Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-03-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Citizens of Great Bend made up car
load OF corn for Indian famine suffer
ers.
Rev. H. D. Fisher, OF Lawrence,
wants to be appointed consul to Jeru'
salem.
Lloyd Battorf, OF Jewell county, Is
only Is years old but he weighs $50
pounds.
A Centralia man has put in 5000
horseradish plants, and will manufac-
| ture for table use.
Congress has passed the bill appro-
priating 100000 for charging To-
pelsa's public building.
An Ohio man will put in brick man.
ufacturing plant ut lola with a capac-
ity of %, 900 bricks day.
The linsced oil works ut Frcdonia
exported 40 car loads OF oil meal to
Liverpool, Eng. recently.
Kansas farmers are getting higher
price for fat cattle and IRE feeding
cheaper corn than for many years.
Gov. Leedy appointed Lee johnson,
Of Kansas City, us state labor commits
sioncr and Walter Holcomb, Of Butler
county, rs assistant.
Tho next state oratorical contest
will be held at Lawrence. o. II. Caster,
Of ottawa, Is president of the state as
sociation and +. d. Plundon, OF Salina,
secretary.
The equal suffrage association OF
Topeka has placed three women can
didates in the field for the council and
will try to capture the republican pri-
maries In tho interest Of their candi-
dates.
A crazy man armed to the teeth en-.
tered Gov. Leedy's Office the other day
and for time there was great conster-
nation. but one OF the clerks succeeded
in getting him away without any acci-
dents.
The Kansas conference Of the NJ. Z.
church, composed Of the Atchison,
junction City, Manhattan, Kansas
City and Topeka districts, was held mt
Manhattan the past week. There arc
about 175 ministers in the conference.
A Chicago man bought 100000 bush
els of corn Mt Manhattan this week,
paving Is cents bushel. When the
grain was all garnered he gave ban
ouet to the farmers who had sold the
corn and to the business men of Man
| haitian.
Secretary Coburn, Of the state board
OF agriculture, has sent circular let
ter to the /, 700 assessors and los county
clerks of the state urging more COM
plete and accurate statistics pertain
ing to the dairy and creamery products
and the areas in nurseries and vine
yards Of the state.
A man in Doniphan county has o
plan for solving the surplus corn prob
lem. He suggests that Gov. Leedy Is
sue u proclamation calling upon every
family in Kansas to, upon certain
day, purchase Is cents worth OF corn
meal. lie says that in single day the
entire surplus crop would be consumed.
The county commissioners of Bour-
hon county have ordered that all able
bodied men applying for aid shall DO
given work on the public roads at so
cents day, instead Of provisions. All
prisoners committed to the county Jail
for non-payment of fines will also be
worked ON the roads and allowed 90
cents day.
The senior class OF the Columbus
public schools has applied to the school
board at Neosho, Mo-, for permission
to take their grades and go to Neosho
and graduate with the class of '97.
The reason given for the unusual ac-
ton is that negro is In the class at
Columbus and the white members do
not want to graduate with him.
While returning from literary socie-
ty near Hope Arthur Andrews and John
Bragg had race ON horseback. ltwas
very dark and their horses ran into a
load Of young people, breaking up the
carriage and killing both OF their
own horses. The occupants were So
riously injured and Andrews was
thrown to the ground with such force
that he was unconscious for hours.
William Addison Brown, of Baker
university, carried Off first honors al
the 18th annual state oratorical contest
at Topeka last week. His grafton was
on "The Kingliness OF Man." w. II.
Foullses, of the College of Emporia,
got second place and third place was
awarded to j. W. Newell, Of Washburn
college. Brown will therefore repre-
sent Kansas at the interstate oratorical
contest at Columbia, Mo-, in May.
The A. o. U. W. grand lodge, in ses'
sion at Salina, elected John II. Crider
of Fort Scott, master workman; John
Z. Shields, Of Wichita, foreman; Will
C. Hill, of Paola, overseer; NJ. B. Sight
Of Winfield, receiver; E. NJ. Forde, Of
Emporia, recorder; w. r. Priest, OF
Concordia, medical examiner; Guy A.
Spencer. of Russell, trustee; Z. L. Muir
phey, W. NJ. Wallace and Ed H.
Wheeler delegates to supreme lodge.
Miss Annie Emerson, young woman
school-teacher in Bourbon county, re
fused to surrender her school to u man
whom the board had employed to sue
coed her. A big majority of the patrons
sympathize with her, and when the
man teacher rang the bell to call school
only the children Of members Of the
board responded, and when she rang Q
moment later they all went in. There
upon the man teacher told the board
he would give up the job. Miss Emer
son, backed by sympathizers. is deter
mined to hold the fort, while the
school board is just as determined she
shall not.
Col. A. A. Harris, formerly an attor
ney Of Fort Scott, is accused by a client
ut Duluth, Mimi, Of holding valuable
papers in 81, OO0,0O lawsuit, and de
manding S25, 900 for them.