Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-05
BRIEF KANSAS ITEMS.

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Arthur Linn was smothered to death
by o cave-in of the bins in the ware
house of salt mine at Kingman.
Work on the new $4,000 library
building for the Kansas state normal
school at Emporia has been started.
Fifty delegates from 30 counties at
tended the annual meeting of the
Southern Kansas Congregational as
ISOLATION at Eureka. The reports
showed the churches to be In -four
fishing condition.
1t having been partially settled that
there will be no absorption Of the
populist party by the democrats this
year, several leading democratic poll
ticians favor making resubmission the
leading issue in the coming campaign.
Weather Observer Light, of Win
field, has made arrangements for the
rural citizens Of Cowley county to
have daily weather forecasts. He has
secured a set Of flag signals which
will fly from long pole attached to
each rural delivery wagon.
At the Home of Willis Silver in EN-
poria Steve Conklin, grocer, shot
his divorced wife three times and then
sent two bullets in his own breast.
He died almost instantly, but she IN
living, with possibility of recovery.
Domestic troubles caused the tragedy
and Conklin's rage was augmented by
jealousy. pnA.
S. X. Howe, q poor fisherman who
has for years been fighting for 40
acres of accretion land lying along
the Missouri river near the Armour
packing house, Kansas City, has at
last won out in court. The land is
worth 100000 and is held by the Ar
mours and Chicago Great Western
railroad.
Daniel Wells, Jr., who died last
week the richest man in Wisconsin
and the oldest resident of Milwau-
kee, has brother in Peabody in the
person Of Isaac Wells. Wells is an
old man and poor, but is amply pro-
vided for now, as the provisions OF
his brothers will make him one Of the
heirs to his millions.
Senator Burton has advised the
Kansas board of worlds fair COM
missioners not to make preparations
for the erection of Kansas building
at st. Louis, expecting to use it next
year. He says the exposition is GER
tain to be postponed until 1905. Sem
ator Burton's advices confirm the
Judgment of the board and all the
plans hereafter will be for 1905.
A Kansas parson suggests solu-
ton of the problem about Eve and
the fall. Parson Lowther says the
serpent was man and others say the
man was serpent. We all know
how confusion arises in story which
comes down through tradition. The
truth may have been that the tempter
was man with snakes. Men with
snakes are very imaginative, and they
often play the devil.-Kansas City
journal.
An expert irrigation engineer was
in Barton county last week looking
after the construction of vast irri-
CATION ditch there. He said: "Our
company will spend several hundred
thousand dollars for the construc-
ton of the irrigation system. A big
lake rs miles in circumference has
already been constructed and before
we get through we will be able to
furnish all the water that the arid
region of Kansas needs"
In school district in Lyon county
Miss S. A. Rogers contracted with the
school board to teach eight consec-
utive months. The schoolhouse
burned down and month elapsed
before new house was built and
school resumed. When the end of the
term came the board refused to grant
her wages for the time in which the
school was being built. She then srica
In district court for months salary.
The court sustained the school board,
finding that when the schoolhouse
burned the contract ended.
The Kansas commissioners TO the
st. Louis exposition win make atVH
weeks tour of Kansas to sectrn
pledges of exhibits. They will visit
the oil, gas, coal, lead and zinc fields
of southeastern Kansas, the phrr;
featuring plants of eastern and con-
trail Kansas and the salt fields OF
western Kansas. They win meet at
lola on April 10 and begin the trip.
During their tour they will endeavor
to get material donated to build and
finish the Kansas building. They want
the building made exclusively OF Kan
sas material.
Miss Madeline Southland, an evan
relist from Winfield, and three women
of the local w. C. T. u. visited two