Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-04-13
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

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Miss Helen Bond, prominent socie-
ty lady and daughter of Thomas l..
Bond, well-known attorney of Sa-
lima, is dead of injuries sustained by
a fall from n chair.
A. B. Hedrick, Chanute lumber
dealer and one of the city's wealthiest
men, committed suicide in his office.
No cause is known for the deed. He
was a prominent G. A. r. man.
Gov. Stanley paid out $500 in tolls
to send cable message to Fred Fun
ston at Manila. accept congratulate
tions." The administration critics will
not neglect to point out that Mr.. STAN
ley might have saved $500 by eliminat-
ing the word accept"
Aztec a debate in the Texas house
of representatives, covering a period
of part of the sessions for four days,
the resolution offered eXtolling Gen.
Funston for his bravery and congrat-
ulating him on the capture of Aguinal-
do was defeated by vote of 6s hayes
to SO ayes.
Prof. w. f. Grey, principal of col
ored school in Atchison, is organizing
an industrial school on the Pingree
plan. Prof. Grey will secure all the
vacant lots in the city and put the
members of his school to work on
them. Besides this the boys will take
contracts for tending lawns, etc.
The Atchison County Veteran league,
which includes all soldiers who have
served in the United States army or
navy, was organized at Atchison last
week. The object of the league is to
further political influence in the in
terests of veterans. 1t is proposed TO
extend the order over Kansas.
Mrs. Ivy Taylor, a young wife,
jumped from the Kansas avenue
bridge into the Raw river at Armour
dale and was drowned before help
reached her. She was partially insane
and threw herself into the stream to
shut off forever an imagined prospect
of misery for n child soon to be born.
The state of Kansas has put
bounty of 81 ton on sugar beets to
encourage their growth. Western Kan
sas farmers who raise beets will plant
a large acreage this year. There is a
sale fof beets at Rocky Ford, Co., and
the bounty will pay the freight to
that point. Sugar beets pay from SIS
to SIS an acre.
A dispatch from Fort Scott says
that active steps are being taken to
secure the pardon of Cora Frost. who
made the statement discriminating her
self in order to secure the conviction
of her father. The girl was. through
some technicality, sent to the peni-
Tertiary. but it is thought that she
will soon be pardoned out.
Congressman Long. in recent i'm
terview at Wichita, declared that Adjt.
Gen. Corbin was openly antagonistic'
to the appointment of Funston to a
brigadier generalship in the regular
army. Corbin is quoted as saying:
Funston is boss scout-that is all.
/ am making lieutenants out of better
stuff than Funston every day."
From the Kansas City Star: Fred
Funston's salary as brigadier general
is $500 year. His Kansas admirers
who are booming him for Office should
remember that there are only three
places within the gift of the people
as good as the one he already has:
State printer, coal oil inspector and
county attorney in "wide open"
county.
Delegates from the literary, scien-
tific and musical clubs of the Fourth
congressional district were in session
at Council Grove last week. A district
federation club was formed with Mrs.
II. Fl. Morehouse, of Council Grove,
president; Miss Florence Snow, of
Neosho Falls, secretary; Mrs. Ida IT.
win, of Emporia, treasurer, and Mrs.
A. W. pennison, of Eldorado, auditor.
Attorney General GODDARD will insti-
tute contests before the register and
receiver of the United States land of
fee at Wakeeney to GUST the squatters
who have taken up claims on the Fort
Hayes military reservation, recently
ceded to the state by congress. His
ground of contest will be that the
squatters are capitalists and not on
the land to make homes, but to make
money.
Representative John Francis, of Al
len county, member of the legisla.
tive tax revision commission, said in
q recent interview: 81 think there
should be a county assessor who
would place valuation on all prop
erty in both city and county. am
confident the mercantile interests OF
Kansas are not paying their full share