Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-01-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS. /;

la i1drpe mas S,UUV INHABITANTS an0
NO creditable hotel.
ID. M. Burns. of Barnard, raised 30
potatoes that weighed IS pounds.
Carpenters at Hiawatha have or.
eanized union-the first in the town.
A Butler county barn now building
will shelter so cattle and 2O7 tons of
hay.
Discouraged over Ill health and
financial matters, ]. L. Turner COM
mitted suicide at Wichita.
Twenty per cent of the school chill
dren Of Arkansas City are out of school
on account Of the epidemic of measles
The Seventh district republican con-
, eTessional committee named Wichita
rs the place and March s as the date
for the congressional convention of the
district. This Is one day before the
republican state convention.
The state purchased 80 acres of land
adjoining the Topeka state insane
asylum grounds to enlarge the asylum
farm. The purchase price was $22, 900,
or an average price of S275 an acre.
The land is in two tracts Of 40 acres
each.
Sheriff Boyle with three deputies
raided joint at Manhattan. They
forced their way into the room, where
the jointists were busy engaged in de-
stroying their own liquors, breaking
bottles and emptying beer kegs. Some
liquor was confiscated
A Highland dispatch said revelations
In the Bank of Highland affairs were
alarming 10 depositors. who have prob
ably lost over 100000. Only $1,000
cash was found in the bank. Many of
the notes are worthless. Through the
Vaccinations of Cashier MARCEL the
total loss may reach 100000
Because II was decided to build the
Topeka. Frankfort G Northwestern
railroad through Onaga or Havensville
instead Of through Westmoreland, the
people of the western part of Pottawa-
tonne county are going to build road
OF their own connecting Westmoreland
and Topeka.
On account of the severe freeze late
in the spring the sugar beet crop in
Kansas last year was practical fail
ure. The total yield was but I 1891 200
pounds. or about sos tons. In 1902 the,
yield was S,501 400 pounds and in 1901,
the first year beets were raised, 1885,
1g7 pounds.
County Attorney ]. H. Wendorsf, of
Leavenworth. swore to warrants for
the arrest of William and Fanyie Cope
land. charging them with violating the
Kansas prohibitory law. This is the
first arrest in nearly ten years of any
one for violating the Kansas prohibi-
tory law in Leavenworth.
The Wyandotte county bar will ban
guet Federal Judge Pollock January
%. Invited guests include Justice |
Brewer, OF the United States supreme |
court. Circuit Judge Hook and all the
justices of the Kansas supreme court.
United States Attorney Dean, United
States Marshal Mackey and others.
Thomas N. Hancock is dead at
Qiathe. In the early sos he repre-
scented Johnson county in the legisla-
ture and was chairman Of the Second
district republican committee many
years. He served four years as chair
man of the board of managers of the
Dodge City soldiers home under Gov.
Potter claims the oldest living set
tier In Kansas in the person of Uncle"
Tom Daniels Mr.. Daniels settled on
Kickapoo island, near the mouth of
Salt creek. in 1852. two years before
The actual settlement Of Kansas. and
still owns the same tract Of land, in
Guiding a fine farm near the mouth OF
Salt creek valley. Potter is in the
southeast corner Of Atchison county.
The Salina fire department is in cor
with most of the fire de-
partments in the Kansas Firemen's
with view to securing
/ special firemen's train from Salina
o the st. Louis worlds fair. The trip
viii be made in September during the
iremen's tournament at the fair, and /,
I is expected that several hundred fire.
men and their families will make the
rip.
The record of the Standard Oil COM
any will show that in 1903 Kansas :
reduced 100000 barrels of pc :
roleum. And there is every reason .
o believe that 1904 will nearly double !
hat. AS oil brings more than 81 a
arrel this new industry is bringing :
money into the state at rapid rate, :
he expense of labor, leases and other
ncidentals making huge item aside
rom the production.-Iola Register.
One of the results of the state teach &