Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-10-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Separate schools for colored children
Is being agitated at lola.
A new $4,000 high school will be
erected at Independence.
A big sorghum mandatory has
been built ut Clay Center.
W. S. Elan, u constable ut Burton,
Is under arrest for running joint.
Hog cholera is destroying many val
liable herds in northwestern Kansas.
Newton Is the home of 675 railroad
men, most OF them with families and
homes.
In an interview Gov. Leedy declares
very positively in favor Of capital pun
ishment.
A cheese factory Is being erected at
Humboldt that will consume the milk
of 1000 cows.
George W. Clark, Us referee in the
stock yards suit, was allowed $4,000
and expenses.
Thirty head of early spring steer
calves brought SIS apiece at sale in
Jewell county.
Frank Beaurman, q young Lcaven-
worth county farmer, was gored to
death by bull.
j. l. Stauffer and wife, Of Ridge,
Woodson county, will soon sail for
Africa as missionaries.
In recent address at Atchison Gov.
Leedy formally announced his candi-
dacy for denomination.
Charley Clary, married man with
two children, disappeared from Gar
land with Miss Annie Hall, aged 10.
Two troops Of cavalry and one of
artillery, from Fort Riley, will attend
the Clay Center reunion October 2i-23.
Ed Goldberg, of Wichita, recently
appointed agent for the Quapaw In.
dams, formerly resided at Canton, o.
John Harris, who had resided In
Leavenworth since '57, was killed by
being thrown from horse the other
day.
q. c. Clemens, the noted populist OF
Topeka, is out in an interview criti'
cising Gov. Leedy for declaring in
favor of capital punishment.
The Pittsburg suburban electric rail-
way will soon be extended SO rs to con-
meet all the most important mining
towns OF Cherokee and Crawford coun-
ties.
Harry Smith, n New York City waif,
who had been cared for by j. E. Rod
man, OF Topeka, robbed his benefactor
of 5000 and was trying to escape when
arrested.
NJ. w. Sutton, United States inter.
nal revenue collector. was robbed OF
sal7 and gold watch by burglars who
entered his home at Dodge City the
other night.
State Auditor Morris has just COM
pleted his table Of figures showing the
total tax levy for the present year In
Kansas to be si,3G3,95i. This amount
will be levied.
Kansas branch No /, Of the social
democracy, has been organized at To-
peka. NJ. A. Waterman, deputy bank
commissioner, and Otis Allen, son OF
Justice Allen, are officers.
The National Christian association,
with headquarters at Topeka, has
started fight on secret societies in
Kansas. 1t claims to have agents
scattered all over the state.
The state supreme court has decided
that where any company or concern
maintains large pond or reservoir
and permits children to play about 1t,
it is liable II any of the children should
be drowned.
State Bank Commissioner Breiden-
thai requests all banks in Kansas to
dispose OF their real estate holdings;
not that real estate Is not q profitable
holding. but that bank Is not a real
estate company. and land is not u
proper asset for bank.
The Brown county republican CEN
trail committee has recommended the
appointment Of republican election
boards, on the ground that in fusing
as free silver party the democrats
and populists lost their identity and
forfeited all rights to representation.
The city of Hutchinson voted $4,000
in bonds as bonus for the Hutchin-
son Il Southern to build union depot,
general Office, roundhouse and ma
chine shops there. The company is to
complete buildings and have shops In
operation before the bonds are issued.
William Overlook, a district school
director in Bourbon county, was ar
rested for refusing to accept the states
new textbooks and the case was sub
mitted to Judge Simons, on agreement,
as test case. 1t was taken under adj
visement The decision will be await
ed with interest.
II Is officially announced that the
general fund Of the state treasury will
be exhausted by November l. and
creditors will have to be STOOD or
until 30 or so days later, when tax
money will come in. This Is said to be
the fault of the last legislature, which
failed to make necessary calculations
for the states financial needs.
Judge Wells, OF the appellate court,
In test case submitted from Marshall
county, rendered decision that prac-
tically invalidates the eight-hour law.
He held that laborer who works
more than eight hours day cannot
recover for surplus time because he
helped to violate the law and Is, there
fore, barred from any benefit under 1t
The only way that the law can apply
is where an understanding Is had in
advance between employer and en-
ploye. This kills the intent OF the law,
for the employer is not required TO en-
ploy an eight-hour advocate.
The state temperance union has
issued an address TO the church people