Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-06
Baxter SPRING. Reunion.

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Baxter Springs Reunion.
The Baxter reunion will be in the
same hands for another year. At the
annual meeting j. NJ Cooper, of Bax-
ter Springs, was reelected president,
and L. c. Weldy, of Galena, colonel
commanding camp. Gov. Stanley and
State Auditor Cole, with their wives,
were in attendance. The other state
officers were unable to come on &C
count of business engagements. The
governor spoke at the campfire in the
afternoon. 1t was purely an old sol
diers' address, and was heartily APP
plauded by the old veterans. Judge
Temple, of Iowa, followed the gov
ernor and kept the audience deeply
interested throughout. Col Dick
Blue and few local men also made
addresses.
Railway Employees Wages Lower.
The annual report of the state So
ciety of labor and industry is ready
for distribution. According to the
reports from railway companies ope-
rating in the state there were 25,1S
railway employees in the state in 1898
and the total amount paid them as
salaries was $15,O24, 931.13. The aver
age yearly salary for that year was
$596.5S. In 1900, there were 24,252 en-
ployes in the state and they received
in salaries $12, &C, 943.6 &c, or an average
yearly salary of $522.45. The salaries
of general officers of the roads have
increased about ten per cent. during
the last two years, while the salaries
of the other employees have decreased.
Aid for Theological School.
Mrs. Johanna NJ. Lovelace, of Tur-
ner, has offered to give 90 acres of
Kaw valley land, valued at $4,000, to
the Kansas City Baptist Theological
seminary on the condition that the
citizens of Kansas City raise $1,000 to
help purchase the old Fowler mansion
to be used as the home of the new in
stitution. The land Mrs. Lovelace has
offered lies west of Argentine. In
addition to that offer she has prom
ised $4,000 to be used in paying the
first years expenses.
Working for Collins Release
Mrs. j. S. Collins, of Topeka, has
decided that the time has come to
make the first attempt to secure the
release of her stepson, John Henry
Collins, from the penitentiary. Young
Collins has been in the penitentiary
three years under a sentence of death
for the murder of his father. At the
time of the murder gossips intimated
that the stepmother knew more about
the crime than she cared to tell, but
this was discredited and young Col
Inns was implicated.
Found Zinc Ore on His Farm.
William Kerr, farmer living four
miles north of Perry, found evidence
that zinc ore exists on his farm. He
had some of the metal assayed and
it was pronounced to be of excellent
quality. Mr.. Kerr will soon begin
sinking shaft, believing that the
experiment will reveal that metal ex-
lists in vast quantities.
VIII Re-Swim the Basbas.
Will Trembley, now city clerk of
Kansas City, who once swan the Bag
bag river in one of the Philippine is
lands. is billed to repeat his daring
deed in a river near Ottawa Septem-
Der %. It will be at the annual re-
union of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment. Trembley has consented to do
the swimming.
VIII Ask Carncgfe's Help.
Delegates from institutions for the
blind in several states were in conven-
ton at Kansas City. Among other
needs they want a department for
the higher education of the blind in
colleges and universities and will ask
Andrew Carnegie for financial aid in
the endowment of these institutions.
A movement has been started by
the Grant club, a republican organiza-
ton at Kansas City, to have bat
tleship named Kansas, in honor of che
state. The Kansans do not want the
name put on a cruiser or monitor,
but they want it to designate full
fedged first-class battleship.
Oil Wells in Kansas.
The geological bureau has prepared
an exhaustive report on the produc- |
ton of petroleum in Kansas. The |
production in the state last year was |
74,714 barrels. There are now 100 pro- |
ductive Oil wells in Kansas. Fourteen |
old wells were abandoned last year.
Frank Strickland, Miner.
Frank P. Strickland, formerly sec
rotary of the democratic state central
committee, has gold mine in the
Wichita mountains, near Lawton.
Sold 100 Acres of Corn for 1925.
John Jones, Mitchell county farm |
er, sold his ruined corn crop of 100 |
acres to a cattle feeder for 1925, who |