Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

quit issuing monthly reports, the leg
islature having failed to appropriate,
money for the purpose.
Ex-United States Marshal Dicl
Walker did not get IN appointment
from Mckinley, Us reported. He is il
the real estate business ut Sabine City
Tex.
There is an epidemic Of hog cholers
In Sedgwick county and hundreds O.
hogs are dying, the farmers being un
able to check the ravages Of tn,
| disease.
Ed Busscy, the St Joseph travelling
man convicted of enticing two Butler
county girls to Kansas City for immoral
purposes, was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary.
The Encouragement has decided
that the textbook law applies to the
state university, state normal and state
agricultural college, the same as to the
common and high schools.
The populist central committee OF
Dickinson adopted resolutions de-
nouncing State Senator G. W. Hanna
(populisD in his course on railroad leg
islation, and demanded his resignation.
Senator Farrclly, Of Chanute, was
urging the encouragement to pro-
coed against the Wholesale Groccrs'
association, alleging that 1t was being
operated contrary to the new anti
trust law.
Chairman Simpson. of the republican
state committee, does not approve of
the action of the Shawnee central COM
mittee in refusing to permit Bryan re-
publicans to vote at the coming repub-
lican primaries.
Prof. Z. W. Bcmis, who was recently
deposed from the faculty OF the Uni.
versity of Chicago, has been chosen to
lecture on political economy to the
students OF the state agricultural col.
legc ut Manhattan.
The cattlemen of southwestern Kan
sas have found it necessary to raise Q
fund and offer heavy rewards for the
scalps of wolves and coyotes. Hun
dreds of calves and sheep have been
killed by these pests.
A. II. Varble, of Hcpler, aged o.,
who was arrested on complaint Of his
granddaughter, aged II, charged with
being the father of her child. settled
the case by deciding the girl 100 acres
of Crawford county land.
In recent address at Lawrence Prof.
Templin, Of the state university. said
the state should provide money and op'
portunity to young men without means
for obtaining such IN education rs
will be most conducive to his scho.
lastic usefulness.
Telegraph wires in the state will
this year be assessed at $50 per mile
for the first wire, including telegraph
poles, instruments and equipments,
and sla per mile for each additional
wire. There are about $4,000 miles Of
wire In the state.
Gov. Lecdy refused to pardon j. R.
Colcan, who in 1890 was sent to state
prison five years for embezzling S5s, 900
from the State bank Mt Fort Scott.
The governor said Colcan could well
afford to stay five years in prison at
the rate of $40, 900 year.
The middlc-of-the road populists
will hold state conference Mt En-.
poria July /, when delegates will be
elected to the national convention ut
Nashville, Tenn. All who voted the
middle-of-the.road ticket last Noven.
Der will be entitled to seats.
Gen. j. c. Caldwell, of Topeka. Is the
only surviving Encouragement OF the
union army living in Kansas AT Get
tysburg he was next In rank to Gen.
w. S. Hancock. and after the latter
was wounded Gen. Caldwell was tenn
porarily in command of the second
corps.
The canvass OF the vote OF subordi.
nate lodges Of odd fellows for grand
officers of Kansas resulted In the elec.
ton of W. l.. Brown, Kingman, grand
John A. Bright, Topeka. grand
D. W. Kent, Burlington. grand
L. G. Beal, Topeka, grand
treasurer
A Topeka dispatch said the bills in.
Cured for the entertainment Of w. j.
Bryan during his visit to Topeka last
winter remained unpaid. bryan was
invited to visit Topeka by a concurrent
Of the Legislature, but no
money was appropriated to pay the ex-
penses of his trip.
Rev. John D. Knox, the well.known
Topeka banker and preacher, who was
year ago from the Meth
odist church for alleged lying and
fraud, was tried by an ecclesiastic
court at st. Joseph, Mo-, last week and
He was reinstated as .
in good standing.
The petition of Maj. Tom Anderson,
IF Topeka, for pension agent reached
Washington the other day and his in
were pronounced wonder
'ul. Among the numerous signers
were 30 of the IS union soldiers of the
asst legislature; 800 G. A. R. posts Of
.he state and by lO,O11 ex-union SOL
iiers.
The state convention Of Christian
Endeavor societies was held at Topeka
asst week. Frank Vincent, Of Seneca,
was elected president; Percy Davis, of
Topeka, secretary, and F. NJ. Shaeffer.
II Minneapolis, treasurer. The Fiji
;eenth district, composed Of counties
n the far southwestern part OF the
tate, carried off the banner for best
The missionary banner
vas won by the U. P. Endeavor society
II Emporia.
The high school alumni society Of
Fort Scott, comprising 14e members,
vas greatly agitated over whether
and card playing should be
at the annual banquet
The Rock Island and Missouri Pacific |
'aiirouaS have protested against the
assessment by the state