Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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: Women are getting 81 day for driv
: ing teams In the harvest fields OF Cow
. ley county.
: The last monthly report OF the stat,
! grain inspector shows the Office TO bt
far from self'supporting.
, Gov. Leedy has named Samuel Case
!, OF Ottawa, as superintendent of the re
formatory at Hutchinson.
, Albert Fiske, only 10 years old, Of
Coffcyville, is in Jail charged with at
tempting to murder his mother.
Charles Tippy, farmer near Pitts
burg, was sent to Jail six months fol-
abusing his 15-yearold daughter.
An agent OF the Spanish government
has bought about 1900 mules In the
vicinity OF Fort Scott for use in Cuba.
Citizens Of Erie, Kan, were so in
dignant because the board OF pardons
had recommended Willie Sells pardon
that they hanged Sell and his lawyers
In ctligy.
Horsethieves have become SO bold In
and about Topeka that Shawnee coun-
ty farmers have organized to make
short work Of anyone caught taking
horscfesh.
A posse OF farmers caught Bob IIar-
ris, negro who broke into John SUIT.
liefs house near Atchison, and strung
him to tree. All officer arrived just
in time to cut him down alive.
State Fish Commissioner Shultz, OF
Wichita, says tons Of fish are taken
daily from Kansas streams by poach-
ers and he is going to put a stop to 1t.
Already he has named fish wardens in
63 counties.
A. d. Hubbard, of Topeka, ex-presi.
dent Of the Kansas A. p. A. who was
convicted of embezzling $4,000 while
receiver OF the IIamilton-Snow Print
ing Co., was refused new trial lie
will appeal to the supreme court
According TO statement prepared
by State Auditor Morris there is due
from about rs counties in Kansas $685.
900 In state taxes. The state auditor
Is urging settlement. With some coun.
ties the delinquency reaches back over
Is years.
Henry Rodenburg, of Leavenworth,
shipped the first car load of this years
crop of apples to Minneapolis, MINI.
The apple season has now commenced
and from now on the apple shippers
will be kept busy. The reports say
the crop is good one.
Examiners of applicants for teach
ers' certificates in many counties de-
clare that the questions recently sent
out by the state board CT examiners to
be the most puzzling ever known and
say II the papers were vigorously
marked less than one.half the appli-
cants would pass.
The supreme court, in recent
unanimous opinion, held that the law
to repeal certain obsolete and re-
dundant portions of the general stat
utes of 1885," but which inadvertently
abolished six judicial districts Of tho
state, is unconstitutional and void.
The decision was on an appeal from
the Eleventh district.
In case brought before II last week
on appeal the supreme court decided
that litigant has right to depend
upon the mails and when correspond.
encc miscarries and the parties show
reasonable diligence a continuance
should be granted, II the failure OF
parties to appear was due wholly to
the mistake in the mails.
Rev. H. +. Pugh, chaplain of the state
G. A. f., has prepared some interest
ing data regarding the recent Memo
rial day observance. He says 1913 posts
observed the day with 5.0i4 veterans
in line. The graves of 1o,733 soldiers
and sailors were decorated in scr GEM
ctcries. The amount expended for the
days observance was $4,000.
Mr.. Mclean, of Dcs Moines, H., was
Mt Sharon Springs recently looking
over the situation with view of To-
eating 300 Iowa families in Wallace
county. Mr.. Mclean has been APP
pointed by the large colony of Iowa
TO look up location in the
west where land is cheaper and the adj
vantages for poor man greater than
in Iowa.
Since the warden of the penitentiary
took the stripes off the convicts and
gave them suits of cadet gray, new
ideas of the fitness of things have been
ut Lansing. Warden Lam
dis received petition signed by all
The convicts in the leather working
shops asking for new aprons to protect
their uniforms. Aprons have not yet
been provided. I
The superintendent of the state SOL
Tiers homcat Dodge City and the war !
len of the penitentiary have filed their ,,
reports with the state auditor for the
month of June. The Dodge City home
,ost for its maintenance during the
month S3,G09.0l. The expense bill Of
he pcnitentiary was, for salaries, I
IS, 800 80; for maintenance, S0,42a.1 liz.
rhe receipts OF the penitentiary from
abor of convicts was s3,674.25. {
Gov. Leedy RENTED the fines Of four /,
Dodge City jointkeepers who had
erved out n Jail sentence but were UNI
bile to pay the fine imposed upon q
hem. The governor said he RENTED
he fines because none of them had any ,
money and there was no way possible
o get them to work it out lie thought 4
'erhaps they might profit by their 9
ong confinement and go to work in i
he harvest fields. where labor Is in O
uch great demand.
Acknowledgement Boyle has rem
cred an opinion that all fees of the
ank commissioner, charged for ex-
mining state banks in the hands of 1,
eceivers, must be paid by the receiv- n