Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-03-23
STATE NEWS PARAeRApHED.

IN electric light plant.
D. w. Mulvanc, republican national
committeeman. has returned from
Washington. lie says no federal APP
pointments for Kansas have been
agreed on and will not be for six
months.
Mrs. Nation, us soon as she got out
Of jail, visited the democratic city
convention then In progress in To-
pelsa. She scolded the delegates for
smoking and then attended n dance
where she demonstrated with the
walters.
The new electric street railway Mt
Lawrence will haul freight. The
route from the Santa Fe depot to the
university will he up Mississippi
street and the board Of regents have
granted the owners the right to enter
the university grounds with the
track.
Mrs. Nation went before the Meth
odist conference at Topeka and
abused the minister's wives because
they dressed so stylishly. She said
they should be ashamed Of paying out
big sums to dressmakers, "just to
show off the FORM" She said 1t was
shame for the women to wear poor
little innocent birds on their hats.
Deloss Brown, who died recently In
Stafford county, was probably the
richest man and largest landowner
in Kansas. He made his money by
waiting until hard times struck some
farming community, when he would
buy up a lot Of land at low prices.
He did this in Illinois, Nebraska and
Kansas, and his fortune is estimated
at S1,0O0,000.
At the Kansas conference of the
NJ. Z. church, held ut Topeka last
week, the temperance report called
out an exciting debate. Chaplain
Morehead defended the recent re-
publican house, while DIR. MacFar-
land, of Topeka, criticised the breth'
rem for attacking Gov. Stanley, who.
he claimed, was the friend OF the
prohibitionists.
Rev. ]. A. Moorehead, Of Baldwin,
chaplain of the late house OF repre-
sentatives, was unable to speak for n
week after he went home from tho
legislature, his tongue being para
lived. He Ia better now. and thinks
he will regain the use of his talking
member. Mr.. Moorehead says some
of the solons told him his trouble
resulted from long prayers in the
house.
O. C. Trovel, the Dickinson county
boy who recently was graduated from
West Point, says that the accounts
of hazing in that institution are great
" exaggerated. He testified in the
Booz investigation that dangerous hnz-
ing may have occurred, but that 1t
Is not the rule. "The usual hazing
Practices" he says. "are mildly along
the lines of initiation In secret socie.
ties" Mr.. Troxel had his dose OF
tobasco sauce and says he rather
liked II.
During the absence Of his parents
the four-year-old son a. G. Card, OF
Wichita, met with an accident which
will likely result in his death. The
child found n pop bottle full OF pow
der and began to empty II upon the
fire. An explosion followed, driving
the bottle through the walls of the
house. The child's face was seriously
lacerated. His right eye was blown
out and It required 81 stitches to sew
up the wounds.
Il required only nine minutes for
the jury in the Harris murder case
at Burlington to find James Harris
guilty of murder in the first degree
for the killing of J. II. Allen Mt Ot-
tumwa last April. The defense was
insanity and every effort was made to
create a reasonable doubt OF his SAN
ity, but without avail Judge Graves
passed the sentence that Harris serve
one year in the penitentiary and un'
til the governor signs his death war
rant. As soon as Harris was sem
fenced he asked to be taken to the
penitentiary Mt once.
The marriage and divorce laws OF
Kansas are brought in question again
by an odd case ut Marysville. Dur
ing harvest last year, Ed Pallas was
caught in a machine and ground up
fearfully. He got partly well, but
while still in bed his wife ran away
and left him. In October he procured
q divorce from her. which. under the
law. did not become final until the
expiration Of six months. But last
week he died, and promptly his d.
vorced wife appeared on the scene and
claimed his estate, alleging that she
was legally his wife and heir until
the expiration of the statutory linn
itation.
"Joint-smashing" will not be per-
mitted to 60 unpublished in Kan
City, Kan, while Judge Mechanism
occupies the bench in police court
He decided the cases of Prudence
Smith, Jane McNutt and her daughter
Nora, who made the raid on Eaton'i
Joint in Armourdale. He fined the
two women SIS each and discharged
the girl because he thought she wai
irresponsible and wholly guided in
this case by her elders. Judge Nc
Camish cited many authorities and
decided that the fact that anything
became q nuisance did not deprive
Il of the rights of property and he
declared there was no law In Kansas
that authorizes the destruction Of
private property by n citizen.
Three fires which started simulta'
neously at Fourth and Kansas avenue
5ls Kansas avenue and see Kansas
avenue, in Armourdale at midnight
burned almost the entire block Of
frame buildings bounded by Kansas
and Scott avenues and Fifth and
Sixth streets. The damage Is $SS,Ooo
The Methodists of Baldwin have
n. Xanoaa and