Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS
population Is 80, esl.

Mrs. Annie Diggs has resigned es
secretary Of the social democracy oil
Kansas.
Rev. Father Then, q Catholic priest
Of Wichita. has been appointed an
army chaplain.
The United States revenue collector
10 after those Kansas millers who
adulterate -four.
The Southern Kansas Santa Fe)
depot ut Garnett, erected In 1869, was
destroyed by Gre.
The Memphis railroad will move its
big grain elevator from West Memphis.
Ark, to Rosedale.
Experienced Kansas horticulturists
say the west must depend on the east
for apples this year.
Among the troops ordered to Porto
Rico are those commanded by Gen. ].
K. Hudson, Of Topeka.
Wyandotte county furnished two
companies Of negro volunteers for the
two Kansas battalions.
A pest that attacks the roots and
bodies Of trees IL badly damaging fruit
trees in Atchison county.
Congressman.atLarge Botkin de-
clares himself In favor Of McKinley's
territorial expansion policy.
Two white men-one from Kansas
City and one from Wichlta-enlisted In
the Kansas colored battalion.
Over adozen horses have died at Con.
way. Mcpherson county, Of disease
thought to be loco poisoning.
II Is said the state prohibition com.
mittee is we'll supplied with funds and
will make vigorous campaign.
The two battalions Of negro volun.
teers were mustered in ut Topeka on
the Goth and are now ready for war.
Great Bend citizens have purchased
the Central Normal college, located Ut
that place, and It will be run by them.
Lieut. Evans, OF the Twenty.second
Kansas, camped ut Falls Church, Va.
will be concentrated for drunken
ness
The Santa Fe railroad put q reduced
schedule Of rates on coal into effect
that affects 50 towns in east central
Kansas.
The average yearly wages Of en-
ployes in Kansas Is $4,000. ranging
from S85. SO for domestics to 81, le0 for
engineers.
The two men suspected OF robbing
the Frisco train at Andover, Butler
county. were captured ut Maize, Sedg'
wick county.
In Kansas there are only III, 691 peo.
pie who have free mail delivery. while
there are 1,2l7,Ol7 who call ut the post
Office for their mail.
The live stock sanitary commission
has quarantined three herds OF cattle
in Butler county, 30 cows having died
Of Texas fever In that vicinity.
The average weekly compensation
OF all Kansas female wage-esrners the
past year was s5.ol, an increase Of 81
per cent over the preceding year.
It will be impossible for the state to
furnish tents for the state g. A. 4. re
union this year, because the volun'
teers have taken them oil to the front.
The federal government will thi,
year allow s24. 900 for the purpose Of
scientific investigation at the Kansas
agricultural college. Last year tho
allowance was $1,000.
d. b. Stephens, Of lola, Is looking
up price raid" claims In Kansas
which, he says, will aggregate 81. 0s3
Stephens will try TO get the national
government to pay these claims.
Because the city requires ten hour.
for Q days work, revolt agains,
working out the poll tax was started
by male citizens OF Fort Scott, who
will test In court the validity Of the
law.
E. E. McClelland, o farmer nea,
Wichita, was robbed Of 81, 100 in cash
a bank check for g., 500 and $4,000 In
notes and mortgages Tho thief en-
tered his homo In broad day and hello
McClelland up.
p. L. Dix, Lexington boy, wal
killed ut the battle Of Santiago. III
was private In the rough riders. ant
was the youngest Of the II childrer
reared by Nathan Dix, well.knowr
citizen Of Dickinson county.
A well.known farmer near Cherokee
created much indignation by publicly
horsewhipping his grown daughter
upon the streets OF Cherokee because
she was In the company Of young
man whose society he had forbidden
her.
Attorney General Boyle rules thai
when cattle are In transit from one
county to another on March I, the as
SCISSOR OF the township in which the
owner lives shall assess them for tax
alton, no matter whether the cattle
have arrived there or not
Brig. Gen. J. K. Hudson, Of Topeka
has been assigned to the Second brib
ade of the Second division Fourth
army corps, one of the finest Of tho
volunteer troops II embraces tho
First regiment District Of Columbia
Second New York and Fifth Mary
land.
Last March the city Of Neodesha put
In q si2, 600 gas plant which has PAID
all running expenses and $500 besides
The city was so we'll pleased with the
enterprise that Il was decided to baild
Q waterworks plant and $4,000 II
bonds were voted for the purpose. The
bonds for both plants were purchased
by Neodesha men.
Frank Miller. an organ salesman ai
Ualstead, was whipped, tarred and
feathered by mob because he had at.
tempted to outrage Q four-year-old
girl.
Farmer Stowe, seven miles west oi