Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-04-20
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHED.

A new courthouse will be erected
Mt Garrett in the center of the city
park.
Jerry Simpson, now a cattle dealer
in Wichita, has decided to run for
/ congress again.
1t costs 100000 a month to run the
state of Kansas when the legislature
Is not in session.
The Hutchinson Salt company has
capacity of 1000 barrels of salt q
day.
The Union Pacific railroad will
build new depot at Manhattan, of
brick or stone, to cost $4,000.
James w. Orr, newly-elected DEM
ocratic mayor of Atchison, will ap-
point William Sullivan, populist
leader, as chief of police. Open sa-
looms and high license will prevail.
A Butler county widow recently
paid costs and fines for drunken son
to the amount of $22, and then mort
gnged her home for money to send an
other son to Kelley institute.
At the NJ. L. church in Hiawatha
Easter Sunday the women members
hung their hats in the ante-room and
the church was almost entirely with
out the customary millinery exhibit.
A company is being organized in
Atchison with capital stock of $780,
600 to develop the 36-inch vein of
coal discovered there last fall. Most
of the stock will be solicited by sub
scription.
Mrs. Nation has received the gold
medal voted to her by the Kansas
State Temperance union. 1t is a me-
dallion, upon which is inscribed on
the face: "Mrs. Carrie Nation, Bravest
Woman in Kansas"
Floyd Graham. the negro prisoner
who climbed out of the mine and
aided in ending the mutiny at the
Kansas state prison, is writing book
on the penitentiary and about the
mutiny.
The convicts of the Kansas peni.
Tertiary We're treated to an egg break
fast Easter morning. Each convict
was given four boiled eggs. 1t re-
quired $50 dozen for the meal. The
eggs were boiled in 3O-gallon kettles.
Kansas intends to keep pace with
the times by bringing her state build
ings up to date. The state will spend
more money in improvements this
year than amy year since its admis-
sion into the union. The total to be
spent will aggregate S7o2,5OO.
Mrs. Frank Clark, of Kingman,
wrote Gov. Stanley letter ANNOUNCE
ing that she is the mother of triplets
and asked if the state offered cash
prize for triplets. The governor re-
piled that the state gave no prize for
triplets, but it ought to.
w. ID. Gilbert, inspector of rural
mail delivery in Kansas. says the
farmers are careless with their mail
boxes, using them for targets to
shoot ut. He has found it necessary
10 condemn about third of the boxes.
Carriers are not allowed to deposit
mail in condemned boxes, and the
farmers whose boxes are condemned
receive no benefit from the service.
The legislature enacted law Lass
winter designed in its inception to-
compel the registration of the voters
Of the counties of Sumner and Mont
but its text gives it such
broad scope that it really is a law
the registration of the
voters of all the counties'in the state,
and tire attorney general decides that
It must be so construed.
OF the 2Sl convicts who took part
in the recent coal mine mutiny at the
Lansing penitentiary all have been
sent back to work in the mines except |
81. George Fox, the negro leader of
the mutiny, has spent nearly all of
the time since in the "crib.T He ap- |
pears--to be subducd in spirit. The
20 are kept locked in cells and are
given one meal day.
Uneis "JaEy" Martin. wllv had been
proprietor of the hotel at Efingham,
Atchison county. 30 years, is dead.
aged 90 years. He was pro-slavery
man of tire early days. When Will
lam H. Seward spoke i'm Atchison
during the slavery agitation abolition
sts went to Martins farnrt to kill him
and take his stock. The Riders were !
routed with three wounded.
Tie figures Of the recent election
in Topeka are interesting. COL
Hughes, the republican nominee, rel
ceiwed 1886 male and 3,196 female
votes. Albert Parker, the democratic
received 4,19Ss male and
3 ,t40 female votes. The total vote,
"a cast up bv the city council waS::