Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-26
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.


The safe i'm the Santa Fe depot at
Kingman was blown open and about
500 secured by the burglars.
The annual session of the English
Lutheran church synod of Kansas
was held Mt Wellington, with 200
pastors in attendance.
ID. c. Hall. near Pennington, Atch-
ison county, has $4,000 bushels of
corn which he bought two years ago.
He expects to sell his corn at rs cents
q bushel and will not unload unless
the price reaches that figure.
The hospital kitchen Mt the soldiers
home in Leavenworth county has been
supplied with new range and steam
cookers which are said to be the finest
in the west. The home hospital
kitchen prepares the meals for 400
persons on an average.
II. 4. Beatty, the Kansan who made
81, 100000 in night in the Beaumont
oil fields, went to western Kansas
TO purchase gold shale lands in Trego
and Ellis counties. Beatty declares
that the shales along the Smoky Hill
river are rich in gold and silver.
]. ID. McCue, who was judge of the
district court for Labette county,
where Emmett Dalton, the Coffeyville
train robber, was tried and sentenced,
in n recent interview announced that
he would not sign a petition for ex-
ecutive clemency for Dalton.
The conference of populists hurried
ly called at Topeka by State Secretary
Curran to decide what action should
be taken in view of the decision of
Attorney General GODDARD as to their
party name, resulted in determine
ton to accept the decision and use
the name peoples ticket"
The auditors warrants on the treas
ury of Kansas, which. for the present,
are not pcid for want of funds, are in
great demand all over the state. All
the banks are seeking them. The
October deficiency will be about $780,
600. They bea- six per cent. interest
and will run perhaps 90 days.
Former Gov. Leedy, of Kansas. has
started life anew at Valdes, Alaska,
and expects to build up q new fortune
at the metropolis of Prince William
sound country. Though 60 years old.
he has gone vigorously to work prac-
ticing law, and was recently elected
city attorney by one majority.
A recent dispatch from Topeka
said: Elmer Ames, of Norton, has
been promised the appointment OF
national hank examiner for Kansas by
W. Il. Ridgley, comptroller of the
treasury. Senator Burton has rec
commended Ames. He also has rec
commended J. I. Bradley, of Sedan.
The following dispatch was recently
sent out from Salina: The apple crop
in this section is exceptionally large,
and il is hard to find market for the
fruit. In many cases apples are rot
ting on the ground, and dealers re-
port but little demand. The best
grades bring from 40 to so cents q
bushel.
The Baptist state convention in
dorsed the plans for the founding OF
Baptist Theological seminary in
Kansas City. Baptists of other neigh
boring state will be asked to indorse
the seminary project. The Fowler
mansion at Fourth street and Troup
avenue has been purchased for the
seminary.
L. j. Brewster, contractor in
Montgomery county, has been arrest
ed on the charge of violating the
eight-hour law. Brewster has been
working his men ten hours day
on the erection of country school,
house. He claims that the eight-hour
law does not apply on n schoolhouse
because a school district is not Q
municipality
The clerks of the internal revenue
Office ut Leavenworth expressed sur
prise ut the news that NJ. w. Sutton
had rendered his resignation to Sem
ator Burton and that the name of the
new collector, J. NJ. Simpson, had been
sent to Washington. All of them ex-
pected that Mr.. Sutton would hold
over to the end of the year. Mr.. SUIT
ton said that his four-year term had
expired and he was ready to quit. He
had received $4,000 for his four years.
salary. s.
An admission fee of ten cents ID
charged to the Kansas state prison
at Lansing. This tends to keep out the
idly curious and at the same time
adds to the library fund of the prison
and is spent for things to make the
prison chapel and library more useful
and attractive for the convicts. State
Auditor Cole recently tried to have
these fees turned into the state treas
,ury, but Warden Jewett insisted that
they should be spent at the prison