Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-05-11
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

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ing to secure the Choctaw road,
which is headed that way.
Attorney General GODDARD will be
candidate for justice of the supreme
court in 1909 to succeed Frank Doster.
]. S. West will be candidate for at
torney general.
Among those attending the Holt
ness general assembly at Chicago was
Rev. John p. Brooks, of Fort Scott,
who called the first holiness general
assembly Is years ago.
Forty acres of the Stewart Bros. &
Co. land, lying in Peacock valley five
miles north of Galena, was purchased
by eastern parties at $4,000 an acre.
This is practically new ming tract.
The last report of the state board
of charities shows that smallpox Mt
the several state institutions has been
stamped out. There were 90 cases,
30 of which We're at the Osawatomie
asylum.
AS Kansas will not be officially rep
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ton Mt Buffalo, Gov. Stanley declined
the request of the exposition manage
ment to name "Kansas day" at the
exposition.
Upon their retirement from Office
Warden Tomlinson and Deputy War
! den Thompson, of the Kansas state
prison. were each presented with
handsome token by men who served
under them.
The Bennett house at Topeka, which
is to be the governors mansion, is
the handsomest and most costly pri-
vate residence in Topeka. 1t is con-
structed of red pressed brick and ter
IA Gotta, and is three stories high.
A Hiawatha man who is worth at
least $4,000 makes the boast that
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month in his life. He worked hard
all his life, saved every cent that he
possibly could save, and then invested
it in Brown county land.
\ new state law, passed last winter,
provides that no wife, widow or chill
dren of soldier shall be sent to
poor house: and it is made the duty
of the poor commissioner in each
county TO supply not only the neces-
saries of life but a home if the family
has no home.
At the meeting of the Kansas Asss-
citation of Opticians at Topeka, it was
decided to oppose the law requiring
opticians to stand examination before
the state board of medical examiners.
II the board attempts to enforce the
law, the executive committee has au-
thority to employ attorneys and at
tack the validity of the act.
The states general revenue fund
will he exhausted before June /.
There was $4,000 in the fund at the
close of business ION May 4. Next
week 100000 will be required for the
destitute insane, and $4,000 for the
running expenses of the charitable
institutions for April. These two
items will amount to $4,000 more than
the cash available.
The state board of charities has
spent $1,000 this year for fruit trees
for the several state institutions under
it's control. There is plenty of ground
at each institution. and the board be-
lieves that in a few years a sufficient
quantity of fruit can be raised to sup
ply the demand, thus making saw
ing of many thousands of dollars an
nually to the state.
The grand lodge, Degree of Honor.
auxiliary to the A. o. Z. W., closed a
three-days' session at Chanute bv
electing the following officers: Grand
chief of honor. Mrs. L. H. Cole, Cha
mute: receiver, Mrs. Josephine Pep
perell, Concordia; recorder, Mrs. Geor-
gia Notes.-The, Hiawatha; medical di-
rector, DR.. Martha Bacon, Kansas
City; representative, Mrs. Ada F. Rid
die. Minneapolis.
Greenwood county congratulates it.
self on it's great stone bridge across
the east branch of Fall river, which
is doubtless the largest of its kind in
the state. The stone used in its con-
struction is the 'real Kansas lime
stone" having been taken from Eide
quarry. 1t is of four SO stone arches,
total length of, including approach,
$50 feet; width, 16 feet; height, IS
feet, and roadway, IA feet.
The convention of the general asso-
citation of Kansas Congregational wo-
men was in session at Wichita. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. ]. H.
Clotfeltcr, Atchison; vice president,
Mrs. Mary Smith, Topeka; secretary,
Mrs. f. H. Bowen, Manhattan; treas
urer, Miss Phoebe Haines, Manhattan;
secretary young peoples work, Mrs.
Fannie Noyes, Wabaunsce; secretary
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