Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Emporia Is "drvn for the first time /

Emporia Is dry" for tho first time In
many years.
W. ]. Bryan will speak at the Wich-
ita fair October I.
Cholera has exterminated several
droves of hogs In Rice county.
Several head OF cattle near Delphos
died from eating blossoms Of Kafiir
corn.
Grasshoppers caused c. W. Kellogg,
u Russell county ranchman, loss Of
sl,0
The Swift Packing Co., Of Kansas
City, will feed 500, 900 head Of sheep in
Kansas.
Mai. George Ridge, who served under
Quantrell in his raids, died Mt Arcadia
recently.
At Hutchinson but IS Of the 149
teachers were able to pass the county
examination:
Kansas will this season contribute rs
car loads Of fruit to sooth the internal
man of the east.
Lenora Pearce. aged eight, Of 0tta-
wa, accidentally swallowed cork and
choked to death.
DIR. Robert Brown, who conducted
the first drug store in Kansas, died Mt
Leavenworth recently.
Congressman Case Frederick, of the
First district. is mentioned for governor
on the republican ticket.
Hungarians of New York are talking
Of establishing colony Of several
thousand persons in Kansas.
The railroads, smelters and coal
companies at Pittsburg pay nearly
$3.50, 900 in wages every month.
There is war among thrashers ut
Great Bend. The price has been cut to
two cents, and is sure to go lower.
Will White, of the Emporia Gazette,
will deliver the annual address before
the Kansas university September TO-
The ejectment suits involving the
title to a vast amount OF property in
Argentine have been filed in federal
court.
Senator Lamb of Woodson county,
Is developing strength as republican
timber for congress from the Fourth
district.
In Pottawatomie and other eastern
Kansas counties rats have destroyed q
great amount OF old corn that was in
the crib.
Congressman Curtis, after his defeat
in the Emporia post office contest, an
nounced that he would make no fur
thcr recommendation for postmasters.
Farmers were unusually early this
year in blowing wheat ground. They
have learned the Importance OF get
ting ground ready early, though the
work is harder.
The state canvassing board decided
that W. I. Mcbride was legally nomi-
mated by the fusionists for judge in
the Nineteenth district and refused to
put ex-Judge James A. Rays name ON
the ticket.
Next month the new home for needy
veterans at Ellsworth will be dedi-
Gated. 1t is named for Mother Bick-
erdyke, one OF the war heroiues. Over
sl4, 900 has been expended to make the
home credit to the state.
]. NJ. Limbocker. until recently a
prominent lawyer and county official
at Fort Scott, was brought back from
Texas to answer to embezzling money
from the estate of Mrs. Paulson, an in
sane woman of Fort Scott
W. b. Felts, the man who was to
jump from Pixies peak, but didn't, was
discovered recently in Logan county,
this state. where he formerly lived.
lie is said to be great fakir, and
takes periodical turns at working
suckers"
Three suits in ejectment have been
filed in the federal court against
parties in Wyandotte and johnson
counties, involving property valued Mt
S3l, 900. The suits are to test the
validity of the government treaty with
the Shawnee Indians.
Cora Hubbard. the 1s-year-old girl
arrested at Weir City for helping rob
the bank at Pineville, Mo-, is said to
have been n member of the Dalton
gang of outlaws and dressed herself as
cowboy. She takes delight in re-
counting her notorious escapades.
In Dickinson county there will be
no third-grade teachers certificates
issued until after the normal institute.
although the law provides for exami-
nations in January and April. The
object of the new order is to force
teachers to attend the institution.
At 81 per bushel for her mammoth
wheat crop Kansas will this year have
''money to burn" instead of s7,0O0,OOO
bushels of last years corn crop left
over. Potatoes are yielding about %
bushels to the acre, which will make
crop Of $4,000, 900, and potatoes are not
a drug on the market right now.
In 1891 there were but s4,Ss4 acres
of alfalfa in Kansas This years re-
turns TO Secretary Coburn, of the state
board of agriculture, show 17l,SS4
acres, IN increase Of 3ss per cent. In
six years, Finney county, as in 1891,
ranking first in acreage. Alfalfa Is
reported this year in all but three
counties.
Ex-Congressman JEFF Hudson, OF
Fredonia, has been employed to fight
the erection of new high school
at Independence. under the special act
of the last legislature. The law will
be attacked on the grounds that
special law to accomplish what is pro-
vided for by general law is unconsti-
tutional. Mr.. Hudson will also attack
the validity Of the general law, which
authorizes county high schools after
the people have SO voted.
A milling firm at Lawrence Is ship
ping -four to Klondike. 1t goes by
southern water route and will reach
4. 81 thu Vr-