Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-02-01
! KANSAS STATE NEWS. /

80 Os othtShS Va PChuSAACCS ~
preparing to erect q $4,000 hotel in
his town.
Congressman Scott, who attended o
reception ut the white house the other
night, says the prettiest woman pres.
ent was from Kansas.
At q union meeting of the churches
Of Tongnnoxie, led by Robert Lay
field, an evangelist, 140 persons made
public confessions of faith.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Editorial association will be
held in Manhattan. February and 4.
Papers will be read by Grant Harring-
ton, C. A. Kimboll, ]. e. House, S. G..
Pipp, Annie L. Diggs, Victor Murdoch.
George w. Martin, ]. F. Smith.
Charles Leonard Overlander, of tho
first class at the Harvard university
medical school, has been awarded the
Isaac Swectzer scholarship Mt Har-
ward. Overlander is a graduate of the
University of Kansas, class of 1898,
and received the degree of bachelor
of philosophy there.
The state board of charities has de-
cided to keep the school for the deaf
and dumb at Olnthe open despite the
fact that all the water for its use
must be brought from Kansas City
at a daily expense of $3.50. Sufficient
funds are now on hand to meet this
expense until March /.
r. M. Wright, state forestry com.
missioner, says that last year he dis
tributed among the farmers Of the
state over 100000 trees and at least
third more than that number will be
distributed this year. The state has
two forestry stations-one at Dodge
City and the other at Ogallah.
In New Mexico on Christmas day
Gov. Reynolds reduced the sentence
of Convict Ernest Hart from 90 years
to 30 years, of which the prisoner has
already served nearly nine. Hart was
reared at Larned, Kan. He went to
New Mexico with his parents about
~ years ago and there fell in with
evil companions.
James A. Troutman, of Topeka, has
announced his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination for governor. He
was formerly lieutenant governor and
Is lawyer of prominence. The other
candidates are George +. Cole, pres
emit state auditor; H. r. Miller, of
Usage; H. E. Richter, of Morris; E. A.
Enright, of Wyandotte, and W. ].
Bailey, of Nemaha.
The Kansas Sheriffs' association ad-
vocates the establishment of q quar-
antine at the state penitentiary. Un-
der the present regime q man who is
sentenced to the penitentiary is held
In the county jail certain length
of time before he is taken to Lam
sing. This is not only big expense
to the county, but causes unnecessary
inconvenience and delay.
A recent dispatch from Emporia
said: ]. @. Teft, who was q lieuten-
ant in the Twentieth Kansas regiment
under Gen. Metcalf, is q student here
in the state normal school. left says
he was an eye witness of the shooting
Of the Filipino prisoner, which il
charged against Metcalf, and at the
time the shot was fired Metcalf had
his back turned toward the prisoner.
Alexander X. Phelon, the founder
Of the town of Neodesha, in Wilson
county, died recently in Idaho. In
the fall of 1867 Phelon and DIR. Allen
established trading post
near Little Bear mound. This was
before the Osages ceded that region
to the whites, and Phelon and Nc
Cartney were trespassers, but they
were not molested and the Indians
were their best patrons.
In Kansas there are 100 newspapers
with over 1000 circulation, accord
ng to leading newspaper directory.
The daily papers reporting more
han 1000 circulation in this state
ire eight in number, the lola Regis
ter. Atchison Globe, Leavenworth |
Times, Pittsburg Headlight, Topeka
Capital and State journal and Wichi-
"a Eagle and Beacon. OF the 100
publications having a circulation
lbove 1000 in the state IS are pub
ished in Topeka.
The Armour Packing company be-
ran work on the erection of q new
at the big packing es-
in Kansas City, Kan,
which, when finished, will be the tall
st stack in either Kansas City. Il
will be $50 feet tall, resting on stone
,ase so feet in diameter. The ex-
erior diameter will taper from 2sA
eet to Is feet, while the inside diam
ter will be IA feet throughout. It
viii be built. of brick. The tallest