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

W. D. Driver, the well-known negro
editor and orator, died ut Coffeyville.
Tho Dunkard college ut Mcpherson
has paid off n debt Of $4,000 the past
year.
Emporia was threatened with q
water famine and the situation was
serious.
The canyons have started q second
smelter ut lola which gives employ.
ment to $50 men.
The retail grocers, butchers and coal
dealers Of Topeka have federated for
mutual protection.
A young tough at Lawrence was
fined sos in police court for escaping
from the city rock pile.
A jury In Wyandotte county jus
tees court refused to return verdict
until their fees were paid.
Charles Martin, the well-known re-
publican of Salina, will be made q
clerk in the pension Office ut Topeka
The 8ist annual meeting Of the Kan
sas State horticultural society was
held at Topeka three days the past
week.
Washington, the county scat Of one
Of the best counties in the state has no
Sunday mail, but steps are being taken
to secure It.
A Washington dispatch said the pres
ident would appoint Representative
D. W. Eastman, Of Emporia, rs consul
to Jerusalem.
Oliver s. Hiatt, of Leavenworth, has
been appointed to the leadership for
the Usage Indian reservation. 1t pays
si2, 900 year.
The colored preachers Of Wichita pro.
tested against New Years eve cake
walk on the ground that It was q relic
of slavery days.
An intercollege baseball league for
next year will be arranged, composed
of Kansas university, Baker, Wash
burn and Ottawa.
Charles Hedges, aged 90, is under ar
rest at Topeka charged with opening
letters addressed to guests Of the
Throop hotel, where he was employed.
State Superintendent of Schools
Striker favors the establishment Of an
educational paper in each county, to be
devoted to educational matters exclu.
sively.
william Sprague, member OF the
Latter Day Saints church in Atchison,
auarreled with his pastor, Elder
Guinard, and the elder was slapped in
the face.
Attorney General Boyle, on behalf
of the state, has brought suit to re-
cover 500, 900 from the Leavenworth
Coal company for alleged trespassing
on the states coal land at Lansing.
It was rumored at Topeka that
President Mckinley had requested
Senator Baker to name new man for
United States marshal, serious charges
having been preferred against w. E.
Sterne.
The school teachers Of the state held
their 35th annual convention ut Tope-
la the past week. A. W. Dana, OF To
peka. delivered the address Of welcome
and L. d. Ellis, Of Burlington, the re-
Spouse.
Theo Botkin, department commander
of the G. A. R., who recently returned
from Washington, said the division OF
Kansas into two federal districts would
not be accomplished at this session OF
congress.
The Kansas County Clerks associa-
ton met Mt Hutchinson and elected A.
NJ. Denny, of Sedgwick, president, and
w. s. Yeager, of Reno, secretary.
Wichita was selected for next years
meeting place.
Lutte P. Bowen, the newspaper man
who committed suicide in Montana,
was a native of Kansas and established
the Frankfort Bee. His father Is
Thomas P. Bowen, ex-United States
senator from Colorado.
Chairman Williams, Of the prohibi'
ton state committee, has issued an ad'
dress in which he charges that the
leaders Of all the political parties In
the state IRE in secret league with the
brewers and saloonkeepers.
Under the new salary law Attorney
General Boyle says county commits
sioncrs will be allowed pay only for
those days actually spent working for
the county, and in no instance can
they draw TO exceed $500 year.
Lawrence Lapsley, wealthy negro
who died near Salina, left his fortune
to Prof. Charles Harne, n young man
who had nursed Lapsley through q
dangerous sickness when the other
white neighbors deserted him on nc
count Of his color.
Seven years ago Joe Chandler. an &C.
centric Atchison citizen, left his fam'
ily and was not heard Of until his re-
turn ON Christmas day, 1897. He had
been in Montana: Chandler Is a
brother of the United States senator
from New Hampshire.
A permanent exhibit Of Kansas prod
ucts has been opened in the Nelson
building, Kansas City, Mo-, in charge
of II. c. Owen, of Beloit Crawford
was one of the first counties to report,
sending in q fine exhibit, principally
of lead and zinc ores and coal.
Federal Judge Foster has ordered
the Wichita & Western railroad to pay
ST. back taxes TO Pratt county and
dissolved the injunction restraining
I the sheriff from collecting the taxes.
The money was badly needed, as the
school districts were without funds
In the district court Of Sedgwick
county Judge Dale declared valid the
Kansas law requiring railroads to give
return passes TO shippers for one car
of cattle.
| An electric railway will be built
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