Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-12-16
STATE NEWS PARAcRAPHRD.

Gen. j. x. Hudson, Of the Topeka
Capital, Is said TO be q candidate for
United States senator.
Congressman Miller has introduced q
bill appropriating 100000 for q gov
eminent building at Emporia.
A new Wholesale grocery house has
been established at Hutchinson, backed
by capitalists from st. Joseph, Mo.
7. c. Price, of Ashland, judge Of the
Thirty-frst judicial district, covering
II counties of southwest Kansas, has
announced his intention to resign and
remove to Sandusky, O., to practice
law.
While r. A. Kier, local dealer liv-
ing in North Lawrence, was asleep
the other night, burglar looted
the place Of considerable money, after
first beating Mr.. Kier into inscnsibility
with the blunt side OF an ax.
The seven Kansas census supervisors
held meeting at Topeka last week to
arrange preliminary plans for next
years census. II was announced that
the enumerators will not be appointed
until after the spring elections.
Gov. Stanley has appointed W. w.
Guthrie, of Atchison; I. NJ. Potter, OF
Peabody, and T. A. Hubbard, of Rome,
Us delegates to represent Kansas Mt the
meeting OF the National Live Stock as
ISOLATION to be held at Fort Worth,
Tex, January 10.
The twenty-eighth annual session OF
the Kansas state grange was held ut
Olathe last week with SO delegates in
attendance. Delegates were elected on
the basis of one delegate for every 800
members, which indicates a Grange
membership of $1,000 in the state.
Some time ago the city council ut In.
dependence passed an ordinance for
street paving. Several taxpayers en-
Joined the council from awarding con-
tracts and the matter was taken to the
supreme court, where the ordinance
was held TO be valid, and street paving
will be proceeded with.
W. b. Mckinley, representing COM
papy OF capitalists in Portland, Me-,
arrived in Wichita and closed deal
for the purchase of the Wichita street
railway system. The price paid is re-
ported to be about $4,000. 1t is sup
posed this will end the long fight to
get new street railway system.
The Kansas delegation In congress
has asked President Mckinley to APP
point Frank W. Zook. Of Winfield. q
lieutenant In the Forty-fourth infantry.
Zook enlisted first 10 the Twenty
second Kansas and was with the regi.
ment at Camp Alger. lie was after.
wards transferred TO the Twentieth
Kansas.
The temperance people of Chapman
have organized club with the purpose
OF securing the passage OF law APP
pointing n state temperance commits
sioner who shall, with his aids, have
the power to summon witnesses and
shall be empowered to look after tho
enforcement of the prohibitory laws,
as the state oil inspector cares for the
oil interests.
At the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City
number of Kansas democrats met for
conference. Among those in attend
ance were ]. Mack Love, Arkansas
City; w. p. billiard, Fort Scott; Will
liam +. Sapp, Galena; c. w. Branden-
burg, Frankfort; Frank $. Thomas,
Topeka; J. &. johnson, Peabody;
George p. Locke, Wichita, and W. II.
L. Pepperell. Concordia.
Secretary Coburn, OF the state board
Of agriculture. has issued n quarterly
report in which he treats OF 1.-THE
Horse Useful" The secretary has found
that Smuggler, 9:l5; Robert McGregor,
2:l7IE; Joe Young. sire Of Joe Patchen,
John r. Gentry and Joe Patchen, all
Kansas horses, are first in their respect
i've class. Joe Patchen Is discussed as
s'the foremost horse Of all the ages"
Charles Boman. Of Wilson county,
serving term in the penitentiary for
manslaughter, has applied to Gov.
Stanley for a pardon. Boman was
constable in his county and killed Sam
Smith while attempting to levy on
goods belonging to the latter. Smiths
friends had Boman convicted, and now
over 1000 residents of the county have
petitionc the governor to release Boz
man.
John c. Sheridan. who died at Paola,
aged IS, was brother OF Editor B. j.
Sheridan and one of the bcst-known
democratic politicians in Kansas. He
had resided in Paola about 40 years,
and when 80 was elected county attor-
ney. In 1883 he was an elector-at-large
OH the democratic ticket. He was tenn
porary chairman OF the democratic con-
vention that elected delegates to Chi
cago in 1896.
Nothing has been learned Of George
A. Kimmel. the Arkansas City bank
cashier who mysteriously disappeared
on July 80. 1898, with $500 in his pock-
cts. People who knew him have never
ceased to wonder ut his strange con-
duct. No motive for voluntary dis
appearances has been found. Kimmel's
accounts were all right and he left be-
hind about $50, 900 in money and prop
erty. He had no family.
In the injunction case Of the county
attorney of Clay county against the
state board of charities Judge W. s.
Glass made permanent the injunction
against the purchase of an asylum site
ut Parsons. He held that the asylum
law does not authorize the committee
to buy, or the state treasurer to pay for
site and that the state board Of charl-
ties Is not authorized to procure lands
except by condemnation proceedings.
The president nominated Joseph A.
Gill, of Colby, to be judge Of the United
States court for the Northern district
of the Indian territory, succeeding
Judge William N. Springer.
A Washington dispatch said Kansas