Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-23
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.


masters in Kansas, whose average
yearly salary is only S275.74 each.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been
sold to Col. ]. II. Richards and other
friends of Senator Burton i'm that city.
The First Methodist church Mt EN-
poria, which was destroyed by fire
last summer, will be rebuilt at cost
of $4,000. 1t will be the finest church
edifice in Emporia.
Judge Thompson, in the district
court at Lincoln, held invalid the
new Kansas law requiring man who
solicits orders in the rural districts
to take out a peddler's license.
At many places in northern Kansas
corn thrashers are in use. The ma
chimes, in addition to removing the
corn from the stalk, cuts the stalks
into shreds and. the shredded corn
stalks are almost rs good as hay.
The coroner's jury held Mrs. Ed
Hotchkiss, of Ellinwood, for murder
in the first degree. She killed James
A. Duffy and evidence showed the
crime was deliberate. She was taken
to the Hutchinson Jail for safe keep
ing.
An effort is being made to GUST the
Missouri & Kansas Telephone COM
pany from Wichita and new COM
pany has been granted n 2o-ycar
franchise. 1t is said that Gov. STAN
ley is one of the principal stockhold-
ers.
Department Commander Norton,
of the Kansas G. a. H., urges every
member of the order in Kansas to
contribute ten cents toward the cree
ton of monument to Mother"
Bickerdyke, who recently died at
Bunker Hill.
Albert Griffin, the one-time famous
temperance lecturer and prohibition
advocate, is organizing new temper
ance society founded on moral sua-
sion. Mr.. Griffin says legal suasion,
or the prohibitory law, is not solving
the liquor question.
Elmer Berlin, of Atchison, has col
lected $4,000 tobacco tags from tobac-
co made by the tobacco trust, and
with $1,000 of the tags will receive q
piano. He has been 90 months collect
ing the tags. He paid half cent each
for most of them.
Representative Long, of Kansas,
who is n member of the ways and
means committee of the house, was
one of President Roosevelt's callers
recently. He joins with his eastern
colleagues on the committee in OPP
posing a revision of the tariff.
Regents of the state agricultural
college and state normal school have
issued orders commanding squat
ters" on the Fort Hays military res
ervation to move by January /. The
order affects 16 families who claimed
homes on the reservation under the
homestead act.
j. P. Ward, a Labette county wild
over, was recently arrested for kiss
ing his housekeeper, widow named
Graham, in public. Irate neighbors
charged them with disturbing the
peace. The couple was given jury
trial and it was decided that kissing
was no disturbance of the peace.
Seven young pen were arrested at
Robinson for playing baseball on Sun
day. Attorneys agreed to the state
ment of facts and asked District
Judge Stuart for a decision on the
offense. The judge held that Sunday
baseball was not an offense as long
as the players did not disturb the
peace.
A telegram from Mound Valley said
that the 17-year-old son of John W.
Breidenthal was arrested there for
stealing some shoes, cuff buttons and
other trinkets from room in hotel
there. He pleaded guilty and was
fined SO, which was paid by friend
of the family. Young Breidenthal
is student at the county high school
ut Altamont.
nounced that he proposed to bring
proceedings to GUST C. A. Schneider,
county clerk of Finney county, from
Office for refusal to levy the full
amount of taxes demanded by the
state. The state asked Finney coun-
ty to levy $4,000 in taxes for state pur-
poses but only $1,000 was extended on
the rolls.
An infant child was deserted in q
field near lola the other day and sus-
picion was at once directed to Miss
Coda Huffman, who lived near. The
same day the Huffman girl and EN-
nett Lamunyan went to lola and
were married, but the deputy sheriff
placed them under arrest as they were
about to take the train, on warrant
charging them with deserving the
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