MA AA LA LA AT A A AS AN A A AA AM A A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS. How to Enforce Vaccination. Expenses of State Institutions. The attorney general says it is doubtful if the Kansas law authorizes city, conneil to pass an ordinance compelling school children to be vaceinated. He explains, however, how practically the same result can be reached as far as the public schools are concerned.
The city council, he says, has the power to pass an nance, in the interest of the health of the community, prohibiting pupils from attending school if they have not been vaccinated. This gives parents the choice of having their vaccinated or keeping them out of school. Then, if the parents keep their children out, they can be arrested for violating the compulsory attendance law. Groom Three Days Late. The home of Mrs.
Adams, a Topeka widow, was to have been the scene of a wedding Thursday evening, her daughter and Fred Recob, a Kansas City street car conductor, being the contracting parties. The interested parties and a score of invited guests waited a long time, but the groom came not. Three days after Recob appeared at the Adams home and the wedding took placee. Kansas Postal Statisties. In 1900 there were 30 post offices established in Kansas and 111 discontinued.
During the year 210 fourthclass postmasters resigned, 37 were removed and 13 died. Of the presidential postmasters, one was removed and one died. There are 1,605 post offices in the state, and last year they yielded a revenue of $1,756,400 to the government. Average amount expended per capita for mail facilities, $1.20. Would Cripple Bootleggers.
Attorney General Godard thinks the supreme court will uphold the decision of Judge Thomson, of Burlingame, declaring it a violation of the prohibitory law for an express company to ship liquor in the state C. 0. D. It would probably cripple bootleggers and small jointists. Will Renew It Later.
Otto G. Eekstein, of Wichita, turned a trick in the Emmet Dalton pardon case. After he had compelled the opponents to show their hand, and just as Gov. Stanley was about to deny the application, he withdrew it and announeed that he would renew it later on. Enticed a Girl Away, Charles Henry and a woman claimed to be his wife, while camped near Washington last summer, enticed the 16-year-old daughter of a farmer named Morgan from her home.
They were arrested and last week were convicted in the district court. School Land Sold Too Low. People of Sheridan county are objeeting to the law passed by the last legislature reducing the minimum price of school land from $3 to $1.25 an acre. The price is in many cases lower than for unimproved land in the same community. To Tax Levies.
To supplement the proposed new tax and assessment law, which will be submitted to the next legislature for passage, the state tax revision commission has prepared 11 bill to reduce the tax levies to be made by counties, cities and townships. Out of Prison to Die. Gov. Stanley granted a pardon to John Bell, serving a 12-year sentence from Woodson county for manslaughter. The prison physician said Bell was dying of consumption and he was sent home to his mother to die.
Fine Horses for College, Two pure-bred Percheron mares been purchased for the Kansas state agricultural college. They are jet black in color, valued at $2,000, and make the best team of draft horses west of the Missouri river. Twine to Be Higher. The binder twine plant at the state prison will be started up November 25. Warden Jewett had to pay a higher price for sisal and binding twine next summer will be considerably higher.
Buys Ranch. Harvey Grace, of Cheney, purchased a ranch in Meade county for $2 per acre. He will move 4,000 cattle to the ranch and make it one of the best stock farms in the state. Recovered Stolen Horses. Ed 0'Daniels, convicted at Winfield of stealing horses, was thoughtful enough to tell the officers where several of the stolen animals were and they were restored to their owners.
Mrs. Allan Sells' Land Is Cheap. The appraisers of the Mrs. Allan Sells estate have valued the Sells holdings in Kearney county at $48 quarter section, or 30 cents an acre, The estate owns 3,250 acres there: KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED. The supreme court will not pass on Jessie Morrison's application for a new trial until January.
A company has just been organized to manufacture plows and other ing implements at Coffeyville. There are 1,468 fourth-class masters in Kansas, whose yearly salary is only $275.74 each. The Fort Scott Monitor has sold to Col. J. H.
Richards and friends of Senator Burton in that The First Methodist church at poria, which was destroyed by last summer, will be rebuilt at a of $22,000. It will be the finest edifice in Emporia. Judge Thompson, in the district court at Lincoln, held invalid the a new Kansas law requiring a man who solicits orders in the rural districts to take out a peddler's license. At many places in northern Kansas corn thrashers are in use. The machines, in addition to removing the corn from the stalk, cuts the stalks into shreds and the shredded cornstalks are almost as good as hay.
at The coroner's jury held Mrs. Ed Hotchkiss, of Ellinwood, for murder in the first degree. She killed James A. Duffy and evidence showed the crime was deliberate. She was taken to the Hutchinson jail for safe keeping.
An effort is being made to oust the Missouri Kansas Telephone company from Wichita and a new company has been granted a 20-year franchise. It is said that Gov. Stanley is one of the principal stockholders. Department Commander Norton, of the Kansas G. A.
urges every member of the order in Kansas to contribute ten cents toward the erection of a monument to "Mother" Bickerdyke, who recently died at Bunker Hill. Albert Griffin, the one-time famous temperance lecturer and prohibition advocate, is organizing a new temperance society founded on moral suasion. Mr. Griffin says legal suasion, or the prohibitory law, is not solving the liquor question. Elmer Berlin, of Atchison, has collected 69,000 tobacco tags from tobacco made by the tobacco trust, and with 55,000 of the tags will receive a piano.
He has been 20 months collecting the tags. He paid a half cent each for most of them. Representative Long, of Kansas, who is a member of the ways and means committee of the house, was one of President Roosevelt's callers recently. He joins with his eastern colleagues on the committee in opposing a revision of the tariff. Regents of the state agricultural college and state normal school have issued orders commanding "squatters" on the Fort Hays military reservation to move by January 1.
The order affects 16 families who claimed homes on the reservation under the homestead act. J. P. Ward, Labette county widower, was recently arrested for kissing his housekeeper, a widow named Graham, in public. Irate neighbors charged them with disturbing the peace.
The couple was given a jury trial and it was decided that kissing was no disturbance of the peace. Seven young men were arrested at Robinson for playing baseball on Sunday. Attorneys agreed to the statement of facts and asked District Judge Stuart for a decision on the offense. The judge held that Sunday baseball was not an offense as long as the players did not disturb the peace. A telegram from Mound Valley said that the 17-year-old son of John W.
Breidenthal was arrested there for stealing some shoes, cuff buttons and other trinkets from a room in a hotel there. He pleaded guilty and was fined $19, which was paid by a friend of the family. Young Breidenthal is a student at the county high school at Altamont. Attorney General Godard announced that he proposed to bring proceedings to oust C. A.
Schneider, county clerk of Finney county, from office for refusal to levy the full amount of taxes demanded by the state. The state asked Finney county to levy $6,300 in taxes for state purposes but only $3,900 was extended on the rolls. An infant child was deserted in a field near Iola the other day and picion was at once directed to Miss Golda Huffman, who lived near. The same day the Huffman girl and Emmett Lamunyan went to Iola and were married, but the deputy sheriff placed them under arrest as they were about to take the train, on a warrant charging them with deserting the child. A revolver was taken from County Attorney Johnson by Judge McBride in the Schmidt joint trial at Winfield.
Congressman A. M. Jackson, attorney for Schmidt, accused Johnson of carrying a revolver and the court ordered the prosecutor to turn the pistol over to the sheriff. He gave up the firearm saying that threats against his life had been made by the joint element and that he carried the revolver to protect himself. TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER.
Guard Waldrape, Whom Escaping Federal Convicts Shot. Is Dead at Fort Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Nov. B. Waldrupe, a guard at the Fort Leavenworth military prison, who wag shot during the mutiny at that institution on November 7, died Saturday of his wounds.
Twenty-four surviving mutineers now become liable to al charge of murder, and if found guilty all may receive a death sentence. Not only this, but under the circumstances, although the crime occurred in the state of Kansas, it was on government soil and therefore the murder is punishable by hanging and trial will be in a federal court. Had the convicts shot and killed a guard a mile west of the stockade it rould have saved their necks, as the crime there would have been committed on Kansas soil and punished under the laws of Kansas. As each of the 24 of the revolting convicts is equally guilty of the murder of Waldrupe, there is little question that all will be tried and some at least hanged, while the others can scarcely expect less than a life sentence. Besides murder, the captured convicts are guilty of general conspiracy, resisting arrest, assault with intent to kill, interfering with the United States mails (and capturing a mail cart), highway robbery, burglary, all grades of larceny, etc.
It is generally supposed that Frank Thompson, the negro who led the revolt, fired the shot that caused Waldrupe's death. Thompson is one of the 17 convicts who have been captured since the outbreak. Waldrupe was born in Greenback, in 1876. He served in Cuba during the Spanish war in the United States signal corps, later becoming a guard at the prison. During the mutiny Waldrupe was stationed in a tower on the stockade.
In a fight that ensued he was shot in the hip. He fell to the floor, but raised himself and fired into the crowd, killing Fort, one of the ringleaders. A moment later Waldrupe, while in the act of firing again, was struck between the eyes with a pistol bullet. Then several convicts ran up the tower to secure weapons. Waldrupe, although mortally wounded, clubbed the first man down with his rifle, but was too weak to further defend himself and was rescued by other guards.
KENTUCKY MINING TROUBLE. Union Strikers Attacked the Non- Unionists and Guards and One Man Was Killed and Several Others Wounded. Madisonville, Nov. troubles in this district brought more bloodshed yesterday. James H.
Smith, a negro striker, is dead; George Crouch, another negro striker, is fatally wounded, while John West, Hut Dawson and Nathan Bush, all guards, are wounded, but none of them dangerously. The trouble 0c- curred at the mines of the Providence Coal company, 17 miles from here, where an attack began at about 4:30 o'clock. The attacking party, some 75 or 80 strong, first fired on the engine house and then in a few minutes the company's stables were surrounded. A horse and a mule were killed and several other animals disabled. By this time the guards were becoming active and the attackers formed in a semi-circle over the brow of the hill, sending volley after volley into the buildings of the nonunionists, while the guards for their part were doing effective work.
The battle raged for almost an hour and a half, when the assailants withdrew. Owing to the day's riots and the serious situation in the mining field of Webster and Hopkins counties, the governor has ordered out the militia. BURNS DEPOSED. The Knights of Labor Elect New Genoral Master Workman- -Hayes ReElected Secretary-Treasurer. Indianapolis, Nov.
A. Burns, who was Saturday elected president of the Knights of Labor, was nt a secret meeting at night deposed and Henry A. Hicks, of New York, was chosen in his place. This action was taken on reconsideration of a vote of the general assembly, taken in the afternoon. Burns is nocused of incompetence and of building up a machine for the benefit of glassworkers.
Other officers elected are: General worthy foreman, Arthur MeConnell, of Pensacola, general secretary and treasurer, John W. Hayes, of Washington. BAD FIRE AT YALE. Finest of the Dormitories Practically RuIned and 200 Students Lost All Their Personal Effects. New Haven, Nov.
Saturday practically ruined the finest of the Yale students' dormitories, the Hutchinson, which was erected a few years ago at a cost of $200,000. The furnishings of the building and personal effects of 200 or more students were also destroyed. Eugene Hale Winslow, a student, was cut off from exit by the stairways and was rescued with difficulty from a fifth story window. KANSAS POST OFFICES. Those of the Presidential Class Last Year Reported Receipts of 052-Net Revenues, $659,060.
The expenses of various state institutions in October were unusually heavy, owing to the large amount of building being done. The expense accounts follow: Deaf and dumb school at Olathe, blind school at Kansas City, Topeka asylum, Osawatomie asylum, girls' industrial school at Beloit, boys' reform school at Topeka, feeble-minded institute at Winfield, soldiers' orphans' home at Atchison, state penitentiary, industrial reformatory at Hutchinson, $7,487. Want Sheriff Cook to Resign. Since his experience with the two escaped convicts at Pauline, Sheriff Cook, of Shawnee county, has been coming in for about all the criticism possible to be given to one man. It has even gone so far that suggestions have been made that Cook be asked to resign or that he be removed from office for failure to capture the runaways.
Peculiar Case of Murder Rudolph Brockman, a German sentenced from Labette county in 1897 for murdering his daughter, has applied for a pardon. Brockman's daughter died as a result of exposure. Her father compelled her to sleep in the barn, where she contracted gangrene which caused her death. Brockman was arrested for murder and given a life sentence. His Court Not a Museum.
At the trial in Leavenworth of John Wilburn, charged with killing Mrs. Rosa Hudson, wife of a jointkeeper, during a joint raid at Millwood, Judge Gilpatrick refused to permit the skull of Mrs. Hudson to be brought into court, saying his court was no museum. Topeka's Fine Bridge Crumbling, Two years ago an elegant arch bridge was built across the Kaw river at Topeka, but high water in the river has damaged the bridge. The county and city are in a squabble as to which should repair it.
Unless something is done soon the bridge will be ruined. To Build Up G. A. R. In order to build up the G.
A. R. in the state Commander Martin Norton has issued an order appointing one member of each post as a res cruiting officer. An effort will be made to induce every old soldier in the state to join the organizatin. Pleased with the Management.
The wardens and delegates to the National Prison congress visited the Kansas state prison at Lansing one day recently as guests of Warden Jewett. They expressed themselves as well pleased with the management and conditions at the Kansas prison. School Exhibit at St. Louis. The Kansas State Teachers' association, in its annual meeting in Topeka during the holidays, will appoint a commission to take charge of the state's educational exhibit at the St.
Louis world's fair. Boy's Crnelty to a Dog. Ony Sarver, a Kansas City boy, was arrested for pouring coal oil on a neighbor's bulldog, then lighting a match to it. The hair was burned from the dog's body. From Kansas City to Olathe.
A charter for the Kansas City Olathe electrie line has been granted. Ten ears must be run daily each way and the road must be in operation by January 1, 1903. Election of County Commissioners. Returns from 91 of the 105 counties of Kansas show that on November 5 the republicans elected 55 commissioners, populists 21, democrats 7, independents 8. Dead in Her Barn.
Mrs. M. S. Ingraham was found dead in her barn near Larned, a vietim of heart disease. She had returned from a drive and partially unharnessed the team.
Wellington Votes to Improve. Wellington recently voted $15,000 bonds for an electric light plant which the city will operate in connection with the waterworks plant recently acquired. Lawrence-Topeka Trolley Plan. D. R.
Nelson, of Fort Scott, is asking for a right-of-way along one of the public thoroughfares for an electrie line from Topeka to Lawrence. Goes for Back Taxes. County Attorney Waggener is preparing a list of 500 pieces of Atehison city property to sell at public auction to satisfy back taxes. Helen Gould Gives $1,000 More. Miss Helen Gould has given an nda ditional $1,000 to the railway Y.
M. C. A. at Coffeyville, making $3,000 in all from her. farm- postaverage been other city.
Emfire cost church Washington, Nov. annual report of the auditor for the post office department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, gives the total receipts and net revenue to the government from all offices of the presidential class in Kansas. The figures follow: Gross Net Office. receipts. revenue.
Abilene 11,482.63 5,912.55 Alma 2.833.08 1,103.64 Anthony 4,556.70 2,172.90 Argentine 4,834.60 2,989.53 Arkansas City 13,740.56 4,433.63 Atchison 36,917.01 19,512.07 Augusta 2,728.12 1,314.45 Axtell 2,439.20 1,057.44 Baldwin 4,026.88 2,484.04 Baxter Springs 2,947.69 1,531.05 Belleville 4,508.28 2.698.12 Beloit 10,917.88 7,590.02 Blue Rapids 3,008.86 1,624.26 Burlingame 4,299.99 2,481.27 Burlington 6,235.26 4,045.10 Burrton 2,180.44 1,003.97 Caldwell 4,879.04 2,464.16 Caney 2,596.95 1,200.56 Cawker City 2,711.33 1,181.63 Cedarvale 2,759.08 1,366.66 Chanute 8,989.19 5,047.27 Cherokee 2,841.39 1,390.19 Cherryvale 6,607.96 4,320.28 Chetopa 4.041,90 2.221.90 Clay Center 8,675.85 4,641.42 Clifton 2,020.48 1,037.60 Clyde 3,720.20 1,906.76 11,706.38 6,013.72 Colby 2,935.82 1,303.50 Columbus 6,583.35 4,515.79 Concordia 9,508.11 5,450.43 Cottonwood Falls 2,849.12 1,220.00 Council Grove 5,180.82 3,202.06 Dodge City 4,958.15 2,031.89 Downs 2,999.19 1,145.31 Eldorado 7,264.78 5,140.49 Ellinwood 2,503.90 1,186.30 Ellis 2.796.91 1,336.83 Ellsworth' 5,141.01 3,234.45 Emporia 23,306.97 10,617.01 Enterprise 2,356.70 1,154.36 Erie 3,198.54 1,417.42 Eureka 6,346.88 4.078.16 Florence 2,699.59 1,149.63 1,875.44 728.08 Fort Scott 18,445.84 6,848.40 Frankfort 3.656.51 1,981.15 Fredonia. 4.879.52 3.041.34 Galena 10,276.18 3.224.85 Garden City 4.919.37 2,788.81 Garnett 6.069.91 3,858.85 10,800.98 2.719.01 6,953.72 1,090.45 Great Bend 7,860.35 5,761.47 Halstead 2,672.37 1,408.98 Harper 3,566.57 1,915.42 Hays 4,399.84 2,456.56 Herington 4,735.34 2,756.46 Hiawatha 8,131.10 3.966.20 Holton 8.021.76 5.604.48 Horton 6,025.00 4,120.80 Howard 3,673.97 1,920.37 Humboldt 3.324.94 1,095.66 Hutchinson 24,014.20 11,154.91 Independence 10,253,73 4,615.24 Iola 11,020.88 7,243.29 Jewell 2,853.07 1,327.05 Junction City 9,367.85 5,245.23 Kansas City 108,674.84 63,103.33 Kingman 5,436.74 3,025.94 Kinsley 3,219.79 1,759.43 Kiowa 3,665.44 1,928.60 Kirwin 2,108.71 829.23 Lacrosse 2,507.25 1,299.61 Lacygne 2,797.95 1,248 59 Larned 5.265.49 3.201.97 Lawrence 32,386.76 13,823.25 Leavenworth 35,361.45 16.501.42 Lebanon 3,019.18 1,624.82 Lincoln 3.791.61 1,920.52 Lindsborg 4.008.66 2.281.50 Lyndon 2,812.52 1,419.00 Lyons 5,467.25 3,437.05 McPherson 10,233.58 5,514.05 Manhattan 10,718.56 0,029.28 Mankato 3,882.96 1,82 Marion 5,349.74 3,150.90 Marysville 5,308.49 3,261.93 Medicine Lodge 2,922.10 1,239.60 Minneapolis 5,595.89 3,580.33 Mound City 2,385.31 1,033.43 Nat'l military 2,159.61 1,351.25 Neodesha. 3.720.80 2,156,44 Ness City 1,114.31 538.75 Newton 12,523.64 3,008.13 Nickerson 2,377.31 Norton 4,316.30 2,331.26 Oberlin 3,543.51 1,318.67 Olathe 9,114.21. 5,816.67 Osage City 4,413.13 2,594,27 Osawatomie 5,254.43 3,289.30 Osborne 4,274.25 2,441.37 Oskaloosa 2,414.79 1,137.63 Oswego 5,937.51 3,837.14 Ottawa 17,460.84 6,278.25 Paola 7,785.06 5,536.86 Parsons 18,179.31 8,128.14 Peabody 4,397.72 2,162.76 Phillipsburg 3,808.12 1,516.60 Pittsburg 15,938,30 5,610.62 Pleasanton 3.144.83 1,624.57 Pratt 3.811.08 1,850.74 Russell 3,820.19 2,137.10 Sabetha 3.922.19 2,119.21 St. John 3.201.60 1,627.13 St.
Marys 3,639.55 1,904.20 Salina 30,466.25 20,335.01 Sedan 2,715.63 1,229 35 Sedgwick 2.135.36 970.20 Seneca 5,851.65 3,812.85 Smith Center 3,599.97 1,599.57 Stafford 3,046.11 1,542.35 Sterling 5,888.85 3,825.57 Stockton 3.289.97 1,556.37 Tonganosie 1,680.17 897.77 Topeka 112 298.07 97,053.16 Troy 2,512.77 1,156.45 Valley Falls 3.185.06 1,391.28 Wamego 3,373.39 1,517.63 Washington 4,552.18 2,609.70 Waverly 1,591.25 839.49 Weir 5,097.07 3,270.39 Wellington 11,205.24 6,797.94 Wichita 73.755.02 45,646.49 Wilson 3,155.05 1,523.21 Winfield 16,320.92 5,771.29 Yates Center 4,306.75 2,264.23 Totals $1,192,052.00 $659,060.74 Story of Con piracy in Alaska Diseredited. Washington, Nov. officials wholly discredit the published story of the reported conspiracy to secure the independence of Alaska. The only report made by Gen. Randall to the war department from his quarters at Vancouver touching Alaskan affairs related to the transfers of a couple of engineers from Valdez to Fort Egbert.
The cynical suggestion is thrown out at the department that the story is devised to secure the return of soldiers to Alaska,.
