Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-01-11
! KANSAS STATE NEWS. !

Lawrence spent 100000 last year
for paving.
Col. W. F. Cody buffalo Billy was
ut Bismarck grove near Lawrence to
buy 100 horses for his shows. The
horses will be purchased to replace
the 40 killed in railway wreck last
season.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes is
sued q call for all outstanding state
warrants containing the mot paid"
stamp. He will begin paying them on
February 3. Interest on them ceases
on that date.
The quarrel between Senator J. r.
Burton and Secretary Hitchcock has
reached a point where Senator Bur-
ton admits he cannot longer appoint
his friends to federal positions in the
Indian service.
Mrs. William Patterson, of Kilmer,
gave her husband a New Years gift
in the shape of triplets-two boys and
one girl. The combined weight Of the
three babies was II pounds. They are
all doing well.
Receipts of the Atchison police
court for 1901 aggregated $4,000 and
the expenses $1,000, leaving $4,000
cash for the city treasury. Ninety
per cent. of the receipts was from
licensed joints.
Frank Yoakum was shot and dan
gerously wounded by the doorkeeper
of a dance hall in Meriden because
Yoakum insisted on taking into tho
hall woman who had previously
been denied admission.
The statement of the state and pri-
vate banks of Kansas under the last
call will show deposits of about $685.
100000, decrease of 100000 since
September. The farmers are draw
ing money from the banks to buy feed
for stock.
The electric light plant at Fredo-
mia is to be shut down, and the lights,
wires, machinery and fixtures will be
stored until the proprietor finds a
suitable location in which to do bust
ness. The use of natural gas is
spreading rapidly in Fredonia and
electricity cannot compete with that
lighting scheme.
In order to supply the demand for
travelling libraries, James L. King.
secretary of the State Travelling Lii
brary association, has had construct
ed recently rs new cases for hooks.
The association now has 225 cases for
books. OF this number 100 are now
out over the state and applications
are on file for more than can be i'm
mediately supplied.
To test the biennial election law
Gov. Stanley will appoint one sheriff
which will be followed by test in
the supreme court. In Montgomery
county o republican will be named to
succeed populist. The appointment
will be made at noon January 10,
when the term for which the sheriff
was elected will expire. The appointee
will demand the Office and be refused,
and writ of quo warranto out of the
supreme court will follow.
The restoration of D. w. Thurston,
Of Fort Scott, to competency and his
marriage to Mrs. Sarah Maycumber,
Of Sheboygan, Mich, brought to light
o romance. They were married 40
years ago in Michigan and divorced 30
years ago. Each remarked and each
was bereaved. A few months ago
Thurston was declared insane. Mrs.
Maycumber came to him, and her
presence is said by the physicians to
have restored his mind. They have
a son nearly 40 years old.
District Judge Hazen decided that
the council of the city of Topeka had
no right to pass an ordinance for the
search of places in which liquor is lille
gally sold end for the seizure of
liquors found there. The court held
that unless the legislature gave ex-
press and not implied authority for
q search and seizure ordinance or I'M
less provision was made in the city
charter for the destruction of prop
erty, the council could not pass such
ordinance and the present ordinance
IL invalid.
This dispatch was recently sent out
from Topeka: Many Of the largest
-four mills in Kansas will have to shut
down before the close of the week II
the price of wheat does not drop from
the recent heavy rise. The mills which
stocked up heavily two months ago
ut the lower price are running to full
and are making big money on
their -four. Probably one-half of the
mills of the state did not do this, and
the result is that a jump of IL cents a
bushel makes it impossible for them
to buy and compete with the Others
Charles Roberts, clerk in ]. E.
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