Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-03-25

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the board Of charities.
Gov. Stanley named Editor Raney,
OF the Monitor. TO be Judge Of Fort
Scott's new city court
State Auditor Cole refused TO pay
the appellate court judges siOO Il year
their private flee rental.
The Santa Fe railroad has just com.
pleted d fine Y. NJ. G. A. building for
its employees Mt Argentine.
Gov Roosevelt, OF New York. will be
nn attraction OF the Chautauqua as
semb y ut Ottawa this summer.
Clarence Richards, son OF Editor
r c3ards, of the Wellington Mail, was
appointed to n cadetship at Annapolis
The county attorney OF Phillips
county Is prose cutting parents who fail
to have their children attend school.
Gov. Stanley followed Col Fred
Funston's recommendations and ap.
pointed William j. Watson, OF Pitts
burg, captain of company Z, Twen-
tieth Kansas.
A party Of l? Cuban ex-soldiers, who
fought under Gen. Gomez passed
through Wichita to western Kansas,
where they have purchased farms and
will engage in farming.
Charles Fuller and wife were re-
married ut Wichita after having been
divorced only two weeks. Fuller Is
wealthy merchant and his wife 10 q
leader in church circles.
| A close friend of Gov. Stanley said
that Senator Charles +. johnson would
he appointed Judge OF the new Jackson
jefferson district Ex-Congressman
Broderick wanted the place.
II was announced that Gov. Stanley
would remove DR.. Pitcher from the
superin ndency Of the Winfield i'm
beetle asylum. DR.. Newton, OF Neosho
county, will succeed 10 the position.
There are $50 children in the soldiers
orphans home in Atchison, and Super
in tendent Woodwork was giving each
OF them D teaspoonful of cider vinegar
three times o day us o smallpox pre-
ventive.
In Cowley county the officials held 0
sale OF judgments as provided for in
the new law. The sale brought s20o,
and the bill for advertising was 81 ,450,
leaving the taxpayers out Of pocket
just s!,a50.
"A Portland cement company from
Michigan will erect a 500. 900 plant at
lola, TO give employment to 10 men
and manufacture 1000 barrels Of ce.
ment daily. lola donates one gas well
to the company.
A. L. brown, Of Garden City, was
told that hogs would grow fat on ar.
senic One morning he gave his pork.
ers dose and the result was both
startling and disastrous. Some had
fits, some spasms, while others died.
Gov. Stanley received cablegrsm
from Col. Funston. of the Twentieth
Kansas. insisting that his recon-
mendation for promotions be followed.
1t Is believed that the privstes Of the
regiment and the colonel are at outs
Attorney General GODDARD says he
will ut once proceed to collect the in
terest on $3.50, 900 defaulted bonds In
the permanent school funds He will
first propose that the delinquent coup.
ties and municipalities pay the back
In terest in installments.
j. W. A. Collins, n Labette county
teacher whose certificate was revoked
by the county examining board be-
cause, il is alleged, the teacher is
afflicted with epilepsy, secured n Ie-
s,raining order from the district court
and will fight tho order for removal
from his school. The county examin-
ers believe that they have the same
power TO revoke certificate rs they
have TO grant one.
The increase of its acreage by more
than 35 per cent. in lS9S. In Kansas,
suggests that alfalfa is n plant in
which The farmers and stockmen are
becoming greatly interested. A pam
phlet giving the greatest fund Of in
formation anywhere available about
the raising and management Of alfalfa,
together with many valuable articles
on subsoiling and irrigation, can be
obtained by sending the postage,
which 10 six cents, to the Kansas
board of agriculture, Topeka.
The Kansas II. E conference at
Hiawatha voted $4,000 to enlarge
Bethany hospital In Kansas City, Kan.
Rev. s E Belts was made superin' |
tendent OF the hospital.
The books OF the Twenty-third Kan
sas regiment were found TO be in bad
condition, necessitating rewriting |
them. This may delay considerably |
the mastering out OF the regiment
The state charter board, composed /
OF state officers, will not charter
'.social" clubs for drinking purposes.
DR.. George Eaton, n prominent young |
dentist at Columbus, confessed to hsv.
ing committed many burglsries in that
town.
Mrs. N. J. Morrill,, OF Usage City,
matron of the state soldiers orpans'
home. rendered heNresignation TO Gov.
Stanley.
Samuel L. johnson, of Troy, one of
the TOWNSHIP appraisers for the Chick
asaw nation, will get s5 per day for
about three years work.
+. M. Benefiel. Of Montgomery coun-
", speaker pro tenn Of the house, will
seek tho republican nomination for
congress In the Third districk
b. C Poyner, . wsll-Eaown farmer
east Of Fort Scott isreaping harvest
By the sale Of Wild geese which he
cstehes IN trap on bis ferm