Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

has Teen arrested for embezzlement.
He was twice found short In his ac-
counts
Sumner county produced 2,l72, 4S0
bushels Of wheat In 1906, which sur.
passed the yield CT any other county
In the state.
Gov. Morrill, Is now grandfather, o
son having recently been born to his
daughter, Mrs. Charles Dixon, Of Kan
sas City, Mo.
A woman Mt Malvern, Usage county,
wants the legislature to enact law TO
prohibit "the wearing Of corsets by
any member OF any sex"
II is said the message OF Gov..elec
Leedy TO the legislature will contain
no recommendation for the repeal Of
the Metropolitan police law.
There are now 1857 volumes In the
state library, $4,000 being In the law
department, 10000 miscellaneous and
$500 In the Stormont medical library.
Representative Try, Of Fort Scott,
gives figures to show that Bourbon
county has 6,055 votes, while the IS
counties In western Kansas which his
bill aims TO make into FIVE counties
polled only 5,479 votes ut the last cleo
ton.
In the library OF the state historical
society ut Topeka there are 1888
bound volumes OF books; 5i,031 un-
bound volumes and pamphlets, and
IS, aa3 bound newspaper files and vol.
umes of periodiculs-in oil 91,499 vol
umes.
A bill will be introduced Ia the legis-
lature this winter to amend the hunt
ing law so that four constables will be
elected In each township whose duty
1t will be to personally file complaints
against hunters who trespass or violate
the law.
The balance In the state treasury
December 81 was 1868, 332 80 In funds
and S7.OiG. 99S 10 In bonds. OF the latter
SO. 25s,4i6 ~ were permanent school
fund bonds The cash receipts for De-
cember were Sli0.sl3s3 and the dis
bursements sils,Osa5+
Wyandotte county stands first in
population among Kansas counties, the
latest report crediting her with 5s,Gla
people, and the assessed valuation OF
taxable property is 81, 100000 Wyan-
dot,e is also the greatest potato pro-
ducing county, having raised ss3, re
bushels last year.
The dead and decomposed body OF
George bryant, who two weeks ago
tried to murder his wife and fathcr.in-
law on the streets Of Fort Scott, was
found In b coal drift near that city.
There Is no doubt that Bryant, after
attempting TO murder his wife because
she would not live with him, com.
mitted suicide at the spit where his
body was found.
Carl Meier, q workman Of Atchison,
stopped runaway horse the other day
and saved the life Of the driver, Mrs
Stella Milfred. The grateful woman
sent for her rescuer, expecting TO sub
stantinlly reward him, and converse.
ton between the two quickly revealed
the fact that they were brother and
sister, who had been separated many
years ago in Switzerland by the death
of their parents
The superintendent OF city schools
throughout the sta'e will ask the leyis.
lature to pass q law providing that
superintendent shall not be removed
except for cause. They claim the stand
ard Of the schools can be raised only
by continued service OF school officers,
from superintendent down. At the
present time the school superintendent
can be discharged ut any time there Is
change In the school board.
j. D. Spaulding, telegraph opera
tor, was discharged from the employe
OF the Santa Fe railroad at Richmond.
1t is alleged that he tried to get back
into the company's employ by putting
IN obstruction on the track near Gar
nett, intending to remove 1t rs the
train approached. But the arrange
men,s miscarried, the train was
di,ched and now Spaulding is in Jail at
Garnet charged with train wrecling.
Over 1000 delegates are expected to
attend the annual meeting of the state
temperance union at Topeka January
I2. Among the speakers will be E. w.
Hoch, Of Marion; ex.Gov. St. John, OF
Olathe; Congressman.elect Jerry d.
Botkin; Rudolph Hatfield. Of Wichita;
Howard c. Rash, of Salina, and James
A. Troutman, OF Topeka. The object
of the convention Is to build up scnti.
ment against the constitutional cons
vention proposition.
Investigation shows that in Kansas
last year old line life insurance com.
panies took from the state Sl,700, 900 In
clear profit. 1t is now proposed that
the legislature enact law requiring
all life insurance companies to invest
G5 per cent. of premiums collected in
this state In Kansas securities, to be
deposited with the state treasurer, SO
that upon death, II the loss Is not
speedily adjusted, the beneficiary may
go to the state treasurer and have his
claim satisfied.
The Kansas State Teachers meeting
ut Topeka last week was 4 success,
both In attendance and interest mani.
Tested. J. E. PEARS, OF Lawrence, was
chosen president The resolutions
adopted favored child study, school
room sanitation, the establishment OF
auxiliary normal schools and changing
the time Of the expiration Of the term
of the county superintendent to the
second Monday in January. The sub
ject of textbook legislation was not
even mentioned.
Secretary OF State Edwards, who Is
to retire from Office January II, has
been appointed general land agent of
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf rail-