6487. Baxter Springs bank (Baxter Springs, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: December 4, 1896
Location: Baxter Springs, Kansas (37.024, -94.736)

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Short Digest: e80da902

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Description

Multiple articles state the Baxter Springs bank 'failed' and 'closed its doors Dec. 4.' No article describes a depositor run prior to suspension; failure appears due to bad loans/real-estate speculation by officers and resulting insolvency. A receiver (R. H. Sands) was appointed and criminal charges were brought against officers.

Events (2)

1. December 4, 1896 Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Loans described as 'absolutely worthless'; president Alexander Warner alleged to have engaged in real-estate speculation and officers accused of receiving deposits while bank was failing; only $29.36 cash on hand reported.
Newspaper Excerpt: The bank closed its doors Dec. 4.
Source: newspapers

2. February 9, 1897 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: R. H. Sands, receiver of the defunct Baxter Springs bank, ... said, 'The bank closed its doors Dec. 4.' and filed the appointment of a board of appraisers to pass upon the value of the assets of the bank. (dispatch dated Feb. 9).
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (12)

1. December 11, 1896 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN

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MINING STOCKS. Bulwer $0 38 Ontario $7 00 Cholor 90 80 Ophir Crown Point 17 20 Plymouth 00 Con. Cal. & Va 1 1 00 Quicksilver Deadwood 1 35 1 do pfd 25 35 Gould & Curry Sierra Nevada Hale & Norcross 85 Standard 3 50 Homestake 33 00 30 Union Con Iron Silver 25 Yellow Jacket 20 Mexican 35 WALL STREET TALK. The stock exchange will be closed on Dec. 26, the Saturday following Christmas day, but will be open on Saturday, Jan. 2, owing to the large financial settlements due on Jan. 1. One of the developments in the market was the sale of Long Island stock at a considerable decline, which may be referred to the death of Mr. Corbin, who for years had conducted the company, as a one man affair. Well advised people at Washington do not attach any importance to the rumors about the U. P. funding bill. It is pointed out that while such a measure might pass the house its case it would be a hopeless one in the senate. A leader in Wall street is the necessity of the hour and nobody seems willing to come forward and encourage largely on the bull or bear side of the list. St. Paul earnings show loss of nearly $114,000 for the first week of December. BANKS ABROAD. BERLIN, Dec. 10-The weekly statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows the following changes as compared with the previous account: Cash in hand, decrease, 2,140,000 marks; treasury notes, increase, 200,000; other securities, decrease, 333,500,000; notes in circulation, decrease, 23,840,000. London, Dec. 10.-The weekly statement of the Bank of England shows the following changes as compared with the previous account: Total reserve, increase, £393,000; circulation, decrease, £286,000; bullion, increase, £106,504; other securities, increase, £98,000; other deposits, decrease, £22,000; public deposits, increase, £465,000; notes reserve, increase, £505,000; government securities unchanged. The proportion of the Bank of England's reserve to liability, which last week was 53.81 per cent, is now 54.9 per cent. FOREIGN FINANCIAL. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Evening Post's London financial cablegram: The stock market opened dull today, but closed better all around with the bears covering. Business was quiet, with a good undertone. The rise in money rates has little effect, because it is usual at the end of the year. The rise in Indian exchange is closely watched, and council bills sold today as high as 1.3 13-32. Brazil bonds continue to rise. It is reported that today's withdrawals from the Bank of England for Egypt forms a part of this £500,000 to be paid to the British government in return for the advance made by the Egyptian government for Soudan expedition, but I believe that such It not the case. It is probably an ordinary transaction. The Paris and Berlin markets were firm. There was a better tone in Paris, where each month successfully passed should mean & safer financial position, which is by no means clear yet. BANKING HOUSE QUITS. CLEVELAND. Dec. 10.-he banking house of Jonathan Esterly & Co., of Columbiana, has gone into the hands of receivers. The assets of the house are given as $200,000, while the indebtedness to depositors is about $165,000. The receivers are required to give $225,000 bond. It is said the appointment of the receivers is merely to wind up the business. NEW YORK MONEY. NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-Money on call, 1½ 2 per cent; last loan, 1½; closed, 1½@2. Prime mercantile paper, 4@5. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.861/2@4.86% for demand and $4.83% for sixty days. Posted rates, ..84@4.84½ and $4.87@4.87½. Comercial bills, $4.821/2. Silver certificates, 65%@65%c. Bar silver, 651/4c. CLOTHING STORE CLOSED. DENVER, Dec. 10.-The clothing store of H. Schradsky, one of the largest in the city, was attached today by Kahn & Co., of Chicago, for a claim of $6,400. No statement of assets and liabilities has been given, but the stocks are estimated at $50,000 to $75,000 and are claimed to be for in excess of liabilities. BANK CLEARINGS. St. Paul-$752,534.68. Minneapolis-$1,849,284.07; for the week, $10,691,960.70. New York-Clearings, $97,340,475; balances, $6,771,068. Boston-Clearings, $14,242,179; balances, $1,533,328. NOT MUCH CASH. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 10.-An examination of the assets of the recently failed Baxter Springs bank, of which Col. Alexander Warner was president, reveals but $29.36 in cash on hand. The capital stock of the bank was $65,000. TREASURY STATEMENT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Today's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balances, $225,976,442; gold reserve, $133,086,990. BOMBAY RATE RAISED. BOMBAY, Dec. 10.-The Bank of Bombay has increased its rate of discount from 8 to 9 per cent. CHICAGO MONEY. CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Money steady, unchanged. New York exchange, 40c premium. Foreign exchange firm; demand, $4.86%; sixty days, $4.83%. LONDON RATE UNCHANGED. LONDON, Dec. 10.-The Bank of England's rate of discount remains unchanged at 4 per cent.

2. December 17, 1896 Reporter and Farmer Webster, SD

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Otherwise. The Massachusetts State Grange has adopted a resolution favoring Col. J. H. Brigham of Ohio for cecretary of agriculture. A joint convention of coal miners and operators to formulate a scale of wages in the Pittsburg district for next year is in session. Whales have been numerous in the bay at Santa Cruz recently. A fishing boat narrowly escaped capsizing by one of them. Some time since Clint R. Coulter, the well known Denver bicycle rider, covered a mile unpaced in 1:59 1-5, establishing a world's record which has been allowed. George Thomas, a merchant of Grand Junction, Col., brought on an attack of nose bleeding three weeks ago by lifting a sack of flour. The bleeding continued in spite of all the physicians could do, and he died. Inspection of winter crops of celery now in the trenches in the Kalamazoo celery fields shows that fully one-third is rotten on account of damp, warm weather. The estimated loss is $50,000. At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Santa Fe system, held at Topeka, the entire board of directors, the executive committee and the officers of the board were re-elected. The Knower Cottage, on the Cliffs at Newport, R. I., was sold to Henry Payne Whitney, son-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the price paid being a quarter of a million. Mr. Whitney will present the property to his wife. An examination of the assets of the recently failed Baxter Springs (Kan.) bank, of which Col. Alexander Warner was president, reveals but $29.36 in cash on hand. The capital stock of the bank was $65,000. John R. Strauchan, a well known mason contractor, who has been in business at Rochester, N. Y., for 25 years, has made an assignment, without proferences. It is estimated that his assets will foot up $175,000, while his liabilities will reach $120,000. The Independent Club of Canada, which has been in existence in Montreal for some five months, and whose object is the attainment of Canadian independence, is gaining in strength, and a convention probably will be held next March with a view to federating all the groups and clube having a like object. The Union National Bank of New Orleans, which suspended payment on Sept. 1, 1896, having complied with all the conditions imposed by the comptroller of the currency precedent to resumption, is now in a solvent condition, and has been permitted to open its doors. The Columbia & Red Mountain railroad. the new line which is pushing its way into the new mining regions around Rossland, B. C., has progressed rapidly in building. The last advices from Rossland say that the tracklayers are within a couple of miles of town. The completion of the line will be hatled as quite an event in the North. During the past season seven brothers named McCutcheon have hunted birds of rare plumage, such as the egret, heron, eider duck, etc., on Madeline bay, Lower California, and the value of the feathers secured by them is estimated at $7,000. Egret feathers are worth $32 a pound in San Francisco, and none of the other feathers are worth less than $5 or $6 per pound.

3. December 17, 1896 The Princeton Union Princeton, MN

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Otherwise. The Massachusetts State Grange has adopted a resolution favoring Col. J. H. Brigham of Ohio for secretary of agriculture. A joint convention of coal miners and operators to formulate a scale of wages in the Pittsburg district for next year is in session. Whales have been numerous in the bay at Santa Cruz recently. A fishing boat narrowly escaped capsizing by one of them. Some time since Clint R. Coulter, the well known Denver bicycle rider, covered a mile unpaced in 1:59 1-5, establishing a world's record which has been allowed. George Thomas, a merchant of Grand Junction, Col., brought on an attack of nose bleeding three weeks ago by lifting a sack of flour. The bleeding continued in spite of all the physicians could do, and he died. Inspection of winter crops of celery now in the trenches in the, Kalamazoo celery fields shows that fully one-third is rotten on account of damp, warm weather. The estimated loss is $50,000. At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Santa Fe system, held at Topeka, the entire board of directors, the executive committee and the officers of the board were re-elected. The Knower Cottage, on the Cliffs at Newport, R. I., was sold to Henry Payne Whitney, son-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the price paid being a quarter of a million. Mr. Whitney will present the property to his wife. An examination of the assets of the recently failed Baxter Springs (Kan.) bank, of which Col. Alexander Warner was president, reveals but $29.36 in cash on hand. The capital stock of the bank was $65,000. John R. Strauchan, a well known mason contractor, who has been in business at Rochester, N. Y., for 25 years, has made an assignment, without preferences. It is estimated that his assets will foot up $175,000, while his liabilities will reach $120,000. The Independent Club of Canada, which has been in existence iň Montreal for some five months, and whose object is the attainment of Canadian independence. is gaining in strength, and a convention probably will be held next March with a view to federating all the groups and clube having a like object. The Union National Bank of New Orleans, which suspended payment on Sept. 1, 1896, having complied with all the conditions imposed by the comptroller of the currency precedent to resumption, is now in a solvent condition, and has been permitted to open its doors. The Columbia & Red Mountain railroad. the new line which is pushing its way into the new mining regions around Rossland, B. C., has progressed rapidly in building. The last advices; from Rossland say that the tracklayers are within as couple of miles of, town. The completion of the line will be hailed as quite an event in thei North. During the past season seven brothers named McCutcheon have hunted birds of rare plumage, such as the egret, heron, eider duck, etc., on Madeline bay, Lower California, and the value of the feathers secured by them, is estimated at $7,000. Egret feathers are worth $32 a pound in San Francis-| co, and none of the other feathers are worth less than $5 or $6 per pound.

4. December 17, 1896 The Pioneer Press Miller, SD

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Otherwise. The clothing store of H. Schradaky, one of the largest in Denver, was attached by Kahn & Co., of Chicago. Scar-Faced Charlie, a noted Modoc Indian chief. is dead of consumption at Seneca. Mo. The Massachusetts State Grange has adopted a resolution favoring Col. J. H. Brigham of Ohio for secretary of agriculture. A joint convention of coal miners and operators to formulate a scale of wages in the Pittsburg district for next year is in session. Some time since Clint R. Coulter, the well known Denver bicycle rider, covered a mile unpaced in 1:59 1-5, establishing a world's record which has been allowed. George Thomas. a merchant of Grand Junction, Col., brought on an attack of nose bleeding three weeks ago by lifting a sack of flour. The bleeding continued in spite of all the physicians could do, and he died. Inspection of winter crops of celery now in the trenches in the Kalamazoo celery fields shows that fully one-third is rotten on account of damp, warm weather. The estimated loss is $50,000. An examination of the assets of the recently failed Baxter Springs (Kan.) bank, of which Col. Alexander Warner was president. reveals but $29.36 in cash on hand. The capital stock of the bank was $65,000. John R. Strauchan. a well known mason contractor, who has been in business at Rochester, N. Y., for 25 years, has made an assignment, without preferences. It is estimated that his assets will foot up $175,000, while his liabilities will reach $120,000. The Independent Club of Canada, which has been in existence in Montreal for some five months, and whose object is the attainment of Canadian independence. is gaining in strength, and a convention probably will be held next March with a view to federating all the groups and clube having a like object. The Union National Bank of New Orleans, which suspended payment on Sept. 1, 1896, having complied with all the conditions imposed by the comptroller of the currency precedent to resumption, is now In a solvent condition. and has been permitted to open Its doors.

5. January 25, 1897 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

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NINE YEAR OLD FINANCIER. "Little Arthur" Warner Checks Out $175 Overdraft on Baxter Springs Bank. One of the saddest incidents connected with the Baxter bank failure was the disclosure of the fact that little Arthur Warner, aged 9 years, had overdrawn his account to the extent of $175, says the Baxter Springs News. This is the largest overdraft the receiver has to contend with. Several up to date business men saw how things were going and checked out their own and some of the depositors' money, but little Arthur made a swipe for about all he thought the institution could stand at the time.

6. February 13, 1897 Baxter Springs News Baxter Springs, KS

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Little for Depositors. BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan., Feb. 10.-R. H. Sands, receiver of the defunct Baxter Springs bank, says depositors will not get more than 25 per cent. The loans are absolutely worthless and the assets will have to come out of the sale of realestate. Alexander Warner, a prominent politician and ex-representative, was president of the bank.

7. February 13, 1897 Baxter Springs News Baxter Springs, KS

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13. LITTLE FOR DEPOSITORS. The following dispatch from Columbus to the Kansas City Star, under date of Feb. 9, is exceedingly interesting: "R. H. Sands, receiver of the Baxter Springs bank, was here yesterday to file the appointment of a board of appraisers to pass upon the value of the assets of the bank. He said, The bank closed its doors Dec. 4. Up to within an heur of the closing money was received on deposit, and as late as that a depositor was assured that the bank was in as good condition as it had ever been. Some days after the bank failed one of these late depositors went to Alexander Warner, the president, and demanded his money, threatening a criminal prosecution. if it were not paid. He got his money.' "Alexander Warner, president of the defunct institution, has, it is charged, dabbled in real estate speculations and bought other property of various kinds, all of which has gone down in value. He is said to have told the people of Baxter Springs, when he went there a few years ago, that he would show them how to do business. "It is thought that a number of cases will be brought against the officers of the bank, for receiving deposits when they knew that the bank was in a failing condition. The liabilities are about $25,000 and the available assets are not more than $5,000, The expenses of the receivership must come out of these, and this will leave the depositors a mere fraction of what they ought to have."

8. April 29, 1897 Barton County Democrat Great Bend, KS

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Minor State News. Ex-Gov. Morrill and wife will soon leave on a European tour. A high school for Thomas county has been established at Colby. IT is now unlawful to catch bass and the interdict continues until July 11. The 26th meeting of the grand lodge, K. of P., will meet at Wichita May 17. State Mine Inspector McGrath has appointed his wife as assistant inspector. The venerable Matthew Weightman, a resident of Kansas since 1855, died in Topeka recently. C. R. Weyler, of Lawrence, is a first cousin to Gen. Weyler, the Spanish commander in Cuba. Ex-Congressman Towne. of Minnesota, will address the state free silver convention at Topeka, May 20. There is a row in the State High School Oratorical society and the Topeka high school has pulled out. At Iola the other day another big flow of gas was struck which promises a yield of 10,000,000 cubic feet daily. Fort Scott papers accused AttorneyGeneral Boyle of working to secure the re-opening of Fort Scott saloons. Rev. S. E. Pendleton, formerly a Methodist presiding elder in southern Kansas, is now a boomer at Port Arthur. The long-standing feud between exSenator Rush and Judge Vandivert, of Larned, has again broken out and friends of each party are carrying firearms. Col. Alexander Warner, of Baxter Springs, a well-known politician. has been arrested on charges growing out of the failure of the Baxter Springs bank. Incendiaries set fire to the big barn of Farmer Wright, near Newton and the structure with eight tine horses and many farm implements were destroyed. Ex-United States Marshal "Dick" Walker has been appointed land office inspector under Assistant Interior Secretary Ryan. It pays $3,000 a year and expenses. A recent violent windstorm in Wabaunsee county demolished the home of Henry Miller, killing his ten-yearold boy and injuring other members of the family. J. M. McCown, who was suspended as postmaster at Emporia for alleged embezzlement, was not indicted by the federal grand jury. The annual convention of the State Sunday School association will be held at Newton May 25-7. E. 0. Excell, of Chicago, will lead the music. It is said that a certain member of the recent Kansas legislature saved enough out of a salary of $150 to pay off two $800 mortgages on his farm. It is positively asserted that Gov. Leedy will on May 1 appoint ex-Sheriff Arnold, of Columbus, as superintendent of the state reformatory at HutchInson.

9. April 30, 1897 The Goodland Republic Goodland, KS

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# KANSAS STATE NEWS. Ex-Gov. Morrill and wife will soon leave on a European tour. A high school for Thomas county has been established at Colby. Ir is now unlawful to catch bass and the interdict continues until July 11. The 26th meeting of the grand lodge, K. of P., will meet at Wichita May 17. State Mine Inspector McGrath has appointed his wife as assistant inspector. The venerable Matthew Weightman, a resident of Kansas since 1855, died in Topeka recently. C. R. Weyler, of Lawrence, is a first cousin to Gen. Weyler, the Spanish commander in Cuba. Ex-Congressman Towne, of Minnesota, will address the state free silver convention at Topeka, May 20. There is a row in the State High School Oratorical society and the Topeka high school has pulled out. At Iola the other day another big flow of gas was struck which promises a yield of 10,000,000 cubic feet daily. Fort Scott papers accused Attorney-General Boyle of working to secure the re-opening of Fort Scott saloons. Rev. S. E. Pendleton, formerly a Methodist presiding elder in southern Kansas, is now a boomer at Port Arthur. The long-standing feud between ex-Senator Rush and Judge Vandivert, of Larned, has again broken out and friends of each party are carrying firearms. Col. Alexander Warner, of Baxter Springs, a well-known politician, has been arrested on charges growing out of the failure of the Baxter Springs bank. Incendiaries set fire to the big barn of Farmer Wright, near Newton and the structure with eight fine horses and many farm implements were destroyed. Ex-United States Marshal "Dick" Walker has been appointed land office inspector under Assistant Interior Secretary Ryan. It pays $3,000 a year and expenses. A recent violent windstorm in Wabaunsee county demolished the home of Henry Miller, killing his ten-year-old boy and injuring other members of the family. The Christian Endeavor societies of Kansas will hold their annual convention in Topeka the first four days of June. There will be 2,000 delegates in attendance. Henry Harford, a youth of 18, recently confessed to officers at Ottawa that he had tried to poison his father, mother and sister by putting rough on rats in their victuals. G. W. Thomas, living seven miles from Atchison has lived on the same farm sinch 1855, locating there when a boy, his father having moved there fron Clay county, Mo. Since the death of Sol Miller, of the Troy Chief, M. D. Sampson, of Salina, claims to be the pioneer Kansas editor, having been continuously connected with the Salina Journal since 1871. A Wichita woman, Mrs. George Roseberry, whose domestic life was far from happy, was seeking to gain admission to an insane asylum to get away from her troubles, and for rest and care. The state board of pardons was considering the case of Willie Sells, who was sent-up for life from Neosho county in 1886, charged with murdering his father, mother, brother and sister. The state superintendent of insurance has collected $15,666.43 as reciprocal tax from the various fire insurance companies for the firemen's relief fund and it will immediately be paid out to the various fire departments. The state board of agriculture, from reports received from every locality in Kansas, says the average condition of wheat now standing is 80 per cent. The total area planted is placed at 3,100,000 acres, of which 21 per cent, was winter killed, leaving about 2,500,000 acres now standing. The game law was changed by the last legislature so that it is now lawful to shoot prairie chickens and quall during the months of October and November. It is provided that no such shooting shall be done on any occupied farm without obtaining the permission of the owners. It remains unlawful to sell or ship any birds. A Topeka dispatch said the board of railroad commissioners and the representatives of the leading traffic associations would meet in Topeka in a few days and try to agree on a satisfactory scale of freight rates. The consent to this meeting is equivalent to an assurance that there will be no extra session of the legislature. The annual state encampment of the G. A. R. and kindred organizations was held at Chanute last week. It was voted to hold the next encampment at Wichita and the annual reunion at Leavenworth. Judge Theo Botkin, of Hutchinson, was chosen department commander, and he named Lewis Hanback as adjutant-general. W. D. Feder, of Great Bend, was elected commander of the Sons of Veterans and the stasties showed this order to be disintegrating. Mrs. Margaret Griffin, of Emporia, was chosen president of the W. R. C.; the Ladies' of the G. A. R. selected Mrs. Emma Moll, of Olathe, president, and Mrs. Amy Pope, of Wichita, was chosen president of the Ladies' Aid society. J. M. McCown, who was suspended as postmaster at Emporia for alleged embezzlement, was not indicted by the federal grand jury. The annual convention of the State Sunday School association will be held at Newton May 25-7, E. O. Excell, of Chicago, will lead the music. It is said that a certain member of the recent Kansas legislature saved enough out of a salary of $156 to pay off two $800 mortgages on his farm. It is positively asserted that Gov. Leedy will on May 1 appoint ex-Sheriff erintende

10. April 30, 1897 The Kinsley Graphic Kinsley, KS

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Minor State News. Ex-Gov. Morrill and wife will soon leave on a European tour. A high school for Thomas county has been established at Colby. IT is now unlawful to catch bass and the interdict continues until July 11. The 26th meeting of the grand lodge, K. of P., will meet at Wichita May 17. State Mine Inspector McGrath has appointed his wife as assistant in. spector. The venerable Matthew Weightman, a resident of Kansas since 1855, died in Topeka recently. C. R. Weyler, of Lawrence, is a first cousin to Gen. Weyler, the Spanish commander in Cuba. Ex-Congressman Towne, of Minnesota, will address the state free silver convention at Topeka, May 20. There is a row in the State High School Oratorical society and the Topeka high school has pulled out. At Iola the other day another big flow of gas was struck which promises a yield of 10,000,000 cubic feet daily. Fort Scott papers accused AttorneyGeneral Boyle of working to secure the re-opening of Fort Scott saloons. Rev. S. E. Pendleton, formerly a Methodist presiding elder in southern Kansas. is now a boomer at Port Arthur. The long-standing feud between exSenator Rush and Judge Vandivert, of Larned, has again broken out and friends of each party are carrying firearms. Col. Alexander Warner. of Baxter Springs, a well-known politician, has been arrested on charges growing out of the failure of the Baxter Springs bank. Incendiaries set fire to the big barn of Farmer Wright, near Newton and the structure with eight tine horses and many farm implements were destroyed. Ex-United States Marshal "Dick" Walker has been appointed land office inspector under Assistant Interior Secretary Ryan. It pays $3,000 a year and expenses. A recent violent windstorm in Wabaunsee county demolished the home of Henry Miller, killing his ten-yearold boy and injuring other members of the family. J. M. McCown. who was suspended as postmaster at Emporia for alleged embezzlement, was not indicted by the federal grand jury. The annual convention of the State Sunday School association will be held at Newton May 25-7. E. O. Excell, of Chicago, will lead the music. It is said that a certain member of the recent Kansas legislature saved enough out of a salary of $150 to pay off two $800 mortgages on his farm. It is positively asserted that Gov. Leedy will on May 1 appointex-Sheriff Arnold. of Columbus. as superintendent of the state reformatory at Hutchinson. Teachers of northwest Kansas, in session at Horton, elected W. A. Evans, of Leavenworth, president, and Miss Frances Katner, of Atchison, secretary. Fire the other day destroyed Donnelly's livery stable at Lawrence, to gether with 17 fine livery horses and buggies, sleighs, carriages, harness and robes of all descriptions. Fire from a cigarette stub destroyed several business houses in Chetopa recently and caused a $15,000 financial loss. Mamie Chamber, only 32 months old but weighing 118 pounds is a Norton county product.

11. May 13, 1897 Phillipsburg Herald Phillipsburg, KS

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THE STATE OF KANSAS. A Horton man who smokes four cigars a day and chews 25 cents worth of tobacco a week says he is too poor to take a newspaper. He is a very smart man, too. By getting hold of a foreign advertising sheet he spent $1 writing to find out how to keep sober; the answer was to take the pledge. He also sent fifty 2-cent stamps to find out how to raise beets, and received a postal card reply: "Take hold of the tops and pull." It was this same person that sent fifty 1-cent stamps to a fellow in the East for twelve useful household articles, and received a paper of needles. He is a relative to a man who sent $5 to find out how to write without pen and ink, and the answer was "Try a lead pencil." He must be a twin brother to the man who sent $2 to find out how to make money without work, and was told in one black line on a postal card to "Fish for suckers like we do."—Horton Commercial. The law fixing a standard of weights and measures will go into effect about June 1. Kansas heretofore has never had a standard, which has been the cause of much confusion, and the new law will tend to obviate this. The standard in pounds-per bushel as fixed by the new act, is given herewith: Wheat, 60; rye, 50; shelled corn, 56; ear corn, 70; rice corn, 56; sorghum seed, 56; buckwheat, 50; barley, 48; oats, 32; bran, 20, cornmeal, 50. Beans, 60; clover seed, 60: millet seed, 50: Irish potatoes, 60; sweet potatoes, 50; turnips, 55; flaxseed, 50; onions, 57; salt, 50; castor beans, 46: bluegrass, 22; timothy, 45 dried peaches, 33; dried apples, 24; green apples, 48: coal, 80; lime, 80; kaffir corn, 56. Kansas has a fish law, but it is persistently violated. The law is explicit enough and penalties heavy, but people refrain from complaining of its open violation, and officers fail of making arrests. This is the "close season" and no game fish can be legally taken by hook and line, or in any other way, before the first of July. Still, many streams and lakes are lined with fellows who are taking both bass and croppy. Secretary of State Bush has completed the compilation of the laws passed by the recent legislature and they are now printed and ready to be bound by the state printer. There were 281 bills passed; 280 became laws, and 279 were signed by the governor. Leedy vetoed only one bill—the railroad bill. He failed to sign the Neosho county levy bill, but it became a law, nevertheless. The new woman in Kansas has many occupations. Mrs. Ida Copeland, a Kansas woman arrested in Kansas City recently, is said to be the only woman chicken thief in the world! She recently went out into the country near Olathe, and made a haul of 100 chickens in one night. She has traveled all over the state, and it is believed that many mysterious cases of wholesale chicken stealing may be traced to her. Hunnewell is an incorporated city. Up to 1893 it held regular city elections. But when the Cherokee Strip opened nearly if not quite all of its officers became non-residents of the city and finally all of the city offices became vacant. No city election has been held since. The city as a corporation owns some property and has money due on it. The state board of railroad commissioners has addressed a letter to the railroads stating that the State Jobbers' association complains that the rates which the supreme court decided in the Symns Grocery company's case to be just and fair are not in effect, and that the railroads must put such rates in effect or show cause why they refuse. The first political convention of any consequence called in Kansas this year will assemble at Lakin on May 31 to nominate a Republican candidate for judge of the Thirty-second district. The district is composed of nine counties and is one of the largest on the western border. The present judge is W. E. Hutchison, a Republican. John Campbell, living at Elwood, while searching for mushrooms recently, found what he supposed to be two gold bricks, wrapped in cloth, lying under a bank. He refused $1,000 each for them, thinking he could get more, and upon taking them to a jeweler at St. Joe, found they were copper. Ex-Attorney General F. B. Dawes will go into the law business in Leavenworth. State Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal announces that the case against Colonel Alexander Warner, charged with wrecking the Baxter Springs bank, will be dismissed, Warner having paid all claims against him. The bank had only 10 cents on hand when it failed. A. D. Hubbard, ex-state president of the A. P. A., is under arrest on a charge of embezzling funds of the Hamilton Printing company, of which he was receiver. He was short about $8,000. His bondsmen are proceeding against him. Hubbard is in jail at Topeka. Samantha Margaret Lucinda are the first three names of a Kansas girl who recently married a Montana clergyman. Her father's name was John Baltazer Boggs, which shows that the sins of a father may also be visited upon his daughters. Thousands of acres of school land in Western Kansas, which were taken off the market two years ago on account of some experiments in irrigation, have been placed on sale again by State Superintendent Stryker. William Harvey Brown, who made a fine collection of animals for the state university during his visit to

12. June 4, 1897 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT

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BRIEF TALES BY WIRE. Waterspout did much damage at Jasper, S. D. Belgians propose to establish a bank at Santiago with a capital of £8,000,000. The great revolt among the convicts at San Quentin is practically at an end. British ship Dunow has been wrecked off Kangaroo Islands; total loss; all lives saved. The bundsrath has agreed to the oleomargarine and emigration bills as they were passed by the reichstag. The 15-year-old son of L. Schwartz. at Greene. Ta., while attempting to unload a gun discharged the weapon, killing his two sisters. The Brooklyn has left New York for Southampton. She will be overhauled before appearing in the naval maneuvers at Spithead. C. R. Person, banker. of Belle Plaine, Kan., attempted suicide at Chicago yesterday. Left $50 with which to pay his funeral expenses. Wind and rain have done great damage throughou t. northern Texas. Many houses were blown down. Great damage to property must result. President Crespo has just received a letter from ex-President Cleveland declining to act as counsel for Venezuela before the arbitration tribunal. The supreme court of Ohio has declared the law unconstitutional which last winter adopted the Torrens system of recording land titles. The law is similar to that of Illinois. The senate committee on territories yesterday heard the statement of AttorneyGeneral J. F. Wilson. of Arizona, in opposition to the confirmation of M. H. McCord to be governor of Arizona. Two men have been arrested in Denver on the charge of wire-tapping, and swindling the pool rooms of that and other cities. They gave the names of Charles Moran and H. M. Summerfield. William Waldorf Astor has taken the house at Westgate-on-Sea, which was once occupied for two'or three weeks by the Duke and Duchess of Fife. The tenancy is for 12 weeks and the rental paid is 400 guineas. E. E. Waite, special pension examiner who stands convicted in the district court of Howard county, Ia., of having intimidated Daniel P. Andrews, and who was charged by the pension bureau of conduct which made him liable for arrest, has given himself up to justice. The preliminary examination of the officials of the defunct Baxter Springs (Kansas) bank has been concluded. Colonel Alexander Warner and his son, Benjamin Warner. were held for trial in $3,000 bail each, and A. A. Warner, cashier and Russell Davis, bookkeeper, were held in $500 each. Nine German Catholic pastors of Cincinnati announce that hereafter sermons in English as well as in German will be preached in their churches. This is done in furtherance of the spirit of recent papal decrees. looking to the conduct of Catholic worship in the established language of the country. Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn has announced that appointments had been made to the command of two of the army departments of the country. BrigadierGeneral Wade has been asigned to the department of Dakota at St. Paul. and Brigadier-General Graham to the department of Texas. San Antonio. This leaves vacant the department of the Columbia, which will be assigned to Colonel Merriam when he shall have been promoted next week to be brigadier-general.