Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-21


grade school and city or county high
school diploma. Also by passing sat
isfactory examination In the common
school branches. The short course In
domestic science begins October 8.
The fall term closes December 22.
Place for Dick Blue.
The attorney general, c. c. Coleman.
has appointed r. w. Blue assistant
attorney general for Cherokee county
to prosecute violators OF the prohibi-
tory liquor law. II Is reported there
are about 100 open saloons in the
and that upon the payment Of
light assessments at regular periods
the keepers are allowed to continue
their business unmolested. Col. Blue
has accepted the appointment.
Two Kansas Newspaper Changes.
The Daily and Weekly Neodesha
Register have been sold by Robert
Loofburrow to Paul Wiley, who for
the last 10 years has been employed
on John Gilmore's Wilson County Cit
lien in Fredonia. Another newspa-
per change in southern Kansas is the
sale by NJ. p. Helmick of his interest
in the Chanute Daily Tribune to Ca
vaness Bros, his ex-partners.
The Crime Haunted Him.
z. r. Albcrtson. n young man,
Walked into the police station at To-
peka and said: II want to give my
self up. l embezzled s22 from Rock
well & Sons, merchants at Junction
City. recently, and skipped out. The
crime haunts me. | want to take my
in the courts and wipe II
out" Albertson was a clerk in the
store and stole the $22.
Intcrurbnn Lines.
An amended charter which was ap-
piled for by the Atchison Railway,
Light and Power company increases
the capital stock of the-company from
$500, 900 to 100000. Under the char
ter the company will have the right
to construct and operate interurban
lines to Leavenworth. st. Joseph, To-
pela, Horton and Hiawatba.
Shows Hunt Successful.
Or. Snow has returned from San
Berrardino ranch in southeast Arr
IONA. where he has been on his oath
expedition after insects. The record
for insect collections was broken, he
having shipped home 10000 specimens
which are entirely new to the univer-
sity collection, already one Of the most
complete in the country.
$4,000 Barn Burns.
The big barn on the farm belonging
to Tom Farris, a cattle feeder living
near Winchester. has been totally de-
stroyed by fire. The fire is thought to
have started from spontaneous COM
bustion. in a large quantity Of hay
stored in the barn. The loss amounts
to $4,000. of which one-third is COW
cred by insurance.
photographer to Meet.
The annual state convention Of the
Kansas Photographers association will
be held in Wichita October II, 18 and
10. 1t has been estimated that from
100 to 200 photographers from all parts
Of the state will meet on those dates
10 hear the lectures and to get in touch
with the latest methods in photogra-
ply.
Killed ny a Fall from Train.
The body Of DR.. E. A. Donmyer, OF
was found by the side Of
The railroad tracks few miles east
Of Abilene. The neck was broken. DIR.
Donmyer had been fishing in lake
near Enterprise and on his way home
fell from the tender Of a freight en-
CINE on which he was riding.
Hospital Dedicated.
st. Mary's hospital at Winfield was
dedicated by Bishop Hennessy of Wich-
ia and Father McKernan Of Fort
Scott. The hospital has thirty rooms
Ind is said to be one of the finest in
he state, ranking with the Santa Fe
lospital at Topeka and st. Francis
hospital at Wichita.
Liquor Bars Pool Hall.
The city council of Ottawa has de-
,ided that norman who holds a federal
iuuor license can have q license to on