Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-01-20

hounds to aid In running down sneak
thieves. ~ts
A meeting of the republican state
committee win be held at Topeka jan
uary 20.
John Robson, Of Dickinson county,
was robbed of 500 and killed ut Sioux
Falls, S. d.
Theodore Poehler, q wholesale gro
Ger of Lawrence, will start a similar
institution ut Emporia.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will
build a $4,000 depot ut Wichita, to be
constructed of white stone.
A number of Dickinson county citi-
Gems will ship corn to missionaries in
India to be given to famine suffers.
Lieut.. Col. 4. c. Little, Of Abilene,
is being doomed for delegate-at-large
to the populist national convention.
The Lanyon zinc smelters at Weir
City and pittsburg, also ut Nevada,
Mo-, will close because of the high
price Of ore.
The supreme court has declared un-
constitutional the law passed in 1897
making judgments taxable MS other
personal property.
The Kansas Cattlcmen's association
will take it's grievance against tho
railroads, on the 1OO-pound shipping
rate, to the court of visitation.
The state board of health has quar-
antined Montgomery county against
Wagner, Muscogee and South Nc
Alester, ]. T., where smallpox exists.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon. of Topeka,
objects to the dramatization his book,
"1n His Steps," which is being nc
complished by theatrical manager.
Miss Ida Iiohannon, daughter OF q
wealthy farmer near Abilene. has
been appointed manager of the Meth
odist mission school ut Pachuaa,
Mex, which has 500 pupils.
A movement is under way for re-
union of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
mcnt next September. Col. Metcalf is
ut the head of the movement and
Capt. Harry w. Shideler, OF Fort
Scott, Is secretary.
Mrs. Maria Boyle, who died in Miami
county last week, was carried to the
grave by her six stalwart sons. or
her nine children all were present Mt
the funeral, and hers was the first
death in the family since 1850.
From Topeka came the following
dispatch: The temperance people OF
Kansas will not be caught mapping by
the resubmissionists in the political
campaign next year. They will be just
rs alert us their antagonists, and will
put up a hot campaign.
Recently, as n gift, Judge Otis. OF
Atchison. Cancelled $500 mortgage on
an old colored mans house. The old
colored man prints card of thanks
in the Globe in which he says: when
my wife heard il, she felt rs good as
she did when she got religion"
Ed and George Silbee, alias Meek.
charged with the murder OF Leopold
Edlinger, n mover, near Fort Scott,
were convicted Of first degree murder.
The men refused TO plead or accert
any counsel and all the way through
the trial ignored the court and jury.
Senator Harris succeeded in holding
up the appointment of Asa Smith, OF
Parsons. for census supervisor OF the
Third district. The Third is the only
Kansas district with u populist con.
gresham and Senator Harris insists
that the populists should have the SUI
pervisor.
w. G. Powell, who died near E!.s
City, was one of the largest men in
the state, and casket was secured
in Kansas City for the body. 1t was
SO large it could not be taken into the
house, but vas placed under the trees
in the yard where it remained until
after the funeral ceremonies.
An effort is being made to secure
n pardon for DIR. &. II. Graham, who
was sent to the peniten'iary for as
sault ON n young girl Mt Pittsbrrg.
The trial of DIR. Graham will be re-
on account of the des-
perate attempt made by the father OF
the girl to kill her assailant in the
court room.
Congressman Calderhcad, of the
Fifth district, is chairman Of the house
subcommittee OH invalid pensions.
This gives him more power in pension
legislation than has been held by any
Kansas member since the Fifty-first
congress, when Congressman Morrill,
was chairman of the committee on in-
valid pensions.
Great interest is being taken in the
coming grand lodge of the A. o. U.
w. Mt Topeka, February 81. There
will be 400 delegates and one Of the
features will be competitive drill by
various teams on the statehouse lawn.
The A. o. U. W. membership in Kan
sas now exceeds $4,000, gain of over
5000 the past year.
State Auditor Cole still refuses to
register the $4,000 Of six per cent.
bonds recently issued by
Delaware township, Jefferson county.
Cole has computed the inter-
est ON the bonds and rnds that If they
run till maturity the interest viii
TO 100000, but II they were
sold TO the state school fund, which
will take them at ~ per cent, the
township would save 100000 Ia the
same length of time.
]. II. Neil, day operator of the Rock
Island at Wichita, was found
short $40. The offlce WINS mysteri.