Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-04-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

| Washburn college and Iowa college
at Grinnell was won by Washburn.
One day last week Mt Manhattan,
Harry Amos Matched 95 pure brown
Leghorn chicks with an incubator, all
of pedigreed stock.
Harvey Fowler, one of the heaviest
landowners of Lyon county, is dead
near Emporia. With four brothers
he came to Kansas As years ago.
W. II. Barnes, secretary of the state
horticultural society, says the recent
frosts have done little damage to
fruit buds. Here and there low
ground peach buds were bitten.
Methodist ministers of central and
western Kansas have pledged five per
cent. of their salaries for three years
to pay the debt of Wesleyan college
at Salina.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes has
announced his permanent retirement
from politics. He says it is life of
suspense, expense and care, full of
forlorn hopes and disappointments.
Gov. Stanley will send to Mary T..
Cook, of Kingman, for her triplets
three silver mugs. She has also writ
ten TO other officers informing them
of the arrival of the babies and re-
quests official recognition.
State Mine Inspector Keegan stated
that the coal miners of Kansas are
willing to renew their present con-
tract with the operators for another
year and that everything will go along
nicely If this is done.
At Wellington the city council
passed an ordinance levying an occu-
patton tax of $1,000 a year on drug
gists holding liquor permits. The tax
on drugstores that have no permit
is S. year.
ID. II. Hefflebower, of Bucyrus. eX-
treasurer of state, sold tract of
land IN the Beaumont. Tex, oil dis
trict for 100000. Mr.. Hefflebower is
a populist and served under the Leedy
administration.
Miss Homely, of Barber county,
really isn't bit that way and
changed her name this week to Rea-
sons. which is proof enough though
the papers referred to the matter as
Homely-Reasons.
+. Tynor. of Hiawatha, thinks he
has the record-breaking cow. She is
four years old and weighs over 1000
pounds. She has seven calves. giving
birth twice to twins and once to trip
let's. Tynor values her at $1,000.
Maj. Macarthur, of Oxford, Sumner
county. has been appointed assistant
custodian of the government building
mt the Pan-American exposition. Nc
Arthur entered the army from Iowa
and is member of Crocker's Iowa
Brigade organization.
Saunders Bente, son of Rev. c. H.
Bentc, pastor of the Congregational
church at Seneca, was teasing Sher-
iff Campbell's dog. when the animal
became angry, took the boys head
into his mouth, crushing his nose, and
1t is feared that he will lose his eyes.
Application for paroles under the
new law are coming to the governors
Office thick and fast. Nearly all OF
the prisoners in the pentitentiary
think they should be paroled and
they or their friends are applying for
their release.
The state treasury now has on hand
$7,411, 422.23 in bonds in the perma-
nent school fund. This is the largest
amount of bonds that fund ever had.
During the past two years the COM
missioners have purchased $685.
074.55 in bonds. This is also a record
breaker.
Officers of the Kansas normal school
and state agricultural college met at
Hays and took charge of the ADAM
doned Fort Hays military reservation
in accordance with the act of con-
gres and an act of the state legisla-
ture establishing a branch of the
state normal and an experiment sta
ton of the agricultural college on the
reservation.
The agricultural department at
Washington has started an interesting
experiment station on the Waldron
ranch in Harper county with the pur-
pose of discovering what species Of
grass is best adapted to the soil and
climate of western Kansas. 1t is
thought that grass can be found
that will have greater vitality than the
present prairie grass.
Charles Hamm had for some time
been counting the daughter of Ed
Cone, a farmer near Nortonville,
against the parents wishes, and the
girl has been held virtual prisoner
in her home. Recently Miss Cone was
of age, and Hamm, armed with cour-
age and six-shooter, called for his
sweetheart. Cone was at the home of