Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-01-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

library.
Lincoln Center will be lighted BY
electricity.
The daily flow Of gas at Humboldt Ia
1000, 900 cubic feet
Another whisky war was about &c
break out In Wichita.
The First national bank Of Usage
City will 20 into voluntary liquidation.
D. N. Willis, of Fredonia, will be
United States Marshal Sterne's Office
deputy.
Attorneys OF southern Kansas will
organize and fight for federal dis.
trict bill.
The Santa Fe railroad will erect Q
handsome Y. nj. c. A. building nj
Argentine.
Ex.Sheriff Judkins, OF Newton, has
been made chief detective Of the Next
can Central railroad.
United States Judge Foster, of To.
peka, has gone to California and will
be absent until April.
Eldon Lowe, son of ex-Judge and ex-
Congressman d. P. Lowe, was appoint
cd postmaster ut Fort Scott.
Attorney General Boyle will now &c
after the alleged Kansas plumbers
trust, under the Farrelly law.
United States Marshal Sterne named
Fred c. Trigg, young newspaper man
of Garnett, to be his deputy ut WITCH.
ita.
The probate Judge OF Bourbon coun.
| ~ married n white girl to black ne
gro, and the people were very indig.
nant over II.
Rev. W. G. Todd, formerly superin-
tendent of the state blind asylum, Is
now assistant state librarian under
Mrs. Annie Diggs.
Logan Carlisle, who died in New
York recently, lived in Wichita ten
years ago, and in 1888 made speeches
for the democratic state ticket
Hon. John Speer Is gathering data
for his book on the lives Of the great
men OF Kansas. No less than 10000
men expect to see their names therein.
The secretary of state has dug up a
law which requires all corporations Of
profit to report annually. There are
1000 of these corporations in Kansas.
During November and December
about II per cent. Of the entire tax
due Harvey county was collected by
the treasurer, which beats all records.
At Lincoln Center q young man who
robbed store several months ago and
escaped, returned and voluntarily sur
rendered, saying he was weary Of elud-
ing officers.
C. j. Lamb, a promoter Of the Kan
sas populist cooperative colony in COL
orado, has returned TO Abilene and
will not 60 back. Frontier life is too
hard for him.
The Brown County Farmers Mutual
insurance company rounds out another
year without having made an assess
ment, this being the tenth year with
out any payments required except the
first one.
The state treasurer has ample funds
to pay all warrants that had to be sold
last fall because there was no money
to pay them. Accumulated interest
on the warrants will cost the state
about $1,000.
The Fort Scott High School Athletic
association has started movement for
u field day contest to be participated
in by all the high schools of southeast
ern Kansas on May7. The prizes will
be gold and silver medals.
The county commissioners of Sedg-
wick county were talking Of buying q
newspaper plant and hiring man to
do all the county printing, claiming
that such action would save the coun-
ty about $1,000 per annum.
Old soldiers Mt Fort Scott will sue
the Bourbon county commissioners for
not employing soldier for janitor of
the courthouse. Action will be
brought under the law Of 1890, which
gives veterans the preference in all
such cases.
The new law for taxing judgments
provide that all taxes on such judg-
ments shall be paid in the township
where the action originated. As nine
tents Of the judgments are rendered
in the district court, che new law will
greatly benefit county seat towns.
The state board of health will adopt
drastic measures to stop quacks from
medicine in Kansas. Ali
who practice will be compelled TO file
with the county clerk,
where they secured their
medical education and place Of gradua-
ton.
The 0swego Independent insists that
Z. c. Dent, rich farmer convicted of
the quarantine law, be sent
TO Jail. 1t says poor men are in Jail
for their offenscs against the state,
and the rich man should be punished
likewise. One prisoner, boy Of &c,
stole gun to buy bread.
At Leavenworth the preliminary
trial of Samuel Sully, charged with
killing Jesse Cambridge, was inter
rupted by mob Of negroes who wanted
10 lynch Sully. Officers succeeded in
getting him to Jail, where extra guards
protected him. The preliminary trial
was indefinitely postponed.
Many surviving pioneers Of Kansas
attended the annual meeting of the
state historical society at Topeka. The
'ociety now has 90, 034 bound volumes.
Eugene Ware presented the society 4
bronze bust of d. w. Wilder, the vet
ran editor. officers chosen are: Presi-
lent, John Speer; vice presidents, Z.
:. Ware and w. A. PETER; secretary, F.
J. Adams.
The new fees and salaries law bears
hard upon Kansas justices
II the peace They cannot even charge