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Show mint ...--------. --------.------------- -......., JURY PLACES STAIN ON UNITED STATES SENATOR BURTON , - i I. . United States Senator Joseph Ralph Burton of Kansas, who was found guilty of using bis official position to protect a fraudulent concern In Its use of the malls, has been promtnout lu tho Sunflower stnto for years as a politician nnd campaign orator. He was born ln Indiana, and after rccclv- Ing a callego education .began to practice prac-tice law In 187G. Then, bo moved to Kansas and did bis first campaigning for Garfield two years later. In 1894 and 1890 he was an unsuccessful son-ntorlal son-ntorlal candidate, but was elected in 1901 to succeed Luclen Baker In the upper house. |