Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-06-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Santa Fe will erect new rount
house ut Winfield.

diers' home ut Dodge City during May.
Jack" Schall, Of Hiawatha, has
leased Sol Millers old paper, the Troy
Chief.
The state agricultural college has
purchased $4,000 Of Usage City 90 per
cent bonds.
The state agricultural college al
Manhattan last week graduated 90. 81
of whom were women.
Remember the Maine" Is the title
OF new song just published by Frank
A. Bush, OF Belleville.
Oscar f. Williams, United States
consul Mt Manila, who is just now at
tracing much attention, formerly re-
sided in Greenwood county, near Euro
ka.
Several Kansas banks have failed "a
comply with the state banking law,
and Bank Commissioner Breidcnthal
threatens to use harsh measures with
them.
Ben Fowler, cx-chairman OF the
Lyon county populist committee, says
a middlc-of.thc-road candidate for con-
press will be nominated in the Fourth
district
At the twenty-sixth annual COM
mcncement OF the Kansas state uni
ycrsity last week the degree OF bach
elor of arts was conferred ON q;
graduates.
Gov. Leedy had nothing to do with
naming recruiting stations for vol
unteers under the second call. The
government will attend to this In
every state.
Seventy new lawyers, recent grad
yates of the Kansas states university
went TO Topeka in a body and were
admitted to practice before the SUI
preme court
Will Goodwin, aged 10, OF Ncosho
Falls, swallowed n silver dollar, which
became lodged in his throat, and II
was necessary to make an incision to
effect its removal.
Asl, 900 wheat crop Is ripening or
an abandoned farm in Cove county
II grew from volunteer seed. 1t IL
on land sold by the school land com
missioners, but never paid for.
Theattorney general declares that
the law passed by the last Legislature
for the taxation of judgments Is un
constitutional. for the reason tha
taxation under it is not uniform.
The Fulton Milling company, among
the Oldest in eastern Kansas, volun
tarily quit business, alleging that i
was impossible to make pure whea
flour in competition with mixed flour
Mrs. Mary baltimore, found guilty
OF keeping u disorderly house ut Fort
Scott, was declared vagrant and sen
fenced TO 80 days in Jail and fined 500
and made to give good-behavioi
bond.
The annual convention of the Kan
sas Christian Endeavor societies wal
held ut Topeka. Rev. NJ. L. Harlan
pastor OF the First Christian church
Topeka, was elected president and
Arthur Wood, Lawrence, secretary
The 1899 meeting will be ut Wichita.
The state textbook law, passed by
the last legislature, was declared
valid by the state in the case brought
to compel the Topeka board OF educa
ton to cancel the contract entered in
TO with the American Book company
and TO purchase books adopted by thu
state textbook commission.
The prohibition state convention a.
Emporia nominated ex-senator Peffei
for governor; r. I. Black. lieutenant
governor: ]. b. Carton, secretary o.
state; j. Biddison, state treasurer: Mrs
E. N. Buckner. state school superin
tendent; II. Hurley, state auditor; M
Williams, congressman'at-large.
Among the statistics gathered by
State Labor Commissioner johnson FOL
his annual report are figures from 81
counties in the state ON assessments
According to these statistics discrimi
nation is made by assessors in favor o.
the farmers and big corporations a
against the small manufacturers
The supreme court upheld the $40.
900 Judgment secured by Mrs. Martin
whose husband was killed in the Lin
wood wreck in January. 1897, agains
the Rock Island and Union Pacific
railroads. Each road tried to lay thu
blame for the wreck on the other, bu
the court held that both were to blame
The state board of railway assessors
have completed the assessment OF tht
Kansas railroads for 1898. The tota
amount Is 500, 3O5, 46G. In 1897 1t wa
$50. $50, 1914 and in 1896 $50, 9T9,S Th'
increase over 1897 is s025,s72. There
was slO6, 900 worth of track taken III
during 1897, which would make TIT
increase amount to 81 ,OSi,s
1t took the following amounts to ruI
the Kansas charitable institutions To-
NAV: Idiotic and imbecilc asylum n
Winfield, SO, ga. 10; school for the blint
mt Kansas City, sl,ssS5s; deaf aut
dumb school ut Olathe, sS,04d.G5; sol
diers' orphans home Mt Atchison, ST.
7l7.ss; iIeloit industrial school FOL
girls, sl,0gO.5i; insane asylum ut os
awatomie, s7,53l.54
Chancellor Snow, OF the state uni
versity, has prepared circular OF
'.chiuchbugs," several hundred copies
Of which will be distributed free. Th'
report covers experiments for ten years
and Prof. Snow says chinchbugs car
be destroyed. under certain conditions
by spreading diseases among them.
He also demonstrates that rain does
notalwsys kill bugs.
The receipts of the Kansas STATE
grain inspection department for May
exceeded expenditures by $500. There
"a now 81. 900 to the credit of the de
partment in the state treasury.
Regents of the state university de
.ta.i 90 hava military instruction In