Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-06-03
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

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ing of Uhivefsalists July 90.
Galena added 1000 To It's population
by extending the city limits.
A street car line may be built betweea
Junction City and Fort Riley:
6herryvale has new company Of
state militia with r: .: ffulse captain:
Fort Scott and vicinity were visited
by hailstorm recently, the worst ever
known there.
Coffeyville's issue of $4,000 electric
light bonds was sold at premium Of
one per cent.
The post Office department will es-
tablish free rural delivery route from
Topeka July 1.
Milburn, the blind chaplain of the
senate, will address the teachers OF Sa-
lima on June %.
Ex-Sheriff Ora Morse, of Wellington,
declined the deputy wardenship Of the
state penitentiary.
Ex-Gov. Morrill, presented the Con-
gregational church at Hiawatha with
new 81, 800 pipe organ.
Surviving soldiers Of the Sixth Kan
sas will hold their annual reunion in
Kansas City in September.
vandals have looted the Pleasant
Valley church, four miles north OF
Wichita, for the fourth time.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that Scott county must pay Sl48,-
900 worth of defaulted bonds now held
by the state school fund.
A terribly destructive hailstorm Wis
tied Highland and adjacent sections OF
Doniphan county. In q number Of
places shingles were torn from roofs.
State Oil Inspector Spencer seized
the Standard Oil company's refinery ut
Neodcsha, alleging that the oil sent
from there was not fit for distribution.
Prof. Richard Moulton, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, will deliver the an
nual address at the Kansas state nor
nal commencement at Emporia, June
Is.
Gen. John II. Rice, who was prac-
ticing attorney in Georgia before the
civil war, was admitted to the bar at
Fort Scott the other day. He is now
70 years old.
Four big companies agreed to put in
force June a schedule Of fire insur-
ancc rates on farm property that would
be reduction Of 90 per cent. under
present prices.
Blackleg appeared among herd OF
200 calves owned by ex-Sheriff Car
mean, of Douglas county, and he cured
them by having them vaccinated with
the Pasteur remedy.
Insurance companies announced q
big reduction of rates in the five Kan
sas cities having paid fire departments
Topeka, Kansas City, Wichita,
Leavenworth and Atchison.
A correspondent in the Philippines
says the Washington reports of the
wounded are not accurate, in that they
do not include the names of those not
hit hard enough to 60 to the hospital.
George Irving, who was sent up from
Burlingame in 1890 for 10 years for
killing his uncle. George Williams, be-
cause of the latter's alleged relations
with Irving's wife, has applied for a
pardon.
o. NJ. Holloway, n travcling salesman
for wholesale liquor house, was ar
rested at Independence for soliciting
orders. A test case will be made to de-
eide whether the prohibitory law COW
ers this case.
Gov. Stanley has added another con-
dition to the agreement entered into
by convicts who want conditional par
dons. II is that persons urging par
dons shall give the convict employment
upon his release.
Galena and Empire, in Cherokee
county, now lead the world in the
weekly output of ore. Last week tho
value of lead and zinc from the Galepa
and Empire mines exceeded the Joplin
mines over $4,000
In reporting the fact that Mr.. and
Mrs. Welcome Wells, of Manhattan,
had Just celebrated the SEVENTEEN an
niversary of their marriage, local pa
per declares that in all this time they
have never had quarrel.
At Central City, Cherokee county,
Miss Anna Bennett, a hotelkeeper,
publicly horsewhipped Jack Evett, a
carpenter, because Of alleged SANDER
Gus remarks made about her by Evett
The mans cries were heard for several
blocks.
In Arkansas City the mayor had all
the jointkeepers arrested for keeping
disorderly houses. Later the city
council passed an ordinance declaring
them public nuisances and ordering
the marshal to seize and destroy all
liquor found.
Prof. F. p. Smith, superintendent Of
the Lawrence schools and member
of the textbook commission, was ac-
cused of taking $500 for his influence
in securing the adoption OF the Pea
body chart. Prof. Smith said It was .
case of blackmail.
The legislature of ~ passed law
taxing mineral leases. The question
arose recently about the taxation Of
the immense oil and gas leases in
southeastern Kansas. The attorney
general holds that the law applies to
oil leases but not to gas.
Department Commander Coulter, Of
the Kansas G. A. H., has requested the
government to give to the department
captured Spanish cannon out Of which
to manufacture the medals Of honor
which It Is proposed to confer upon the
soldiers of the Twentieth Kansas.
There were 6S graduates from the
Manhattan high school last week-a re-
markablv rood showing for n town Of