Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-11-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A new $4,000 city hall will be built
1t Newton.
David Scott, q church member, was
arrested at Newton for bootlegging.
An effort 10 being made TO erect .
soldiers memorial building at Ottawa.
The wife Of ex-Gov. John A. Martin
may be the next postmaster at Atch-
ison.
Ten inmates Of tho Hutchinson re-
formatory have escaped within few
days.
The new county high school ut
Wellington opened recently with 27S
students.
A company has been chartered to
operate an electric street railway ut
Fort Scott
Wherever the proposition TO 'cut
away the hedge rows" was up at the
recent election It carried.
Miss Mary Jugam, Of Sedgwick, was
thrown from a wagon In n runaway
and SO injured about the head that she
became insane.
The fruit growers of Douglas county
this year secured sli2, 800 for their sur
plus apple crop, ssoO,OOO for berries
and SIS, 800 for grapes.
II. s. Coburn, of Cedar Junction, left
home with $4,000 week ago, intend
ing to buy farm near Lamar, Mo.
He has not been seen since.
j. S. West, Of Wyandotte county, un-
til reco ntly Judge Of the Sixth district,
Is mentioned for associate justice on
the republican ticket in 1898.
The three-year-old son of Charles
Cragg, of Altamont, died from the bite
Of centipede, received while the child
was playing on n straw stack.
George W. Gregson, who killed Adam
w. Collins ut Parsons in 1885 and was
sentenced TO life Imprisonment has
been pardoncd by Gov. Leedy.
Representative Weilep, OF Galena,
has secured position in the sergeant
alarms Office OF the United States
senate, through Senator Harris.
ID. NJ. Lower. who claimed to hold
titles to about 100000 worth Of Edo
RADIO property, has offered to quit II
the present owners will pay him s., 600.
District Judge Moore, of Morris
county, decided that the state board
Of equalization has no power to inter
fere with county valuation Of property.
County Commissioners Miller and
Mapes and County Clerk Starr. OF
Lyon county, will be prosecuted for
alleged illegal expenditure of county
funds.
Taylor Riddle, chairman of the popu-
list state committee, is agitating the
question Of having all officers Of the
state whose tenure Is twoyears elected
at the same time.
Two joint keepers were sent to Jail
at Larned last week and they had SO
many callers the sheriff investigated
and found that the men were conduct
ing regular joint in the Jail.
The sales of one merchant at q
small town in Republic county last
Saturday were 81, 400, 10 clerks being
required to wait on customers. One
farmers wife marketed 70 dozen eggs.
Garfield university, at Wichita, may
be purchased by Sedgwick county and
converted into n high school. 1t was
built in "boom" days by the Christian
church denomination at cost Of $780,
900.
AT Larned, John Potter sued the
Santa Fe railroad for $4,000 damages
for the loss Of his la-year.old sons leg.
The boy fell under the cars and his leg
was so badly crushed that amputation
was necessary.
The state irrigation convention nj
Lawrence last week was big success.
Speeches were made by some of the
ablest advocates of the system in state
and nation and many helpful sugges'
tions were advanced.
Friends Of Miss Eva BEEN, who was
discharged from the Hutchinson post
office and afterward tried for embez.
element and triumphantly acquitted,
are insisting that she be reinstated to
her former place in the post Office.
George w. Kellar. son of Pawnee
county's Oldest settler, and the first
man to marry who was born in Paw.
nee county, was married recently al
Larned to Miss Anna Turner. The
wedding was made brilliant social
event.
In the district court of Wichita coun-
ty Judge Andrews decided that the
81, 900 Wichita county bonds. now held
by the state. were void because they
were issued over the authority Of an
injunction. The attorney general will
appeal.
Alfred II. Cobb, until two years age
county attorney of Wyandotte county,
was recently indicted for obtaining
money under false pretenses from q
Kansas City (Mo.) saloonkeeper. Cobb's
father was former congressman from
the Second Kansas district.
A great sensation was created by the
recent announcement that Miss Pur
cell, daughter of Hon. E. b. Purcell, Of
Manhattan, would, through ex-Chiei
Justice Horton, bring suit for s25, 0Ot
damages for breach Of promise against
Clyde Miller, bankers son Of Usage
City. Miller was recently married tc
a Miss Colwell, Of Lawrence.
Republican editors OF the Second
congressional district met at Lawrence
recently and formed permanent or
ganization. c. S. Finch was elected
president; c. C. Clevenger, vice presi'
dent, and w. A. Mitchell, secretary.
The first meeting will be held ut 0sa-
watomie next May, the day on which
the first republican convention was
held in Kansas and at 0sawatomie.
Miss Maud Herrell, Of Topeka, known
as the daughter Of the Kansas @. A.
R." has been given a position in the
office of Thomas Ryan, assistant secre-
tarv of the interior.