Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

School NUS opcHcu VIII ~UU pupils ell
rolled.
Now will the wheat belt quit chirp-
ing about its prosperity until il pays
its overdue accounts for seed grain to
the state? There is still due, on the
account of 1891, $10,616.6s, and ON the
1895 account $13,044.47.-Ottawa Her.
aid.
The Lanyon Zinc company is erect
ing at La Harpe the largest smelter
west of the Mississippi river. A brick
plant is being started with a capacity
of $4,000 day. October the city
will vote on n proposition to erect
waterworks plant.
A little Wichita boy whose grown
kin tried to cure him of typhoid fever
by means of faith alone, has gone to
join the other little boys who have
toyed with thrashing machines, or
who have crawled through hedge
fence and pulled shotgun through
after them.-Kansas City Star.
All four of the republican members
of the Kansas worlds fair commits
sioners are members of the legisla-
ture. W. p. Waggener, the democrat
ic member of the commission, is coun-
ty attorny of Atchison county. He
is a son of B. P. Waggener, attorney
for the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Senator Burton, 81 Kansas, went
from Canton, where he attended the
funeral 'of the late president, to
Washington, and it seems to be un-
derstood that before his return to
Kansas, James NJ. Simpson will be
finally slated as collector of internal
revenue, if not actually appointed.
A prisoner working in the coal
shaft of the Kansas penitentiary tried
to escape Wednesday night. He re-
moved brick slong the side wall of
enc of the entries and hid. He did not
go up with the others prisoners. He
was missed when it came to ''count-
ing in" A search was instituted. He
was soon found.
The county attorney of Reno coun-
ty has begun proceedings against the
alleged grain trust. The Haven ele-
vator, at Haven, made charges that
grain trust has been formed in
Kansas and that, as a result of its
workings, the plaintiff company was
compelled to suspend business,
through the refusal of companies in
the combine to purchase its grain.
Senator Burton says that he will
sustain any movement in congress
to make anarchy come under the head
of treason, and that he would treat
the members Of conspiracy as Sc
verely as the actual person who COM
mitted an overt act. The senator
thinks the presidents heart was
weakened by the use Of tobacco. "The
president was always smoking" he
said. II have rarely ever seen him
when he did not have cigar in his
mouth"
John c. Smith, veteran, was ex-
PEELED from the national soldiers
home in Leavenworth county. Smiths
pension was taken away from him re-
Gently, pending an investigation. He
was rough in speaking of President
Mckinley. He was tried and found
guilty of unbecoming conduct. The
buttons were cut from his coat and
he was put out. 1t develops that the
very day he was abusing the president
$500 back pension money was allowed
him.
Almost the entire business part of
Effingham was wiped out by fire the
other night. Over a dozen buildings
burned, including Ed Highs feed
store; Curry g. Puryear's livery barn;
J. A. Wolverton's general store; j.
H. Cummings harness shop; National
Washing Machine company's factory;
C. S. Moore's barber shop; Henry
Woodward's meat market; the fire
engine house and empty store build
ings belonging to C. NJ. Howard, w.
NJ. Walker, James Little and Henry
Woodward. Origin Of the fire un-
known. Estimated loss, $4,000.
There are only 81 women convicts
in the state penitentiary now. Fe-
male inmates are not handled as male
convicts are. While the male con-
victs are all clad in the regulation
gray uniforms there is no regularly
adopted dress for the women. The
women are kept in a department by
themselves. 1t is a prison by itself,
although it adioins the regular pris.
ON. Warden Jewett says that fe-
made penitentiary should be built
entirely separate from q male prison;
that it should not be located In the
same locality. He hopes the next
legislature will establish a woman's
prison in some other place than Lam
sing.
A receiver was named for the Mod
ern Tonties, fraternal insurance or
der, with headquarters at Wichita.
The trouble arose from the fact that