Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

game September g. Gov. Leedy will
introduce him.
Senator Royal Mathews bank at
Mcpherson was closed by the state
bank examiner.
A Nemaha county farmer has apples
In his cave as sound us ever and they
are two years old.
All Kansas railroads will obey Judge
Randolph's injunction us to live stock
rates, but the case will be appealed.
The populist county convention OF
Clay county demanded that State Sem
ator Hanna, of that county, resign his
position. Senator Hanna Is popu-
list.
Samuel and William Hubbard, of
Weir City, who were arrested for COM
plicity in the Pincville (Mo.) bank rob-
berry, were discharged for want OF evil
dence.
The wife and ten-year-old son OF
Thomas Coker, OF Cedar Junction,
were run down and killed on bridge
near their home by Santa Fe
passenger.
There are $50 cases docketed for trial
at the next term OF the Shawnee coun-
ty district court, and only one murder
case among them. This Is n good
showing for q county having $4,000
population.
State Superintendent of Schools
Stryker says he will soon begin fight
against alleged cxhorbitant prices
now charged for school supplies. lie
also favors the levying of state tax
for school purposes.
Congressman Jerry Simpson was in
vited to address the Harper county
populist convention, but Senator Titus
and Judge Mckay made such n fight
against it that the central committee
withdrew the invitation.
Z. p. Cheney, Of Boston, n leading
stakeholder in the Santa Fe railroad,
invested s., 900 last fall In seed wheat,
which was sown along the Santa Fe in
Kansas, and Mr. Cheney will realize n
profit of $4,000 from the crop.
Col. S. W. Eldridge, who celebrated
his slst birthday in Lawrence recently,
is writing history of that city and OF
himself. Col. Eldridge was an early
settler of Douglas county. and closely
identified with border ruiiian days.
The encouragement has declared
invalid the action OF dissatisfied pat
rons of the Hope school district who
held n new election and organized
graded school. State Superintendent
Stryker had said the action was proper.
Attorney-Genera Boyle has decided
that the eight-hour law does not apply
to any state officers; in other words,
to any person whose duties and COM
pensation are fixed by the legislature.
Only laborers and mechanics can claim
! the privileges of the law.
Sheriff Longfellow, of Wyandotte
county, is carrying terror to the joint
keepers of Kansas City and Argentine.
Seventy joints have been raided, over
S.. 600 worth of liquors poured into the
cutters and costly saloon furniture and
fixtures piled up in the Jail yard.
j. r. Weakley, whose shortage as
treasurer of Cherry township, Mont
gomery county, is s3,O45. has left the
county. His three bondsmen refused
to pay the shortage and they were
placed in Jail until they gave bond in
double the amount Of the shortage.
The county attorney Of Marion coun-
ty brought suit at Marion to euioin
wholesale grocers of Kansas from do
ing business in that county. alleging
that they were in trust The action
was brought under the antitrust law
of 1897. and will be watched with con-
siderable interest.
There is complaint because school,
teachers flirt with positions-secure
one and get better II possible. One
board has required the teacher hired
to give bond for her appearance. and
another made the teacher hired give q
$500 bond that she would not desert the
school to get married.
David Herst, a Sumner county farm
err, had five quarter sections OF land,
all heavily mortgaged. Suit was
brought to foreclose and the cases
were set for the September term OF
court, but Herst sold his big wheat
crop for $1,000 more than enough to
pay all the mortgages, and he will
keep his farms.
A state organization Of live stock
men was formed ut Emporia with j..
W. Robinson, Eldorado, president; w.
w. Miller. Usage City, vice president;
George Plumb, Emporia, secretary,
md w. p. Martin, Chase county, treas
urer. A resolution thanking Attor-
ney-G General Boyle for his work in the
railroad injunction suit was passed.
Kingman is now in the throes OF a
saloon war over the burning OF n joint
run by Mike Brennan, who has spent
half his time in Jail since the prohib-
itory law was enacted, 10 years ago.
and has cost the county at least 81, 900
year. The temperance people are
blamed for the destruction Of Mikes
saloon, and liquor men have threaten
ed the Methodist church and United
Brethren churches.
At Manhattan the new Textbooks
contractor refused to accept in ex-
change from the officers Of q school
district some books that were only
slightly damaged, declaring that only
whole books would be taken. The
school district brought suit to compel
the acceptance of the books. The
case will be watched with great In
forest as 1t involves thousands Of dol
lars in the exchange Of books.
II. w. King, leading republican OF
Cherokee county, is organizing his
friends in the Third congressional dis
trict to fight Cy Leland at the next