Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-03-30
Minor State News.

John Watts died at Lawrence OF
lock jaw, caused by his being acct
dentally shot in the foot while hunt
ing ducks on the Kaw u few days
since.
The secretary of war has authorized
the state historical society TO take
charge of the building used rs the
first capitol of Kansas. II Is about
four miles from the Fort Riley reser-
walton in Riley county.
The state horticultural society is
lsposing Of the 81 barrels Of apples
collected for the Kansas exhibit at the
pan-Amcrican exposition ut Buffalo.
The Legislature refused To make an
appropriation for nm exhibit.
The president has reappointed Pliny
L. Soper United States attorney for
the northern district Of Indian terri
tory. Soper is n graduate of the Uni
vcrsity Of Kansas and nephew OF
Cyrus Leland. United States pension
agent ut Topeka.
Smith county people have contract
cd for sinking shaft 1000 feet into
the earth. and n local paper remarks
vigorously. although profanely. that
"we may 20 further, for we are bound
to have something good II IL can be
found this side of he'll"
AS result of the strong recon-
mendations from the agricultural col
leges and other experimental farmers,
the plaster companies Of the state
are flooded with orders for gypsum
for fcrtilizing purposes. or for applica-
tions for sample bags of the fertilizer
by the more timid farmers.
Gov. Stanley and State School SUI
perintendent Nelson were in con-
troversy over the appointment OF the
eight school textbook commissioners.
The law delegates this power TO the
governor, but Nelson claims the pre-
negative properly belongs to him. The
governor is willing to yield half the
responsibility to the superintendent.
DIR. A. ]. Clemmens, who died re-
Gently Mt st. Joe, Mo-, willed $4,000
to Miss Georgia Houston, 17-year.old
girl at Wetmorc, in Ncmaha county.
DIR. Clemmens spent year In Wet
more and was treated In his old age
and feebleness with great deal OF
Kindness by the Houston family. and
for this he remembered the girl in his
will.
An officers school of the Kansas
national guard will be held in Topeka
in September. About 100 officers will
attend. An effort will he made to Sc
cure regular army officers for instruc-
tors. The school will last q week. A
camp will be established on the state
house grounds and the soldiers will
live in true army style. The state
pays all expenses of the school.
The Santa Fe Is to have the largest
round house in the world. 1t is to be
erected on land, part of large tract,
near Turner, west of Argentine. The
house will be used rs headquarters
for the engines of the road.
Ex-Gov. John w. Leedy has perma-
ncntly located in Seattle, Wash.
Mrs. Mary Z. Bradley Is dead at
Salina. In 1867 Mrs. Bradley ran Sa-
lina's only hotel, n log cabin with q
dirt roof. It was this hotel that
Bayard Taylor, travelling across the
continent in that year. humorously
described in one Of his letters to the
New York Tribune.
i. II. Agnew, Sergeant Olof larson
and Corporal William Dilliner, all
former members of the Twentieth
Kansas, have returned to Salina after
over two years service in the Philip
pines. When the Twentieth Kansas
was mustered out they re-enlisted In
the regular army
George w. Wiley, state game war
den, was acquitted this week of the
charge of misappropriating funds
while treasurer Of Meade county.
II cost the Overlook creamery OF
Lyndon $500 TO learn that the milk
from cows fed on kafir corn win not
produce good butter.