Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-10-06
STATE NEWS pARAcRApHED.

Wichita.
Eugene v. Dcbs, socialists candidate
for president, Is billed to make five
speeches In Kansas.
The state school superintendent
says $50 new schoolhouses have been
built in Kansas this year.
Populists of the Third COMPRESSION
al district are using grnphophones to
grind out political speeches Of promi-
nent orators.
DIR. Wylic q. Woodruff, of Law
renee, formerly Of the state univer-
sity, will coach the Ottawa univer-
sity team this season.
Members of the masonic fraternity
at Independence now occupy their new
temple. II cost $4,000, Is built Of
pressed brick, four stories high and
Is one of the finest buildings in south
ern Kansas.
Chancellor +. II. Snow, of the Uni
versity Of Kansas, says the month
Just closed was unusually warm,
cloudy and rainy for September.
Eight Septembcrs in the last 30 years
have been warmer, only seven have
been cloudicr and only one rainier.
The eastbound freight on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific was wrecked west Of Sc
dan, ten cars going into the ditch,
six of which were loaded with wheat
Eight cars were total wreck. An
unknown tramp was found dead UNI
der car Of wheat by the wrecking
crew.
Jonas Carter, aged 20, fell in love
with 16-year-old Ollie Sanders at lola
and she consented to marry him. The
license had been procured and the
wedding hour set, but few minutes
before the appointed time Miss 0llie's
heart failed her and she threw over
her aged lover.
Gov. Stanley issued proclamation
Offering $3.50 reward for the arrest
and conviction Of the person who
murdered Ed Fauteck ut Quindaro on
the night OF August %. The reward
was offered upon the application OF
the county attorney and sheriff Of
Wyandotte county.
Orson Kent, of burlington, was re-
Gently recommissioned as o notary
public by Gov. Stanley. Kent has
probably held Office longer than any
man in the state. He has been q
notary public ever since 1850. His
first commission was issued by Gov.
Medary, territorial governor.
Rev. Charles Z. Parkhurst, of the
Stewart Avenue Methodist Protestant
church in Kansas City, Kan, has writ
ten letter to the trustees in which
he tenders his resignation Of the
charge and renounces his allegiance
to the Methodist Protestant church.
He has taken up new line OF work
selling sewing machines.
The agitation for the enforcement
of the scrip and screen laws in the
coal mining districts Of Kansas has
resulted in causing all the operators
in Kansas to comply with these laws.
The Kansas & Texas Coal company
has notified Attorney General GODDARD
that arrangements had been complet-
ed for complying with both laws.
This is the last company of the state
to comply with the laws,
The announcement Is made by At
torney General GODDARD that II the
next legislature makes one more
quarter mill levy for stntehouse pur-
poses that Il will complete the state
capitol building. This will be refresh
ing news to people of Kansas, not to
say sensational. Kansas has been 30
years building her statehouse and
over S3.OOO,0OO has been spent up to
date. Contractors have stolen enough
to build almost as big building as
the state now has II built by an in
dividual or private company.
Tully Scott, democratic candidate
for congress-, made n last effort last
week to obtain n settlement of the
congressional muddle in the Sixth
Kansas district. II was conveyed In
u letter to +. II. Ridgely, chairman of
the populist state committee. Mr..
Scott volunteered to get off the track
II DIR. j. i. Dykes, the populist NOM
inee, would do the same, and then Ill
low the two committees to agree
upon third man, who should be the
fusion nominee. Chairman Ridgely
declined to entertain Scott's PROPOSE
ton. He insisted that the populist
nominee could be more easily elected
than Mr.. Scott, and said the nominal
ton of third candidate wis inad-
visable.
At the good roads congress at To-
peka n permanent state organization
was effected which will be incorpO-
rated under the name of the Kansas
Good Roads association. The officers
are: John X. Wright, Junction City.
president; Barney Sheridan, Paola,
first vice president-at-large; Robert
Stone. Topeka, secretary; William
Sims, Topeka, treasurer. A committee
will be named which will be instructed
to draft n bill to be introduced In the
next Legislature providing for the inn
provement of the roads Of the state.
The district vice presidents are:
First. S. II. Haynes, Topeka; Second.
+. o. Marvin, Lawrence; Third. II. NJ.
Chesire, Columbus; Fourth, John q.
Cooper. Carbondale; Fifth, +. w.
Wcstgate, Manhattan; Sixth, Z. w.
Wellington. Ellsworth; Seventh, S. s.
Dix, Sterling.
The commission appointed to ar
range for n Kansas exhibit at the
Buffalo exposition in 1901 will ask the
legislature for an appropriation of
eAn mn