Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-10-28
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHED.

A new $4,000 Y. nj. G. A. building Mt
Leavenworth is nearing completion.
Lecompton recently celebrated tho
completion Of new s., 900 schoolhouse.
Caney ON the cath was visited by the
seventh fire In ten weeks. This time
the Barris store building and residence
was destroyed.
Four boys ut the state reformatory
at Hutchinson got hold Of the keys in
some mysterious way and let them
selves out Of prison. They were not
captured.
Charles Pierce, convict from Bour-
bon county, escaped from the Kansas
penitentiary at Lansing the other
night. Pierce is IN Englishman and
was under u four years sentence for
larceny.
The congregational church Mt Syca-
more, Montgomery county, was totally
destroyed by fire the other day. AL.
most all the people there are infidels
and the church was established as a
missionary enterprise.
w. s. Quisenbcrry, an attorney Of
Hoxie, has sued the city Of Salina for
$40, 900 damages. Some time ago Quisen-
berry was passing through Salina on
train when he was arrested. 1t was a
case of mistaken identity.
Cattlemen are complaining of the or
der just issued by the live stock sani-
tary commission establishing an inspec-
ton fee Of three cents per head on all
cattle shipped into the state from be-
low the quarantine line for feeding
purposes.
Miss Helen Gould and her party Wis.,
tied several Kansas cities last week
and everywhere met with n cordial re-
ception. At Wichita, Gov. Stanley
acted as her escort and she was shown
through the street fair and other places
of interest.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
last week filed with the secretary OF
state an amended charter showing an
increase in its capital stock of over
$50, OOo, ZOO. The fee paid by the COM
pany for the new charter was $500,
which goes into the school fund.
A Washington dispatch said Brig.
Gen. Funston is to breveted major gen.
eral, and Col. Wilder 5. Metchalf, OF
the Twentieth Kansas, is to be brcveted
brigadicr general by the president
shortly ON account OF gallant and mer-
itorious services of the two Kansas SOL
dicrs in the Philippines.
1t is reported that First Lieut.. Ralph
Ingalls,, of company c, Forty-fourth vol
untecrs, will resign from the service.
His hearing is defective and it is said
that an examining board, made up OF
the higher officers of the regiment, has
recommended that he be retired. He
is son OF ex-senator John j. Ingalls,.
The Twentieth Kansas band, under
the leadership OF Erve c. Strickland,
of Topeka, Is said to be the finest mu-
steal organization that has returned
FROM the Philippines. 1t has 90 men,
and all are experts. The band will
make tour OF the country, the first
concert to be given in Topeka at n date
to be fixed later.
Gov. Stanley received n telegram
from New York paper asking for his
estimate of the number of bushels of
corn Kansas will yield this year, and
the probable value thereof. The gov
ernor replied: "The estimated yield is
800, 00O, 900 bushels. The probable
value is sT5, ZOO, 900. This is SECS for
every voter in the state"
Miss Ethel Tucker, of Ottawa, is now
In San Francisco awaiting n steamer TO
take her to Manila, where she will
marry Sergt. Irwin v. Todd, troop A,
Eleventh cavalry. The sergeant is u
SON of L. NJ. Todd, who lives near
Wellsville. The two have been lovers
several years. Todd recently re-enlist-
ed in the cavalry and sent for his af-
fianced.
October the several state charitable
institutions contained the following
number OF inmates: Beloit industrial
school for girls, liz; Atchison orphans
home, 40; Winfield imbecile asylum,
15s; Topeka insane asylum, s16-593
men and 2s4 women; 0sawatomie in
sane asylum, 1.O2S-505 males and 5lS
females; Olathe deaf and dumb insti.
tute, 2O7; Topeka reform school. 1871
Lieut.. Ferguson, mentioned in the
Manila dispatches as commanding de-
tachment Of the Thirty-sixth infantry
in two engagements in one day near
Cabao. was formerly member of the
Twentieth Kansas. He won mention
for distinguished conduct at the Rio
Grande river, where he successfully
reconnoitered the bridge under the de
rection OF Col. Funston under the most
difficult and dangerous circumstances.
He WINS then Corporal Ferguson, OF q
company. Shortly afterwards he was
commissioned u first lieutenant in the
Thirty-sixth infantry.
The most important legal opinion
rendered in Kansas for some time was
that by Judge Stuart, at Seneca, who
held that the law passed by the last
legislature reducing telegraph tolls
from % to is cents for ten-word mes
sage was invalid. Judge Stuart de-
cided that the rate fixed by the new
law would compel the telegraph COM
panies to do business ut a loss. He
held, therefore, that the company was
not bound to obey the law, because its
enforcement would deprive it Of its
property without due process of law,
and rendered judgment for the COM
pany in both cases.
Jewell county will raise 500 bushels
of corn this year for each man, woman
and child within her borders. The en-
tire state will raise s4s bushels for each
inhabitant.
A barber county farmer whose homo
was destroyed by fire had $3.50 in gold
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