Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-06-09
STATE NEWS .pARAcRApHED.
Work has begun on the new $1,000
gymnasium ut Baker university, Bald

chair of French In Kansas univer-
sity.
Oats In southern Kansas were badly
blown down and many fields will have
to be cut with cradle.
Parsons women have organized Q
commercial club and will endeayor to
build convention hall.
]. r. Harrison, post Office inspect
or whose home Is ut Salina, Is now
acting postmaster at Havana.
Kansas took the third prize on gem
eral fruit collection of the United
States Mt the Paris exposition.
The president has appointed Henry
C. Sluss, of Wichita, associate justice
Of the court of private land claims.
j. O. A. Norton, who has been pro-
bate judge of Douglas county rs
years, was recently turned down for
nomination.
W. a. Owen, republican candidate
for representative in Bourbon county,
Is q native of the district which he
hopes 10 represent.
Rev. William Bishop, who died Mt
Salina recently, founded the first
Presbyterian church in that city. lie
came to Kansas in the early sos.
II. C. Rising, government post Of
flee agent, will establish 100 free ru-
raj mail routes in Kansas this year.
He has located Mt Topeka for con-
venience.
Secretary Coburn, Of the state
board of agriculture, places the wheat
acreage in Kansas Mt 4,6s5,si0 and pre-
diets n yield of probably sS,oOo,O0o
bushels.
j. =. st. John Is being mentioned
rs a possible nominee for congress on
the fusion ticket in the Second dis
trict. Mason Peters will also enter
the race for the nomination.
Mitchell county will erect $4,000
courthouse Mt Beloit, a proposition to
issue bonds for the purpose having
carried by $50 majority. Beloit will
give block of ground for the build
ing.
Rev. William Il. Poinsett, eX-chap-
lain of the Kansas penitentiary and
n former well-known Methodist
preacher of the South Kansas confer
ence, died in Kansas City from the eff
fects of an operation.
Residents of Strong City and Cot
tonwood Falls want the new railroad,
projected by a. +. Stilwell and his
associates, to run through these two
cities in the heart of the great stone
quarrics of central Kansas.
What Is represented to be the rich-
est jack strike ever made is reported
near Galena. At depth OF G. feet
drillers on the Sadie Bell shaft ran in
to 25 per cent. jack and are said to
have gone through ten feet solid.
At Atchison last Sunday labor
dispute and n keg of beer resulted in
the killing of Cal Oathout and james
Burtchett by William Rainer. All
were common laborers. Rainier fled
but was captured in Missouri about
ten miles northeast Of Atchison.
Probably one of the largest wheat
growers in the United States is VIII
liam German, OF Russell county. lie
has 1000 acres of wheat this year,
and it will yield at least 100000 bush
els. II present prospects continue Ii
may go as high as 10000 bushels.
A Topeka dispatch says that In
event of Bryan's election Kansas dem
ocrats will demand that +. +. Muir
ply, of Lcavcnworth, be made warden
of the federal pen; Sam Bishop, oi
Lawrence, Indian territory judge, and
Billy Deford, of Ottawa, Indian ter
ritory commissioner.
Gov. Stanley has written to Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bris'
tow, now at Havana, asking him ia
see that c. NJ. Rich, the Kansas man
tangled up in the Cuban postal
frauds, gets n fair deal. The letter
was written upon the request Of
Rich's relatives ut Emporin.
George L. Douglass, formerly Of
Wichita, speaker of the house in the
Kansas legislature during the blood
less war, has proceeded to get busy
again in Chicago, his new home. A:
q member of the Marquette club ht
originated the plan for the club tc
take action in the matter OF sc
amending the constitution as TO en-
able congress to throttle the trusts.
Gov. Stanley last week issued citi'
zenship pardon TO S. +. Youmans
who was serving Jail sentence nj
Topeka for killing his neighbor. II
has never been the custom to issue
n citizenship pardon to n person serv'
ing jail sentence. But the question
had been raised II II Is not necessary
to restore citizenship in n case where
the prisoner was sent to Jail for q
felony.
Some time ago Gov. Stanley par
doned man out of the penitentiary
on the strength of statement by the
prison physician that the convict wal
in n dying condition and should bt
permitted TO expire free man. The
convict after being released got wei
right away. and Immediately opened
Joint in Fort Scott. Another con
Wet is now trying to get n pardon on
the same grounds, but the governor IL
skeptical. lie says the convict will
have to produce better evidence than
n certificate from the prison physi
clan showing his critical condition
before he will grant him pardon.
The Kansas Academy of Science
win soon come into possession of .un
other fine collection. A gentleman
who does not wish his name printed
has offered the academy $500 col
lection of shells.
win Fricker. a young farmer boy
near Fort Scott, shot and killed his