
body was badly burned.
Editor Maysc, Of the Ashland Clip
per, until recently clerk OF the house
committee on live stock, was dis
charged from his position and expelled
from the floor of the house for writing
"pieces- to his paper rejecting on the
moral integrity OF certain members OF
the legislature.
Ex-Gov. Morrill, has an American
flag that will be used rs winding
sheet Mt his burial. 1t was given to
him by 10 old soldiers from the Leav'
enworth home. He said the other day
that he priced the flag more highly
than all the official honors which had
been bestowed upon him.
At Pomona, Franklin county, John
Parkinson, n stock raiser and until re
Gently wealthy landowner, attempted
to murder Capt. J. II. Waite, former
president of the Kansas City live stock
exchange. Parkinson then turned the
revolver upon himself and committed
suicide. Waite's injuries were MOI
serious
: The United States supreme court de
cidcd the case of the government
, arainst the Union Pacific railway nnt
| william Hoard. of Saline county, II
favor of the latter. 1t was to canoe
| the patent on Hoard's farm. 1t was
test case Of great Importance and set
ties the question as to the title o
lands in Saline, Dickinson and othe
counties.
Bondsmen Of the late Postmaste
Mapes, of Kansas City, will have Il
pay the shortage. They have beef
t cited to appear before United State
Judge Foster Mt Topeka and show VIII,
they transferred all their propert.
about the time Of the reported short
1 age. The Judgment against the bonds
men is for $1,000.
Mai. Calvin Hood, OF Emporia,
!, wealthy stockman and leading rcput
/, lican, is opposed to the tariff to ex
= clude Mexican cattle from the Unite
States. He says the Mexican cattl
! shipped into Kansas do not interior
with the cattle we raise, and creates
demand for our surplus corn. He say
, Kansas can better afford to fatten cal
= tie than to raise them.
Cimarron, Gray county, and Al
), thony. Harper county, have asked Tn
]. legislature to aid them to compromis
their Indebtedness. The bonded In
debtedness OF Anthony Is sl7O,oo0, wit
several years. interest, while the taxa
= BILE wealth of the town Is far belo'
: that amount. Cimarron owes sSS,Oo'
c with interest, and her taxable prof.
G erty is only valued at $4,000.
h Tho published declaration of d.
4 Lyman Abbott that he disbelieves tn
i Bible story Of Jonah and the whale
I brings out the statement that Char
t cellor Snow, of the state universit!
n himself member of the Congreg'
tionnl church, denies the whole stor
of Adam and Eve and the creation
man. lie says that the theory OF tn
> instantaneous creation Of man com'
= largely from Milton and mistake
u Interpretation Of the Bible.
:. The grand lodge A. F. & A. NJ.
!. Kansas was in session at Salina la
), week. Reports showed the order TO |
y prosperous and harmonious. Durin
!" the year 226 masons died in the stat
Wichita was selected for the 1898 NEE
ing place. Officers elected were: Wi
IS liam NJ. Shaver, grand master; Mauri'
e L. Stone, deputy grand master: II.
4. LOOMS, senior warden; Charles
% Webb, junior warden; Robert Il. To
o rington, treasurer, and A. X. Wilso1
secretary.
The Kansas state university has r
ceived gift Of $4,000 from the Ne
England Emigrant Aid Co., OF Bosto
-ls-l D. Edvyord Evaratt Hale