Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-06-24
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHED.

law
Since Andrew Carnegie gave $500 to
the library at Blue Rapids, other Kan
sas towns are warming up TO the iron
magnate.
Cliff Mcdonald, of Halstead, Is COM
ing home on the same ship with Dewey.
He has served three years in the navy,
and his term Of enlistment expires in
July.
At Sedan w. b. Pile, aged 81, and
Mrs. II. II. Vanliervan, aged 90, were
united in marriage recently. This Is
the third time the groom has been mar
ried and the fifth time for the bride.
Gov. Stanlcy's family and the family
Of United States Judge Hook will spend
the summer in Wisconsin. The gov
ernor will spend part of each month
with his family during the hot spell.
State Treasurer Grimes the other
day received ss6 of Kansas military
scrip issued in 1869 by State Treasurer
J. Z. Hayes and used in protecting
Kansas homes during border troubles.
The county commissioners Of Elk
county refused to obey n law passed by
the last legislature creating a county
high school at Howard and requiring
the commissioners to appoint trustees
to take charge of the matter.
This years recipient of the Rogers
fellowship, ut Harvard, which carries
with 1t income not to exceed $500 a
year, is Charles Sumner Griffin, of
Kansas, who received the degree of A.
b. from the Kansas state university
in 1894.
Attorneys for the state and for the
telegraph companies appeared before
Judge Hook, ut Leavcnworth, and
argued the constitutionality Of the
new law creating q court Of visitation.
Judge Hook will render decision
July 10.
The state gives each county with q
regularly organized normal institute
$50 each year. State Auditor Cole will
not send out any of this money until
the complete organization of the insti-
tute is forwarded to the state school
superintendent.
Eight months ago II. ]. Dahlke, an
Atchison jewclcr. was robbed of a
pocket-book containing 500. One day
last week the same pockct-book with
Si5 in it was found on his showcase.
The thief had evidently relented and
returned rs much rs he could.
State Treasurer Grimes wants the
state school fund commissioners and
eastern bondholders to readjust the
bonds held against western Kansas
counties and municipalities and reduce
the interest to n point where those
counties and municipalities can pay
out.
The court of appeals in session at
Fort Scott affirmed the judgements
passed by Judge Stillwell on eight lola
and Humboldt liquor men, antN they
will be executed Mt once. Two of the
defendants must so to Jail for nearly
two years and pay fines Of 81, 900 each.
Al the G. A. X. reunion at Topeka in
September special day will be set
aside for reception to the Twentieth
and other Kansas volunteer regiments
of the recent war. Medals will be
given TO all the boys of the Twentieth
and handsome sword will be present
ed to Brig. Gen. Funston.
For the fourth time Gov. Stanley re-
fused to pardon Harry Stops, SEN
fenced to the penitcntiary for abduct-
ing Marjorie Wallace, a young Topeka
girl. Mrs. Stops, with her two chill
dren, came all the way from Philadel-
phia to plead for her husbands release,
but her prayer was not needed.
State Oil Inspector Spencer turned
into the state treasury sl,5O3.3O collec-
ton for the month of May. Salaries and
expenses of the inspector and his dupu-
ties come out Of this, leaving profit Of
s7l4.55 to the state. The state cleared
about $1,000 through Spencer's Office in
April and May.
Near Usage City two small boys
named Vanderslice and Redding, aged
six and four, were given target rifle
to play with, which, as usual, was
not loaded" The Vanderslice boy
pointed the weapon at the Redding boy
and snapped it. The ball penetrated
the heart of the child, and death was
instantaneous.
In a recent letter Gen. Funston made
particular mention of the bravery of
Corporal Furgeson, of the Twentieth
Kansas, who reconnoitered the bridge
over the Rio Grande river, and of
Privates Trembly and White, who
swan the river under heavy firing
from the enemy and fastened the rope
Of the raft to one of the posts Of the
insurgent trench.
H. E. Mason, ex-president Of the
First state bank at Marion, was sem
fenced to two years in the penitentiary
for classifying the banks books. Mason's
bank failed q year ago, but public
sentiment was with him until the
flower parade at Marion last fall, when
Mason appeared with u handsome car
ringe. This fingered his creditors and
the suits against him have been pressed
since that time.
Frank Swendson, thought to have
been dead, caused great rejoicing by
walking into his fathers house ut Haw-
thorne, Atchison county, one day last
week. He went away ten years ago
and was believed to have been killed in
Texas. It happens that the victim was
another Swendson. He went to San
Francisco. where he entered the mer-
chant marine and travelled all over the
world as sailor.
State Labor Commissioner johnson,
who went to Pittsburg to arbitrate the
miners strike, was much distressed
because he was enjoined from going
near the mines.
Great crowds attended commence