Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-02-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Thieves entered an Episcopal churc
In Kansas City and stole the commune
wine.
Thirty creamcrics In central Kansu
pay 10 farmers $4,000 month 70
cream.
In her collection of plants Mrs. Dur
gan, of Sedan, has I'm orange tree bear
ing fruit.
The q. a. Z. men ut Hutchinson ar
booming Thco 1Iotlsin for the position
of department commander
Newton proudly boasts that Their
has not been single appeal for chart
ty In TINT town this winter.
Examinations for positions under tn
civil service will be held ut Topek,
March 20 and ut Wichita March 90.
Kansas is said TO have two candidate
for consul.general to Mexico-Congress
man Kirkpatrick and Judge Vandivert
Alpha Stone, u 1S-year-old Topels,
lad, accidentally took hold of n liv,
electric wire and the shock made hin
crazy.
Mrs. James Ayers, wife Of a younI
farmer near Fort Scott, decided slit
liked the hired man best and elopct
with him.
The Legislature is being urged to es
tablish canning factory in the re
formatory at Hutchinson to keep tn,
boy inmates employed.
The president has appointed these
Kansas postmasters: Mrs. Jennie W
Beard Mt Hutchinson and Stephen
Breeze Mt Cottonwood Falls.
Kansas Royal Arch Masons. in SEES
sion ut Salina, elected c. +. Mcneil, oi
Kirwin, high priest, and J. W. Smith
OF Minneapolis. grand scribe.
Gov. Leedy has signed the bill abol
fishing Judge Samuel W. Vandivert's
judicial district. composed Of Rush,
Edwards and Pawnec counties.
c. c. Georgeson, professor of agricul-
ture in the state agricultural college
college at Manhattan, is being urged
for assistant secretary of agriculture.
Wilmer Carver, agent for the Hart
ford insurance company ut Tonganoxie,
who was accused of forgery and en-
bezzlemcnt. committed suicide rather
than face the shame.
At Wichita Charles Doddridgc, a
victim of morphine, was locked up in
the county jnil at his own request for
two months, and by that method was
able to break his bondage to the drug.
Judge Schoonover. OF the Eastern
division, Southern department. of the
court of appeals, has appointed W. o.
Champe, editor OF the Garnett Agitator.
as clcrl; of his court to succeed Frank
l.. Brown.
A Topeka dispatch said Senator-elect
W. A. Harris would within week re-
sign us state senator from Lcavcn.
worth county and go to Washington,
where an early conference Of populist
leaders will be held.
The state council of the A. p. A. in
session ut Wichita, elected c. II. Lul-
ing, Wichita, president; J. +. Culver,
Emporia. secretary of state: Il. l.. KEEP
ling, chaplain; +. II. barker, Kansas
City, secretary. The order claims n
membership in the state of $1,000.
John Todd, wealthy merchant OF
Marmaton. signed an innocent-looking
receipt for some spcctacles from a
stranger, and by u scientific process
the swindlcr transferred the signature
to note for s3,5, which turned up in
the hands of an innocent purchaser.
There were S56s,777 expended at the
Leavenworth soldiers home last year.
There are 2.3lG pensioners in the home
and they received s3al, $50 during the
year in pensions. The home library
s.oG2 volumes. There were
1Gi deaths, 81 cases of insanity and Is
Of blindness.
j. S. Miller, a Doniphan farmer, will
SOW wheat and oats together this
spring. lie says this is regularly done
in Minnesota, and the thrcshing ma
chimes separate the cereals without
trouble. He also says that when oats
grow with wheat chinch bugs will not
modest the wheat.
Joseph Hildebrandt, formerly pros.
porous farmer Mt Maryville. died in a
Chicago hospital recently of cancer.
When lie was taken with the fatal
malady about two years ago his wife
took charge of the furm. Driven to
despair by the certain knowledge OF
her husbands fate, the poor woman
poisoned her eight children, seven OF
whom died, and strangled herself to
death.
II sensational charges made by the
Wichita Beacon IRE true, that city
needs Lexow committee. The bonded
debt of the city is about 81, 0o0, 900, and
about SaI6, 200 Of this amount Is in re-
bonds. The Beacon charges
that a large part of these refunding
bonds is reissue Of special assessment
bonds, which have been paid by the
and the money Diverted to
other purposes than for which II was
intended.
Capt. j. H. Churchill. of Dodge City,
Ia positive that as u wheat and corn.
raising country western kansns Is
failure and that the irrigation prob
Iem has not been solved. But he says
,attle can be raised there cheaper than
anywhere else in the country, as they
.an be kept on the range II months in
the year, and enough stuff can be
raised in the valleys to feed them the
other month. Abandoning farming
altogether last year, Capt. Churchill
bought cows at s2a per head. OF the
number bought 30 per cent. raised
,alves and he sold the calves ut an nv
.rage of eli head. He thus realized
/ 50 per cent. dividend the first year,
Ind within another year will have paid
Ior his cows through the increase.
Charles S. Martin, Of Salina, was
,lected assistant reading clerk of the
z oueae hnuea He is n reDuhliran and