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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
THELAW VALID.

AT the June sitting of the supreme
court Of this state, the constitutionality
of the special law reducing the fees
and salaries of certain county officers
of this and Labette counties, was
passed upon, the court holding the
law To be valid. This case was CON-
menccd nearly two years ago IN the
district court of this county, Judge
Chandler holding the law to be un-
constitutional. The commissioners
then appealed to the supreme court
BY this law nearly $4,000 is saved to
the county annually, besides certain
per cent. of the fees of the register OF
deeds Office goes into the county
treasury.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.

All teachers who desire positions in
the Baxter Springs school are request
ed to attend TO special examination TO
be held at the school building Tues
day, July LIST, at p. m. Immediately
after receiving the report of the special
examining committee the board OF
education will select teachers for all
positions remaining untitled. All
teachers who desire may take the ex-
animation.
Bv order of the board.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
RnARn or EpuCATIoN.
June 10, 1890.

June 10, lou.
Board met in adjourned session Of
call of the president, with Morrison
Koontz and Gardner present.
On motion II. r. Crowell and i. Is
Corse were chosen to act with Supt
Bowman as a special teachers exam
ming board, the examination to be
held on Tuesday, July l, at 4 O'Clock
p. M.
On motion the president and clerk
were instructed 10 draw a warrant in
favor of Baxter Bank for 500 TO pay
premiums on insurance of school
building.
On motion president and clerk were
instructed to draw warrant for $olO.6t
in favor Of Baxter Bank to pay July
installment of bond interest.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
PRICE-RICE,

We have received, by way of neat
card, official notice of the marriage OF
MIR. J.. w. Price of this city and Miss
Kate l.. Rice of Ravenna, Mich, at her
home on Monday, June 18th. Mr..
Price is our worthy and obliging sta
ton agent. Miss Rice is a sister OF
Mrs. +. w. Smith, and already enjoys
the esteem of large circle of friends
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Price will be at home
10 their friends in this city after July
Eth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21

Star Courier: Hurrah for the Pitts
burg, Columbus and Fort Smith Rail.
road. The bill has passed both houses
of congress and now waits the presi-
dents signature, which We are assured
the bill will receive. So let us give a
long pull, u strong pull, and pull all
together, and secure this road at the
earliest date possible, as the road will
be Of incalculable value to Cherokee
county. II will give us the shortest
and most practical route for our sgri-
tural products to the cotton belt OF the
Arkansas river of any route ever pro-
posed. Arrangements are being made
for the survey and right of way from
Pittsburg to the Indian territory line.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
Grand Balloon ASCGlSiOHl
by celebrated aeronaut.
The silver tongued orator,
Hon. R. J. DOWNING,

will deliver the grafton. Capt. G. L.
KENNEDY will read at the Declare
ti0n of Independence. Good inslru-
mcniaf aud vocal music. Scrub horse
racing at the Baxter race course, prize
pigeon shoot by the Baxter Gun Club.
Two match games of base ball, Indian
war dances, original packages and pri-
vate fire works.
Bring your families and let Us gath
or together in the most beautiful grove
in America aud have'au old time cele-
brallOn Of this grand holiday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
List Of Letters

Remaining IN the post-ofice at Bax-
.er Springs, Kansas, for tho week
ending June Is, 1890, which If TO;
called for within two wecke will be
sent to the dead letter Office at Wash
ingtOn. d. c.:
Cool. Mrs sidney Coffee, Fred
Gordon, Cid Montgomery, Miss ke-
Mills, AIR. Mast, Ada lthrr lsl
Snu,er, Mrs. d. A. Tarvin, Mrs Martha 4.
Van Arnam, j. &.
Persons calling fer any OF the above
letters will please say advertised,
giving date vi list.
VIZ. .MGncH, p. n.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21

A truck farmer at Interlachen, Fla,
shipped one box of beans to Cincinnati
and The box was sold for $l.50. The
freight was &l.25 aud the commission
Is cents, leaving a balance IN favor Of
the grower Of 10 cenls..
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21
The Memphis New Train.

We have at last received official in
formation that the Memphis Route
will on next Sunday, June 22nd, be-
gin the running of a night train each
way over their road, from Webb City
10 Fort Scott, the trains to pass at this
point at l2:l5 a. IN. Through reclin-
ing chair cars will be carried and no
extra charge for riding in them. The
running time of the day train will re-
main the same as at present.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21

Another big picnicing excursion
visited Baxter Springs and her many
pleasure resorts on Tuesday. This
time it came from Fort Scott and fill
ed six coaches. The fine band Of that
city accompanied the excursion and
discoursed some excellent music DUR
ing their stay here. To all our neigh
boring cities we say, our latch string
hangs upon the outer wall, and when
ever your people want a days outing
no town in all this country has as
many advantages to offer for such
pleasure as Baxter Springs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21

A report from St. Petersburg states
that the Ministerial Council is consid-
ering a bill TO compel manufacturers
to support employees who may be in
jured while in performance ct their
duties. Tile bill further provides that
il a married man is killed while at
work his employer shall pay an an-
nuily OF 30 per cent. of his -%Sv
wages to his widow and 10 WATER
per cent. TO each of his chill. QUEEN
dren 10 the age of fifieeiI s1AE:
years. -.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25

1t is to this peaceful and prosperous
section, whose centers of trade and man
ufactures are growing with rapidity
eaualing or surprising the growth OF
the booming communicate of the West,
that the Republicans propose to bring
again the rule of the bayonet FA'om
this energetic population they propose
to take away the right of controlling
their own elections and to make 1T over
to creatures Of the Federal power. The
South is to be treated as conquered ter
ritory; and at the cost of no matter what
irritation between the whites and the
blacks, and no matter what disturbance
of business, its votes are to be counted
for the Republicans.
How would st. Paul and Minneapolis,
Milwaukee and Omaha, Peoria and
Quincy, like the dose that is preparing
for New Orleans. and Louisville, Nash
Vile and Atlanta, Memphis and Bir-
put up with the treatment which Mr.
Reed prescribes for the South?
Mr.. Reed is mas terful man, but there
are number of things which he can't
do. He can't cover up the fact that
under existing conditions and in the
control of her own people, the South has
been growing richer and stronger. He
can't persuade the North that there is
either necessity or excuse for sinterfer-
ence OF the Federal power with-the af-
fairs of States whose progress is SO great
and rapid. And he can't check that
progress, unpleasant as it may be for his
party.-N Y, Sun.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25

than be, who sowed the wind in lingo
deliverances that have kept alive an
Gent animosities and led nearly half OF
the people OF this country to look for
ward with JOY to another chance to
whip England" Mr.. Blaine has lat
terly become the apostle of peace and
Of free trade, but his old teachings have
not lost their power. Those whom he
once inspired with hatreds and jealous
les do not so readily respond to his new
gospel Of fraternity. His aggressive
policy" has been adopted by Mr. Wfn.
dom, and not even the knowledge Mr..
Window must have had of Mr.. Blaine's
diplomatic negotiations with Sir Julian
Pauncefote was sufficient to save the
State Department from the humiliation
which overlook it when Sir Julian in
dignantly broke of all consideration OF
the pending agreement, and threatened
war IL single ship bearing the British
flag should be seized by American cruis-
ers.
The situation is any thing but fatter-
ing to Mr.. Blaine.--Chicago News.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
ABOUT METEoRlTES.
The Earliest Authentic Record of ston,
Failing from the Sky.


Failing from the Sky.
Meteorites are particularly interest
ing because they comprise the only ma
tefial coming to us from outer space
In consequence OF the striking phenom-
ena resulting from their rapid passage
through our atmosphere, making them
appear like balls of fire visible at great
distances, sometimes exploding with
such violence as to be taken for earth
qualxes, their falls have been noticed
and recorded since the earliest times.
The accounts, however, were so imbued
with superstitions, and so distorted by
the terrified condition of the narrators,
that in most cases the witnesses of tho
event were laughed at for their sup
posed delusions, and it was not till the
beginning of the present century that
men of science and people in general
began to give credit to such reports.
The earliest authentic records rf
stones falling from the sky are to be
found in the Chinese annals, which go
back to GA u. c., and between that time
and 1888 A. d. Blot has traced sixteen
distinct occurrences. In Europe mete-
orite is said to have fallen in Crete as
far back as 147s b. c., but Greek history
can not be depended upon for events
earlier than 700 B. c. A more probable
fall in 705 b. c.. is mentioned by Plu-
tarch,@ while Livy, In his History OF
Rome, gives an account of shower or
stones which fell on the Alban Mount
about 625 b. c., and which so impressed
the Senate that they decreed nine
days solemn festival Oliver w. Hunt
ington, in Popular Science Monthly.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
EPIToMlzeD EDITORIALS.

AN enormous double watermelon
has been grown in Georgia. Yet design
ing politicians are trying to excite dis
content among the Southern negroes
Chicago Herald!
According to Colonel Clarkson,
tho Republican newspaper press is in
than the ocean carrying trade is, :
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Federal election bill is
step backward in the evolution of pop
ular government which can be justified
neither upon grounds OF expediency nor
the promotion of good government
Minneapolis journal (Rep.).
$ Quite number OF the Republican
party organs are protesting against the
force bill When there is that kind of
discomfort so plainly manifested it is a
sure sign that the party managers have
gone too far.-Chicago Globe.
The signs of the times are unmis.
taxable. In spite of such Republican ex-
pedients as the Federal election bill
and the admission of pocket thorough
States this will be Democratic tidal
wave year, like 1882 and 1874. = Boston
Globe.
The. ex- Democrat who stole from
the Maryland treasury is now safely
locked up in the State penitentiary, but
w. w. Dudley is still at large and M. S.
Quay is representing Republican morals
in the United States Senate.-St. Louis
Dispatch
NJ Jo,,aa ,Jlla;no 60
to show signs of disgust with his part of
second fiddler. He is right The Sec
ond fiddle is poor sort Of an instru-
ment for an elbow trained to the use of
the capstan in casting anchors to wind
ward. st. Louis Republic.
Reeds rules have been such a
glittering success in expediting bust
ness that Congress has already extended
the time for adjournment three or four
times, and it begins to look as If it will
spend the summer whacking away at
purely party measures Public business
be blistered. -Cl eveland Plain Dealer.
a connection with Republican
politics seems to develop high order
Of financial ability. Foraker is said to
be making money Dudley, Tanner and
many other prominent Republicans are
getting rich, and it seems to be a fact
that Republican who has had any train
ingin the management of the party
barrel can rapidly make money on his
own account. Herald.
Lest the moral sense of the Ma
ton should reprobate this colossal i'm
morality the Republican party proposes
a measure whereby as Reed expressed
| it, I'VE may do our counting and our
own certifcation." The House has
passed bill which, stripped of all pre-
ktense means simply that Republican
majority in the House shall be main.
tanned willy nilly. Chicago Times
The Republican nomination for
Governor Of Pennsylvania was dictated
by Senator Quay, and MIR. Quay jus,
now does not have the hold ON the masses
of his party in his Statewhich he had a
| year or two ago. There is no open or
active opposition to him in the party,
but the fact that he is silent under the
serious accusations made against him
has damaged him in the estimation Of
thousands of Republicans, and his can,
didate will undoubtedly suffera con.
sequence. ST Louis Globe Democrat
lRspl
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
ON TALKING SLANG.
A Habit That Grows Rapidly and Corr
rupts Coed Manners.

Habit That. Grows Rapidly and Corr
rupts Coed Manners.
This "sermonette" is especially .foh
you, dear girls. The advice could be
put in~three words-Dont do ii. Pos
sibly there might come an OCCASION
say once in a life-t time when good
round bit of the genuine article
slang" would prove funny But to
hear vulgar words used by gentle
girl is almost Invariably shocking. I
remember passing two girls on the
street and hearing one of them say:
'Pll bet you a quarter" 1t gave me a
shiver. And when group of SCHOOL,
girls fill their Conversations, alas.
they often do-with one slang phrase
after another, the effect on an outsider
is painfully disagreeable. =======-
The habitof talking slang grows rap
idly. 1t is like reporting "a hit of
scandal Have you never noticed that
+ If yeu-s say an unkind word against a
neighbor how quickly chance comes
to say another? And with Just that
same appalling ease habit of using
careless, coarse words increases. Weeds
grow rapidly.
There is plenty of good, strong En-
glish to give expression to wit, droll-
cry, indignation or sympathy without
recourse to the phrases which belong TO
orse-jeekeys, gamblers, tipplers and
vagabonds. The street Arab picks up
slang as he does the ends of old cigars
from the gutter Surely well-bred
girl is not on the same level in her
speech and manner. Why should she
use vulgar words any more than she
would stain her hands?
There ought to be something akin to
flowers in fresh young girl. She need
not be prudish nor priggish. No one
wishes her to say ''prunes and prisms
to coax her lips into the proper curves.
But refined and dainty in speech as
we'll as in dress she surely ought to be.
Won't you please think about it for five
minutes and see if you do not agree
with me?-Mary, s. McCobb, in Har>
per's Young People.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
RESULTS OF JlNGOISM.
A Diplomatic situation That Il Any Thing
But FIattering to Mr.. Blaine.


But Flattering to MIR. Blaine.
If the Behring sea matter should
finally develop into open hostilities be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain no tears would be shed by our
blessed infant industries They got
what they have under cover OF the
smoke OF war, and they realize that
nothing but another war, domestic or
foreign, can save them. Hence the
jingoism that has been paraded for
many years. Hence Mr.. Clarkson's talk
of territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT Hence
Mr.. Reeds scheme for his party to do
its own registering, its own counting
and its own certification OF votes in the
South. And hence the constant strain
that is put upon the friendly relations
OF England with the American Union.
Mr.. Blaine has said in. his famous
book that any Secretary or Minister
Who should be guilty Of provoking q
severance OF the amicablee ties which
bind the United States and Great Britain
so closely would deserve and would be-
yet it is to be feared that Mr.. Blaine
himself is not 70 be held wholly guilt
less ON this head. It is true that he
has been conducting friendly pegotia-
tons with Sir Julian Pauncefote touch
ing the Behring sea difficulties, but it
is also true that while thus engaged
the Treasury Department., however in
spired, has taken steps which have
given deep offense to the English Gov
eminent, and driven it to the very
verge OF open hostilities. The negotia-
lions have been broken off, and British
warships are massing at the scene Of
trouble, with orders to protect Canadian
sealers at whatever hazard. Mr.. Blaine
may be entirely blameless for the i'm
mediate act of the Treasury in assum-
ing a hectoring attitude at this junct-
ure, but he surely ought to have had in
huence enough with the Administra-
ton to have prevented hasty and ill
considered movements in any direction
pending the diplomatic negotiations
which he was conducting. Moreover, II
the whirlwind is about to be reaped.
Nj. Blaine should get whatever credit
| thsre may be due for the harvest since
u IVES Mr. Blaine, And no one nsrs
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
IA LITTLE NONSENSE"

-"Why do You always go to walk
around the powder house?" Because
/ am trying to break off smoking"
-Fliegende Batter.
Young Johnnie has sister small
He loves with all his heart;
For, when he does not get 1t all,
He goes and takes her part
you have been eating pears, and
now you have sauerkraut How will
they go together" THAT'S for them
to settle l don't bother myself about
."-Fliegende Batter.
First Anarchist "Have a beer?"
Second Anarchist-"No." First AM
archist-'You're not sick, are you?''
Second Anarchist--.No. but they tell
me that beer works."-N. Y. Sun.
why are you SO different from
writers like Stevenson and other writer's
of romance, Mr.. Realist?" asked the
critic. 81 can't imagine" returned
Rcalist, II guess you are right" said
the critic IN. Y. Sun.
Mr.. Citiman-''My dear, let's take
cottage in the country" Mrs. Gilman
why didn't you propose that earlierp
1t is too late now to make a garden.
Mr., Citiman-"Yes, that's why / didn't
propose it earlier. IN. Y. Weekly.
THANK Heayen!" sad Shake
speares ghost. Thank Heaven and
blessed be the cyclone" why so
grateful, William2'' asked the spook OF
Queen Elizabeth. Because, me liegess,
the paper says the cyclone destroyed
several Hamlets. IN. " Herald.
NJ
must have new bonnet This ono is
not fit to be seem" Mr.. Fleet-"very
we'll, dear, just go up into the spare
room and ] think you will find very
pretty one there in the closet that
former Mrs. Fleet left here by mistake,
just after she got divorce. Epoch.
"A New York man recently lost quito
sum. He purchased boat-load Of
bananas In Florida, and as the vessel
was delayed while en- route, they were
nearly all spoiled. However, he says
there is some consolation in the refiec-
ton that he was not the only man who
has slipped mp on bananas Texas Sift
ings.
do you think your sister likes me.
Tommy" Eyes. She stood up for you
at dinner" she stood up for me? Was
anybody saying any thing against me?r
mo; nothin' much. Father said he
thought you were good deal OF asmulc,
but sis right up and said you wasn't, and
told father he ought to knowbetter than
to judge man by his looks"
"A young lawyer. whose love Of
ease makes practice distasteful, and
whose ample purse makes it upneces-
sary, excused himself from a luncheon
party the other day, saying: Il must 20
to my Office" Said the hostess laugh
ingly: 1--WE didn't know you had an
office" ''Not have an oficel" he re-
piled. 'sWhy. II didn't, what would I
have to stay away from?v-H arper's
Bazaar.
The gentle bee is humming, and the
summers girl is coming, while the sprink-
ling cart the street is going through.
and host Of city people, that in sum-
mer we shall kcep'll soon be coming up
to spend month or two; the hammock
will be swaying In the breezes meath
the treeses, while the farmer will 70
haying In the meadow, IL he pleases,
and this rhyme would be sompleter II
less rocky were the metsa That's ~
s.1svkshlss News
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25
!. " What will you do when you get

w
thereY
Oh, I'll get work again
Well, ailright; now you geoff and
get new suit. ard I'll take you home
with me when go, i said, and j i'm hur-
ried off toward the commissary depart
ment
Later in the day he came back.
You wouldn't have known him. CT
course the suit wasn't much, but it was
neat and clean, and elfesas=gets his hair
cut and his beard shaved off, and he had
on boiled shirt and necktie. He
was big, stalwart fellow, with hand
some, waving mustache, and he looked
really handsome. But there was some
thing the matter with him, and in a
minute l knewwhat had spoiled Jim's
life
Jim l said, YOU We been drinking
Well, General said he, you know
I'm through work now, an hadn't tasted
drop ever since been here,,se-I
thought I'd just get quart of whisky
while l was down there, and-and ]
guess I've drunk pint or so Of it, but
1 amt drunk
Now, see here, Jim,' said I, this
isn't right; you'll never get back to your
wife and children if you start in this
way. Quit 1t right where you are,
and don't spoil every thing just as you
are ready to begin over again
He sort of half promised and went
on down the road, but J. noticed that
he met some friends and that there was
adeal of fitting ef elbows. watched him
until he met another party of friends
and saw the elbows go up again, and
| then Jim went on out of sight.
Some time afterward one of my aides
came to the tent, looking very queer
and said:
General, there's an accident hap
pened to Jim, and ! guess you'd better
come
II hurried off after him, and away
up the railroad track came to little
group of men, and in the midst of them
poor Jim lying on the ground. He had
] got in the way Of the freight traiI
! somehow, and both his legs were cut Of
above the knee. We picked him up and
carried him to the hospital. We die
what we could for him, but it WASH
much. Two or three of US sat by his
bedside all night, and when day broke
hedied. We picked out the finest coffir
we had for Jim; we dug his grave in tho
prettiest spot there was left in the Gem
etery, and he had the biggest funera
that there had been in Johnstown a.
all. And the day we leftwe took board
and set it up at the head of his grave
and all we puton it was one word: Jim. %
in. Y. Sun.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-25

The largest fee Sir Ashley Cooper
ever received (says the HospitaD was
literally thrown at his head. He oper-
ated very successfully on millionaire,
by name Hyatt, and so deli GIFTED was
the old man with his recovery that he
gave $500 to each of his attending ply
sicians. sBut you, sir, cried the pa
tent to Sir Ashley, deserve something
better. Take that, sir" With that he
flung his nightcap at the surgeon. Sir
Ashley replied with dignity, as no
picked up the cap, "Sir, will pocket
| tho affront," and we'll for him that he
did for the cap was tined with afass
fsa Loco guinssA