Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-04-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

S4-hsectucy -NcucEui DuWco 10 NOW
resident of Lawrence.
The Fort Scott Lantern has been
sold to Judge Bashore, of Pratt.
The Northeast Kansas Teachers rs
ISOLATION will meet ut Horton, April
1917.
A recent Topeka dispatch said Cyrus
Leland might be appointed pension
agent ut Topeka.
Ex-Congrcssman Kirkpatrick, Of Fro.
donna, Is candidate for deputy com.
missioner of pensions.
The 18th annual meeting Of the Kan.
sas Academy of Science and Literature
will be held in Manhattan April 1924.
j. L. Bristow, the new fourth assist
ant postmastergeneral, did his first
newspaper work in Baldwin and
founded the Ledger Mt that place.
William Margrave, of Fort Scott, Is
the oldest justice of the peace in point
of service in Kansas. He has been con-
tinuously in Office for 43 years. He is
70 years of age.
Maj. Hudson sold his state printing
plant to John 5. Parks, of 1leloit, state
printer-elect, for $4,000. Maj. Hud-
son will probably start daily paper
in Topeka next fall.
An endowment fund OF $40, 900 is be-
ing raised for Fairmount college by
Wichita citizens and when II Is paid in
like amount will be added by friends
Of the college in the east.
Attorneys for the Kansas City stock
yards have attacked the validity of the
stock yards bill, recently enacted by
the legislature, on the ground that 1t
was never legally passed.
Many farmers in the vicinity Of
Norcatur will build ponds and preserve
rain water by means of dams across
draws. The evaporation OF this water
Is expected to counteract the effect OF
hot winds.
by the new schoolbook law, II nt
any annual meeting two-thirds of the
electors of district vote in favor of
district ownership of books, the dis
trict must thereafter furnish books
free to pupils
A New York insurance company has
brought suit against State Insurance
Commissioner McNall for $4,000 dam
ages. The suit grows out OF McNalls
refusal to allow the company to do
business in the state.
There are greater financial snaps
than being n Methodist preacher in
western Kansas. The records of the
Norton district show that he average
salaries Of the ministers there are a
little less than 1914 per year.
The State Sunday School association
will be held at Newton May 1l-13. and
1000 delegates are expected. 1t will
be the 3ad annual session. There are
about 5000 Sunday schools in the state
with a membership Of over 3a5, 900.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, decided that n probate
court has no jurisdiction OF ward
after he becomes of age, and cannot
make q final settlement between
guardian and ward after the ward
maintains his majority.
There is more wheat and small
grains planted in western Kansas this
spring than for many years, and there
is scarcely an idle piece Of land any.
where. The crops this year will be
greatly diversified, SO that II corn fails
some other crop may be q success.
The female vote was largely in evil
dence at the recent municipal elections
throughout the state. They cast
larger percentage of the vote than at
any previous election since suffrage
was conferred upon them. 1t Is said
their votes were cast almost unani-
mously for the enforcement of the pro-
hibition law.
At Kincaid recently George Miller
shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs.
Burkey and her two daughters, Ellie
and Jennie Kirby, because he had
been refused the company of one of
the girls. Miller was shot during
fusillade with officers while resisting
arrest. He was but recently released
from IN insane asylum.
A Topeka dispatch to st. Louis pa
per said the populist party in Kansas
would wage a war against the Metho-
dist and Presbyterian churches because,
1t is alleged, the ministers Of these or
CARNATIONS nre advocates Of the gold
standard. The people are urged not
to respond to the appeals being made
by the church boards for funds.
A religious census Of the Kansas
state university at Lawrence shows
that $50 of the students are members
of some religious denomination. About
45 per cent. of the men and rs per cent.
of the women belong to church. Alto
gether 81 denominations are repre-
scented. The Methodist Episcopal
leads, then follows the Congregational,
Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Chris
tian, Catholic and Unitarian in point
of membership, the adherents OF the
other IS denominations being classed
rs scattering.
Municipal elections were held in oil
the FIRST and second-class cities Of the
state on the 9th. In Leavenworth,
Emporia and perhaps Fort Scott the
fusionists were victorious, and ut Kan
sas City, Atchison, Lawrence, Topeka
and Wichita the republicans won. In
Hiawatha, Manhattan, Newton, Edo
RADIO, Hutchinson, Independence, Abb
lene, Eureka, Garnett, Belleville, King.
man, Wellington, Burlington, Winfield
and Great Bend the republicans secured
complete or partial victories. At Ga
lena, Larned, 0lathe, Columbus and
Girard the fusionists secured partial
victories. In q great number of smaller
towns the issues were local and poll.
tics were obliterated from the contests.
The fight inaugurated against Fort
Scott jointists by the county attorney
Is said to be the opening Of hostilities
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