Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-03-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS. /:

be held at Topeka May and 0.
Contractors of Kansas City have
united to test in the highest courts
the validity of the eight-hour law for
public work.
George Mcbride, q convict, escaped
from the Kansas penitentiary the
other night. lie was trusty and was
working on the prison farm when he
fed.
Three thousand people heard Nine.
Lillian Nordica, the prima donna par
excellence, at Lindsborg, Mcpherson
county. and Lindsborg has popula-
ton of only 1,sOO.
John r. Stewart, of Wellington,
owns $40 quarter sections OF land. 1t
figures up to IA square miles, or
nearly 100000 acres-a pretty good
farm-in the richest portion of Kan
sas.
Ex-State Treasurer Howe has been
appointed receiver of the Modern
Tonties," an insurance order with
headquarters at Wichita, with in
structions to wind up the company's
business.
Claude Duval, of Hutchinson, a
prominent democratic politician,
wants his party to declare again for
resubmission and If the people Of
Kansas vote to sustain the prohibi-
tory law Duval favors strict en-
forcement of the same.
Deep interest was taken in all pa
pers read before the Kansas Dairy as
sociation's meeting at Manhattan. A
parade Of As thoroughbred cattle was
seen by more than 600 visitors, after
which the herd was inspected by the
agricultural college regents.
The state board Of charities after
making a thorough investigation of
the working Of the industrial school
for girls at Beloit, decided to employ
a professional cook and establish q
scientific cooking school in connection
with the school for the benefit OF the
girls.
The attorney general has notified
Gov. Stanley that the title to the
Fort Hays reservation, coded to Kan
sas by the government, is clear.
Western branches of the state agri-
cultural college and the Emporia nor
NAL school will be established on the
land.
Much ill-feeling is being manifest
ed between the negroes and white
people in Topeka over the refusal OF
the school board to permit colored
children to attend the white school.
1t is understood that some of the ne
gro teachers of the city are trying to
keep the trouble alive.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at two o'clock the other morning to
rob the Leroy State bank. One door
was blown off the vault. A stick OF
dynamite was placed in the second
door, but the robbers were fright
ened away before they could explode
it. The plate glass window was
blown out.
Mrs. Sylvester Nyhart, who lives
southwest Of Atchison, has 400 chick
ems and says her fowls have laid an
average of six dozen eggs a week for
which she received from IS to As cents
q dozen. In addition to this she has
set hens and has 62 little chickens.
Mrs. Nyhart fed her hens nothing but
corn all winter, and they never did
better.
j. w. Robson and D. F. Loveall, Be
lott stockmen, say the stock panic last
fall because of the drought was not
necessary if farmers had only known
it. They have PIT head of cattle in
Graham county, and say they have
actually been buying hay out there at
$3.50 ton. Last fall 81 ton was re-
fused for hay by the farmers who are
now selling at $1.50 ton.
Capt. E. L. Glasgow, of Salina, late
of troop A, Eleventh cavalry, has been
offered a lieutenancy in the regular
army by the president. Capt. Glas-
gov left Salina in 1898, as a first leu
tenant of company M, Twentieth
Kansas. While in Manila he was pro-
NOTED captain of company A, and on
the return home of the Kansas regi-
ment he was given command of troop
A, Eleventh cavalry.
State Fish Warden George Wiley
says he is unable to secure the usual
number of live fish for distribution
from the senator's and representatives
in Washington. Mr.. Wiley spends
about .$4OO per year for fish, which
he places in streams and ponds in diff
ferent parts of the state. This year
he has supplied about $4,000 fish to
Sedgwick, Clay, Wabaunsee, Marion,
Geary, Smith and Shawnee counties.
Louis Klingbell, a citizen of Fort