Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-12
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHEp.
ARMY worms have been very destruc-
tive around Yates Center.

ARMY worms have been very destruo-
tive around Yates Center.
W. j. Bryan will speak at st. Marys
August "a at Woodmen log-rolling.
In Ottawa county the officials are not
allowed funds for postage or bank ex-
change.
W. +. Winner proposes to run an
electric railway from Atchison to Lcav-
enworth.
Dodge City people raised $1,000 cash
TO purchase public park near the
town hall.
The creamery at Holton, valued at
$1,000, burned the other day. 1t will
be rebuilt.
Kansas has 37,5l7 pensioners who
draw s5,47l, 174.09 annually from the
government.
The receipts Of the Western Union
Telegraph company in Kansas last
year were s116,S07.31.
Kansas this year leads all other states
in the union in corn acreage. Nebraska
is second and Iowa third.
Joshua Moore, employe Of furniture
store ut Wichita. has fallen heir to an
estate of 81, 0O0, 900 in Wales.
The oldest officer in Kansas is Orson
Kent, Of burlington, who has been
notary public continuously since 1859.
The democrats of Miami county nomi.
mated G. L. Rossman, now Twentieth
Kansas soldier ut Manila, for register
of deeds.
A diminutivc tornado Mt Everest
razed small buildings, uprooted trees,
destroyed fields Of corn and blew down
corncribs.
A Junction City man paid the gov
eminent $3.50 ton for 1900 tons OF
hay he put up this year on the Fort
Riley reservation.
The first zinc found in Labette coun-
ty was discovered ten miles southeast
Of Parsons. A blast fred at a depth OF
IL feet opened the vein.
A terrific cloudburst visited Reading.
the water for time being four inches
deep on the level. Hail as large as
hens eggs fell, absolutely destroying
many cornfelds.
Twelve young men enlisted at lola
the other day. and the recruiting Off
Ger rejected an equal number. This
makes the third time that lola has sent
a squad to the front.
The attorney general lately ruled
that the school textbook law of 1899
did hot provide for the exchange OF
books. The bool, companies, however,
have decided to exchange books, the
same as under the old law.
Mrs. Alice Lane, of Rice county. is
under arrest charged with writing OBJ
scene postal cards to six men of her
neighborhood, whom she claimed had
called at her home at midnight and
warned her TO leave the country.
A Topeka dispatch said Gov. Stanley
was not troubled much with applica-
tons for pardons, fewer cases pending
than for 10 years. The governor re-
jects about 40 out of so applications
and convicts have become discouraged.
There is to be another investigation
ut the soldiers orphans home, in Atch-
ison. A l4-year-old girl complained
that two teachers, Miss Wood and Miss
Rude, had mistreated her and that Miss
Rude held her while Miss Wood whipped
her with board.
Gov. Stanley granted conditional
pardon to George Irving, sent up from
Usage county in 1880 for 10 years for
numbering his uncle, George Williams.
The latter had led Irv!ng's young wife
astray. Irving's application for con-
ditional pardon was signed by over 900
people Of Usage county.
The largest crowd that ever congre-
gated in Kingman attended n cattle
mems picnic there. +. ID. Coburn. sec
rotary of the state board Of agricul-
ture, made an address. Broncho rid
ing and wild cattle roping contests and
horse and pony races made the day
one OF excitement and enjoyment.
There is one district judge in Kansas
who never signs an application for n
pardon. 1t is Judge Simons, Of Fort
Scott. Judge Simons says he SYM
pathizes with many prisoners whom he
sentences, but he will not sign pardon
petitions. The time for judge to
take hand, he says, is when sentence
is pronounced.
The county commissioners Of Coffey
county made the tax levy for the en-
suing year including the three-mill
levy for the new $4,000 courthouse
which Is to be erected ut Burlington.
A levy of three mills for three years
and a two-mill levy the fourth year is
expected to pay for work and material
as the building progresses.
Mrs. Thomas Gilmore, Of Argentine,
went before the probate court and
swore to 4 complaint charging her hus-
band with being an habitual drunkard.
According to his wife's statement, Gil.
bert has done little work for the last
II years. He was given hearing be-
fore jury and found to be incapable
of managing his own affairs. He will
be sent to one of the state asylums.
The proceeding was brought under
the old Kansas law OF 1878
Gov. Stanley says that elections are
held entirely too often in Kansas for
the good of the state, and in his
message to the legislature he will
urge the passage OF law cutting
out half Of them. His idea Is to