Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-01-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS,

Coffeyville now has three daily
papers
Colony will spend $1,000 in boring
Tor gas and oil.
There Is sb1s, 1913. 05 on deposit In one
bank at Hutchinson.
Beloit republicans will hold IN cleo.
tion for postmaster.
Oswego may be made Q division
Joint on the Frisco road.
A revised edition Of Kansas masonic
laws will soon be issued.
The annual musical jubilee ut Hutch
lnson will be held June 8.
Chanute business men have rcor-
ganized their board of trade.
Topeka and Pittsburg now talk by
telephone, q distance Of $50 miles.
Eugene v. Debs will soon visit Kan
sas to work for the social democracy.
George Ellis, Butler county farmer.
has 90, 600 bushels of grain in storage.
The electric street railway system at
| Fort Scott has been bought by home
capitalists.
The free silver prohibition party
will meet in conference ut Topeka
February 1.
The populist state committee will
open headquarters at Topeka within
| the next month.
Since November the clerk of Sum-
ner county has paid three cents each
for 94, S64 rabbit scalps.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Pittsburg
were compelled to organize IN anti
chicken thief association.
A. d. Walker, n wealthy citizen Of
Holton. would like the republican
nomina ton for governor.
A herd of cattle owned by James
Rice, OF Marshall county, is afflicted
with disease resembling cancer.
Mrs. Fannie Chaffin, Of Everest, was
seriously burned by the explosion OF
Jar OF hot water placed on the stove.
Nine Horton people talked too freely
about woman OF that town and had
to take it back" in the columns of q
localqaper.
A new Kansas law provides for the
destruction of all released and out
lawed chattle mortgages filed with the
register Of deeds
A competitive rabbit hunt in Labette
county resulted in the death of 600
Dummies, ard the winning side came
out only te, ahead.
The probate judge Of Sheridan coun-
w, whose salary the new law reduced to
less than SIS year, resigned in dis
gust and mt we'd to his farm.
Douglas county will have two candi-
dates for the republican nomination
for state school superintendent. Z.
PEARS and Edmund Stanley.
Gov. Leedy has appointed James Nc
Kinstry, q Kansas City lawyer for
merly Of Hutchinson as commissioner
OF deeds in Missouri for Kansas.
An Atchison county farmer signed a
contract for S: worth of lightning rod
work and late found his signature on
the business i'd of note for $3.50.
John Ecker. county clerk of Craw-
ford, refused 10 surrender the Office to
F. Cunningham, the populist who held
the certificats. Ecker is contestilg
the election.
The total earnings OF the Kansas
penitentiary tor December were sls,-
7s2, including 81, 1856 worth of coal to
state institute ons. The total expenses
were sl2 $50.
The president has named Cyrus An
derson to be receiver and X. E. vii.
cockson to be register Of the land Office
at Colby, and T. A. Scates register Of
the Dodge City land Office.
Gov. Leedy has issued proclama-
ton asking The cooperation Of the
people in an effort to ascertain II that
enemy of fruit trees, the San Jose scale,
Is injecting X ansas orchards.
In the pas. ten years the Kansas
COWS have produced milk, butter and
cheese that have been sold for si7, 743,.
100. The greatest year was 1877, when
the products aggregated $3.50, 752.
Willard Cooper AMI Fred Spencer,
Topeka youths, stole Two horses and
lit out for the Indian territory to be-
come Cowboys" but at Emporia they
were intercepted and returned to their
parents.
A dinner party at oskaloosa had
seven guests whose combined ages ag-
gregsted SIT years. The youngest
woman In the party was young enough
to be the daughter Of the oldest, yet
she was IS.
A Topeka dispatch, unconfirmed,
said that II Cyrus Leland failed in de-
feating Sterne's nomination for mar.
shall he Ueland) would resign as PEN
sion agent in favor Of L. $. Crum.
Sterne was confirmed on the 18th.
Edward Myers, wealthy Leaven-
worth county farmer, left home sud-
denly and under suspicious circum-
stances. Two lawsuits followed, one
for divorce and one for $4,000 by
ten-ycar-old orphan girl who charges
that Myers defiled her person.
Mrs. Susan Wattles, who died ut
Mound City recently, was the widow
OF Augustus Wattles, friend and CO.
worker OF John Brown in early Kan
sas days. Mr.. and Mrs Wattlcs came
to Kansas in the early Sos and located
in Douglas county, afterwards moving
to farm north of Mound City.
At the state meeting OF the free sill
yer republicans Mt Topeka, resolutions
were adopted coudemning Secretary
Cages financial plans and praising
Gov. Leedy. DIR. +. h Lawrence was
elected president; +. ]. Close, score
tary; Webb McNall, treasurer, and
vice president for each congressional
district
The Fort Scott Lantern, q populist
organ, has been sold TO Prof. g. w.
Martin. who will conduct an indie