Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-26
; KANSAS STATE NEWS.

who had lived in Atchison 40 years,
Is dead.
During June the receipts of the
state oil inspectors Office aggregated
$1,273 and the expenses were less
than $500.
Four hundred bushels of potatoes
to the acre is the sort of crop that
some of the Kaw valley potato grow
ers are raising this year.
Fusionists of the Fifth district
nominated Andrew Shearer, of Mar
shall county, for congress, he receiv-
ing % votes to 81 votes for +. c.
johnson, of Ottawa county.
While boat riding on the Smoky
river in Mcpherson county, Augustus
Till was thrown into the river and
drowned. He was alone at the time
and the first known of the accident
was when his boat was discovered
going over the dam at Lindsborg.
In the consolidation of Grand Army
posts throughout the state the Kan
sas G. A. II. department will adopt
the outpost" plan. That is, an out
post will be established to take the
place of the abandoned post. This
plan has been authorized by the ma
tional G. A. II.
Eugene +. Ware, the new commits
sioner of pensions, is not member
Of the G. a. r., but he will become n
member of William II. Lytle post, of
Fort Scott, at it's next meeting.
Years ago Mr.. Ware was member of
Lytle post but he allowed his men,
bership to lapse.
DR.. A. NJ. Callahan, clerk of the
district court at Topeka, died Sum
day night. He was one of the most
At one time he was grand commander
of the Scottish Rite masonic body,
grand high priest of the Royal Arch
masons and grand commander of the
knights Templar.
The presiding elders and mission
airy secretaries of the Kansas con-
ference of the NJ. i. church held a
conference at Topeka. Rev. II. c.
Stuntz, superintendent of the NJ. +.
missions in the Philippines, was the
principal speaker. Forty pastors Of
fered themselves to DR.. Stuntz for
service in the Philippines.
Parsons lodge No. 1, A. o. U. w.,
the oldest lodge in the state, will
celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday
on August 0, and the workmen there
are trying to make it one of the big
gest events that has ever happened
in the history of the order. The
Parsons people have hung up $1,000
in prizes for bands and drill teams.
The republican state committee is
having trouble finding picture of an
eagle for the emblem on the ticket.
All the pictures submitted are said
to more resemble buzzard than an
eagle, and George Z. Cole, who was
chairman of the state convention, has
not filed nominations with the secre-
tary of state because he cannot find
a good cut of the bird.
Department Commander Loomis,
of the Kansas G. A. r., issued an or
der urging the members of 400 Grand
Army posts in the state to begin or
ganizing their sons into camps of
Sons of Veterans. 1t is urged that
will be but short time until the
old soldiers pass away and that the
young men should be organized to
take the places of their fathers.
"The most distinguished pauper in
Kansas is the state university" said
Frank G. Crowell, regent of that
institution. "The appropriations for
maintenance are entirely too small.
Just think of 1.-THE appropriations
now for maintenance are only about
$4,000 more than they were Is years
ago. During that time the attendance
has more than trebled-almost quad
rupled."
President Hadley, of Yale univer-
sity, has accepted the invitation to
speak at the Inauguration of DR..
Frank Strong as chancellor of the
University of Kansas. The exercises
will be October II. October 16 there
will be addresses by college men and
educators, and October IS Olympic
games, participated in by the col !
leges of the state and a football game
in the afternoon. Many alumni of I,
the school will attend.
Judge Simons, of the district court
at Fort Scott, ordered all the officers |
and committees of the Master Plum
bers' association of Kansas to appear
before him and explain the opera
ton results from suit brought by