Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-06-22
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

"Coburn."
A meeting of the Kansas peniten-
tiary directors will be held soon to
arrange for running the Irvine plant.
It is probable that the plant will be
operated nearly oil summer, to pro-
vide Irvine for corn cutting and farm
purposes generally.
In accordance with the resolution
adopted at the Junction City encamp-
ment, the G. A. r. department will
take steps at once to test the new
law compelling the appointment of
old soldiers to political places. At
Sterling recently the district judge
declared the law invalid because It
was class legislation.
Charles F. Scott, who was invited
to deliver the commencement address
ut the Haskell Indian school, asked
Henry Allen to fill the engagement,
as he did not know what to say to the
Indians. Allen agreed, provided Scott
would speak for him at the Osa-
watomie asylum for the insane on
the Fourth of July.
Reports from Cheyenne, Sherman
and other extreme western counties
indicate that this will be another
grasshopper year. Farmers in the
western counties have discovered that
thousands of young grasshoppers are
Matching in their fields. The farmers
are now experimenting in order to
find a method of killing the insects.
The following sums were expended
for the maintenance Of some of the
state charitable institutions for May:
Winfield imbecile asylum, $5,191.7s;
Osawatomie insane asylum, $12, 50s.96;
Topeka, reform school, $3,511; Atch-
ison orphans home, $2,2s3.37; Bels;t
school for girls, s1,e41.5o; Kansas City
blind asylum, S1,s99.o9; Hutchinson
reformatory, S15.59s.72.
At conference at Topeka of Sena-
tor Burton and q few of his friends,
it is said, George J. Barker, of Law
renee, was agreed upon for United
States district attorney; ]. NJ. Simp-
son, of Mcpherson, for revenue col
lector. and L. s. Crum, of Oswego,
for United States marshal. United
States Pension Agent Cyrus Leland
will not he disturbed.
Salad dressing from sunfower oil
Is one of the delicacies promised
from an extensive investigation of
that plant by Prof. Wiley, chief of the
division of chemistry of the depart
ment of agriculture. He says the oil
from sunfiower seed is delicious as
an edible oil, and one which, nearer
than any other known vegetable oil,
has the general properties of the oil
Of the olive.
Hugh A. Cook is dead at Ottawa.
Cook tame to Lawrence in the latter
sos. His store was burned by the
Quantrell raiders in 1863. He was as
ISOLATED with Scion o. Thatcher in
newspaper venture. In some Of the
early sessions of the legislature he
was twice sergeant-at-arms and once
a member. He was the second sheriff
of Franklin county. He and his wife
were the parents of IA children.
The commencement of the Kansas
state agricultural college this year
will be a silver jubilee for the senior
member of the faculty; it is the
twenty-ffth commencement which
Prof. J. d. Walters will celebrate as
the head of the department Of indus
trial art. Only two men-Chancellor
Snow and Prof. Miller, of the state
university-have been with a Kansas
educational institution longer than
Prof. Walters.
Morton Albaugh, state bank COM
has returned from Dexter,
where he went to investigate the
affairs of the bank that failed there
this week. He says Watkins, the
cashier, who committed suicide upon
the discovery of the embezzlement,
made false entries, hoping to tide over
the affairs of the concern. By this
means he made the deposits appear
to be $4,000 when really they were
$4,000. Watkins losses were caused
by cattle speculation.
The recount in the Parker-Hughes
contest for the Office of mayor OF
Topeka has been completed and it now
for the supreme court OF the
state to decide which of the contest
ants was legally elected. The result
hinges on whether the court will per-
NIT double marked ballots, cast for
Parker, who was candidate on two
tickets, to be counted. 'IfSthey are
ruled out, ]. W. f. Hughes win win
by III votes; if they are counted AL
bert Parker will have q majority Of
SO. The case viii be heard in the
supreme court June "a. ,,,tt,-
The new physics and chemistry
building at the Kansas agricultural
college will be completed by. the be-
ginning of the fall term, 1gOz. It will