Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-01-11
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.

8 A SUMMARY OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
II Ii Well Invested.
4. Warden Jewett has purchased new
instruments for the convict band al
Q cost of 5000. The money was TAX
en- from the fund secured by charging
ten cents admission to visitors. Only
. few months ago a new piano for
the prison chapel was purchased with
money from this fund. Every visit
or to the prison is willing to pay ten
cents and the money is all spent to
better the material condition of the
prisoners.
Finds Homes for COnvicts.
! The Kansas State Society for the
Friendless will hold its first annual
meeting in Topeka January % and
%. The purpose of the organization
Is to find employment for ex-convicts
and the intention In to build a home
where the men may stay for time
after they are released from prison
until they can find work.
More Than q Year Ago.
There are 1,03s convicts ut Lansing,
an increase of IS over last year. OF
these 74S are white males, 252 negro
males, 10 white females and 20 negro
females, Indians and 2 Mexicans.
Oklahoma furnishes 237 of the total.
There are SO convicts under sentence
to hang and 81 who are serving life
sentences.
Divided the Kansas Work.
= The work of raising money in Kan
sas for the Mckinley monument has
been divided. Gov. Stanley will con-
fine his work to the schools and col
leges, aided by State School Superin-
tendent Nelson. Ryerson Richie, Of
Cleveland, o., will collect from Kan
Bas bankers and postmasters.
Money for Fire Departments.
w. v. Church, state insurance su-
perintendent, is distributing $4,000
to about 100 Kansas towns maintain
ing paid fire departments. This
money is collected by tax on the
gross receipts of fire insurance COM
panies doing business in the state.
Means q Telephone War.
Representatives of the 200 independ-
emit telephone companies in Kansas
will meet in Topeka January % to
form state association and amalga-
mate their interests. There are 200
independent exchanges in operation
and not more than 20 Bell exchanges.
Cole Recognises New Judges.
1t is probable that the old district
Judges will be compelled to institute
mandamus proceedings against Au-
ditor of State Cole to collect their
salaries in case they refuse to vacate
their Offices at the expiration of their
terms.
scates Unwilling to Quit.
Senator Burton requested the res
ignation of Thomas A. Scates, regis |
ter of the land Office in Dodge City,
30 as to enable him to recommend
Frank Milliken, of Santa Fe, for the
place. Mr.. Scates has refused to re-
sign.
Missouri Pacific to Build.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will
extend its line from Mcpherson to |
Marquette and the old way of running |
to Eldorado and connecting at Wich-
tia and meeting through trains at |
Genesseo will be obviated.
Land fer Ottawa University.
Mrs. Joanna Lovelace, of Turner,
has given IS acres of land in the Kaw
river valley west of Argentine to Of
tawa university, Baptist institution.
The land is worth nearly $500 an acre.
q Bible school for Prisoners.
The chaplain Of the state peniten-
tiary conducts a Bible school in the
prison chapel every Sunday from II
to 10 in the morning. 1t is attended
BY about 200 convicts.
The independent companies have
fought the Bell for long time and
the coming move foreshadows deal
to drive them out altogether, as near
" as that can be accomplished.
Mason Of High Degree. 4
Burton E. Langdon, who recently
died at Fort Scott, was one of the
few thirty-third degree masons in
Kansas.