Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-06-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS. /

Pacific contributed $1,000 to the
North Topeka relief fund.
The Mankato national bank has
been authorized to do business al
Mankato with $4,000 capital.
After % consecutive days of rain
In Galena, with the exception of one
day, the sun once more shone.
The late John j. Ingalls, described
the kaw river as good place in
which to grow corn, ii it was irri-
gated" Well, it has been irrigated.
The rainfall for the month Of
March. April and May of last year is
as follows: March, 1.62 inches; April,
O.76; May, 4.43. making total of 6.s1
inches for the three months. Cor
responding months of 1903 are March,
1.27; pril, sos; May, $40, total 1905
inches.
Mrs. Hester Richards died in Will
son county the other day at the age
Of 90 years. She was married IS
years ago. Her oldest son served in
the Mexican war and was Eilled at
Nicksburg in the civil war while hold
ing the, rank of lieutenant colonel.
Three other sons served in the civil
war, one as n private, one as n sur
geon and one as n chaplain.
The miners of Kansas, Missouri,
Arkansas and the Indian territory
will hold n convention at Pittsburg
on July for the purpose of prepar-
ing an Interstate scale to be pre-
scented to the operators ito take the
place of the scales now in force,
which expire September 1. An in.
crease OF wages, averaging about 12
per cent, it is understood will be
asked.
Nemaha, Norton. Phillips. Smith,
jackson. Brown. Usage. Lyon. Sedg-
wick and Butler counties are in the
worst shape of any in the high water
section. About q third of the corn
is drowned out by the water and the
weeds are smothering the remainder. !
Farmers have been unable to cult.
vate any of their corn. even that on
the highlands, and conditions are the
most discouraging for years.
Marion, situated at the confluence !
of four streams, has been suffering
badly from the flood. About 700
people took dinner in the public
school building Saturday. The Elgin
hotel, the best in the city, served it's
meals upstairs. The town is built at
the confluence of four streams. The
Indians told the. early settlers never
to build town there, and now the
people wish they had listened
Prospects are that Kansas will not
raise more than half corn crop
this year. Reports of the Kansas
section of the United States depart
nent of agriculture are to the effect
that only about two-thirds of the
usual acreage has been planted. The
remainder of the ground has been too
vet to pillow and the farmers are UNI
lble to get into 1T at even this late
late on account of constant rains.
The proprietors of the City of Erie
teamer thought they would test
heir boat by going against the
trong current of the crooked Nco-
no river when the stream was almost
'ank full. They steamed UP and left
,rie for Chanute, a distance of over
miles via the Neosho river. and
made the trip in eight hours. This is
he first steamer in the history of Ne
sho river that has been capable of :;
utting its path through the swift
urrent when the waters were so
Ugh.
A gas leak at the National hotel
| Salina caused a terrific explosion.
dam Smith, the engineer, and bell
oy were both injured. The explo-
on was heard for miles. Smith,
Ne engineer, detected the smell Of
rs and lighted a match at the reg
ter. The explosion occurred imme-
ately. Nearly the entire front OF
lie hotel was demolished and several
Indred dollars worth of plate glass |
'oken into thousands of fragments.
he barber shop and billiard room
ere entirely destroyed. The billiard !
bles were thrown to the ceiling /
I'd when they fell were ruined. /
one of the guests were injured, =
Ough the hotel was well filed. Is
The Lawrence bridge, which was n
'ept away by the food in the Kaw
'er, was built by the Lawrence
idge company under special act m
the territorial legislature of 1858.
lie act granted "the exclusive right Hi
d privilege of building and main W
ming a bridge across the Kansas *
avn river at the city of Lawrence =
Z the period of 81 years to C. w. s ,as
bcock, S. B. Prentis, James Chris mas
n, Josiah Miller, Jose X. Goodwin, p sSs
IRONS L por.roff l. Tanofa u.