Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-05-13
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
There are 5000 insurance solicitors in

speaker.
In 1880 there were 148 democratic
newspapers in Kansas. Now there are
only 43.
The salary of Brig. Gen. Funston will
be So, s75 per year. That of colonel Is
s4,375.
II. c. Solomon, the well-known Atch-
ison democrat, will go to New York to
practice law.
Gen. Frederick Funston Is 8S, and q
man is eligible for a United States SEN
atorship at 30.
The sos, 200 watcrworks bonds voted
by Arkansas City will be bought by
local capitalists.
The receipts of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for April were 81, 15a and the ex-
penditures Sll, 75s.
Guy Neybegall, private Of company
/, who enlisted from Fort Scott, died
Mt Manila of fever.
John Smith. of Pleasanton, is In Jail
30 days for throwing cup of coffee at
his mother-in-law.
Gen. Fred Funston received slight
wound in the hand while in battle near
San Tomas on the 5th.
Frederick Funston is the youngest
brigadier general in the United States
army II not in the world.
There are 3,27G dogs in Kansas City
Kan, and the city realizes ZOO in
revenue as a tax from them.
'Uncle Billy" Fay, of Usage City, is
9s and in good health. lie was married
for the first time when past 20.
W. j. Bryan will deliver the COM
mcncement address ut the state agricul-
tural college at Manhattan June $.
Hoffman and Limbocker, the agri-
cultural regents ousted by Gov. Stan
ley. will resist removal in the courts.
The banking capital of Kansas now
amounts to $1,000, 900, and the individ-
ual deposits subject to check, sl7, oO0,-
600.
The railroad assessors increased the
Union Pacific's rolling stock assess
ment $4,000 and the Rock Islands
$1,000
Seven members Of company G, in
GLIDING Capt. d. S. Elliott, have been
killed in battle and at least ten
wounded.
City Attorney c. $. Berner, of Fort
Scott, died of congestion of the brain,
resulting from ovcrwork in the recent
campaign.
County Attorney Gaitskill arrested 30
Crawford county jointists in one day
and they contribute an average of slS5
each TO the school fund.
John Hammond, who was once state
architect and planned the state normal
building ut Emporia, died recently in
the masonic home at Wichita.
The three state medical societies in
session at Topeka last week decided
that in future each of the schools Of
medicine would hold separate meet
ings.
Lieut.. William McTaggart, killed in
battle near Manila, was n son Of Sena-
tor Dan McTaggart, who was muir
dered two years ago by tenant near
independence.
Petitions were being signed extern
sivcly throughout southern Kansas
to make May ,, the date upon which
Col. Funston was made brigadier gen.
eral, a legal holiday in Kansas.
There are 5000 pensioners who re-
ceive their pensions through the Topeka
agency, which is now the largest agency
in the United States. During year
about s15, 900, 900 are dispensed.
Masked robbers entered the post
Office at Cheney, Sedgwick county, and
demolishing the safe with dynamite
carried away 1000 two-cent stamps
and half u hundred dollars cash.
The state board Of charities has in
augurated radical reforms In the man
agement of the industrial school for
girls at Beloit. Work on the new s25,-
600 building will also begin soon.
W. Y. Morgan, state printer-elect,
has purchased the printing plant of
State Printer ]. S. Parks, which was
formerly owned by Gen. j. X. Hudson.
Mr.. Morgan will take charge June l.
David Horlman, Of company II,
Twentieth Kansas, has arrived at his
home in Concordia with one blind eye,
deaf ear and the bullet that did 1t in
the charge at Caloocan, February 10.
George Bundy, Lowell hotelkeeper,
was carried over the dam in Spring
river near Galena and drowned.
Bundy attempted to cross in boat,
and when in midstream he lost an ore.
Wilder s. Metcalf, the new colonel
Of the Twentieth Kansas, Is graduate
of Oberlin college. In 1897 he gradu-
ated from the law department Of the
Kansas university and began the prac-
ticc of law in Lawrence.
Gen. Frederick Funston's friends
claim that he is entitled to portion of
the s., 1000, 900 allotted by the United
States TO the Cuban troops. Funston
served in the Cuban army two years
and for time had control Of all Of the
artillery.
Gov. Stanley appointed delegates to
the annual session Of the Transmissis-
sippi congress at Wichita, May 81 to
June 3, as follows: John E. Frost, To-
pelxa; E. N. Morrill,. Hiawatha; j. s.
Emery, Lawrence; w. C. Robinson,
Winfield; L. Scott, Howard; Calvin
Hood, Emporia; II. d. Lee, Salina; A.
H. Ellis, Beloit; ]. F. Greenlee, Hutch
inson; Henry Mason, Garden City.
Topeka has abandoned Its usual fall
festival and will devote all its energies
TO welcome Of the Twentieth Kansas
boys.
The recent high winds blew the soil
away from the roots Of wheat to such
, ~ o,r&auk that fha mon aafiun afaa n -