Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-02-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

man Funston, Of lola, Is now n majoi
In the Cuban army.
| Gov. becdy has appointed ex-senator
Wheeler, Of Concordia, and 7. II. Do
Ian, OF Salihh, Us members OF tho stat,
board d. charities,
Grover Reynolds, n li-year-old lad a
Oketo, played with ''didn't-know-it
was-loaded" gun, with the usual result
He lived about seveh hours.
There are now four suits pending Ii
the federal courts for possession O
Staiger's island, situated in the Mis-
souri, river just south Of Leavcnwortf
and containing 5000 acres of valuabl,
land.
The state camp NJ KANSAS fiodefi
WU6dmen held n meeting at lIutchin
son the other day and elected delegate,
TO the head camp. There are now 46s
camps II, Kansas, with n membership
| of $4,000
ten. A. j. Smith, who died at st.
Louis recently, took an important part
In lsGT-6s in the cruel Indian war which
ravaged western Kansas. lie was
eelpnel Of the fnmeus Seventh cavalry
known as ''Custer's regiment
Gov. Leedy has named Mrs. John r.
81. John, Of 0lathe; Harrison Kelley: d
Huntingdon, and c. Is. Hoffman, OF EIi.
terprise, rs regents Of the state agri-
cultural college. Mrs. st. John is the
wife of ex Gov. st. John, the noted
prohibition apostle,
The total public indebtedness Of
tarsas 10 s34,Haa'O3al The assessed
valuation III all property III Tic state
Is s3ai. 2iG. 93s, and rs Kansas property
is assessed ut only about one-third OF
its value, the per cent. Of public in
dehtediess Is only abont a57 per cent.
Custer post No. Q, at Leatenwarth,
one of the largest G.. A. X. posts in
Kansas, adopted resolutions condemn
ing Gov. Smith. OF the soldiers home,
declaring that his administration of
the home was tyranpical, and demand
ing that congress shmmarily REMOVE
him.
At present Senator Plumb Is tile only
EaHsan represented in bronze Mt the
state house. senator Harris has intro.
duced a resolution in the senate to ap-
propriate 81, 900 for u bronze bust of cx-
Gov. Charles Robinson, to be placed in
the state university building ut Law
relae,
There Is state law allowing coiiii-
ties 80 cents day for caring for in.
sane people who cannot get into the
regular asylum. The amount expended
Tho l,ast tw6 years for this purpose
reached the enormous sum of sliG.05o.
which Is $4,000 more than any previous
two years.
tadk Freeman. a prominent saloon.
keeper and politician df f0rt Scott
under arrest for receiving stolen goods,
confessed that since last August his
saloon had been headquarters for two
professional burglars who had been
operating In Kansas and Missouri ON q
large scala.
The ballot law which Is likely to pass
the legislature. provides that petition
for ticket on the official ballot must
have at least $500 legal signatures. AT
present only 300 signatures are re'
1uired. This rkahgc will have tile ei'
feet Of keeping small bodies Of reforms
ers out of Kansas politics.
At Kansas City, Kan, Charles o.
Gerard sued his wife for divorce. the
principal allegation being that Mrs.
Gerard was a believer in Christian
science; that she would never permit
physician to visit his three children,
and he accuses her Of thus causing the
death of two Of the children.
A bill to prohibit the sale of patent
medicines, drugs or nostrums until the
formula Is presented to and favorably
passed upon by the state board of
health Is one of the measures now be-
fore the Legislature. A heavy license
Is also fixed upon all drug stores hand
ing such proprietary medicines.
Matte Price, q fashionable young
woman of Fort Scott, was convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
having concealed several bolts of silk
which two of her male friends had
stolen from q dry goods store. She
convicted of felony at Fort Scott.
The county treasurers of the state
held their annual convention in To-
pekn last week. Bills covering the fol-
lowing subjects were presented to the
legislature for enactment: Providing
for o uniform county depository law:
to compel treasurers to make annual
settlements with the county commits
sioners.
At the meeting of the live stock
breeders of the state at Topeka recently
n movement was set on foot to organize
O state fair association. Committees
were appointed to thoroughly canvass
the matter. 1t Is proposed to have u
new name and new charter, and ask
the legislature for an appropriation Of
200 to start with.
A non-partisan celebration Of Kan
sas' S6th birthday was held in repre-
sentative hall in Topeka on the Goth.
Two thousand people attended. Chief
Justice Doster presided, and speeches
highly eulosistic OF the sunfiower state
were made by Judges Doster and llor-
ton, Senator-elect w. A. Harris, Jerry
Simpson and D. G. Tillotson.
The State Temperance union has Is
sued an address congratulating the
advocates OF prohibition upon the re-
vival Of interests on the part of press
and pulpit in the state in temperance
reform and also upon the aggressive
work Of the w. c. T. T., the ]. O. G. T..
the Y. r. S. C. Z. and other non-parti-
san temperance organizations.
Rev. II. L. Ballou, Christian
preacher, will be chaplain Of the peni-
Tertiary under Warden Lands. lie