Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-11-02
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

and the wheat crop amounts to 4,O00,-
900 bushels.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sherman. of Nc
Kinnis, Republic county. are parents
of four sets of twins.
Gov. Stanley has appointed j. S.
Hunter, of the University of Kansas,
to be state nursery inspector.
1t is planned to manufacture 2,O00,-
900 pounds of binders Irvine at the
state penitentiary the coming year.
The Topeka Ministerial union has
started an agitation for the reading
of the Bible in the Topeka public
schools.
Attorney General GODDARD and Rail-
road Commissioners Fyke and Walker
are interested in a new bank at Col
orado Springs.
The David Cook farm in Brown
county has been sold for $50 an acre,
the highest price ever paid for land
in that county.
The Hutchinson Salt company has
purchased n drill and will go down
into the earth 1000 feet in the hope of
striking gas for fuel.
The st. Louis, Kansas e. South
western railroad, running from Ar
kansas City west to Anthony, will be
sold to the Santa Fe.
Miss Luella Rudolph, niece of Sem
ator Burton, has been appointed to
q place in the census Office at Wash
ington which pays 500 month.
A daughter of Ben Simpson. of Pa.
ola, the well-known politician, has
been appointed a stenographer in the
supreme court clerks Office at To-
peka.
Gov. Stanley expects to bring pro.
ceedings against the sheriff and
prosecuting attorney of Leavenworth
county for permitting prize fight
to come off in Leavenworth recently.
Having lost out in IFS asylum fight
against Parsons, Clay Center nov
wants the state board of charities to
reimburse it for the amount OF
money it has spent in litigation. The
amount aggregates about $4,000.
A. o. L. W. lodges throughout Kan.
sas celebrated the thirty-third ami.
versary of the order Friday. In Mead
vile, Pa. in 1865, John Upchurch
founded the first lodge with - mem.
bcrs. Now there are 100000 members.
business men of Wellington sub.
scribed $500 to erect frame taber.
nacle S0x11O feet in which to hold
revival meetings under the direction
of Rev. NJ. i. Williams and Charles
Alexander. The revival will begin
November 10.
Secretary T. +. Stephens. of the
Kansas Temperance union, has cut
out all laudatory reference to Mrs.
Nation in the revised edition o. his
temperance book. Her utterances
against the late President Mckinley
led him to do it.
A new disease has broken out among
the cattle at Corning. The tongue
becomes black, swells up and hangs
out the mouth, preventing the animal
from eating or drinking. AS result
it dies of starvation and thirst. More
than 90 cattle died there during the
week.
Mrs. Nellie Collins, of Kansas City,
Kan, has sued the Schlitz Brewing
company in the federal court for
$4,000 damages. She claims the
brewery 'staked" her. husband in
starting n joint and as a result he
has become a habitual drunkard and
loafer.
George johnson, of Republic coun-
ty, whose wife gave to the state the
site of the ancient Pawnee village
where Pike raised the American flag,
has $1,000 bushels of corn which he
has carried over from crops of 1899
and 1000. He is selling part of it at
IS cents bushel.
The annual meeting of the Fifth
District Federation of Women's clubs
was held at Abilene Thursday and FRI
day. Besides the delegates the fol-
lowing visitors were present: Mrs.
w. A. Johnston, Mrs. Gov. Stanley
and Mrs. Eugene Ware, of Topeka;
Mrs. Noble L. Prentis, of Kansas City,
Mo.
This telegram recently came from
New York: 1.-THE baggage Of Carl F.
Prehm, of Galena, Kan, a passenger
on the Deutschland, was seized by
Inspector Coffey because about $3.50
worth of jewelry, including woman's
watch and two diamond rings, had
not been mentioned in Prchm's de-
claration."
This libclous fling is from the Kan
sas City Star: A Beloit man who adj
vertised for q wife has not only
heard from numerous single women
I,,,& fxs.-~. .oxaroI n,arv;ad man WIN