Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-04-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| congressman Iurtlb nus Deeu fncns
toned for congrcssman.at-largcin 1908.
The Santa Fe will erect q depot and
eating house at Dodge City to cost $780,
900.
Judge W. o. Bashore, Of Pratt has
bought the Wellington Voice Of Lyman
Naugle.
u. s. Grant has been holding posi-
ton as guard at the penitentinry for
two yeats,
The 1898 session OF the Northwest
Kansas NJ. E. conference will be held
ut Minneapolis.
The latest rumor was that Gov.
r,ecdt Would convene the legislature
in extra session in June.
Every saloon in Fort Scott was
ordered closed on the 3oth. For three
years they had run openly.
A recent dispatch from Washington
said j. =. Harris, Of Ottawa, was slated
for pension agent at Topeka.
Kansas has less than $50 labor unions
with total membership not exceeding
5000. Fully onc-third the entire men,
bership Is in Kansas City.
The National Mutual Insurance COM
pany, of Pittsburg, was refused char
ter by the secretary Of state because 1t
had not complied with the law.
The Bpiscupaliahs oil Winfield will
try Is erect church on pennies to be
contributed by the public. One-cent
postage stamps will also be reeeived.
Ex-aov. bewelling has decided TINT
he can legally hold the Office of rail-
road commissioner without resigning
the state senatorship from Sedgwick
county.
Washington Galdden, the well-known
magazine writer and author, has ac-
cepted the invitation of Kansas uni
versity 10 deliver the COMMENCEMENT
address in June.
Farmer Rea. of Jewell county,
gathered 100. 200 bushels of corn from
his farm last year. This Is said to be
the biggest crop OF corn ever raised in
KANSAS by one farmef'
The State temperance union has is
sued an address urging revival of in
tcrest in the work all over the state by
churches and other organizations.
Temperance picnics are advocated.
A conference of railroad representa-
tivcs and board OF railroad commission
ers will probably be held in Topeka in
u few days with view of adjusting
complaints against freight charges.
The first bank to take advantage Of
the new law authorizing banks to re.
duce capital stock was the Bank OF
Clifton. Over 100 banks in the state
are expected 10 scale down their capt.
tai.
The accounts of ex-Attorney-Gencra
bradford, who was for ~ months clerk
of the appellate court Of the Topeka
division, IRE the subjects of comment
and criticism and an investigation Is
probable.
Carl Vrooman Is state chairman of
the allied silver forces. Headquarters
for Kansas will be maintained in Par
sons. the home of Mr.. Vrooman. A roll
of honor of silver workers will be made
up and sent to W. j. Bryan.
A Lawrence dispatch said District
Judge Riggs would bring action for
libel against Fourth Assistant Post
master.Gcneral Bristow should the lat
ter return to Kansas. for alleged libel
Gus articles in Bristow's paper.
The district court at Eldorado de-
cided against the Lower heirs, who
brought suit for valuable land In tho
heart of the city, valued ut s250,OOO.
They claimed that their father, who
signed the original deeds, was insane.
A papal decree has been received by
bishop Fink wherein it Is ordered that
the name OF the Kansas City, Kan,
Catholic diocese be changed to that of
the Leavenworth diocese. The bishop
established his residence in Kansas
City in 1890.
Mrs. Mary ]. Ward, the first white
woman settler in Shawnee county, died
in Topeka recently. With her hus-
band, Anthony Ward, she came to Kan
sns long before its formation as terri
tory, first settling ut Shawneetown,
johnson county.
Citizens of Emporia became SO ex-
cited over a mad dog scare recently
that crowd turned out into the street
and began killing every dog to be
found, and q fusilade Of firearms that
sounded like o small battle was kept
up for some time.
A TOPEKA dispatch said that every
republican holding an official state po-
sition would be decapitated. This will
include Superintendent Faulkner, of
the orphans home ut Atchison, and
DIR. Hammond, superintendent of the
deaf and dumb institute at olathe.
At their country home near Ottawa,
Hon. Baz Campbell and wife recently
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary. The couple came to Kansas
in the early days from Illinois and set
tied in Linn county. Mr.. Campbell
has served in the state Legislature and
held other positions of trust. He Is
one of the most successful farmers In
the state.
William Campbell one of the new
railroad commissioners, declares that a
maximum freight law is not wanted in
Kansas. He says that 105 Legislators
cannot establish an absolutely station
airy schedule Of rates; that schedule
which would be just when crops are
immense would not be equitable when
half crops are produced. He wants all
rate schedules referred to the board of
commissioners, Of which he Is
one.
Gov. Leedy announces that he will
stand by Insurance Commissioner Nc
Nall in the latter's fight on the four
insurance companies who oppose pay
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