Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

bench.
The church people Of Kansas City,
Kan, will soon begin waging war Of
determination on joints.
A Washington dispatch said Rev.
Bernard Kelly would be appointed =
chaplain in the regular army.
Douglas county potato growers are
holding big crops for 81 bushel, which
they think they will soon get.
j. b. Herman, Of Cedar Rapids, H.,
has arrived in Kansas to conduct q
campaign in favor Of single tax.
Renewed activity in the effort to en-
force the prohibitory law is being
manifested throughout the state.
Judge Simons, of the district court
ut Fort Scott, refused to disbar j. 4.
Mcdonald on charges brought by ]. d.
Hill.
Gov. Leedy has pardoned A. J. James,
Of Neodesha, who was sent up for muir.
dering q man who had destroyed his
home.
The Topeka Capital has contracted
for perfecting press that will print
$4,000 papers per hour and which will
cost $4,000.
Twenty head of cattle have died from
Texas fever at the Dewey ranch, near
Manhattan. Secretary Coburn has no.
titled the sanitary commission.
Kansas wholesale and retail grocers
recently held secret meeting in Kan
sas City to talk over freight rates and
how to bring about reduction.
Nine boys sent out by the Children's
Aid society of New York, left recently
for Eldorado, Kan. Their ages range
from to 10 years and most of them are
orphans.
Many cattle in Clay county, near
Langford, are affected with what the
owners call pink-eye. 1t was thought
the disease came from importation of
southern cattle.
Acknowledgement Boyle Is preparing
to bring suit against the city of Topeka
for default in interest and principal on
$50, 900 in bonds now owned by the state
and school fund.
Wyandotte county, the richest in the
state, has made returns of only $1,000
in personal property. State house Off.
Gals were surprised and an investiga.
ton will be made.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de.
MES the report recently sent out from
Manhattan that the government would
discontinue the experiment station at
the state agricultural college.
In Sumner county IL farmers have
formed stock company and are put.
ting up 45,0O0.bushel elevator, or
warehouse, for storing their surplus
wheat and corn for better prices.
Railroad men OF Fort Scott have be-
gun contest against the present poll
tax law, alleging that it conflicts with
the eight-hour day law. Should their
contest be upheld by the supreme
court it will radically affect the work.
ing of road taxes in every township in
the state.
When the sheriff went TO the home
of Mrs Mary E. Lease Mt Wichita the
other day to levy on some property tc
satisfy q mortgage, he found that Mrs.
Lease had sold or given away every
particle of furniture in the house, and
the family was using soap boxes in
stead of chairs.
There are now Lies men working in
the Santa Fe shops ut Topeka, earn.
ing SIS. 900 week. There is q great
rush of work repairing cars for haul.
ing grain. The total rolling stock OF
the Santa Fe road consists of I5l loco.
motives, 4sS passenger coaches and
81, a6s freight cars.
A Rice county man has made formal
complaint against the Santa Fe rail.
road for alleged extortionate freight
rates. Should the railroad commits
sioners sustain the charge and make a
rate schedule, 1t may open the entire
question of rates and necessitate an
extra session of the legislature.
In Harper county the commissioners
propose that owners Of property can
pay delinquent taxes without the adj
iitional penalty Of Is per cent. inter
est. This is to make IL IN object to
pay the taxes and get the county's
finances cleared up. Other counties
are contemplating the same move.
ment.
The Rock Island railroad to Chicago
and the "Niclel Plate" railway from
Chicago to Buffalo have been selected
as the official route OF the Kansas @.
A. r. and W. r. c. to the national en-.
campment at Buffalo next month. The
rate is one fare for the round trip to
Chicago and one cent mile east OF
that point.
The state board OF equalization has
fixed the average value Of the differ
ent classes Of personal property, upon
the basis of which state taxes must be
paid. The values are: Horses, Sli.s3
each; cattle, s0.3;; mules, si2. 55; sheep,
SO cents; hogs, s2.a0; goats, sl.5O;
wagons, 50; pleasure carriages, sii;
gold watches, $3.50; silver watches,
s4.60; pianos, $50.
State School Superintendent Stryker
says the good teachers are not COM
planning about the examination ques-
tons recently sent out He says there
are now two teachers TO every school
and consequently wages are very low.
He further declares that he Is deter
mined to have n better class Of teach
ers, and for that reason questions pro-
pounded in the future will be out Of
the ordinary and may seem difficult to
a great many.
/. Z. Lambert has sent to Gov. Leedy
his resignation as q member OF the
from Lyon county, in order
TO be free TO take the Office Of United
States attorney.
Mrs McBee, of Sedgwick county,
who ran away with a harvest hand,
has returned, shed few tears and is
happy again with her husband and