Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-12-22
Minor State News.

c. Z. Braley, of Atchison, has q
relatives who are Catholic priests.
The census developed that Fort
Scott has 397 more women than men.
State Treasurer Grimes is getting
up S1,000,000 bond for the second
term.
The probate judges of Kansas will
meet at Topeka December 2s and or
ganize state association.
A man named Smith was elected
constable on the fusion ticket and
road overseer on the republican ticket
in Pike township, Lyon county.
L. c. Boyle, ex-attorney general Of
Kansas, will probably become attor-
ney for the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way company of Kansas City.
Leases have been secured on 10000
acres of land near Havana, Mont
gomery county, and five gas and oil
wells will be sunk Immediately.
Clay Center has won six lawsuits
from Parsons over the asylum squab-
BILE and still Clay Center hasn't got
the asylum-but Parsons hasn't
either.
The Kansas commissioners Of the
Buffalo exposition have formulated
a bill providing for an appropriation
Of $4,000 to be used in fixing up q
Kansas exhibit.
The Kansas India Relief committee
met in Topeka the other day and
cleared up all accounts. Altogether
$23,592 was collected for the India
famine sufferers and $23,523 sent, leav-
ing balance of $50 on hand.
An anti-joint crusade was started
in Dickinson county, the temperance
people asking injunctions against
men owning property in which joints
are operated. Abilene joints are
closed, the first time in years.
In Montgomery county a county
commercial club is being organized
for the purpose of inducing eastern
capital to locate in the gas fields OF
that county. The club embraces In
dependence, Coffeyville and Cherry.
vale.
1t is stated that Gov. Stanley has
decided upon his appointments for the
four new places on the supreme bench
as follows: A. H. Ellis, Beloit; ]. C.
Pollock, Winfield; Z. W. Cunningham,
Emporia; Houston Whiteside, Hutch
inson.
The Topeka authorities not only
have trouble suppressing the sale of
liquor, but are kept busy keeping in
mates in the city prison sober. Some
one has been sneaking liquor in to the
prisoners and all Of them got hila-
riously drunk.
Wheat is growing SO rank in the
Arkansas valley wheat belt that farm
ers are advertising TO take stock free
for the purpose Of eating 1t down.
The indications Mt this time are IS
per cent. more favorable than they
were at the same time last year.
The two-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. G. B. Lue, of Abilene, was
burned to death by sister, aged four
years, setting her clothes on fire in
her mothers absence.
The marriage Of Miss Lucy Van
Hoeson, of Atchison, formerly Of Law
renee. to Sheffield Ingalls,, son Of the
late John J. Ingalls,. will take place
ut Atchison January Q.
Gov. Stanley may issue n proclama-
ton urging the observance Of Feb
ruary Us a holiday, that being the
anniversary of the appointment Of
John Marshall to be chief justice OF
the United States supreme court.
The Missouri Pacific may extend the
KANSAS, Nebraska a Dakots line, rum
ming between Fort Scott and Topeka,
10 Omaha. Neb. The Topeka CONNER
cial club has taken up the matter.
An Anderson county man claims
he raised 100 bushels to the acre Of
peanuts last year, and an Abilene man
claims he cleared 5000 on roasted
peanuts.
n. A. Low, Of Topeka. and party
Of friends shot % dozen quails during
recent hunting expedition IN Okla
h1mz but the game warden heard q
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