Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-09
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

at Fort Scott.
r. w. Turner, of Jewell county. is
proposed for congress by some of the
fusion papers of the Sixth district.
He is n lawyer and once was high in
the councils of the republican party.
He was president Harrison's consul
at Cadiz, Spain.
Justice of the Peace Disney, who
has been dealing out knockout drops
to the Topeka jointists by sending
them to jail for two to three years
and filming them from $4,000 to $500
each for selling liquor, was caught in
raid on poker room at Topeka.
The wedding of C. r. Ravens and
Mabel Klein, at Wellington, was
married by band of hoodlums that
congregatcd at the Klein home and
demanded money to buy drinks. Being
refused, they hurled clubs aud rocks
into the house, injuring two guests.
A. II. Burtis, of Garden City, looks
for beet sugar factory and refinery
to be established at that town. En-
couraged by the bounty authorized by
the last legislature of Kansas, the
farmers planted q large acreage Of
beets last spring and the experiment
turned out well.
Only 40 acres of public land in the
Topeka land district, comprising lit
tie more than the eastern half of
Kansas, are still open to homestead
entry. OF this 200 acres are located
in Russell county, 40 acres in Els
worth, 40 Acres in Butler, 100 acres in
Chase and 40 acres in Marshall.
Congressman Miller, of the Fourth
district. has adopted novel scheme
of settling post office fights in some
of the smaller towns of his district.
lie makes a house to house canvass
in those towns and ascertains from
the men and women from their own
mouths whom they want for post
master.
In an interview Gov. Stanley is quot.
ed as saying that he wished people
interested in pardon cases would not
employ lawyers to present the appli-
cations to him; that lawyers, in their
zeal, oftcDtimes cover up the facts
or conceal them and lead him to be-
lieve things of their clients that are
not true.
Secretary Coburn has purchased for
the safe agricultural college Mt Man.
haitian the purebred Galloway bull,
First King of AVIAN. 1t was purchased
at the recent Kansas City cattle show,
where it won the first prize. He is
almost perfect in form and will be
used in teaching students the form OF
a model beef animal.
At the W. C. T. U. state conven-
ton in Ottawa a committee was APP
pointed to investigate the innocence
or guilt of Willie Sells and report the
same to the executive committee, who
will have power to act. There were
many delegates present who believe
Willie Sells to be innocent and have
hopes he may be pardoned.
Timber wolves are terrorizing the
farmers on the road few miles west
of Lawrence. Z. A. Smith has lost
25 turkeys and 10 chickens and young
pigs have been killed on his farm and
those Of adjoining neighbors. The
wolves venture up to the barnyards
and several dogs have been killed.
The wolves hunt in droves.
The weather report prepared at the
University of Kansas for October says
that only five Octobers in the last "a
years have been warmer. The rain
fall was 1893 incres, which is .s2 of IN
inch below the October average. The
rainfall for the ten months of 1901
now completed has been 1924 inches,
SIS inches below the average for 80
years.
Fred Schwarizenberg, wealthy
Kansas farmer, near Louisville, found
his daughter, Mrs. n. NJ. Dearborn,
for whom he had been searching for
20 years, in st. Joseph, Mo. She is
his only living relative, and he had
been unable to locate her, although
living within IS miles of st. Joseph.
Schwartzenberg recently made de-
post in st. Joseph bank and clerk
told his daughter of it. BY this the
two were brought together.
Webb McNall formally announces
his candidacy for the legislature in
Smith county. McNall says he is q
silver republican, but there is no or
ganization of that kind in the coun-
ty, and he will go before the demo-
cratic and populist conventions. He
has been invited to return to the re-
publican fold, but he has an ambition
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