Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-04-08
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

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During March the A. o. y. w. In
Kansas added lies, members TO -its
rolls. AGA tts 80 - ~
Gov. Stanley appointed Bob Wright.
of Dodge City, state forestry commits,
sioner. ~
j. d. Bowersocl, Of the Second dis
trict, 10 the richest OF the Kansas con.
gressmen. !l t.f
Gov. Eskridge. Of the Emporia Re.
publican, will erecta newspaper build
ing 5ox1So feet
A caucus OF prominent fusion poll
ticians at Topeka started q boom for
Jerry Simpson for governor. 4r44
Gov. Stanley has written letter to
President Mckinley asking that Col.
Fred Funston be made brigadier
general.
The Topeka Presbyterian church.
now 40 years old, is out Of debt, hav.
ing just paid of and burned $4,000
mortgage.
While watching her father bnrn
prairie grass seven miles northeast OF
Severy. Ethel Wall, aged 70, was
burned to death.
II. II. Patton and wife, of Weir City,
want to find their l5-year.old boy who
left home January 30 and has never
been heard OF since.
A Topeka dispatch quoted Gov Stan
ley as saying that, since the senate's
action In the Falcon. Stuart contest,
all populist office-holders must 60.
Domestic trouble unbalanced the
mind Of Mrs. A. Palm, wife OF one OF
the oldest business men in Lawrence,
and she committed suicide by hanging.
The new Kansas ANTITRUST law,
which prohibits the combining Of live
stock men, hay dealers, warehouse
men and railroads to control prices, Is
now law.
A Leavenworth dispatch said the
Twenty-third (negro) regiment would
be mustured out April 10. Each private
will get 500 to $3.50 and each officer
$500 to si,5O0
Graves and Postlethwaite are the
lawyers on the court OF visitation.
Crum Is q merchant and stock raiser.
Graves was Judge Of the Lyons.Green-
wood district - years
The legislature made a one.fourth
mill levy to complete the statehouse,
but 1t will not be available until jan
nary. 1900 and no work will be- done
on the statehouse this year.
John Seaton, the Atchison repub-
lican politician, denied that he gave
slOO toward the support Of Falcon,
the populist judicial candidate In the
Nemaha. Brown oniphan district.
1t Is estimated by state officials that
the new law compelling corporations
| to file annual statements and the law
regulating charter fees will yield the
state $40, 600 additional revenue an
nually.
Republican editors OF the Seventh
congressional district, in convention
at Mcpherson, elected A. +. Duval, OF
Inman. president; Gerald Volk, WITCH.
tia, secretary. and ]. Z. Junkin, Ster.
| ling, treasurer.
State Superintendent Church has re-
fused to allow the Travellers to do an
accident insurance business in Kansas
until it pays q $1,000 accident policy
held by Mrs. j. S. Collins, Of Topeka,
on the life OF her murdered husband.
The Kansas, Oklahoma Central &
Texas is a new railroad company that
proposes to build line from Salina
through the counties OF Ellsworth,
Barton, Stafford, Pratt and Barber,
thence through Oklahoma to Denison,
Tex.
About the first work Of the new
board OF visitation will be to hear the
complaints against the telegraph com.
panies, which are now under control
Of the court The Legislature reduced
telegraph charges but the companies
have so far ignored tho law.
At Bronson, everybody was so busy
prospecting for gas and zinc that the
city election was forgotten until 1t
was too late to have ballots printed
and no legal election could be held.
Unless present officers can hold over,
the city will be without a government
The Lanyon Zinc company, capital
IS, DOC, 900, applied for charter to do
business in Kansas. 1t owns two
smelters ut lola, one ut Pittsburg and
one at La Harpe. It also has leases
ON many thousands OF acres OF zinc,
lead and natural gas lands in Kansas
The Kansas Democratic Editorial
association, in session ut Topeka,
elected these officers: President w.
B. Buck, Winfield; secretary, w. p.
Morgan, Lyons; treasurer, John Wat
rous, Burlington; delegate TO National
Editorial convention, I. w. Morgan,
Eureka.
At six o'clock the other morning pas
sengers on q northbound Fort Scott
/ & Memphis train found tiny girl
baby in q basket on the platform ~
Pleasant View, three miles north OF
Olathe. The baby was given to Sheriff
Jones, of Olathe, who Is caring for II
and looking for It's owner.
The Southwest Kansas ii. E confer
ence ut Eldorado last week tried Rev.
EASTWOOD, Of Agusta, for alleged
adultery. The principal witness was
Miss Meredith. who had made ''con-
iession" duplicating Rev. Hestwood.
After q protracted trial Of the case q
committee Of ministers declared Rev.
EASTWOOD not guilty. ts1
w. v. Church, state insurance super
intendeut, refused 70 license the In
diana State Life Insurance company
on the ground that 1t Issued policies
at reduced rates
It Is clsimed that Mira John h.
Jones and three children, residing
near Reading. Lyon county, are direct
heirs to an estate valued ut millions