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Toddler’s father grieves in Missouri jail By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com

Bailey

Lana-Leigh

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LEBANON, MO. — It’s only about 200 miles along curvy highways and country roads from Lebanon, Mo., to Ottawa, Kan., where in a few hours, visitation services would be-

gin for Shawn Patrick Bailey’s 18-month-old daughter and estranged wife, victims of a quadruple homicide discovered last week in Ottawa. For Bailey, though, the services might as well be in another world. Shackled to a table, Bailey

— wearing an orange jumpsuit and awaiting transfer to a Missouri prison — sat in small room at the Laclede County Jail in Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon and talked about the homicide case that’s gripped the Ottawa community and garnered national attention.

Obscure law calls officials outdoors

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Today’s forecast, page 12A

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Early last week, the bodies of Bailey’s wife, Kaylie, as well as Andrew Stout and Steven White, of Ottawa, were discovered at a farmstead in rural Ottawa. The body of Bailey’s daughter, Lana-Leigh, was discovered Saturday in Osage Please see FATHER, page 7A

REC CENTER

Bids half of what officials expected ——

Gene Fritzel has low bid for building project at $10.5 million

Something new is brewing There’s no espresso machine pumping out drinks at Alchemy Coffee. Instead, coffee is prepared by a pour-over method or cold-dripped, resulting in a new experience for connoisseurs. Page 5A SPORTS

Free State girls headed for state A 4-0 victory over Olathe Northwest gives the Firebirds the Class 6A regional championship and a ticket to the state title game, the first since 2007. Page 1B LAWRENCE

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DOUGLAS COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR CRAIG WEINAUG, foreground, visits the site of a fence dispute Wednesday at 502 Eisenhower Road near Baldwin City. Susan Barrett, pictured at left, and her husband, Tim Barrett, are tenants on land to the north of the fence owned by Margaret Counts, who built the original fence. At dispute is the location of the fence and who will pay for building a new one. At right are Barrett’s neighbors Robin Dunn, right of center, and owner Raymond Dunn, far right. Robin Dunn is the niece of landowners Raymond and Sally Dunn and tenant of the property south of the fence.

Dispute over fence leads to rare application of 19th century statute

KU chancellor’s pay ranks 86th

By Peter Hancock

Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was the 86thhighest-paid public university executive in 2011-12, according to a report published this week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Page 3A

It’s not very often that Douglas County commissioners meet in a pasture just north of Baldwin City — to look at a fence. But their task wasn’t just to look at a fence. They were called there Wednesday morning to settle a dispute between two farmers over where the fence is supposed to be and who should pay for fixing parts of it. And only the commissioners could do it. It’s an obscure arbitration

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INDEX Business 2A Classified 7B-10B Comics 11A Deaths 2A Events listings 12A, 2B Horoscope 11B Movies 4A Opinion 9A Puzzles 11B Sports 1B-6B Television 12A, 2B, 11B Vol.155/No.136 24 pages

process called “fence viewing,� and, under state laws that date back to the 1860s, it’s a job county commissioners are required to perform whenever Thellman adjoining landowners cannot settle a fence dispute on their own. It’s also something that county officials say ought to be repealed, or at least modernized. “I guess it’s the first time this

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county has done it in about 20 years,� Commissioner Nancy Thellman said. “Clearly, it’s not often used. But when you have two neighbors who don’t see eye to eye, that’s what we’re elected to do.� The dispute under review Wednesday involves two farmers who lease land on either side of a fence on Eisenhower Road, just across from Baldwin Junior High School. On the south side is Robin Dunn, who leases land from her

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

The city’s $25 million recreation center apparently will cost a lot less than $25 million. Lawrence officials on Wednesday received a batch of surprisingly low bids to build the proposed 181,000square-foot recreation center in northwest L a w r e n c e , Thomas Fritzel with Lawrence-based Gene Fritzel Construction Co. submitting the lowest bid. The Fritzel firm was founded by Gene Fritzel, whose son Thomas—an executive of the firm—is a leading local developer who has been a major figure in the rec center project. A company owned by Thomas

Please see FENCE, page 2A

Please see CENTER, page 2A

Guns on campus probably inevitable, official says By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents is expected to adopt a temporary resolution to keep in place the current noweapons policy at the state universities, including Kansas University. But having guns on campuses in some form in the future is probably inevitable, Regents Vice Chairman Fred Logan Jr. said Wednesday. The temporary resolution comes in response

to a measure signed into law last month by Gov. Sam Brownback that authorizes concealed carry licensees to carry a concealed handgun into any state or municipal building except those that have “adequate security measures,� such as metal detectors. But university and municipal buildings can be exempted from the provision for up to four years. Leaders at KU and other regents universities have said they don’t want concealed carry on campuses.

The resolution, which away in four years,� Lowill be considered by the gan said. “What we have full board on Thursday, here is a delayed implewould provide a tempo- mentation date.� rary exemption from the He said the regents new law. will probably ask The regents plan universities to look to conduct a hearat each building to ing in September determine whether on the issue and concealed carry study the implicashould be allowed. tions of permitting KANSAS Logan said the people to carry UNIVERSITY board needs to concealed hand“take a very anaguns and the costs of lytical approach� about acquiring the security concealed carry. “We measures necessary to need to be respectful of bar handguns. those who voted in fa“The exemption goes vor of legislation. There

were a lot of legislators who felt this was the appropriate way to go,� he said. The bill was approved in the House, 104-16, and in the Senate, 31-7. Higher education officials have said the expense of setting up metal detectors at all doors at the schools would be astronomical. Regents Chairman Tim Emert said, “That’s the advantage they have at the Capitol. They can route everybody to one entrance, and we can’t.�

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