Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-02-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS. ;

turn out nearly 1000 barrels a day.
A poem in last weeks Mail and
Breeze entitled "The Cheerful Liar"
by Ed Blair. of Cadmus, is a splendid
antidote for the blues and 1t plainly
points moral. Mr.. Blair is a writ
er in whom Kansans take pride.
Miss Alkaline Horner, who is de-
scribed as mot bigger than min
Ute" has been appointed clerk of the
district court of Douglas county, vice
Capt. Adna g. Clarke. who resigned
to enter the army.
At Lawrence 10000 tons OF natural
Ice have been housed away. The nor
NAL summer consumption is about g.
900 tons. 1t is said that the local ice
factory does not expect to run ut all
during the coming hot season.
The wellington Creamery company
Is making arrangements to build a
cheese factory in Anthony. The com.
pany has a skimming station at An
thony now and the territory is SO pro-
ductive of good milk that it has been
decided TO make cheese.
The Topeka Commercial club adopt
ed resolutions opposing the bill now
pending before congress providing
for the leasing of government land in
Kansas for two cents an acre and
using the proceeds for irrigation pur-
poses. The bill was introduced by
ConVressman Boversock
Col. and Mrs. j. II. Upton, of
Downs, celebrated their golden we'd
ding Wednesday, and several hundred
invitations were issued to q din
ner in the evening. Col. Upton is a
cousin OF Sir Thomas Upton, of Lon
don. He has been the proprietor of
the Upton house ut Downs for Is
years.
Sportsmen are interested in re-
port that pot hunters in the central
part of the state were killing thou
sands of quail and prairie chickens
in the recent bad weather. 1t is said
the birds are driven by the heavy
snow to the fields of kaffir corn for
their feed, and it is there that the
hunters are slaughtering them.
The cost of maintenance at the
charitable institutions of Kansas for
January aggregated as follows: Sol
diers' orphans home, $2,41s; feeble
minded institute, 1926; deaf and
dumb school, 5000; Osawatomie asy-
lum, $16,20s; Topeka asylum, s14,214;
blind asylum, S2,050; girls industrial
school, $2,161; boys industrial school,
Topeka, $5,1:5; boys reformatory,
Hutchinson, $7,9as; soldiers home, S.
001.
DR.. C. C. Calhoun, on trial charged
with the murder of his wife, Madge
Calhoun, at Mound Valley, in Octo-
Der, 1901. was found guilty of murder
in the second degree. On the first
ballot the jury stood ten for first
degree murder and two for second de-
gree murder. Mrs. Calhoun died sud.
denly and the fact that her life was
insured for $1,000 in favor of her hus-
band led to the belief that she had
been murdered.
Conner Jones, 17-year-old boy at
tending country school near En-
poria, created terror among all the
pupils and teacher by threatening to
shoot them. He played desperate,
placing his revolver ut some pupils
head, swinging it carelessly, and
with the muzzle against his victims
head threatened to shoot If the per-
son reported him. He forced his
mother to give him a sum of money
recently by placing revolver at her
head and threatening her life. He
will probably be sent to the reform
school. s yc r'
Unwilling to face her@husband in a
compromising situation Mrs. Lydia
Timmons, wife of j. L. Timmons, of
Edwartlsville, committed suicide in
Omaha, Neb. Her uncle, W. w. Flow
er, an Omaha painter, is held for in
vestigation of grave charges preferred
by the woman's husband. Mrs. Tim
mons was married seven months ago.
She left her husband in. Kansas last
month and went to Omaha, and on
Wednesday last gave birth to a child.
It had been intended not to notify
the husband Of the arrival of the
child for several weeks yet, but Mrs.
Timmons became so i'll that he was
summoned by telegram. Timmons
says Flower 10 the father of Mrs.
Timmons' child.
The bust of s B. Sanborne, Of Con-
cord, Mass, given to the University Of
by the New York sculptor, F.
B. Elwell, was formally presented to
the university Friday by Alfred Whit
man, of Lawrence, the original "Lau-
RE" in Louisa Alcott's story, and pu-
pill of Mr.. San Borne at his Concord