Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-12-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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4 Council Grove will pry no more water
). rental until the water company i'm.
proves the service.
: Gov. Leedy has appointed DR.. Ingels,
OF Larned, rs superintendent Of the
, 0sawatomie asylum.
, Congressman Peters has introduced
+ . bill to reduce postage on letters
mailed by blind people.
Abraham Edwards, q resident of
North Topeka, went insane because
, his little farm was sold for taxes.
Charles W. Slkene, county attorney
i, OF Pottawatomie county, was arrested
on the charge Of official misconduct
A course Of practical instruction In
dairying will be commenced at the
state agricultural college January 4.
DIR. Seth Tozer, the lola dentist who
recently died in an indianapolis hos
pital, willed his property to the Ma
sonic home at Wichita
g. c. Clemens, the well-known To-
peka lawyer-politician, says the new
election law Is imperative because the
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1t Is estimated that the claims OF
various counties against the state for,
overpaid penalties on delinquent state
taxes will aggregate 100000.
A Washington dispatch said Cyrus
Leland was there booming Mai. Tom
Anderson, Of Topeka, for United States
marshal in opposition to w. Z. Sterne.
Il. E. Kies, editor Of the Kansas Com
moner, ut Wichita, will contest with
Jerry Simpson for the populist nomi-
nation for congress in the Seventh dis
trict.
Dennis Harmon, recently elected q
road overseer in Wyandotte county,
pleaded guilty to the charge OF treat.
ing voters to liquor and was sentenced
to Jail.
Mrs. Anna Beurman, convicted OF |
killing her husband near Lawrence |
because she wanted to marry another
man, was sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
The attorney general holds that all
state officers who collect fees, except
the bank commissioner, must file re-
port with the state auditor before the
18th of each month.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual banquet of the Kansas
Day club, at Topeka, January 20. Edi.
tor w. Y. Morgan, Of the Hutchinson
News, will be toastmaster.
The Garden City relatives of BUFF
falo" Jones, the famous Kansas ranch
man who started on an expedition to
the northwest territory last summer,
fear that he has been killed by In
dams
The states outstanding warrants
stamped mot paid for want of funds"
amount to $4,000, and may reach
sl25.000 The state treasurer thinks
he can pay off the deficit by February
next.
Prof A. j. Wall, formerly principal
OF the Richland schools, is in the Morton
county Jail at Syracuse charged with
causing the ruin of 17-year-old Alice
Butler. Wall is graduate of the Kan
sas state normal.
In the recent t~ial OF case in the
Usage county district court John Will
iiams, farmer, acknowledged in an
affidavit that he had three wives liv-
ing. from neither OF whom had he been
legally separated.
The Wells-Fargo Express company,
whose agent at Wichita was arrested
md fined for violating the game law
In permitting quail to be carried rs
express matter, will test the constitu.
tionality of the law. !
At Independence, recently, A. j. Ha- !
german, aged SO, was married to Mrs.
Mooney, aged II. They had made pre-
'ious attempts to wed, but relatives
always succeeded in thwarting the b
plans of the giddy couple. n
Senator Harris has introduced bill O
n congress to appropriate $4,000 to c
he state university to pay war claim, n
aused by the burning of a hotel ut C
lawrence. then owned by the New "
England Emigrant company. n
Rev. Warren Applebee. said to be o
member of the Northwest Kansas con-
erence, was arrested ut Boston, while I,
raveling with young woman, on the S,
barge Of theft. Applcbee was said to e,
'e victim Of the morphine habit t.
The supreme court upheld State "
treasurer Hefiieblower, who refused Sc
D sign warrants to pay for $4,000 Of W
raham county bonds purchased by
he state Mt par, because the banker
Tho offered them was to pay only 9s h,
ents on the dollar. a.
The rabbit scalp industry in Sumner h,
ounty is developing at an astonishing a,
tie. So far the county has paid three eli
'nts bounty upon $4,000 scalps, and m
ley are being brought to the county
ERIK Mt the rate of 5000 day. 1t Is
itimated that by March the county .
Ill have to pay out sl2. 900, which will W
present q total Of 100000 rabbits ~
lied. !"
The states permanent school fund "
Is been growing wonderfully Of late
I'd the district schools of the state
Ill get larger apportionment than wi
ual in January. The bonded debt of CO.
q state Is sG3a, 900, OF which oil but tri
90, 900 is held In the school fund. OF he
c latter amount $4,000 Is due next
ar and this will also be bought up =
the school fund commissioners. s.o
his will then leave only SIS, 900 in tot
ate bonds in the hands of outside I'm,
rites. soo
The state will bring suit against the
y Of Lawrence for 500, 900 bonus the
y pledged to secure the state uni
rsity. No part Of the principal or ami
Ierest has ever been paid. Chi
over 1000 guests attended the golden yes
dding anniversary of DR.. II. b. Horn wa
d wife In Atchison RECENTLY. They kee
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