Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

william ]. Bryan, q Shawnee county
farmer, was adjudged insane the other
day.
The father OF United States Marshal
Medley, of Leavenworth, is in his lolst
year.
Wichita will entertain the next
meeting OF the Transmississippi con-
gress.
The government has discontinued Its
agricultural experiment station ut
Manhattan.
A. j. Hoisington Is building big ir-
rigating ditch between Pawnee Rock
and Larned.
s. C. CASTOR, Q Reno county farmer,
has four-legged chicken. 1t is we'll
formed and hearty.
II. A. Perkins, the well-known re-
publican editor Of Manhattan, Is out
for state printer in 1898.
TWAS reported that ex-Speaker Lob
dell, of Dighton, would become resi-
dent of Kansas City, Mo.
Miss Nellie Mckinley was elected
superintendent Of the Chetopa schools
after $50 ballots had been taken.
A Topeka telegram said Ed c. Little
and other popuiists were booming
Gov. Lecdy for president in 1900.
NJ. B. Tomblin, of Goodland, wrote
the state board of agriculture that
grasshoppers had ruined his corn.
The attorney general has decided
that firemen and policemen do not
come under the provisions of the eight
hour law.
A young farmer In Sumner county
smoked cigarette the other day that
cost his father $500. 1t burned three
stacks of wheat and set Of harness.
Thomas Z. Will, the newly-elected
president of the state agricultural col
lege, has published letter denying
that he made populist speeches last
year.
The president has signed the bill
passed by congress authorizing the
secretary OF war to issue 1000 tents for
the state G. A. r. encampment ut Leav-
enworth.
j. E. Bowers, prominent young
school-teacher of Dickinson county,
was recently brought home from Den
yer hopelessly insane from religious
excitement.
State Labor Commissioner john
son will make a complete canvass
of the states manufacturing interests
to ascertain. II possible, the amount OF
capital invested, the number OF EN-.
ployes and wages paid, etc.
Emporia Is in the throes of whisky
war, caused by the city council decid.
ing to accept monthly fines from joint
lists. To add to the confusion, the
iointkeepers are insisting that drug
gists of the town pay regular liquor
license.
James Woods, Kansas City gam
bier, met death in an unusual manner
in a Coffeyville hotel. He was suffer
ing from tonsilitis and while he was
sleeping his tonsils bursted, the cor
ruption filing his lungs and smother
ing him to death.
Only 81 of the IS applicants success
fully passed the teachers examination
at the Atchison county institute.
Teachers claimed that the examine
ton was unreasonably difficult. The
county has scarcely enough teachers
to fill the schools.
In the Wyandotte county district
court Judge Alden refused to grant
Mrs. Ida Riney divorce from her con-
Wet husband. The refusal was due to
the fact that she had married her hus-
band in Jail, after he had been sem
fenced to states prison.
B. Relish, German farmer go years
old, living near Meriden, met his wife
at the gate us she was returning from
neighbor's and shot her to death.
He was arrested. Domestic trouble
| was said to have caused the tragedy.
The couple had lived together "a years.
The destruction OF about half OF the
potato crop in the Kaw valley by the
weevil and dry weather has made
I those that are left bring better price.
Potatoes are selling this year at 40 and
IS cents bushel, while this time last
year they were less than half this price.
Judge Webb, of Topeka, who has the
contract to revise and compile the state
laws, says great many laws that are
obsolete and have outlived their use
fitness will not appear on the statute
books. Some lawyers dispute Webb's
right to use his own judgment in the
matter.
The bloodhounds recently bought by
the sheriffs OF several central Kansas
counties to run down criminals were
recently placed on the track OF some
thieves at Abilene, but the imam
hunters" made such dismal failure OF
\ 1t that the officers were thoroughly
disguised.
j. Juclss, representing q Kansas City
firm, will feed 1000 sheep In Marshall
county, and he wants 10000 bushels OF
corn, 10000 bushels Of oats and 600
tons of hay TO winter them. He says
II takes two bushels OF. corn, one OF
oats and six-tenths of ton Of hay to
fatten one sheep.
John T. White, an experienced stock
man of Ottawa county, says there will
be a big collapse in the cattle business
in Kansas this fall. He says farmers
are paying too much for stockers in
their desire to get them. In case OF a
short corn crop, Mr.. White says the
collapse will be still more disastrous.
A Topeka telegram said Gov. Leedy
would not pardon Willie Sells, the
Neosho county murderer. notwith-
standing the state board Of pardons
had recommended the pardon.
Three members Of the Nicely family,
near Emporia, became afflicted with
large carbuncles while treating horse