Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-08-17
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


Rev. w. N. Blair and wife, of Salina,
have gone to Asia as missionaries.
w. ]. Bryan addressed the Epworth
Chautauqua assembly at Lincoln park,
near Cawker City, Friday.
The story that ex-Congressman
Jerry Simpson intends to leave Kansas
is denied by his daughters at Wichita.
1t is announced that Chaplain Ber-
nard Kelly will be retired from the
army under the age limit in 1902.
This means that he will have nothing
to do and three-quarters of a cap
tain's pay for life.
Gov. Stanley, having forbidden the
prize fight scheduled for Leavenworth
the other night, ring was formed on
q sandbar in the Missouri river and q
ten-round bout was pulled off. About
1000 witnessed the fight.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, since the
drought and local rains that have
followed is much sought-after man
for crop information. Mr.. Coburn,
however, has no opinion to give.
The attorney general has advised
the auditor of state that grants by
congress to the state of lands for
school purposes take precedence over
railroad land grants, and when there
is a conflict of title the railroad loses.
Herbert Y. Harris was arrested Mt
Rosedale on the charge of bigamy.
Mrs. Jennie Harris, his first wife,
swore to the complaint. Harris con-
fessed to the crime. His second wife
is Lydia NJ. Graves, of Kansas City,
Kan.
The bond business in Kansas is very
quiet, because most everything avail
able has been refunded. 1t is esti-
mated that in the past two years the
refunding process has saved Kansas
people 100000 annually in interest
charges.
The Frizell ranch, in Pawnee coun-
ty, containing 500 acres, passes to
David A. Ely, president of the Mis-
souri, state board of agriculture, and
former citizen of Kirksville. The
price paid was $4,000 and Mr.. Ely
will make his home on the ranch.
So many fires have occurred in the
Kansas wheat fields this year that the
thrashers are taking measures to save
their machines. A steel cable is run
from the engine and kept attached to
the separator, so that il fire starts
the separator may be hauled away.
Sumner county will hold big
wheat jubilee in Wellington Septem-
Der 24-2s. Sumner is the banner
wheat county of the nation. This
years crop of the county will aggre-
gate 100000 bushels, or more than
one per cent. of the entire American
crop.
Henry Stephens, owner of 20 acres
of cattle-feeding pens near Peabody.
came to Kansas in 1872 in poor cir
cumstances. Now he feeds 1000 head
of cattle at a time. There are only
two men between Kansas City and
Denver who full feed more cattle than
Mr.. Stephens.
Ottawa has prospect for the cree
ton of q new hotel Mt once. W. L.
Austill, of Huntington, Ind, will &C
cept the offer of the Ottawa Hotel
association, an organization of local
business men, of $4,000 and central
business site for the erection of $780,
600 hotel building.
The Kansas girl band of Wetmore
is to start soon on a tour of the
eastern part of the country. The
band will give concerts in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and all the large
cities of that section. Not only arc
the 90 girls in the band musicians,
but they are pretty.
A new $4,000 building, 9Ox90 feet,
will be built for the Kansas blind asy-
lum in Kansas City. 1t will occupy
place in the beautiful grounds south
west of the main building, with a
south frontage. 1t will be two stories
tall with basement and tower. Red
pressed brick, with either stone or
terra Gotta trimmings, will be used.
From Hutchinson the other day
pair went to Iowa to be married in
order to escape the law which forbids
the marriage of first cousins. And at
Goodland on the same day o couple
were welded who came down from
Colorado to take advantage of the
Kansas law which permits divorced
person to marry after the lapse Of six
months. In Colorado q year must
elapse.
At Phillipsburg live three vigorous
old men, Samuel B. Weeks and s. L.
Eells, retired farmers, and Rev. II. P.
Mann, a retired clergyman. They
helped make history in the Mexican
war IS years ago and are numbered