Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-10-04
! KANSAS STATE NEWS. /

dead ut COnc0rdia.
Over 10000 visitors attended the
Atchison corn carnival.
At Phillipsburg seven inches Of
water fell as the result of a 30 hours
continuous rain
The past week the Solomon river
at Beloit was three feet higher than
the high point of 1878.
c. B. Harmon, the socialist nom.
inee for congress in the First dis.
trict, lives at Oskaloosa.
A vein of coal IA inches thick was
discovered on the farm of ]. d. Reed,
three miles west of Kansas City.
At the November election citizens
of Saline county will vote on prop
osition to erect $4,000 courthouse.
JEFF Tubbs, Lincoln county farm
er, was turning over 20 acres of
wheat ground day with disc pillow
drawn by a thrasher engine.
Luther Burns, private secretary to
Gov. w. E. Stanley, has rendered his
resignation and will accept the po-
sition of third assistant in the Office
Of NJ. A. Low, general attorney for
the Rock Island railroad.
Norman Barratt, who was presi-
dent of the Atchison national bank
which failed in September, 1899, sui
cided at Atchison by cutting his
throat with a razor. Worry over
financial troubles is given as the
cause.
Rev. Charles N. Sheldon. the IA
nous Topeka preacher, followed the
footsteps of Col. T.. C. Little and
withdrew as q candidate for con-
gresham at large on the allied party
ticket. Like Col. Little, he was not
consulted about the matter.
In Cowley county the republican
committee passed resolution de-
claring many men in the party were
betraying certain candidates on tho
ticket, especially Thomas T. Kelly,
nominee for state treasurer and the
Nominees for the legislature.
w. S. Stoltzman, aged 20, station
agent for the Frisco railroad at
Pawnee. is under arrest charged with
numbering r. j. Morrison, merchant
and postmaster at Pawnee, two
weeks ago. 1t is said Morrison was
robbed of $500 after the murder.
Miss Myrtle Rose, one of the teach
ers of the Mcpherson public schools
was agreeably surprised by being no
titled of her election to the chair of
languages in the Southwest Kansas
college at Winfield, at salary of
twice that which she was receiving.
William Fl. Barnes, secretary of tho
state horticultural society, is ar
ranging to take a fine display of Kan
sas fruit and grain on special train
next month, which will exploit Kan
sas products. The train will be taken
to the most of the big eastern and
middle west cities.
S. !. Hale, formerly a member Of
the state textbook commission and
now a candidate for the Legislature
in Rush county on the democratic
ticket, announced his candidacy for
speaker of the next house of repre-
sentatives in case the fusionists elect
a majority of the house.
The Topeka city council, composed
largely of republicans, has appoint
ed a committee to investigate the
official actions of Mayor Parker, a
democrat. A resolution has passed
the council accusing the mayor Of
allowing saloons to run contrary to
law in return for money paid the
city.
The programme for the meeting of
the State Teachers association in
Topeka December 29-31 has been
completed. The special theme of the
session will be "The Rural School;
Its Problems and Possibilities" The
papers and addresses are planned to
cover this subject in practical and
helpful way.
John Stahl. merchant at Willis,
Brown county, has appealed to the
supreme court from the decision OF
the Brown county district court
awarding a judgment for damages
amounting to $3.50 against him to
Ella Loumer, who claims he is the
father of her child. Stahl is mar
ried and has three children
A new fraternal beneficiary order
to be known as the Patriotic Legion
of America was instituted at To-
peka. Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, PEN
sion agent for this district, is SUI
preme general of the order and as
ISOLATED with him in the manage
ment of the order are State Printer
w. Y. Morgan, DR.. ]. P. Lewis, OF
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