The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-04-30
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

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Of War TO supply condemned cannon
for Q life sire statue Of General Henry
Leavenworth at Leayenworth, Kas
The Bowerk,ck bill providing for
the holding OF terms OF the circuit
and district courts OF the United
States at Kansas City. Kas.. and for
other purposes. has been reported
favorabiy TO the senate.
/. That new divorce bill before the
Kansas house has much to say about
the respective rights OF husbands and
wives But II Is voiceless on the Is.
sue raised by a Horton preacher the
other day when he spanked his wife
with board.
One member OF the legislature in
one day last week asked one railroad
attorney In Topeka for twenty-seven
trip passes. and got them. They were
for q total OF 1850 miles. and II paid
for at regular rates would have
amounted to s437l0.
In order TO get all the old Price
raid claims In shape so that the state
can determine what to do with them.
Senator Porter introduced a bill pro
viding Tor the appointment OF com.
missioner to investigate the claims
and nle o report with the legislature
two years hence.
Discussion on Ex-Governor StanIey's
reward" has been renewed. Il Is
proposed to make him federal Judge.
which revives the old plan OF dividing
the state into two federal judicial
districts. A federal judgeship Is a
life job. and the most desirable place
% the political calendar.
There are 1873 employees about the
Kansas senate. Presumins that each
IL paid 50 a day, each OF the forty
senators commands patronage 20 the
amount OF s10.35 day. The senator
himself Is 50 man. Therefore each
senator Is costing the state S13.35
day. And some OF them are cheap at
half the price.
The senate and the house differed
on the question Of the amount Of post
age necessary to send out Secretary
Coburn's agricultural reports. The
senate gave him $4,000 and the house
cut II to $4,000. The senate refused
to concur. ard the house. refusing to
recedc. the bill was sent TO a confer.
ence committee.
A section hand working In Wallace
county was killed by train the other
day. II was found that he had S2.05G
on his person. II represented his
saved earnings during sixteen years
Of working al the poorest paid job on
o railroad. II seems to prove that a
man can lay by something. no matter
what his Job may be.
W. 8. Commers. a brother Of the
at his place by being thrown from a
as his pace by being thrown from a
windmill. Commers climbed upon tbs
windmill TO oil II. A sudden gust oi
wind moved the wheel and brushed
him on. He fell forty feet to the
ground. striking on his face. He died
while on the way to the hospital.
The surviving members of the Tenth
Kansas cavalry want their regimental
nag placed with the other Kansas reg
mental days in the adjutant gene
rails ONCE. II 10 now In the possession
of heirs of the late Governor Harvey
Senator Stewart has had the senate
adopt q resolution. authorizing the ex
ecutive department to negotiate fol
the dag.
James Uhl. who lived fifteen mile,
west OF Leavenworth near Jarbaio
hanged himself in the barn OF hi
grandmother. Mrs. Phoebe Porter las
week Uhi was 81 years old. He hai
been very dispondent and seemed to b
dsmented. The farmers living nea
refused to touch the body until tn
coroner arrived from the city and or
dered Il taken down.
including Chester I. Long. Kansa,
has had fifteen United States senators
James II. Lane and Samuel c. Pome
roy were the FIRST two. The successor
OF Lane have been Edward Ross
Robert Crozier. Alexander Caldwell
James II. Harvey. Preston b. Plumb
Bishop w. Perkins. John Martin. Lu
Glen Baker and .. n. Burton. Pome
roy's successors have been John ]
ingalls,. william A. PETER. William A
Harris and Chester I. Long.
w. q. Richey. OF Harveyville. one
Of the directors OF the State HistoI
ical Society. was In the southern par
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