Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-01
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

| u new COURTHOUSE.
Mary, Madge and Maud Cook, the
Kingman county triplets, appeared
at the st. Louis baby show last week.
The Ottawa Herald thinks the bust
ness men of the city should give q
bonus of $4,000 and n site for u first
class hotel.
Seniors of the state agricultural
college were publicly suspended for
posting their class emblem ut the
top of the smokes tack.
Clarence ID. Huffman, q graduate of
the Kansas state university and a
prominent educator, was killed in q
collision between IN electric car and
Frisco engine mile southwest OF
Pittsburg.
OF the 1908 convicts in the state
penitentiary only "a are women. OF
the total number of convicts ITO are
whites, 276 are negroes, are Indians
and 3 are Mexicans. Fifty-one are in
prison under the sentence to be
hanged.
Louis Tofte, who had just been re-
leased from the Kansas penitentiary
and was going to Atchison on a
freight train, was run over and killed
while trying to alight from the NOV
ing train in the Missouri Pacific yards
in Atchison.
j. NJ. Piper, of Labette, was married
TO Miss Alma Plaff, of near Oswego.
Piper is the man for whose love Miss
Mabel Fortner, of Fort Scott, COM
mitted suicide last week. Miss Fort
ner claimed that Piper had promised
to marry her. This Piper denies.
The library of the Kansas State
Historical society contains 23,O51
books, 67,41s pamphlets, 23,9O7 vol
umes of newspapers, 23,3l7 manu-
scripts, 6,397 relics, 5000 pictures, A.
$50 aliases and maps, Estimated
value of the society's collections, $175,-
600.
The state labor commissioner has
received reports from 81 railway con-
ductors in Kansas as to their work
and pay during the past year. The
conductors ran on an average of 1883
miles per month last year. Their
average annual income was $1,O71 and
their expenses were SITS.
Judge Hook convened the federal
court mt Salina Tuesday, the first time
the court sat in the Salina federal
building which has been furnished by
the government for court purposes.
L. ID. Anderson, eX-postmaster at
Arvonia, was fined 500 and costs for
fraudulent cancellation of stamps.
Dickinson county people were in
censcd over the action OF the health
officers who made an order that there
shall be no public gatherings in the
county for 30 days on account OF
smallpox. The order puts q stop to
every school commencement in the
county, including those at Solomon,
Chapman, Abilene and Herington.
Proceedings were begun in the su-
preme court to test the constitution
atty of the biennial election law. The
test case is brought by A. H. Wilson.
fusion nominee for Judge in the Thir-
ty-third judicial district. Secretary OF
State Clark refused to file the paper
and a mandamus to compel Clark to
act was filed and a hearing set for
June s.
It is noted by the Emporia Gazette
that Miss Estelle Marshall, zone OF
the prettiest young women that have
been in the dining room of the Whit
ley hotel for years." has fallen heir to
$4,000 willed to her by her grand
mother in Ohio. Furthermore, Miss
Marshall is to receive large sum
from an uncle's estate when it shall
have passed through probate, and
from waiter girl she becomes lady
of independent fortune.
The members of the state board Of
charities are visiting the various
and checking up their pauper
insane accounts. This duty was
thrown upon the board by the new
law. The object of the provision is to
cut down the expense. II is estimated
that under the new act the expense
of maintaining pauper insane outside
of asylums this coming year will not
over $4,000. In the past it
has run from 100000 to 100000 a
year.
James F. Legate, of Leavenworth,
the noted Kansas politician and pie-
nee, has retired from participation lin
the active affairs of life and has be-
come an inmate of the national sol
diers' home. Advanced in years, fee
BILE in health and almost blind, Mr..
Legate has taken to the seclusion of
the soldiers home to undergo an
operation to save the remaining dim
sight of his eyes and for rest from
ong and arduous political career, COW
ering among other things q service
Of II sessions in the Kansas legisla-