Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-10-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Five cars Of apples were recently
shipped from Wyandottc county to
London.
A farmer near Coffeyville produced
$50 bushels OF oats this year from ten
acres of ground.
Forty head of Poll Angus cattle near
Alton ate second growth Kaffir corn
and died. Loss, $4,000.
The ls-months-old baby Of Frank
Hagendeffer, Of Everest, was drowned
in bucket Of soap suds.
A vitrified brick plant at Cherryvale
will be fired with natural gas, and will
be the largest in the state.
Mrs. Erbe, OF Altoona, went visiting,
leaving at home alone her two chill
dren, aged and II. The youngest
played with matches and was burned
to death.
The Baptist Young Peoples union,
in annual convention ut Lawrence,
elected W. II. Keith, Clay Center, pres
ident, and Miss Carrie Sheffield, To-
peka, secretary.
Bishop Jesse Engle and wife and
Miss Francis Davidson, of the River
Brethren denomination, have gone
from Abilene to Cape Town, Africa, to
work us missionaries.
The proposition OF State Superin.
tendent Stryker to exclude Latin us an
entrance requirement to the state uni
versity does not meet with favor from
the university faculty.
The probate judge of Elk county
wrote the attorney general for advice
rs to the charge for n marriage license.
The custom was to charge $3.50, but
he could find no law for 1t.
The street commissioner of Atchison,
under direction Of the city council,
caused all condemned sidewalks to be
torn up, thereby relieving the city Of
liability in cases of accident.
At Hiawatha, women members of
the congregational church appear at
services with hats removed, in defer
ence to a request made by the Congre'
gational association OF that district.
During the performance OF Lemen
Bros circus ut Neodesha the other
night small riot occurred between
the showmen and some citizens.
Charles Irwin was shot and several
persons were injured.
The republican state committee
charges that Warden Lands shipped
penitentiary coal into the strike dis
tricts and helped defeat the miners in
their recent struggle. The charges
are, of course, denied.
An effort will be made Mt the coming
session of congress to secure claim OF
SO, 900, now pending, for the destruc-
ton of the old Free State hotel at
Lawrence in 1886. The claim is held
by the state university.
State Oil Inspector Wharton arrived
in Topeka recently and turned in g., 900
in fees. lie was smarting under the
criticism of the state auditor about
the conduct of the office, and said
there was no truth in the charges that
were floating around.
Not n single one of the u under
ground" fire insurance companies has
needed the warning of Superintendent
McNall to keep out OF the state or
move into it. The companies allege
they have legal right to write Kan
sas risks from Kansas City, Mo.
A gigantic scheme to connect all inn
portunt southern Kansas towns as far
west rs Wichita is now under way by
the Missouri & Kansas Telephone COM
pany, which was given franchise to
use the public highways for the cree
ton of poles and wires by the last
legislature.
There are only 10 counties in Kansas
where populists and democrats have
not fused on county officers They
are Barber, Cloud, Dickinson, Graham,
Greeley. Gray, Haskell. Kearncy, Lane,
Meade, Ness, Pawnee, Rawlins, Rush,
ST. John, Thomas, Woodson, Wallace
and Wichita.
Chancellor Snow has prepared bull
letin ON how to eradicate grasshoppers,
which will soon be issued. He sug-
gests the construction of machine
built of tin, 10 feet long, feet wide
and inches deep. When filed with
coal oil and drawn over the ground 1t
attracts the grasshoppers and they fall
into the oil and die.
In district court ut Garnett Judge
Riggs made most important decision
under the double liability" law. He
enjoined creditors OF n dcfunct bank
from bringing suit against individual
stockholders. and authorized the bank
receiver to bring such suits, making
the liability part of the banks assets,
to be equally divided among derositors.
Bank Commissioner Brcidenthal says
less than n dozen Of the 800 Kansas
state banks have loans in excess OF the
amount allowed by law. Banks are
also complying with the law prohibit
ing the loaning of stockholders over
30 per cent. of the banks capital.
Breidenthal says bank failures will
soon be thing of the post in Kansas
The first action to compel forfeiture
OF property held by aliens in Kansas,
under the new anti-alien land owner
ship law, has been brought in the
Cherokee county district court The
defendants are Eliza Bennett, Bessie
Berriman and Anna Bryant, and the
property involved is in Weir City. The
defendants are alleged to be residents
OF English territory and subjects OF
Queen Victoria.
The renl estate men OF Kansas met
in convention ut Leavenworth during
the carnival last week. Z. Jameson,
Leavenworth, was elected president,
and c. ]. Peck. Salina, secretary.
The state military board has decided
70 deal more harshly with the differ