Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-11-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

johnson county voted for q hedg,
and weed law and against county
high school.
In 1895 the resources OF Kansas state
banks were ss5,691, 4sl. This year they
are s3l, S4s, $50.
Kansas banks have s8,OOo,OOO moro
OF deposits and 81, 900, 900 less Of loans
than one year ago.
1t Is probable the republican state
committee will keep headq uarters open
at Topeka all winter.
A late report says Rev. Bernard
Kelly is not SO sure of his appointment
to an army chaplaincy.
The Santa Fc railroad will soon erect
depot, eating house and division
offices ut Newton, to cost $4,000.
A Pennsylvania firm may establish
big lampblack factory ut Neodesha,
and use natural gas to do the work.
1t Is said that Sheriff r. Il. Kepley,
who was defeated for reelection In
Shawnee county, will contest the vote.
William Gruenert, young joint
keeper OF Atchison, comTitted suicide
because the newspapers roasted" him.
In Justice Bonds court ut Leavcn-
worth Patrick Connolly was fined $40
and costs for forcible attempt 10 kiss
Mrs. Snyder.
j. A. Pitsenberger, Republic coun-
ty farmer, has harvested his fourth
crop of alfalfa this year and the last
crop was twice as good rs the first.
The assistant attorney general says
he fears the provisions Of the anti
trust law are SO severe that the law
will be knocked out by the supreme
court.
In recent interview ex-Gov. LEVEL
ling denounced the present metropol-
itan police system and said it would
break the political back of AIRY gov
crnor who fooled with it.
John Mcdonald, editor of the West
ern School Journal, wants state
grammarian appointed to correct laws
after they are passed by the legisla-
ture and before they are published.
At the recent Kansas election $50
county officers were chosen. The re-
publicans claim 407 OF these. This
would leave III for the fusionists and
six lin Ellis county, for the democrats.
Opinions from 400 bankers in Kansas
show that they are almost n unit
against postal savings banks. The
only exceptions are +. L. Meyer, OF
Hutchinson, and j. W. Sponablc, of
Paola.
On being released from the state PEN
itentiary the other day Benjamin North
remarked his former wife, who was in
strumcntal in securing his conviction,
and after his incarceration had secured
q divorce.
In Doniphan county Cyrus Leland's
Nephew, AL Perry, was elected county
commissioner to succeed Leland, who
held the office 81 years, by seven ma
jority, but the populists claimed fraud
and threatened contest.
The recent decision of the supreme
court upholding the Cubbison anti.
gambling law, has dampened the spirit
Of gambling house keepers, who real
lie that conviction hereafter means
term in the penitentiary.
AT Columbus the other day 5. L.
Cheney. a wealthy farmer, was prob
ably fatally injured by Roy Stevens, a
brother of the county attorney, who
attacked Cheney with loaded whip.
There was strong talk Of lynching Ste
vens.
A recent telegram from Fort Scott
said it was generally understood in
political circles that Attorney General
Bowie would be a candidate before the
next populist and democratic state
conventions for governor, in opposition
to Gov. Leedy.
Ed Bussey, who enticed two girls
away from Eldorado for alleged inn
moral purposes, is now in the peniten-
tiary, after having exhausted every
effort tie evade the penalty. He was,
when he fell, popular and successful
ST. Joseph travelling man.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, decided that Superin-
tcndent McNall had right to inter-
fcre with Harrison Clarkson in max
ing rates for Kansas fire insurance
companies, and that McNall could eX-
clude any company entering the Clark
son combine.
A petition is being signed exclusively
by Sedgwick county populists request
ing the dismissal of Rufus Cone as a
member of the state committee for
having authorized statement to be
made in local paper that he voted
the entire republican ticket ut the re-
cent election.
At Topeka, Mrs. Anna McCullom has
brought proceedings against the Kan
sas Home society to recover her two
boys, aged seven and nine, who were
placed in the home two years ago
The boys have been adopted by stranR-
ers and the society refuses to reveal
their location.
The Methodist Episcopal conferences
in Kansas will be held next spring as
follows: Kansas conference at Law
renee March Q; South Kansas at OF
tawa March 0; Southwest Kansas ut
Lyons March 10 and Northwest Kansas
ut Minneapolis March %. Bishop
Cranston will preside at each confer
ence.
The Scottish-American Investment
company of London has brought suit
in the federal court at Topeka against
the Kansas Loan & Trust company, of
which T. b. Sweet is president, to re-
cover $4,000. The plaintiff charges
fraud and alleges that Sweet and HIS
associates are in default $4,000 for
loans collected, but not turned over.
Gov. Leedy has reen informed that
the state board Of charities was pay
ing II cents q pound for soap for use
NJ stata charitable institutions that