Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-08-24
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED.

Bishop Joyce.
The Santa Fe railroad will erect o
handsome new depot at Lecompton,
the United Brethren college town.
An elevator being constructed ut
Salina will have capacity of 10000
bushels. 1t will be IS feet high and
up-to-date.
Henry Pilkington. four years old,
probably fatally wounded his 16-year-
old brother ut Parsons. The boys
were killing rats with revolver.
There is house in Waverly where
the death of woman and her daugh-
ter occurred only day apart last
week. A year ago man and his wife
died within 4S hours time at the same
house.
1t was thought the July drought
would have lessened the attendance
ut the universities and colleges of the
state, but the number of inquiries
from prospective students is unpre-
cedented.
A delegation of Riley county law
yers and politicians headed by ex-Sen-
ator John Z. Hessin called on Gov.
Stanley and requested him to appoint
Sam Kimble, a gold democrat of Man
haitian, judge of the Eiley-Clay-Mar-
shall district court to succeed W. S.
Glass.
J. 4. Ward, an amateur photogra-
pher, Mt Salina, won The first prize
for picture of Kansas wheat fields,
offered by Secretary Coburn. of the
state board of agriculture. The pic
ture was taken on one of the best
farms in Saline county, and will be
used for advertising purposes.
Judge Fischer, of the Wyandotte
county district court, rendered an inn
portant decision holding that the Hur-
rell saloon law of 1901 repeats that
clause of the prohibition law which
gives the right of injunction against
n saloon on the ground that it is n
nuisance. The temperance people will
appeal to the supreme court.
Olin Castle. who figured SO con-
spicuously in the Morrison-Castle
murder case, is soliciting engagements
at the street fairs in Wichita, Hutch
inson and other places for the Eldora-
do band. Both Olin Castle and Hay
ward Morrison, brother of Jessie Nor
rison, are members of the band, and
are very friendly toward each other.
From the time the coal mines at
the state prison were opene@. total
of 27,246,1 JOB bushels of coal have been
taken out by convict labor. Of this
immense total. the state institutions
have used 14,040,627 bushels. Prior
to the time the sale of coal was
stopped by legislation, 13,11o,7a0 BUSH
els were disposed of for cash to other
parties than the state.
Miss Edith Parsons, Of Concordia,
has become insane from grief over the
death of her ten-year-old boy. Her
neighbors, it is said, are largely re-
sponsible for her condition, as they
have insisted that the child's death
was Gods punishment for her own
sins. This fact preyed upon the wo-
mans mind until she became a lunatic.
The entire proceeds CT money that
came from the sale Of stock Parsons
owned in the Missouri, Kansas d
Texas railway company, amounting to
$1s,3S6.35, was turned over to the rail-
way company. The latter has agreed
to expend the entire amount in the
erection of n record building at Par
sons, work to commence within 30
days and the building to be completed
within six months from August IL.
John Haseltine, four miles south OF
Cawker City, has the most remarkable
we'll in the country. He dug five wells
in a line extending IS feet and rang
ing from to II feet in depth. The
center one is the deepest. He then
took out the intervening earth. max
ing one well by IS feet, with five feet
of water in it. The we'll is walled up
and arched over, except in the center,
where a pump and windmill Is placed
Secretary of State Clark addressed
a letter to Chairman, j. Mack Love, OF
the democratic state committee, ask
ing him to have his committee select
q party emblem, as provided for by
the new election law. If the state
committee fails to select an emblem,
each of the 1900 township committees
NAV make selections for the local
election this fall, and If each should
select a different emblem there would
be no end of confusion and expense.
The democratic party is the only par
ty which has not yet chosen an en-
blem.
A. II. Horton and others have ap-
piled for n charter for the Cherokee &
Red River Railway company. It's an-
thorized capital stock is 100000. Its
initial point is to he on the st. Louis
& San Francisco railway between Jop-
In No md Ga1ann md il is to run