Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-02-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Bob Love, colored, was convicted at
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Bob Love, colored, was convicted ~
Empuria Of numbering his father.
The creamery ut Newton Is shipping
thousands of pounds Of butter to Mani
chester, Eng.
The January earnings Of the peni-
tentinfy were s3,00s.s3 and the ex-
penses 81, 06a.s0.
Judge W. c. Webb, Of Topeka, will
be paid $4,000 to revise and compile
the statutes of Kansas.
II. ]. Edwards, Of Russell county,
has come into possession OF land ut
Brynteg, Wales, valued ut 100000.
A fire at Galena recently destroyed
the Windsor livery barn, together with
Is horses, all the harness and 10
vehicles,
Hutchinson wants TO vote s35, 900 to
induce the Hutchinson & Southern to
erect a fine depot md terminal facili-
ties there.
-Large-elect j. ID.
Botkin has selected j. c. Bradshaw. Q
newspaper man Of Winfield, to be his
private secretary.
The big flour mill at Garden City,
costing $4,000, was destroyed by fire,
together with 1900 sacks OF -four and
and 5000 bushels Of wheat.
No educational institution on earth
has finer collection of stuffed ani-
mails and birds and picked insects
than the Kansas state university.
The month of December was an cx-
ceptionally hard one on the Kansas
jurisdiction of the A. o. L. W. There
were 4s deaths, which necessitated the
payment Of 5000 in benefits.
Mrs. Samuel W. Greer, mother OF Ed
p. and Frank II. Greer, wcll-lrnown
newspaper men. died ut Winfield re-
Gently. Her husband was the first
territorial superintendent OF schools
in Kansas.
A dispatch from Canton, o., said that
should congress create the cabinet Of
fec of secretary OF com merce 1t was ex-
tremely probable that President Nc
Kinlcy would come to Kansas to get
the secretary and that It would be Cy-
rus Leland, Jr.
A bill has been presented in the leg
islaturc to reduce the age Of consent
from is to Il years. and providing that
previous bad character should also be
taken as basis for acquittal. Agreat
many Legislators think the present law
Is unnecessarily strict.
The proposition by the Kansas leg
islature to build memorial chemistry
building at the state university in
honor of ex.Gov, Charles Robinson has
set John Speer and other Kansas writ
ers TO disputing over the quarrel which
existed so long and bitterly between
Robinson and John Brown and Jim
Lane.
Rev. ". A. Quayle, well-known in
Kansas Us president Of Baker univer-
sity ut Baldwin, but since 1894 pastor
of independence Avenue NJ. E. church
at Kansas City. Mo-, will prob
ably go to New York next month
and become pastor Of the Calvary
church, one of the leading Methodist
churches of Gotham.
Clifford township, Butler county. &C
cording to nll reports, is modern
Utopia. 1t has 1a0 families, and in %
years they have had only one law suit.
During that time only three mortgages
have been foreclosed. There are FIVE
schoolhouses and two churches in the
township, 10 bonds were ever voted in
the towEsh;p and the township has no
debt.
At Wamego they IRE demonstrating
the practicable of good roads by ac-
tual work on the boulevard connecting
that town with Louisville, three miles
north. Nearly one mile of graveled
road 10 feet wide has been constructed.
Nearly $500 in cash. work and material
have already been subscribed. Gravel
beds have been opened just west OF
town and much interest is taken by
wamego and Louisville people in the
road.
The confession Of Ethel Frezelle,
who was arrested at Fort Scott charged
with perjury in the trial Of Mamie
Price, reveals the fact that the Price
womans house was the rendezvous
from which half dozen daring rob-
berries were planned and executed.
She says the gang also murdered q
stranger there last September and
robbed him of $40. Two men, with the
Price women, were recently sent to
states prison for robbery. Another
man implicated in these crimes Is In
Jail at Joplin, Mo.
The post Office ut Caldwell may be
discontinued temporarily for want OF
n postmaster. w. A. Sturm. until re-
Gently postmaster, was removed for a.
legged embezzlement. The president
nominated A. r. Young, O gold demo-
crat, to succeed him, but the senate re.
fused to confirm the appointment.
Meanwhile, the bondsmen insist on
being relieved from running the Office,
and unless u post Office inspector Ia
put In charge of the Office it will be
left without bonded official until
President Mckinley names man.
A great many people in western Kan
sas are urging congress to recompense
those who have tried to reclaim the
semi-arid regions ont there. They also
ask Uncle sam in his bounty TO con-
struct reservoirs in every township to
catch and store up the annual rainfall,
to build dams across various streams
and TO devise means to utilize that vast
subsurfacc current known rs the un-
derfow. They also want the govern
mcnt to introduce and distribute new
plants, grains, tubers, fruits and trees
| from the arid lands of other nations
that would be suitable and valuable
for cultivation in western Kansas.
In 1884 Edward Phillips left Girard
very mysteriously, and for long time
people thought he had been murdered
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