Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-15
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

nltt shupS' afta-~. 4.
The entire faculty at Baker uni
yersity at Baldwin was reelected.
The old Methodist church will be
purchased and remodeled for college
use. Baldwin will also have electric
lights,
The board of regents of the Kansas
tate normal school Mt Emp"I1a chose
Mauvan. Russell & Gardner, OF st.
Louis, as architects for tl,e new nor
NAL library building. The building
will cost $4,000.
The democratic state committee has
been called to meet in Tol"'l.n Satur-
day. June %. The principal subject
of consideration, no doubt, will be
the ways sand means of f"iming IN
alliance with the populists.
Kansas, with 1,47O,495 people, Is the
twenty-second state in point OF pop
ulation. In 1890 it was nineteenth;
in 1880, twentieth; in 1870, twenty
ninth; in 1860. thirty-third. In 1860
the state had 1O7.206 people.
Rev. William Blair, of Sc Ina, and
Miss Edith Allen were married NJ
c, .lomon and will go to Korea to re-
side. Rev. Blair has taken place as
mi~-'onary of the Presbyterian church
and has been assigned to t'iat heid.
Jasper n. Wilkinson his been
chosen president of the Kansas state
normal school to succeed A. l.. Iay'on
Prof. wilkinson is native of Ohio,
was born in log hut, and :aised on
n farm. Mr. Wilkinson has teen with
the Kansas normal since 1884.
Secretary of State Clark proposes
to get after various corporations.
They must report according to law
and report quickly. Secretiry Clark
had q strict penalty added ut the
last session of the legislature and he
will apply it if any of the companies
fail 10 report.
. THE Missouri Pacific has made ar
: rangemcnts with the Kansas City
Sou. nern for the use Of TIL latter's
tracks from Pittsburg to Joplin, MO-
Tn q short time PASSENGER tram
: will be put on the Kansas. Aebraska
: & Dakota, a Missouri Pacific branch
between Topeka and Joplin.
Whitaker, the Labette county
s.ockman, who was arrested on com
plaiut of the Boston-Kansas ,ity Loan
. company, has brought sui; against
that company for 100000 damages
He alleges that the company IS at
tempting to use the criminal law te
collect a civil debt.
Mayor Hughes, of Topeka. has JUS
promulgated some rules that vii
make his name famous. One is tina
every employee of the city must pa!
4 his debts. "The merchant is taxed U
n nav the salary of the city Official
=. said he. "and the official should be re
II ouired to pay his grocery bill"
t. Morton Albaugh, state bank com
le missioner, calls the attention OF stat
ID and private bankers to the provision
of the banking law which prohibit
banks from owning real estate and re
ouires them to dispose OF the Ian
ID thew own now before March, 19o'
ne This provision of the law VIII
IL strictly enforced.
IN Gov. Stanley doesn't believe in tn
Cd modern idea of summer vacations
no He declares that person comes nom
ST from a vacation more in need OF res
than when he started out. Ihis o.
seryation is made by the governe
in an article to an eastern church p
"a nor in opposition to giving preacher
%. summer vacations.
a. The Rock Island railroad has b
Va. artificial lake at Smith Ce-lter, az
,er some wears ago it became Stoke
ira with carp by the washing "ut OF
nri,ate fishpond some dista.'ce abo'
= The Smith Center Pioneer 81,
the lake now hus Thousands OF D
tie fish. some of which must weigh
To- or 4: pounds apiece.
re- While Barbara Spinden, IL years
be age, of Emporia, was attempting
led start a fire, the can which. IS su
ire , osed 10 have contained caroline
mistake 70, coal oil, exploded in n
hands. The room was at once
vclt ped in flames and she was burn
ses IN death. Her mother CAME near j,
ro- inc her own life in an attempt to n
eo cue the girl.
,er' The state agricultural college
W. GENTLY sold 1876 head of cattle
nc months old which topped the mark
They were taken at weaving til
- and fed the same as fattening stee
;ai. They gained an average of 400 poun
~ each. The remarkable feature OF q
n experiment is that it only requir
,tly 500 pounds of corn to make 100 pour
TO of beef, while in ordinary feedl
of 1000 pounds of corn are required
100 pounds Of beef. On this accos
the experiment promises to brl
- .od;ool chanoa in the meth(