Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-01-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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There were 10 cases Of measles st
Hill City.
Mankota voted 10000 bonds to build
waterworks.
The house killed the bill to revive
the death penalty.
State Printer Morgan graduated
from the state university at the age Of
10.
Judge j. F. Culver, the well.known
church and temperance worker of EN-
poria, is dead.
J. w. Rule, 4 railroad employee ut
Tonganoxie, committed suicide, being
o victim OF the drink habit
Nicholas Schimpfesser, who killed
his father-in law ut Wathena, was
given ten years in the state peniten-
tiary.
Miss Elizabeth Frazier, late county
Of Neosho county. has
purchased the Erie Sentinel and both
papers in that city are now published
by women.
Gov. Stanley was the guest Of honor
at Y. NJ. C. A. banquet In Kansas
City, Mo-, one night recently. The
governor has been q worker in the as
ISOLATION 20 years.
At the age Of 90 man died at Co.
lumbus the other day, and the local
paper recites In his obituary that
never In his life did he drink drop or
use profane word.
Ottawa will build hotel by the lot
terry scheme. A $4,000 building will
be put up and divided into five shares
of $4,000 each. These will be the cap
ital prizes of the drawing.
Mayor p. c. Hesser, of Fort Scott,
was recently forced out OF the mem
bership Of the Methodist church OF
that city because of his failure to use
the police force to close the joints.
A Washington dispatch said that
congress ut this session would appro-
pirate $4,000 for the government
building at Topeka and $4,000 for q
new building at Kansas City, Kan.
The annual meeting of the state tenn.
perauce union will be held at Topeka
February Z and 8. Railroads have
granted ~ fare rate. Gov. Stanley
will deliver the address of welcome.
Representative Lawson, Of Trego
county, said that pockets rich in what
experts call gold had been discovered
on Gen. Artz' farm 90 miles from
The mine is 100 feet deep
The state treasurers' meeting ut To
pelia last week urged law that would
permit county treasurers to give bonds
In surety companies, the expense OF
such bonds to be borne by the coun-
ties.
Three resolutions were introduced
in the Legislature indorsing the Paris
peace treaty. A Topeka telegram said
the legislators would divide on party
lines when it came to action on expan-
sion.
Mrs. j. @ Ruse, Of jefferson county,
was horribly burned about the face by
fainting and falling on red-hot stove.
She escaped suffering and soon recov-
cred by rubbing the burns with grated
raw potato.
A big wolf hunt ut independence re-
suited in the killing of II wolves and
several hundred rabbits The wolves
had become so trou blesome that the
county commissioners placed bounty
On their heads.
Elan c. Harris, u G. A. r. man and
prominent citizen, was killed at rail-
road crossing in Emporia- He at
tempted to cross the track before an
train, In spite OF the
OF the flagman.
At the request Of the Kansas Equal
Suffrage association bill was intro.
iuced in the Legislature requiring the
of one woman on the
board of charities and women doctors
in female wards Of all state institu-
lions.
Miss Minnie Stanton was In bed at
her clearinghouse in Lincoln the
other night when q burglar entered
her room and tore from her finger
ine diamond ring. The ring fitted
her finger tight and the flesh was
as II came of.
The United States supreme court
,verruled the contention OF ex-Attor-
,ey General Boyle that he was sole
appellee in the Kansas City stock yards
.ase now pending in the court Mr..
GODDARD, the new attorney general.
was made the legal representative OF
he state. Had Mr.. Boyle's view been
the state Of Kansas would
nave technically won its case against
The stock yards
The state live stock sanitary board
will establish cattle-dipping station
1t Elgin, Chautauqua county. Elgin
s the gateway on the cattle trails be-
tween Indian territory and Kansas
points, 100000 cattle passing through
he place yearly. 1t will be the largest
dipping vat and cattle market that has
ret been established in Kansas. The
Santa Fe railway promises TO help the
enterprise by putting in any switches
Ind branches that may be necessary.
A remarkable operation was per-
'ormed on p. ]. Leonard, q hardware
iealer OF oberlin, in q Kansas City
hospital. An abscess was removed
rom his leg and he lost such quaint.
les of blood that his death was feared.
Then the physicians practiced the
Of blood to supply his
wasted system. and nearly two pints
we're injected into his system with
treat results. 1t was taken from the
Ieins OF some Of his friends who were
With him.
The Atchison Champion, oldest pa
Der In Kansas, was sold by A. ]. Felt
% p. D. Whitsel, of Lawrence. Whit
vel is a graduate of the Kansas state