Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-02-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Abilene leuuS III huhooo so"S $50
butter-maling station.
Mai Calvin Hood, Of Emporia, owns
}, 500 acres OF Kansas land.
CYRUS Leland has declared In favor
Of John Seaton for governor.
The Frisco will build handsome
new IS, 900 depot ut Neodesha.
Il Is said Charles s. Finch will be ap-
pointed postmaster at Lawrence.
Wichita subscribed 1850 pounds OF
-four to the Cuban relief
fund.
Farmers Of Sumner county want the
bounty on rabbit scalps re-
sumed.
The county attorney has, by injuno-
ton, closed all the drinking places In
Hutchinson.
The town Of Frontenac has been SO
undermined for coal that 1t has sunk
about 90 inches.
Ex-Secretary OF State W. c. Edwards,
of Larned, has entered the republican
gubcrnatorial race.
The new army chapel just dedicated
ut Fort Riley is said to be the finest OF
its kind in the country.
The Salina city council defeated IN
ordinance which levied prohibitive
license on glove contests.
Marion county may have three re-
publican congressional candidates.
Moore, Dean and Carpenter.
The city hall and opera house Mt
junction City, recently destroyed by
FIRE, will be rebuilt by the city.
A new populist paper called the
Broad. Axe, has been started Mt Ottawa
1t is said Gov. Leedy is behind 1t.
At the election for postmaster ut Be-
lott w. c. Perdue received EOS votes
against 375 for seven competitors.
John Magli, wealthy farmer OF
Rawlins county, committed suicide
rather than appear as witness against
an Atwood jointkeeper.
The report sent out from Topeka
that Miss Wheeler, matron Of the state
insane asylum there had resigned
rather than face charges, is denied.
Col. Ed NJ. Hewins, ex-senator from
Chautauqua county, and q one-time
wealthy cattleman, is said to be
wreck, mentally, physically and finan'
cially.
Mable Doughcrty, q school.teacheI
ut Silverlake, was burned to death
while cleaning dress with gasoline
A lamp was upset and the gasoline ex'
ploded.
A call has been issued for STATE
meeting OF Kansas BARRIERS ut Topeka
February 81. A state association will
be formed to secure legislation against
incompetent workmen.
Among the republican congressiona
candidates in the Second district arr
E. II. Funston, j. X. Cubbison, w. j
Buchan, j. d. Bowersock, ]. p. Harris
e. C. Gates and Ed R. Smith.
State Superintendent Stryker ha'
reminded county school superintend
ents that they cannot, under the law
teach in a school and act as county su
perintendent ut the same time.
The first edition Of the physiolog.
adopted by the state textbook com
mission had over 80 errors in 1t ant
Superintendent Stryker had the pub
fishers get out n revised edition.
The Sixth district has already foul
republican candidates for congress, viz
Representative Geissler, Logan; W. A
Reeder, Phillips; j. c. Postlethwaite
Jewell and A. ii. Ellis, Mitchell.
The last piece Of machinery Of thu
sorghum sugar industry in Kansas
upon which the government spen
$3.50, 900 in experiments, was sold a
Fort Scott and taken to Nebraska.
During 1897 the sum total Of losse
paid in Kansas by all the life insur
ance companies doing business her
vas s4i3, 300. During the same tim
$3.50, 26a was paid by one fraternal SC
ciety-the A. o. U. W.
County Attorney Skecne, Of Potta
watomic county, under arrest for ma
feasance in Office, was released o
habeas corpus proceedings by the pre-
bate Judge, but was Immediately al
rested on the same charge.
The bust OF the late ex-Gov. Charlie
Robinson, ordered at the states e1
pense ut cost of s., 900. has arrived i
Lawrence from Chicago and as soon O
accepted by the state will be placed !
Fraser hall at the state university.
The estimate by State Bank Commits
sioner Breidenthal that $50, 900, 900
farm mortgage Indebtedness would b
paid in Kansas during 1896 and 1Ss
NAV prove too small. In Sumnc
county alone the net reduction wa
s541,05S.
The Kansas university faculty vote
to retain three years Of Latin as RI
ouirement for entrance to the un
versity. In this they ignored tn
wishes of State Superintendent Str.
ker, who desired TO substitute Greel
German or French.
Representatives from several fair q
sociations met at Chanute and organ
lied the ''Kansas Grand Circuit" whic
will include Wichita, Chanute, FRI
donna, Erie, Parsons, Coffeyville, 1nd'
pendence. Girard and Winfield. Goo
purses will be hung up.
In Maxwell township, Stafford couI
ty, six district schools will be abo
ished and one central township scho'
established. The pupils will be col
veyed to school in wagons each da!
The districts abolished are sparsel
settled and the action is taken to sa,
expense and secure better school
There are in Kansas about 9,S'
. school districts. Sumner county hi
the greatest number, 1917; Butler Sc
|, ond with 1877 and Sedgwick third wit
1875.
, Bonnie Surkaro, a seven-year-ol
Hutchinson boy, has q mania for stea