Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

and stone and absolutely fireproof,
will be erected at Salina ut cost of
the county of $4,000.
Representative Ed McKeever. of
Shawnee county, will succeed Harry
j. Bone, of Clark county, as assistant
United States attorney.
In Bourbon county the other day
| $50 persons took the examination for
teachers licenses. OF these the one
who ranked highest. having a per
cent. of 0s, was State Senator John
Caldwell.
mo matter how short feed may
get" said farmer to the Ottawa
Herald, "my stock is going to stay
with me all winter, even If have to
feed them on canned pears and vanilla
waters"
A new thrasher and engine pur-
chased by Robert Gibson. of Deulah,
was destroyed by fire, together with
considerable hay in stack and ma
pie tree that had been standing for
30 years, only the stub of the tree
being left.
A prairie fire which started 10 miles
north of Larned destroyed 10000
bushels of wheat and the residences
and barns on the farms of Henry
Hanhart and Mrs. Julius Rhiner.
Some live stock and many tons of hay
were also burned.
Miss Helen Gould has given library
worth $1,000 and music box which
plays 81 tunes. and which cost $500
to the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton Mt Ellis. In making the gift Miss
Gould stipulates that If ever the Or
der should disband the books and
the music box must be returned to
her.
Attorney General GODDARD holds that
counties which hold elections this fall
must nominate their candidates by
county conventions or primaries. The
ruling was made in response to an in
quiry from Linn county, where n
county printer is to he elected this
fall. The republican county commit
teemen wanted to name the candi-
date. but Mr.. GODDARD holds that the
action would be illegal.
The new appropriation laws enacted
by the last Legislature increase the
salaries of Insurance Commissioner
w. V. Church and +. D. Coburn, Sec
retary of the state board of agricul-
turc, from So 600 to $500 year each.
The Office of assistant secretary OF
the board of agriculture is also pro-
vided for in the new laws. ]. c. Moh-
Ter has been promoted by Mr.. Coburn
to this position. The new Office pays
n salary of $500 year.
Gov. Stanley has created n new Of
fee. known as state inspector of nur-
series. Prof. E. A. Popenoe, of Man
haitian, was appointed to fill the Of
fee for a term of two years. There
has never been such an Office. but it
has been created ut the request OF
the regents of the state agricultural
college. The new official will draw no
salary. He is expected to inspect the
nursery stock of the state and see
that it is free from disease.
o. p. Olson. of Mcpherson county,
Is visiting at his old home in Sweden.
He SAYS, in writing to Salina news
paper, that in Sweden railroads and
many other public conveniences are
far behind those of the United States.
But he notes the curious fact that
the telephone is in wider use in that
country than in America. Every
farmhouse and everybody else" he
saws, 'has 'phone,and they are very
much cheaper than in our country"
Some curious inequalities are noted
in the Kansas crop situation. AT
some points farmers are giving a
pound and quarter of wheat for a
pound of corn. yet it seems to be
agreed by the authorities that for al
most every purpose q pound OF wheat
is worth more than a pound OF corn
At Wellington bran and shorts are
selling at S11 per half ton, yet farm
ers are selling their wheat at little
over &c per half ton.-Kansas City
Journal.
} The state tax commission has
, added chapter to the proposed new
law which provides for the imposition
OF tax of five per cent. OH inner
itances left to collateral heirs and leg
atees. The tax constitutes a lien or
the estate and must be paid TO th'
county treasurer in the county u
, which the heirs reside. The county
, treasurer is required to pay the ta'
into the general fund of the state
treasury. Direct heirs are exeolp'
from the provisions of the cnaptel
taxing inheritances.
In 1886 a man by the name OF Ho
gan, living near Sedan, beat his wifi
to death, carried her body into q patel