Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-04


BAXTER SPRINGS, CT
Scammonville has organized as
city of the third class under tho name
of Scammon.
Read the semi-annual statement of
the condition Of the Baxter Bank pub
lished in another column.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Needs gave
family dinner Wednesday in which %
of their kinsfolk participated.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church gave
a very successful 6 p. m. supper New
Years eve in the Rehm building.
The assistant state lecturer Of the
Farmers Alliance will address the
people at Blue Mound school house on
Saturday evening, Jan. IL, 1880, at Z
o'clock. Everybody invited.
The new year was ushered in by
the ringing of bells and the firing Of
guns in all sizes from the innocent lit
tie toy pistol to the loud sounding an.
vii. Goodbye 'S9-welcome 80.
The Advocate says some of the
merchants of that town threaten to
leave it and advises them to "Don't
throw up the sponge yet" Is 1t the
Farmers Alliance or simply stagna.
ton in business?
Old Boreas blew his breath down
this way Sunday night and the mer-
curry ran down. to 20 degrees above
zero, or II degrees below the freezing
point. The change was 30 sudden
that many thought it was "awful
cold"-but 1t wasn't.
MARRIED.-At the residence Of Rev.
G. w. Richardson in this city, in the
presence of the brides father, the
grcom's brother and other friends, on
Dec. 81, 1889, Mr.. w. r. Moore and
Miss Huldah Mccoy, both of the
Cherokee nation. Rev. Richardson
officiated.
John W. Williams brought suit
against the Spring Branch Mining Co.
on Dec. % claiming balance due him
Of $33.40 for labor performed. The
case was continued at his request to
the 2d day of February. The compa-
ny offered him a liberal compromise,
but IL was refused.
Mr.. B. F. McBurny of Trenton, Mo-,
arrived in the city Tuesday to assist
Mr.. Burton in working up the inter-
est in the proposed butter and cheese
factory. Mr.. McBurney is a stock
holder in the Trenton, No., factory
and pretty well posted on the business
in Kansas and Missouri.
A temporary injunction was grant.
ed by the probate court Dec "a stop
ping the payment of the $S40.32 appro-
priated by the city council as an indi-
rect payment for the lands condemned
for the switch of the Memphis road.
This ties the matter up until the dis.
trict court passes upon it.
The nipping air Monday was well
come change for the soft, unnatural
weather which had preceded it. 1t
put the color in the cheeks, added
brightness to the eyes, springiness to
the step and elevation to the spirits of
everybody who was outdoors. We
ought to have more of the same kind
Of weather for awhile.
Mrs. F. w. Propp and her mother
Mrs. A. Willard are just recovering
from quite severe attack of la grippe
or Russian influenza, the new disease
which has had such a run in Europe
and this country during the past
month and is creating such widespread
comment. 1t is a sort of "epizootic"
trouble and has proven fatal in very
few cases compared with the number
attacked.
Last Saturday Mr.. John Vail con-
cluded to keep an account of the num-
Der of passers by the house of his
daughter Mrs. Mary v. Miller. He
began tallying a little after sunrise
and at u o'clock his record showed
that 70 wagons, 30 buggies and 30 per-
sons on horseback had passed the
place in that time. Pretty good for a
"dead" town, Ell?
The Horace Austin mining shaft is
steadily going down, having reached a
depth of about So feet. A body OF
chopped or "hOg-chawed" flint has
been entered with indications of open
ground and zinc ore. There is no
water to bother. Mr.. Austin is conf
don't nf etrikinO n hodv of fninaral