Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-01

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BAXTER SPRINGS,
1t looks very much as If March had
"come in like a lion"
Galena has one case of smallpox in
a secluded place under full control.
The appointment OF L. ID. Brewster
for assessor gives general satisfaction.
The annual election iOr citv officers
will occur on Tuesday, April lst, this
year.
Lead and zinc are being found in
large quantities at Carthage and vi
cinity.
The sagacious little ground hog
must have seen his shadow on the Ind
of February.
W. II. Rowe is re-surveying and
making an entire new map of the
Baxter Springs cemetery.
L. w. Fairbanks sold his residence
here last week and "pulled out" Mon-
day with his family bound for Okla
holna.
DR.. Irl Hicks has a very bad lot of
weather fixed up for us during this
month. Read his forecast in another
column.
Thursday was decidedly the "bliz-
hardest" day of the winter. The
strong north wind blew snow and
sleet all day.
The injury done to the front of Mrs.
Stark's building BY the late fire will
be promptly repaired by the compa-
MES in which it was insured.
A two-story building is being erect
ed at tho Quapaw mission by the gov
ernment TO take the place of the one
burned about three years ago.
The Jack Horner o. p. r. A., etc,
to be given Mar. s is to take the place
of the temperance operetta, which was
postponed until future date.
The raw and freezing weather of
this week probably caused q good
many otherwise lively peach buds ~
"turn up their tOes"-so to speak.
Col. Weldy of The Short Creek Re-
publican thinks that if railroads would
attach q meal ticket to their editorial
tickets editors would travel more.
Peraps.
Rev. A. g. Robb, presiding elder of
Fort Scott district, will preach at the
NJ. E. church next Sunday evening
and hold quarterly conference ut s a.
IN. Monday.
We are little surprised that Col.
Weldy does not hasten to inform the
other half of the world that there is a
printing press factory running i'll full
blast at Galena.
The bad weather this week has in
terfered much with work on the fOun-
dation for the butter and cheese fac
tory. 1t will be put in as rapidly as
possible, however.
F. d. Petit, state Sunday school
evangelist, will preach at the city hall
this Saturday evening at 1880
O'Clock and will continue service dur
ing the following week.
The charter for the Baxter Springs
Butter and Cheese Company has ar
rived and the directors will have a
meeting to-day to elect officers and
transact other important business.
DIED.-At her home five miles west
of Baxter Springs, Saturday, Feb. %,
1890, Mrs. Hannah Amos, aged forty
six years. Funeral services were held
Sunday last, conducted by Rev. Miller.
Ex.Mayor j. B. Opperman and ex-
councilman p. R. Slater are talked of
for councilmen from their respective
wards. They are good men and can
CerlhluIy Uc cieOlou WithVu1 uAAhNui'y
Mr.. Bricker, the protector of the
windmill mandatory, has written to
Mayor Harvey that he will return to
Baxter Springs in a few days for the
purpose Of going ahead with the pro-
posed enterprise.
We are informed that considerable
petty thieving is going on about town
and that in some instances the guilty
parties are known, and they had bet
ter desist or steps will be taken to
punish them as they deserve.
The several car loads of seed pota-
toes which arrived in this city the
first of this week had better be taken
from the sidewalk and placed in the
a0nfhaaef cornar of the callar and care