Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-05
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHEr.

farmer, has sued his married son for
$1,000 rent.
Dodge City is made a division point
of the Santa Fe between Newton and
Albuquerque.
The telephone companies OF Kansas
will erect ut once toll line from Sa-
lima to Kansas City.
The Fort Scott Lantern, one of the
Oldest populist papers in Kansas, has
been sold to the Fort Scott Monitor.
Topeka has "a daily, weekly, month
ly and quarterly publications. Tope-
ka, therefore, leads the state in this
line.
The Kansas state board of health
met at Topeka and took the initial
steps to check the spread of small
pox next winter.
State Fish Warden George Wiley
has ruled that the Raw river is a gov
eminent stream, and that it is lawful
to sein therein. He bases his ruling on
an opinion of the supreme court,
written by Chief Justice Horton.
Gov. Stanley has withdrawn his of
fer to give silver cups to all triplcts
born in Kansas during his administra-
ton. After having purchased 90
sets of cups he decided that he would
have to call halt owing to the en-
pense of the scheme.
The $4,000 appropriated by the last
legislature for experiments with
plans for the determination of prairie
dogs has been spent, without result.
Tempting poisons have been spread,
but the prairie dogs have been sharp
enough to avoid them.
d. o. McCray, state immigration
agent, has just returned from a trip
through Illinois and Iowa. He says
that he talked with scores of young
men from those states who are max
ing arrangements to locate in Kansas
this fall or next spring.
The five-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Frank Kimball was found dead in n
cisterm at Waterville which she evil
IDENTIFY had fallen into. Mrs. KIM
balls husband was killed by lightning
two years ago. Her oldest daughter is
a paralytic from fall and the feet of
her Oldest son, her only support, were
recently crushed.
John W. Breidenthal will be presi-
dent of the new fraternal order which
he and other Kansas men are forming.
1t is understood that State Labor
Commissioner Lee Johnson will be
vice president. The name of the or
der has not yet been made public.
The local organization will be known
as clubs, instead of lodges.
DIN Castle, husband of Clara Wiley
Castle, and Hayward Morrison, BROTH
er of Jessie Morrison, who cut Mrs.
Castles throat with razor, were the
principal attractions at the Yelling
| ton wheat carnival. Both Castle and
Morrison play in the Eldorado band.
The wellington people saw their
| chance to use this as an advertis-
ing scheme for the carnival and they
worked it.
Rich relatives of insane persons
in the Kansas asylums have refused
to pay back claims for expenses on
the ground that claims running more
than five years are barred by the stat
ute of limitations. Attorney General
GODDARD rules that the statute of linn
itations can not run against sover-
eign state and ordered suits brought.
Back claims against people able to
pay aggregate 100000.
At recent meeting of the agricul-
tural college regents ut Manhattan
the appropriation for the agricultural
department was increased to $1,000,
$4,000 to 60 to the farm department
and $1,000 for the dairy work. The
board appointed committee to pur-
chase pair of blooded draft mares.
Another committee was instructed to
investigate the question of purchas-
ing or leasing more land.
The equal suffrage leaders of Kan
sas are making ready for another
state campaign. The consensus Of
opinion among the suffragists is that
q change in the constitution is neces-
sary and the next legislature will be
asked to submit the proposition to
the people. Senator F. Dumont Smith
has promised to introduce the reso-
luton. The republican state conven-
ton next year will be asked to in
dorse the scheme.
Arrangements had been made by
the masonic fraternity for the laying
of the cornerstone of Anderson coun-
tvs new courthouse at Garnett, but
at the last moment the county attor-
ney, on the strength of a remon-
STRANGE signed by 300 citizens, mostly
Catholics, threatened injunction pro-
ceedings to prevent the order from
conducting the ceremonies. The ma
sons retired. The town council was
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