Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-10-07
STATE NEWS pARAcRApHED,


Pupils of the lola high school re-
Gently purchased $3.50 piano.
Ex-Gov. Lewelling has purchased a
dairy near Wichita and will take
charge of 1t.
Democrats of franklin county adopt
ed resolution urging w. A. DeFord
for congress.
Gov. Stanley will make several re-
publican speeches in Ohio the latter
part of this month.
c. s. Scott, of Chanute, has been
elected secretary of the National Anti
Horsethief association.
Railroads will make rate of one
cent mile to Topeka when the TWEEN
tieth Kansas comes home.
Rural free delivery of mail will be
established soon at Lenexa, johnson
county. Length Of route, % miles.
At Fredonia, Judge Stillwell SEN
fenced $. &. Elliott, of Bolivar. Mo-, to
five years in prison for running of cat
tie.
w. v. Church, state insurance super
intendent. attended a reunion of his
old army comrades at Fenton, Mich,
the past week.
A movement is on foot among the
independent" telephone companies OF
Kansas to join hands and build q net
work of toll lines in the state.
Prof. Vernon Kellogg, of Leland Stan
ford university, has sent collection OF
81 bird parasites to the chronological
muse UNI of the state university.
The board of regents Of the state
agricultural college at Manhattan
failed to elect a president and Prof.
Nichols will act in that capacity.
Roy Brewer, aged IS, robbed the safe
of j. A. Mosher's jewelry store at Bur
lington of elOa cash while Mr.. Mosher
and his son were in ten feet of him.
George w. Wiley, of Meade county,
state fish commissioner, was arrested
on the charge Of misusing public funds
while treasurer Of that county. His
shortage is said to be about $4,000.
Taylor Riddle. chairman Of the pop
ulist state committee. has issued an nd
dress declaring against expansion. He
says the Philippine war is mercenary
and in bad faith toward the natives.
Over 10, 900 people attended the thirty
first A. O. L. W. anniversary ut Galena
the other day and $50 new members
were publicly initiated. Galena has
the largest A. o. U. W. lodge in the
country.
Col. A. G. Stacey, the well-knewn
newspaper man sent up for year and
a half for sending obscene matter
through the mails to his divorced wife,
has been released, having served his
sentence.
Harry L. Robinson, of Topeka. was
elected major of artillery of the two
batteries of the Kansas national guard.
This position was created by the new
militia law passed by the legislature
last winter.
At the state convention OF the Chris
tian church denomination ut Topeka
statistics were read showing total of
JOS churches in the state, with n MEM
bership of $4,000. For missions, S3l 900
was raised last year.
There will he two senatorial vacan-
cies to fill at the fall election-in the
Fifth district, caused by the resigna-
ton of judge c. +. johnson and in the
Fifteenth district. caused by the resig-
nation of Maj Tom Anderson.
Henry Scheibe. of Marshall county.
was told by physician that his eyes
were incurably afflicted and that with
in three months he would be totally
blind. The next day he sent all his
folks away to circus and committed
suicide.
Frank &. Crowell has been agreed
upon as receiver OF the Atchison ma
tional bank. He is Endorsed by Sena-
tor Baker. National Committeeman
Leland. Representative Curtis, and the
minority of the stockholders of the de-
funct bank.
Now it is charged that Robert June.
the Dickinson county farmer who re-
ported that he was robbed n month
ago of 81, 100 by masked robbers, told n
story of pure fiction. He has been ar
rested On the charge OF trying to evade
his creditors.
F.W. Elliott, editor Of the Troy Times,
was convicted of criminal libel for re-
printing a statement about brother
in-law of Cyrus Leland, Albert Perry.
The item said Perry, as chairman OF
the democratic county committee. ran
the party rs Leland directed.
The Northwestern Kansas confer
ence Of the U. Is. church. held ut Solo
mon, was attended by 100 delegates.
The following presiding elders were
appointed: Norton district, c. U. Nc
Kee; Concordia district, j. NJ. McMul-
len; Russell district, L. Il. Barber.
The state election board decided that
the Cherolsee-Crawford court of COM
mon pleas law passed by the last legis-
lature was legal and the names Of can
didates for judges of the court should
90 on the official ballot. The matter
will be taken to the supreme court.
The w. C. 7. U. state convention Mt
Newton passed resolutions denouncing
the army canteen and the law estab'
fishing police courts in six cities of the
state, which are elected by combine
ton of city and township, which dis
franchises 10000 women from vote on
the liquor question.
Rural free delivery mail service will
be established Mt Pittsburg. Length
of route, S0ll miles; population served,
2,700.
The cornerstone of the new Metho-
dist church ut Fredonia was laid on
the Goth, Revs. Coker and Chaffee of
floating.
The post Office ut Edgerton, johnson
county, was robbed the other night OF
4. I'D GlOO ktah