Transcribed from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Burns, one of the important towns of Marion county, is located in Milton township, and is a station on the Florence & Arkansas division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway system, 21 miles southeast of Marion, the county seat. It has two banks, a money order postoffice with two rural delivery routes, express and telegraph offices, telephone connections, a weekly newspaper (the Citizen), several good general stores, hotel, schools, churches, etc. Burns was incorporated in 1905 and in 1910 reported a population of 489.

Page 258 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.