Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-03-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Topeka will soon build big audito
rum in which to hold conventions ant
other big meetings.
A Washington telegram said Exon
gresham Blue Is candidate for In
dian commissioner.
Secretary Of State Bush has refused
to grant charters to whisky clubs II
some Of the large cities.
The Santa Fe railroad has built q
new elevator Mt Winfield with storage
capacity of $50, 900 bushels.
Gen. j. C. Caldwell, of Topeka, is be
ing pushed for governor of the sol
diers' home ut Leavenworth.
Corn for the India famine sufferer:
was shipped from Great Bend recently
with the cars profuscly decorated.
A Topeka dispatch said DIR. Pitcher
would again be appointed superintend
ent of the Winfield imbccile asylum.
Ex-State Labor Commissioner Bird
will try to organize all native Kansans
into n social ana political club to be
called the Jayhawkers' club.
1t was thought the confirmation Of
W. W. Culver us state grain inspccto,
was void because the action was taken
before the new law became operative.
The state bribery investigating com
mittce will begin work Mt Topeka,
April o. in the senate chamber. o. D.
Outcalt will preside and Frank Grimes
will be secretary.
The law requiring the election OF
marshal, clerk and street commission
err in all second.class cities of the state
has become effective and elections held
in April will come under its provisions.
Congressman Jerry Simpson, who
owns stock in the Medicine Lodge In
dcx, threw it into the hands OF re.
ceivcr the other day. The other fell
lows were using the paper to fight
Simpson.
Gov. Leedy recently announced TINT
he would not reappoint the police com.
missioners of Fort Scott, thus giving
the city home rule. 1t was regarded
us forcrunncr for all other cities Of
the first class.
The appointment Of Gen. Powell
Clayton, of Arkansas, Us minister to
Mexico. will be gladly received by n
great many Kansas eX-soldiers who
knew him rs an officer in the Sixth
Kansas cavalry.
Sheriff Malrngrcn. OF Salina, who
was recently removed from Office for
drunkenness, left home and was found
in box chr in Kansas City. where he
had committed suicide. lie was $1,000
short in his accounts.
The legislature reduced the salaries
of railroad commissioners from $500
20 81. 900. but increased the contingent
fund" from 81 900 to $1,000. This will
enable the commissioners to keep their
pay up to the old figures.
The state board OF education has de-
cidcd that nm institute instructor must
have four years experience and be 25
years of age. Institute conductors
must have seven years experience in
teaching and bess years old
VIII Potter. n Marysville young man
who went to Cula to fight for the in
surgcnts. was wounded late in Deccm-
Der. Ills parents heard from him in
January. but since then no word has
been received and his friends IRE UNI
easy.
Four wcll-known Kansans-J. NJ.
- Nl,Di.A,sAn. In
of Salina; !. II. Richards, of Fort
Scott, and X. L. Wilcockson, of Oakley
were in serious railroad wreck near
Oakland, Md, recently, but they es-
capped injury.
The music to be used in the next an
nual jubilee at Hutchinson has just
been made public and it. with other
information. will soon be sent to the
various towns of the state where there
are large choruscs The jubilee will
be held May Is to 81.
The appellate court in session Mt To-
pel:a, recently decided that Richard
Brown. of Bcllevillc, was not entitled
to any portion of his deceased wifc's
estate because of an anti-nuptial agree
ment which they made providing that
one should have no control over tho
property OF the other.
At the recent session Of the South
Kansas conference at Winfield enough
money was raised to pay debt of sa3,-
600 on the college at Winfield. OF this
amount $1,000 was given by President
Robinson, of the First national bank
at Winfield, and $4,000 by W. W. Him
shaw, Reno county stockman.
The legislature adjourned sine die
on the Goth, after the senate had con-
firmed the school Textbook commits
sion. composed OF A. V. Jewett, S. W.
Black, S. NJ. Ncas, A. II. Lupfer, S. l.
Hale and W. J. Hurd, fusionists. The
two republican appointees, D. o. Nc
Cray and Senator Lamb, were not con-
firmed.
State School Superintendent Stryker
thinks the schools of the state will re-
ceive great financial benefit from the
competition of the various schoolbook
companies under the new textbook
law. lie says the law will apply to
every county, Notwithstanding exist
ing contracts, and that new boards OF
education have power to abrogate con-
tracts made by their predecessors.
Banl; Commissioner Breidenthal ex-
presses qualification over the workings
of the new banking law and the
with which bankers are
their affairs to the law. He
is now preparing statement showing
the exact financial status Of every bank
In the state as regards their capital
stock. loans, cash on hand, deposits,
amount of real estate, and
sums loaned to depositors.
The amended Australian ballot law
will not be effective until next sum-
mer some time, and will therefore not