Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-12-17
The Best Kansas News.
To Establish Large College.

To Establish Large College.
Arrangements for the establish
.ment at Mcpherson of the largest col
.lege of the kind in America were COM
pleted this week and work on the col
1ege buildings will begin within short
time. The college will be the west
.ern branch of the American Swedish
Mission Church colleges. A great deal
of the money has been given. The
largest sum was given by P. H. Ander-
son, who has been In the Klondike for
several years and amassed a fortune.
The city of Mcpherson gave SIT 900 and
"A site valued at $4,000. Or.
Gov. Bailey Pledges support.
Gov. Bailey addressed the irrigation
convention at Garden City, pledging
his aid toward facilitating irrigation
development in western Kansas. A
resolution was adopted requesting Kan
.sas congressman to urge the govern
ment to make the necessary expert
-ments in western Kansas to develop
the underfow. Senator Burton's "irri-
cation and flood prevention" idea was
Endorsed.
A Sherlock Holmes Needed.
Recently Cecil Bowman, county
school-teacher near Burlington, was
found nearly dead at his schoolhouse,
having collapsed from fumes of for
maldehyde. Early in November some
one took the stove poker and broke up
the school furniture; on a later date
the pictures were smashed; Bowman
was at another time waylaid and
beaten.
stole n Carload of Horses.
One R. L. Clapp is in Jail for stealing
"A carload of horses from a firm at Hum
boldt. Clapp, as an employe of the
Humboldt firm, was sent to Kansas
City with the carload of horses. En-
route he is said to have changed the
papers in such a way that he secured
the payment for himself and fed, but
after long hunt he was captured.
Woman Crusader Wants Damages.
Mrs. Myra McHenry, Wichita tenn
perance worker, was hunting a law
yer to take her damage suit against
the city officers of Wichita. She will
ask $4,000 damages for false imprison-
ment and because eggs were thrown
at her while she was making a street
lecture.
Want Streams Kept Clean.
The Kansas Municipal league at
Wichita took a stand looking to the
freeing of rivers and streams from
,driftwood and other distractions.
Along the Kaw railroads and other cor
porations are building into the stream
tiipnly narrow channels remain.
Wanted to Do a Good job.
A Lawrence man recently asked the
local papers not to print story OF his
father thus disgracing the good old
family name" The story was left out,
and later the son was proven a boot
logger. He wanted the name kept clean
so he could do good job.
The Banks of Kansas.
In Kansas there are $50 national and
$40 state and private banks. Their
combined capital is $1S,000,000. The
deposits in them aggregate 100000
900 and their resources 100000, 900.
There have been only three failures
since 1901.
Kansas COnvictS Have Mumps.
Mumps has broken out among the
.convicts at the Kansas penitentiary
and 26 are affected. The contagion
started in the coal shaft and the mine
guards and prisoners are now quaran-
tined separate from the others.
RescInded the "spnnk" LAW.
Emporia teachers can Spank" bad
boys at their discretion. At the last
meeting of the board Of education a
law which forbade teachers whipping
pupils without first notifying the par
-ents was rescinded.
Want a Typographical Survey.
Irrigation enthusiasts in western
Kansas want the government to make
"a typographical survey OF that part
of the state and mark the extent OF
ssheet water and natural reservoirs.
Secretary of Socialist Party.
Thomas E. VIII, who was president
of the Kansas state agricultural col
lege under the populist regime, has
been elected secretary and treasurer
.of the socialist party in Kansas.