Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-04-29
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

} a hfth grain elevator Will be erecte'
ut Coffeyville to cost 5000
! Burroalx, Jewell county, voted 81, 4O
, bonds to build new schoolhouse.
The Santa Fe railroad will this yea
lay 300 miles Of new steel rails, to cos
1880. 900.
) Col. Fred Funston cablcd Gov. Stan
ley that all the Twentieth's wounded
would get well.
Gov. Stanley has decided to appoint
only negroes TO positions in connection
with the new industrial school at Quin.
daro.
The state temperance union has Is.
sued an appeal for the Inauguration OF
a total abstinence pledge-signing cam
paign.
Lolo, the child midget of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. W. Brown, of Salina, died after liv-
ing 90 days 1t weighed two pounds
and measured ID inches in length.
Gov. Stanley's law firm at Wichita
has gone into court to test the legality
Of the new law establishing city courts
for Wichita. Atchison and Fort Scott.
The county attorney of Crawford
county will collect 500 to $500 from
each jointkecper in the county every
three months and pay 1t into the school
fund.
The colonel. the lieutenant colonel, u
major, three captains and four lieu
tenants of the only Kansas regiment
that saw any fighting are Kansas state
university men.
The state board of charities has en-
plOyed a home finder" whose duty II
will be to travel over the state and find
homes for the 200 orphans now in the
state home at Atchison.
The mother OF State Senator Z. 7.
Shaffer, who died in Bourbon county
recently, was 93 years old. She is sur
vivcd by IL children. 20 grandchildren
and 30 great-grandchildrcn.
Seth Stone, of Florence, whose leg
was cut off by Rock Island train, has
sued the company for SIS, 900 damages,
alleging that the engine had no head
light and the bell was not rung.
state Insurance Superintendent
Church announced that his examiners
would not be allowed TO charge more
than $40 day and actual expenses for
examining insurance companies.
Rev. Il. NJ. Wimmel, pastor of the
Presbyterian church ut Edna. Labette
county. was publicly whipped with n
rawhide cane by jointkeeper named
Goodman because of an attack made on
joints by the pastor.
Congressman Reedcr, of the Sixth
congressional district, announces that
an examination will be held at Beloit,
june q, and the high man out will be
appointed cadet at the military
academy at West Point.
DIR. c. q. Rowland, for IL years pas
tor of the Unitarian church ut Law
renee. is dead. His death is attributed |
to grief over the death Of his daughter
and the fact that he was superseded as
of the church.
The volunteers in the Philippines
will be returned home in the order in
which they sailed to Manila. The
Kansas boys were about
the last to sail from San Francisco and
will be among the last to reach home.
Capt. HOLLYWOOD, of company X,
Twentieth Kansas, who distinguished
himself for gallantry ut Calumpit,
served in a Massachusetts regiment
the civil war and was in
many hot engagements. His home is
N Ottawa.
Mrs. Mollie Davis, colored, sued the
street railway for $4,000
damages for injuries alleged to have
been received by being frightened off
/ moving car. Her husband has sued
he company for 81, 1000 damages on the
anne account.
Secretary Alger wired Gov. Stanley
hat none of the Kansas volunteers
ould be mustered out until the regular
roops reached Manila to take their
lace. No Kansas volunteer will be
mustered out simply because he was
ired of army life.
Calvin Hood, the Emporia banker.
as brought suit in Wyandotte county
o recover $500 from Postmaster Nat {
'arnes Hood claims the money was
oaned by him to barnes. but the latter =
lleges that It was paid him 10 spend in
rying to get delegates for Hood for [
overnor. I
Topeka Sunday schools will attempt
} multiply their attendance by two Z,
efore the close of the present century.
here are now 5000 children attending
lie various Sunday schools in Topeka,
ut there are as many children Of
'hool age in Topeka who do not at @
nd Sunday school as there arc who do.
OF the 300 convicts who have applied :,
} Gov. Stanley for pardon, 81 are serv- 9
Ig time for rape. These convicts all v
IL the same sytory-the were led astray
Y the women! In the majority Of the Q
Ises the men are over 81 years of age, y
ID the women are under II. Yet F
any people were found who signed
,titions for pardon, stating that the II
'cused were led astray. n
The telegraph companies yielded to B
'mands Of the state officers and will g
large the rate for kilograms cstab- 3
shed by the new law. They do this
avoid taking the initiative in a suit C.
test the constitutionality of the new
W. They will, however, render bill s n
oh month for the full rates, and IL n
e law Is declared unconstitutional W
lLexpect the state to pay the differ &
ice. ..
The receiver announces that credit Bl
$ Of the First national Cross bank L
Emporia win be paid so cents on the P'
liar. -,
Miami county's new courthouse at III
ola, one Of the handsomcst In the 81
ate, costing $4,000, is now occupied ~ Z,