Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-02-04
STATE NEWS Photographed.

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"Tiger" johnson has served 80 years
a. constable ut Emporia-
wamego sold its s2b. 600 waterworlss
bonds at premium Of s67l.
There are 700 students at the state
agricultural college ut Manhattan.
Parsons wants to be made the coun'
ty seat OF Labette county In place oil
0swego.
A Chicago syndicate Is trying Il
revive the Kansas beat sugar industry
ut F3,s Scott.
The Methodists will dedicate new
church seven miles south OF Denison,
jackson county.
J. r Oatman. who died at Lawrence,
left behind q wife with whom he had
been living for 6S years.
An inspector found Postmaster Beat
tie, OF Grinnell. short $50 and removed
the postmaster instanter.
Eldorado offers 1000 acres OF land
within two miles of town to secure
one Of the new state institutions.
Butler is the largest Kansas county,
with an area of Lies square milea
Wyandotte is at the foot with 1853.
Hanover. Washington county. with
SIS population, has Is saloons, each oil
which pays yearly TO the town $40.
The bridge over the Kaw river Of
Lecompton, built by Douglas and JET
ferson counties, has been completed.
Editor S. A. Coover. Of the Wilson
Echo, who died recently, was in Libby
prison as long Us any other union sol
der confined there.
A colony Of Mennonites has under.
taken to cultivate the barren sand
hills In southern Mcpherson and north.
ern Harvey counties.
Mr.. 0rindulph, the oldest man in
Sumner county, died recently, aged
0s. Up to his last illness he made it q
rule TO walk 20 miles every day.
O. w. Glynn. OF McLouth, who
shipped n car OF cattle to Kansas City,
sent home all but $40 of the proceeds
and then niysteriously disappeared.
There are ay4 people on the payroll
Of the present Legislature and the daily
expenses OF both houses, including sal
aries and supplies, aggregate 81, $50.
The annual meeting Of the Kansas
Editorial association will probably be
held at Kansas City February 81. the
date OF the opening OF Convention hall.
W. V. Church. who will succeed
Webb McNall as state insurance su.
perintendent. will not take charge OF
the office until the expiration of Nc
Nails term July I.
A Topeka telegram said the present
members Of the state board OF railroad
commissioners will be permitted to re.
main until the court Of visitation law
takes effect April 10.
A bill has been introduced in the
house which makes IL penal offense,
punishable by imprisonment in the
penitentiary, for u person to traduce
the character OF a woman.
The populist state board Of charities
asked for the resignation OF Mrs. Baer.
matron OF the industrial school ut Be-
lott, because of an affront Mrs. BaeI
is alleged to have given the board.
A handsome monument is being
erected in the cemetery at Fredonia by
the local G. A. r and W. R. C. posts,
to commemorate the union soldiers
and sailors of the civil war. It will
be dedicated May 80.
Gen. Otis cabled on the 3!st that the
following boys of the Twentieth Kan.
sas had died at Manila: Edward Roth.
myer, P. 7. Hacxett, Lewis r Badger,
E. 2. Blair. Ben W. Squires, John D.
Young. Norman Z. Hand and David L
Campbell.
The war department issued an order
ON the 3lst for mastering ont the
Twenty-third Kansas luegro) regiment
now at Santiago. The boys will arrive
at Newp port News about February 81.
They will be mustered out ct Fort
Leavenworth.
Lieut. Hawkins, q surgeon OF the
Twenty-third (coloreD Kansas regi.
ment in Cuba, was recently discharged
for some unknown reason. He has re.
turned to Topeka, where he Is making
an effort to be reinstated, alleging
that an injustice was done him.
Insurance companies are paying the
two per cent. tax placed on gross pre-
miums by the extra session of the
legislature. None OF the companies
show any inclination to take advan-
tage OF Attorney General Godard's
decision that the session was illegal
Wellington recently built new
Jail and the authorities decided to
name II after the first prisoner con.
fined therein. The prisoner proved to
be q woman, Mrs. Horton, and the
Jail was named Horton Jail" 1t later
developed that the woman was inno-
cent
By decision OF Judge Simons, in the
district court ut Fort Scott, the
knights Of Pythias lodge will be COM
PEELED to pay 50, 900 insurance that they
were contesting on the claim that
their policy contained q suicide clause.
The insured, Thomas Kinney, hotel
man, while temporarily insane, ended
his own life.
Judge Simons, of the district court
ut Fort Scott, rendered q decision
against the A. o. U. w., holding that
the exemption laws of this state cover
ing life insurance could not impair OBJ
legations OF contracts and also that
they did NOT apply 70 debts of bene-
ticiaries This was contrary TO the
general opinion, Us 1t was thought
that life insurance money could not be
garnisheed or held for the debts OF the
insured. EtF 49,
The state bar association Mt Topeka
elected these officers: C @ Cole
r,an CIav Cantar nraaidnuf. Nam