Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-03-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Fontona.
Thomas L. Hogue. of johnson county
wants the republican nomination fol
congress.
| A farmers horse near Severance be
came SO frightened at q team that h,
fell dead.
Bert Ludlum, q Sedgwick count,
school.teacher, was arrested for whip
ping pupil.
The Fifth district republican con
gressional convention will be held q,
Belleville April 2s
March 20 will DO observed as TEN
perance Sunday" by all the prohibi
tionists of the state.
Voters OF lola defeated the PROPOSE
ton to issue $3.50 In bonds to buy
the natural gas plant
The republican congressional con.
vention of the Fourth district will be
held ut Emporia, May TO-
A Hutchinson produce dealer has con.
tracted to deliver In Boston, prior to
May / next, 400 car loads Of eggs.
1t Is announced that the Santa Fe
railroad will erect at Newton the
finest depot and hotel on its system.
The semi-annual report Of the Kan.
sas G. A. r. department commander
shows q membership in the state Of
about $4,000 and property valued at
/ sos, 1000.
Gov Leedy says the inmates OF the
states charitable institutions must do
more to earn their expenses and he
recommends the raising Of more garden
truck.
The Kansas congressional delega-
ton has pledged support to the bill in
congress appropriating $4,000 for o
special exhibit Of corn at the Paris ex.
position.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
OF agriculture, receives many inquiries
for seeds Of various kinds. The state
has made no appropriation to accom-
modate them.
William R. Hollywood, who was
buried at Fort Scott recently, was q
veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars. serving from '8s to '65 In the
Sixth Kansas.
The earnings of the Kansas state
penitentiary for February were sl3,-
S09.22 and the expenditures So, 063. 81.
OF the earnings SO, 1860 were from
the sale of penitentiary coal.
Senator Baker has introduced an
amendment to the sundry civil bill in
the senate providing for the expendi-
ture Of $50, 900 for improvements Mt the
national soldiers home ut Leaven-
worth.
The executive committee Of the free
silver republicans has issued an I'D
dress to the voters of Kansas, in which
plea is made for non.partisan voting
and for unity Of action in behalf of
free silver.
The jubilee celebration OF Baker uni
versity's 4Oth anniversary begun at
Baldwin on the 10th. The Kansas and
South Kansas Methodist conferences
met there and speeches were made by
Bishops Fowler and Cranston.
In case Of war with Spain the Kan.
sas division of Sons OF Veterans offers
and offer the first regiment mime COM
panies) ut the first call. 1t numbers
now $50 drilled men and It is claimed
can be recruited to 1000 in 4s hours.
The indictments against Ex-senator
Rush, of Larned, charging embezzle-
ment and misappropriation of bank
funds, were quashed by Federal Judge
Williams ut Topeka. Rush was for
merly rich man, but misfortune over
took him.
The republican state central COM
mittee met In Topeka and decided, 20
to 10, to hold the state convention ut |
June s. Marshal Sterne
wanted the convention ut Topeka.
The convention will be composed Of
pia delegates.
Seven new companies of militia,
properly organized, have applications
pending for admission into the Kan.
sas national guard. The companies
are located at Wilson, Coffeyville,
Chanute, Burr Oak, Wells
vile and Girard.
Insurance Superintendent McNall
says he will bring suit to collect about
'4O, 900 alleged to be due from three
eastern companies that are doing both
life and accident insurance business
McNall claims they should take out
separate licenses.
At Leroy, DIR. w. A. Decker, owner
" the -four mills and F. S. Bakersfield,
leputy state oil inspector. became in
'olved in quarrel over Decker's
Illeged undue intimacy with Mrs.
and Decker was mortally
from knife wounds.
Ezra Burris, aged 81, the son Of re-
pectable, parents near Madison, was
at Independence of murder,
IFS victim being Abe Curchim, who
vas killed near Caney while travelling
in company with Mrs. Cur
hin and Burris. After the murder
frs. Curchin disappeared and her
anne was connected with the crime.
State School Superintendent Stry-
er Is receiving many letters from
chool directors who have been
by ''chart fiends," as he
alls them. This class Of people Is
nfesting Kansas and pursue the same :
actics that are SO familiar TO the VIC
inns Of lightning rod agents. They
oil "charts" for schoolhouses at from
IS to $40 that are not worth more than
D cents to 81.
Mrs Margaret Jones, wife Of prom
,ent farmer Of Doniphan county
suicide by taking laudanum.
he was 20 years old and had been an
valid half her life.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
pproved for patent TO the Union Pa
&c railroad q list of lands selected