Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth county mas gained 1,
600 In population so far this year.
The Parsons city council will pcrmi
open joints, with S50-a-month fines.
At Independence the other day ,
youth OF IL was married to girl" IS
John Scaton will build big audi
forum Mt Atchison to seat 5000 per
sons.
Gov. Lccdy has appointed DIR. J. w
Shultz, Of Wichita, state fish commits
sioner.
The First national bank of WEST.
morcland has gone into voluntary
liquidation.
There are 80 towns in Sumner county
and all except two have creamery Oh
skimming station.
The Ottawa Chautauqua opened nm.
der very favorable circumstance this
year, with fair weather, u large ut.
tendance and good programme.
DIR. Il. ID. Eastman, superintendent
OF the Topeka insane asylum, has re-
signed. DIR. c. ii. Whetmorc, OF EN-.
poria, was chosen to succeed him.
The Ottawa musical festival was o
pronounced success. In the contesting
choruses Emporia took first prize,
Ottawa close second and Topeka
third.
Eight hundred and fifty-four cars
of cattle, about 10, 900 head, were un.
loaded ut Dodge City during the
month of May for distribution among
local buyers.
Ex-senator Lingenfelter has declined
TO accept the superintendent Of the
state rcformatory Mt Hutchinson. Elk.
Sheriff Arnold, of Columbus, also do.
clined the appointment
Miss Marie Pcrdue, daughter Of Ed
ward Perdue, president of the Bank Of
Huron. Atchison county. eloped with
Fred Walter, farm hand of Mr. Per-
dues. They went to Leavenworth and
were married.
The board Of regents Of the state
agricultural college has dismissed from
the faculty Profs. L. A. Popcnoe,
Francis II. White, Nelson s. Mayo and
Claude NJ. Breese, four of the most
prominent teachers of the institution.
Prof. ID. II. Holmes, of the chair of
Latin in the state university, has re-
signed to accept more lucrative posi-
ton elsewhere. 1t will be remembered
that the last legislature cut the sala-
ries of all the state university pro-
fessors.
The Council Grove board Of educa.
ton has passed the following resolu-
ton: THAT teachers employed in our
public school shall not dance or play
cards. Any teacher violating such re-
gulations holds himself or herself sub.
ject to dismissal"
At Lawrence the other day G. +.
Doughcrty struck business Manager
Simons, of the World newspaper, across
the face with horsewhip, then ran
away, but was afterward arrested.
Dougherty had taken offense ut IN ar
ticle In the World.
The suit brought by Wichita county
TO stop the Santa Fe railroad from
tearing up its tracks in that county
has been compromised and withdrawn,
the Santa Fc agreeing to surrender
$1,000 of the s1l, 900 of bonds voted by
the county to build the road.
Mrs. Nellie Sawyer Kedzie, professor
Of household economy and hygiene In
the Kansas agricultural college at
Manhattan. has been elected to a SINH.
lar chair in the Bradley Polytechnic
institute ut Peoria, Ill. 1t was said
she would accept the position.
Rev. John l.. Hawkins, said TO be
the Oldest Presbyterian minister and
college graduate, died at the home OF
his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth 0sbun, near
Fort Scott, at the age of % years. He
was born at Chambersburg, Pa, Au.
gust I, 1900, and graduated from WASH
ington college in ISIS.
The big eastern fire insurance com.
panies are changing their charters to
conform to the ruling of Supcrintend-
ent OF Insurance McNall in regard TO
tornado insurance. McNall ruled re-
Gently that no foreign insurance com.
pany. whose charter did not specially |
it, could write foreign busi-
ness In Kansas.
Many farmers in the vicinity Of Law
renee complain of their potato vines
and dying. An unusual
acreage of potatoes has been put in be-
tween Lawrence and Kansas City on
both sides of the river and the new
trouble may prove serious. A bug and
dry weather are the causes of the dam
age. The insect is the potato stalk
weevil.
Taylor Riddle, secretary of the state
live stock sanitary board, has investi-
gated the mysterious disease which is
raging among the cattle OF Saline
and he says it is neither Texas
fever nor blackleg, as was at first
feared. A great number of cattle have
lied from the disease, which was in
PRODUCED into the county by animals
from Texas.
Judge James w. Fitzgerald, Of st.
Mary's, died recently from the effects
If cold contracted by him during the
last year while making
speeches for free silver. Mr.. Fitzger-
Id was about 90 years Of age, and was
aid to be one of the best posted men
n parliamentary law in America
Years ago he became somewhat distin-
rushed by his fight on lawlessness in
he city Of Cincinnati, while he was
,olice Judge Of that city. lie had lived
n Kansas about eight years.
Miss Nellie Mckinley was elected
of the Chetopa schools
Ifter the board had taken $50 ballots.
President Wellhouse, of the state
society, says the apple crop
4 Kansas will be light, but there will
,e tremendous" crop of other fruit
The mayor and all the council at
are women, yet is claimed
hat saloane ara runniuU thara whilA