Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-08
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opera house.
Col. Joseph G. Rowland, governor Of
the soldiers home at Leavenworth,
says there are now so soldiers of the
Spanish-American and the Philippine
wars in the Leavenworth home.
A test of the law passed by the last
session of the Kansas legislature i'm
posing tax of two cents head on
all cattle shipped into the state
from the quarantine country, will be
made as soon as the matter can be
brought before the courts.
Fred j. Close, one of the original
Trego county gold mine boomers, is
an enthusiastic over the outlook for
gold mining in the shale fields now
as ever. He has erected big mill and
will begin operating it next week. He
ridicules the claim of the state uni
versity geologist and Mining experts
that there is no gold in the shale.
Elk City is the first town in Kansas
to take advantage of the new law CIV
ing cities the right to issue bonds to
prospect for coal, oil and gas. That
city had registered $4,000 of such
bonds in the state auditors Office.
The city of Osawatomie also had reg
istered S3s,700 in improvement bonds.
The bonds run for 20 years and draw
five per cent.
At a meeting of the Emporia Bust
ness Mems association it was decided
to push the plan for the erection of
convention hall. Some of those pres
emit who were in Kansas City with the
Emporia chorus at the May musical
festival called attention to the great
work being done by the Convention
hall for Kansas City by bringing trade
to the merchants.
The Standard Oil company evidently
believes that there is oil along the
Smoky river in northwestern Kansas.
for within the past two weeks one OF
its agents has purchased $4,000 acres
of land in Ellis, Trego, Cove and
Mitchell counties. The company in
tends to drill for oil in Mitchell coun-
ty at once. The machinery has al
ready been ordered.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh figures
that 500 cash per capita belongs at
present to the people of Kansas. De-
posts in state, private and national
banks aggregate Sc, OoO,oOO Not more
than one-tenth of the population are
bank depositors, and cash on hand, in
pockets, in stockings and hidden in
various places will aggregate more
than deposits in bank.
Mont Williams, chairman of the
state central committee of the prohi-
bition party, filed with the secretary
of state the emblem of his party for
the official ballot. The emblem is
body of water over which the sun is
rising. At the top of the picture are
the words, "The day is dawning." At
the bottom these words appear, "The
rising sun, our party emblem"
Under the new quarantine law the
live stock sanitary commission of Kan
sas will be more than self-sustaining.
The new law went into effect on April
1. During the month SIT was col
lected in fees for inspection. The eX-
penses aggregated $3.50, leaving a bal
ance to the credit of the commission.
The law provides for fee of two cents
per head for all cattle inspected.
Dennis Mahoney, son of Engineer
Mahoney, of the Solomon branch road,
was killed near Solomon by the sup
posed accidental discharge of pistol
in the hands of Elmer Feril, compan-
ion. The two boys were in the COM
pany of some young girls and had
gone out for a days outing in the
country. The stories of the girls do
not agree with the account that Ferril
tells.
Latest Kansas fruit tree statistics:
7,430,670 apple trees, 3,i96,700 peach
trees, ss0,670 cherry trees, 675,030
plum trees and 205,3sS pear trees, all
bearing. In addition there are the
following trees too young to bear:
Apple, $685., S91; peach, 2,195, 567; cher
ry, 317,241; plum, 271,799; pear, no.
514. Latest reports also show C,543
acres Of grapes, 1888 acres of black
berries, 1855 acres of raspberries and
ais acres of strawberrIes.-Mail and
Breeze.
The amount of delinquent taxes due
the state from the various counties
was never smaller than it is at present,
says the Topeka Mail and Breeze.
John Dawson, bond clerk in 1.-THE state
treasurer's Office, has prepared a state
ment showing that the amount OF
taxes now due the state from 3S coun-
ties, many of which have not made
payments for ten years, is $74.117.74.
The average amount Of taxes collected
by the state from the counties every
year is about 100000 and this is the
first time in the history of the state