Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-03-22
/ KANSAS STATE NEWS.

talnS q modern opera mousse tnaL VII
seat 1900.
A plant for the manufacture o.
liquefied air has been set up at tn,
university of Kansas.
Rev. A. F. Irwin, of Hutchinson
one of the most gifted Presbyterian
preachers in Kansas, is dead at Los
Angeles, Cal.
1t is now thought that the Missouri
Pacific branch road from Salina to
either Yuma or Concordia will be
built this summer.
A divorce suit filed at Newton re-
veals that the wife was but IA years
cid at the time of her marriage, while
the husband was so. The husband
is now 65 and the wife 90.
At Fort Scott the other day there
was fiddler's contest for prizes
Horace Hobson, who took the first
prize, made his fiddle out of q cigar
box in less than half an hour. He
constructed bow out of q walking
stick.
The officers at the federal peni-
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth will
begin work on the 6OO-acre farm gar
den with a large number of prison
ers. Fields will be plowed and pre-
pared at once for seeding 600 bushels
of early Ohio potatoes.
The state will refund $150,000 Of its
outstanding bonds July 1. Altogether
the state owes $632,0OO in bonds. OF
this sum, $150,000 is due next July,
$220,Oe0 in 1903, $4,000 in 1904, $4,000
in 1908 and $4,000 in 1905. The state
school fund holds the entire amount.
Congressman Curtis is urging the
government to reimburse all persons
who lost their personal property or
sustained damages at the hands Of the
convicts who escaped from the United
States prison at Fort Leavenworth
during last November, in the sum Of
$4,000 or so much thereof as may be
necessary.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lege held school in judging horses
March 10 to 22. J. w. Robinson, of
Eldorado, acted as instructor. Mr.
Robinson is a breeder and gave in
struction in Judging draft, driving
and saddle horses. Some Of the best
horses in the state were lent to the
college for the work.
Miss Lola Lowther, daughter of Rev.
G. W. Lowther, of the NJ. E. church
at Mcpherson, will christen the new
lake steamer, S. H. Wilkinson, at
Chicago. The christening will be
about April /. Miss Lowther is OPP
posed to the use Of champagne In
this exercise and will therefore take
with her a bottle of Kansas water.
At the request Of Charles F. Scott,
congressman-at-large, the committee
OH agriculture consented that $4,000
of the $4,000 appropriated for expert
ments in silk culture be expended in
experiments at the sta
ton already established at Peabody,
Kan. 1t Is thought the next Kansas
legislature will add to this appropria-
ton.
The judges Of the supreme court
elected James L. King, of Topeka,
state librarian to succeed Mrs. Annie
L. Diggs. The term of Office is for
four years and begins March %.
Miss Nellie Armentrout, of Wyan-
dotte county, was defeated for first
place, but was appointed assistant
librarian by Mr.. King at salary OF
5000 year.
Prof. Lantz' laboratory of prairie
log poison at the agricultural college
consumes daily about six dozens OF
Eggs, 60 pounds of sugar, 9 pounds OF
green coffee, pounds of potassium
cyanide and 176 ounces of strychnine.
The quantities given above will I'LL
about So cans, all that can be manu-
per day by Prof. Failyer,
Who is making the deadly prepare
Jon.
The Kansas State Teachers ASSOC
.iation next winter will ask the leg
stature to increase the salary of the
Itate superintendent of schools. The
Itate superintendent now receives
,nly $4,000, while the rest OF the
elective state officers receive $500
'ach, except the governor, who gets
(. 1000. The association wants the
salary raised to |
2 800.
The contest for the republican nom
nation for congress in the Third dis
riot now lies between C. W. Sprowl,
4 Chautauqua; o. P. Ergenbright, OF
5ontgomery, and G. w. Wheatley, OF
'herokee. The other active candi-
ates have been eliminated from the
ght. In the case of a deadlock
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