Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Tho republicans have majority Of

Buffalo encampment via the Santa Fe.
Pittsburg, now city Of $4,000, will
have free delivery Of mail after Sep
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All the empty buildings In Argonia
been rented by Syl Dixon and stored
with wheat.
The receipts Of the state peniten-
tiary for July were s9,7il and expendi-
lures slS,0l5.
The total valuation OF the packing
house property in Kansas City, Kan,
is SIS, 100000.
Farmer German, of Dickinson coun-
ty, harvested 1890 bushels Of wheat
from so acres.
The school board ut Troy refused to
obey the textbook law, and will use
the present books.
lola will have new $4,000 brick
schoolhouse, the brick to be home prod.
uct, burned with natural gas.
The Lcavcnworth soldiers home has
3.il0 inmates, and Is crowded. At least
so veterans are awaiting admission.
Dickinson county wants to refund
SEQ, 900 of six per cent railroad bonds,
voted to the Santa Fe and Rock Island
roads.
The county commissioners of Clay
county will hereafter buy all delin-
quent land with money from the coun-
ty treasury.
Theodore Deiffenderfer, Doniphan
county farmer, made enough from his
wheat, oats and barley crop this year
to buy another farm.
Cattlemen all over the state are up
in arms against the new order of the
railroads to ship live stock by weight
instead OF by car load.
Jesse Babcocl, a wealthy young man
Of Eagle Bend. committed suicide q
few minutes before the time set for his
marriage TO Miss Gardner.
There have been PIT national banks
organized in Kansas. Eighty went in
10 voluntary liquidation, 30 became in
solvent and los are still in existence.
Mrs. George J. Barker, wife Of the
Lawrence politician and lawyer, was
arrested recently on n charge OF dis.
turbing the peace Of one of her ten
ants
Chester !. Long says he will again
be candidate for congress from the
Seventh district, and denies that he Is
after the republican nomination for
governor.
William Keiser, young man NJ
Thayer. was arrested for selling liquor
and committed suicide rather than go
TO Jail. He had previously borne a
good name.
Cattle on the ranch OF Hollowell &
Morgan, near Manhattan, Were found
to have Texas fever and the whole
herd, numbering about 5000 head, are
quarantined.
The fax tow factory at Fort Scott
has resumed operations after an idle.
ness of several months. The fax in.
dustry in Kansas this year promises
rich returns.
W. II. Barnes. one of the sect known
as River brethren. whipped his wife
and turned his children out of doors to
'sanctify" them. He was given 30 days
in Jail at Abilene.
Fred Kipp, living six miles west Of
Ellsworth, was overcome with heat
while working in his blacksmith shop
and, falling face downward into the
Are. was burned to death.
Topeka has the distinction Of being
the home OF the only colored female
lawyer in America. Her name is Edna
Lytle, and she graduated recently from
the law department Of colored uni
versity at Nashville, Tenn.
The state architect has discovered
what he terms big steal in the con.
struction OF the north archway lead
ing into the statehouse. Instead OF
stone masonry, as the contract speci.
fed, mortar was used, and it has al
ready began to crumble away.
State Treasurer Heaebower, who
held out for some time against the
state buying $4,000 of Wichita bonds
with permanent school fund money,
on the g,ound that Wichita was al.
ready too heavily bonded, finally gave
in and the bonds were purchased.
NJ. W. Sutton, republican, took
charge of the Office Of internal revenue
collector at Leavcnworth on the 10th,
succeeding Richard B. Morris. The
only new appointee was Capt Henry
Booth, of Larned, to be cashier. Other
positions are under the civil service.
In n circular recently issued State
Superintendent Stryker advocates the
wholesale adjustment Of schools In
sparsely settled districts in western
Kansas and recommends q collection
and delivery OF pupils. He says in
many districts there are but three to !
five pupils.
At Eureka recently man who had
neglected to cancel chattel mortgage
after it was paid had to pay the bor-
rover 500 damages, though the mort
gage was for only So After the note
was paid the mortgage thought moth
ing more about 1t, but under the law
he should have gone to the recorders
Office and released 1t.
The Santa Fe railroad will spend |
s152, 900 in the erection of buildings |
along its lines in Kansas this fall.
This does not include smaller depots,
and other like improvements. The
new buildings are: Winfield elevator,
1000; Topeka shops, SIS, 200; Dodge
City depot, $4,000; Argentine round
house, 1000; Hutchinson depot, SILL
600; Newton shops, $4,000; Winfield
depot, $4,000.
A. H. Bonesteel, Of Centralia, walked
into a creamery and drank heavily