Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-12-28
MWWTvTTVWWVVVvVVVvvVyTfINvTWWWW
betrayed by His Sweetheart.

betrayed by His Sweetheart.
This dispatch recently came from
Chicago: Hunted rs horsethief, es-
caped from the Beloit, Kan, jail,
clarence Stone has been twice be-
1rayed and captured in Chicago
Through his attentions to the girl
with whom he is in love. To-day,
for the second time in as many
months, Stone was arrested while try
ing to keep tryst with his sweet
heart, Lydia Wilson, whose home is
In Hyde park. This was the culmina-
ton of Stones second escape from
the authorities at Beloit, Kan, where
he is under indictment. The last es-
cape was made November s, when he
sawed through the bars of the Jail Mt
Beloit and jumped to the ground
from the second-story window.
To Protect Home Merchants.
Congressman Charles F. Scott is on
the trail of the eastern concerns
? which ship poor grade OF groceries
and other truck direct to Kansas
farmers on orders. This business
has been growing wonderfully in the
past three years. 1t is injuring the
business of local merchants who pay
taxes and give employment to Kan
sas labor. Scott's plan is to give the
state authority to levy tax on solic-
/ itors for outside houses and he has
introduced bill in congress covering
the matter.
The New Pension Commissioners.
Gen. Wilder S. Mctcalf, who has
been nominated by President Roose-
welt to succeed Cyrus Leland as
United States pension agent at To-
peka, is 46 years old. He was born
in Maine and graduated in 1878 from
Oberlin CO., college, Congregational
institution. He was major of the
Twentieth Kansas and when Funston
was appointed brigadier general Met
calf succeeded to the colonelcy OF
the regiment. AS q reward for gal
liant service he was breveted brigadier
general.
Farmers to Have Sugar Bounty.
Miss Gertrude Coburn, daughter of
the state agriculture society's sec
rotary, has been investigating the
practicability of raising sugar beets
in western Kansas. She reports that
practically all the beets raised in
western Kansas showed more than IL
per cent. of sugar and some ranged
as high as 20. There is little doubt
that sugar refinery will be erected
at Garden City and farmers will Sc
\ cure 81 q ton bounty under q law
\passed by the last legislature.
Proud of Their Courthouse.
County officers have moved into
Clay county's new courthouse. 1t is
built of Manhattan stone and cost $780,
O29, and $4,000 was paid for fur
nishings. A levy of four mills each
year for four years pays for the
building. Z.
Separate Building for Epileptics.
Henry ]. Allen, chairman of the
state board of charities, says the
feature of the new asylum at Parsons
Is to be a separate building for ep-
ileptics. Kansas will be the first state
In the west to isolate its epileptics.
Three Endorsed Leland.
congressman Bowersock, Long and
Calderhead Endorsed Leland for pen
sion agent and Congressman Curtis,
Scott, Miller and Reeder Joined with
Senator Burton in the Endorsement
that landed Gen. Metcalf.
Has n 10000 Volume Library.
The circulating library of the Wo-
mans Federation of clubs has 10000
volumes and libraries to the number
of 1853 are in actual use. A majority
of these libraries are in district
schools.
Raised $4,000 in 20 Minutes.
The new Presbyterian church at
Minneapolis was dedicated Sunday.
More than $4,000 was raised in 20
minutes and the church is now free
of debt.
Banquet Tickets to BE %.
Tickets for the Kansas Day clubs
banquet at Topeka January 90 will
be 50. The dinner will cost S1.50
plate and so cents will cover Incl
dentals.
Nordica to Sing I'm Topeka.
For $500 Nine. Nordica, the So
prano queen, will be heard ut To-
peka one evening about March 8. She
will also sing at Lindsborg and Wich-