Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Chinch bugs were damaging oats and
corn near Emporia,

Chinch bugs were damaging oats and
corn near Emporia.
The state executive council elected
7. II. Lescher, of Topeka, state archi
tect.
Alex Hcisingcr, of Hartford, wa,
sent to Jail 30 days for whipping his
wife.
T. c. Henry, once the wheat king O.
Kansas, has gone to Mexico TO raise
coffee.
Maj. Hudson, the well-known To
peka editor, has gone to Alaska on q
prospecting trip.
The new state board of health elected
DIR. Hoover. of Halstead, president and
DIR. Gill, of Pittsburg, secretary.
j. s. Parks, who succeeded Maj. Hud-
son as state printer July l, will use no
type-setting machines in the office.
&. A. Calhonn, q ''cancer DOCTOR"
eloped with the 11-year-old wife OF
Simon Bates, q farmer near Chanute.
John Seaton, Of Atchison, and Mike
lieery, of Topeka, have resigned as
members Of the state board of public
works and Gov. Leedy will not appoint
new board.
r. L. Vandegrift, who has been the
Topeka correspondent of the Kansas
City Star for AZ years, has been pro-
NOTED to position in the editorial
rooms in Kansas City.
Farmer Kyle, his wife and four-year-
old child tried to ford stream near
Troy. The wife and nurses were
drowned. The child was In the water
an hour, but was rescued alive, having
been washed into tree.
The state school fund commission
purchased $4,000 Of the states refund
Ing bonds recently, and on July they
will be issued in payment of the por-
ton Of the bonded debt Of the state
which falls due on that date.
Sixty boys employed on the water
works Mt Newton went on strike be.
cause they were not paid mems wages.
The contractor sent to Chicago for
Italian laborers to take the strikers
places and trouble was threatened.
The board Of managers Of the SOL
diers' home at Dodge City want to
spend an accumulation of $4,000 in
erecting new buildings. Attorney
General Boyle says they can't do it,
and the matter will be taken into the
courts.
Three small children Of Joe Oberd-
ing, Of Seneca, found an empty bottle
in the road that had contained arsenic.
Filling 1t with water they drank from
1t. The three-year-old boy soon died,
and it took hard work by physician
to save the other two.
The Abilene city council has passed
an unusual ordinance. 1t establishes
public kitchen at which all hungry
people will be fed, to be paid for with
n given amount of work. A penalty Of
81 to SIS will be imposed upon any citi-
zen giving aims to tramps or burglars.
II the new law in regard to the taxa
ton of private banks is rigidly en-
forced 1t will compel those institutions
to seek shelter by incorporating under
state or national charters. Under the
new law private banks must pay much
heavier taxes than either state or ma
tional banks.
Judge Foster has appointed the fol-
lowing United States commissioners
for Kansas, to serve four years: I. j.
White, Kansas City; b. +. Stocks, Gar.
den City; W. II. Bond, Leavenworth:
5. p. Mosher, Fort Scott; c. W. Reed.
er, Hays Cityi Il. u. Beall, Wichitai
q. W. Clark, Topeka.
The state textbook commission re:
Gently completed the purchase 81
schoolbooks by adopting readers, ply
siology and philosophy. They cost as
follows: First reader. 10 cents; second,
II cents; third, 90 cents; fourth, 40
cents; fifth, so cents; philosophy and
physiology, so cents each.
At Ottawa suit has been commenced |
against Il. l.. Slime and other trustees
of the De Boissierre home to recover
sS1, 5a7 alleged to have been contrib
uted by various members Of !. o. O. +.
lodges toward paying off q claim
against the home. II Is charged that
the claim was fraudulent.
There are 1000 schoolhouses In Kan
sas, valued ut over $1,000, 900. They are
all supposed to be insured, but 1t Is rs.
serted that the insurance is practically
as there Is In every policy
provision that whenever d building re'
mains rnoccupied more than 80 tdnsee'
., As,,a Ia,,a tl,a ,xn1tn,, 10 vsxiI
A case from Cherokee county has
been filed in the supreme court to test
the validity of the act of the last legis-
lnturc abolishing certain judicial dis
tricts Judges and lawyers are anxious
that the court act speedily in the mat
ter, as the judges in the districts
affected by the act have adjourned
their courts pending the decision.
In the district court of Wyandotte
comfy Judge Alden decided that the
Kansas exemption law must be consid-
cred before laborer's wages are tied
up by punishment Under this law
mans wages cannot be at
tached unless II be shown that his in
come is in excess of the cost of provid.
ing for his family. A single man,
however, is exempt of nothing.
In response to a request from Kaw
valley potato growers for q remedy to
stamp out the pest that is destroying
10 many potato vines, Chancellor Snow
says the best artificial remedy or pre-
Ventive is that of burning the potato
stalks when they begin to wilt and
The worms are yet in them. It has
been observed in Illinois that the pres
,nce of the helpful hen has been ad-
in keeping this pest from
becoming dangerous.
The last day of the Ottawa Chautau-
qua assembly was Bryan day, and the
silver champion spoke to about $1,000
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