Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-12-24
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The Kansas prison mine Is produc-
Ing 100000 bushels Of coal month.
Marion has the auditorium itch.
Scratching has produced fund Of
$4,000.
]. B. Mathela, of Everest, was killed
by accidentally falling into 54-foot
well.
The Kansas prison Irvine plant Is
shaking binding Irvine for next sea-
sons wheat crop.
Ottawa is trying to secure the loca-
tion there of a fence factory which
will employ so men.
S. c. Barnes, of Harveysville, is
missing with $4,000, and relatives be-
lieve he was killed.
Upon authority from the state execu-
tive council Mrs. John J. ingalls, went
to New York to inspect the clay model
of the statue of the late ex-senator
ingalls,, which is to be placed in the
national capitol at Washington by di.
rection of the Kansas legislature.
A Harveyville man tore up the floor
of a granary the other day and the
rats began running out so fast that he
went after them with club. In short
space he dispatched It's. He estimates
that the number was easily making
way with two bushels Of corn q day.
Mules may secure railroad to High
land. The town has wanted road
for years, but has been unable to Sc
.cnre one. Now, however, the shipment
of mules from there has grown so large
that the prospect is very good for the
building of a railroad to secure the
business.
Douglas county hired a firm to hunt
for tax dodgers. Seventy-flve thou
sand pieces of unlisted property have
been found and suit to restrain the
county commissioners from paying the
firm 25 per cent. of the increased tax
was knocked out by Judge Smart. The
search will continue.
The people of Atchison are pulling
for the new Missouri Pacific shops
soon to be located. They have offered
the company 500 acres of land, $780, 0O
in money or bonds. coal mine that
has cost nearly $4,000 to develop and
1000 acres Of coal right. They say IL
is the best offer the company has In
sight.
State Architect John Stanton is pre-.
pairing the plans for a model school
building which is to be erected at the
state normal college at Emporia. The
cost is estimated at about 100000. II
is the purpose to give the students at
tending the normal college practical
work in teaching before they are
graduated and regular classes will be
conducted.
Ex-Gov. George W. Click and Mrs.
Click will spend the winter in Florida.
where they own an orange plantation.
Mr.. Click is now IA years old. He was
governor in 1SS3-S4, and was the first
democratic governor the state ever
had. He defeated John P. st. John,
who gave the state the prohibitory
amendment and, when Mr.. Click de-
feated him in 1882, was candidate for
a third term.
The Holeman brothers have secured
"A 20-year franchise to pipe gas to Bron-
;son, Bourbon county. AS their wells
are located in Allen county they will
have to pipe the gas out of the county
in order to supply Bronson, thus
breaking a special act passed sons
years ago by the Kansas legislature,
at the instance of Allen county people,
forbidding the piping Of gas out of
state or county.
Will Munson, of Alden, holds the
banner IS the champion corn husker
of Kansas. One day last week he
.husked so bushels of corn in five hours.
The record up to that time was held
by Will Marshall, of Brown county,
who husked So bushels in five hours.
Farmers gathered from miles around
to see Munson go against the record.
He had wagered $25 that he could
-husk 100 bushels in five hours. He lost
the wager, but made record that will
likely stand for some years.
The amount of land in the Kaw river
valley planted to Irish potatoes this
year was 1855 acres. 1t is estimated
that the crop on 1885 acres was de-
;stroyed by the June floods and was
not replanted. On the basis of 300
bushels Of potatoes to the acre, the
loss in bushels to the potato growers |
of the valley for the year was 4,O12,500.
AT so cents bushel, the smallest price |
received by the growers this year for |
their potatoes, the amount Of money |
lost by reason Of the food was $2,006,-
ESQ.
With fully one-half the wheat crop