Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-17


BAXTER SPRINGS,
Gooseberries in abundance on the
market.
Cherries will soon he ripe. They
are as big as peas now.
Ovcrc0ats and fannels were quite
comfortable Thursday in this vicinity.
The kcy-rin. stencil man was work.
ing unwary citizens of Baxter yester-
day.
Judge McCnc will deliver tho Me-
mortal Day address 10 the old soldiers
at Oswego.
Rev. A. NJ. Ward caught q nine
pound German carp near the dam q
u few days ago.
It is said that ut party in Column
bus recently there were fourteen ladies
present who weighed over 200 pounds
each.
There will he meeting of the
directors of the Baxter Springs Butter
and Cheese Association in this city to-
day.
We see by the Kansas City News of
Nav Ii that Horace Austin of this
city has been granted an increase of
pension.
Business men. turn out and attend
the meeting Of the County Breeders
Association at the city hall next Tues
day afternoon.
Star-Conrier: Capt. Z. l.. McClnng
has gone to Texas where he is engaged
on deep harbor survey. He will be
gone all summer.
This is splendid time to begin an
aggressive retrenchment and reform
policy in city expenditures. II taxes
are not high this year it will not be
because the authorities have no OPP
portunity to make them so.
The large tank Tor the Warner wind
mill water works system was put in
position Tuesday afternoon after a
large number of severe tugs" by a
large number of men with block and
tackle. The works are now complete
and in operation.
Those who have visited the old
Spring Branch shaft recently could
hardly fail being surprised at the eX-
tensive flow Of water and the ne2tness
of the windmill, pump snd general
surroundings since it came under
charge of Col. Alex. Warner.
1t may not be generally known that
there is a pottery in our sister town OF
Lowell, but such is the case. 1t is Il
first class one, TOO. The crockery ware
they turn out is the best and is sold in
O large range Of territory in southern
Kansas and southwest Missouri.
Bert Paul received a severe and
painful wound Monday by getting the
point and barb of large fish hook
into the fleshy part of his right hand.
A physician put him under the influ-
ence of chloroform and cut it out. He
stood the operation quite manfully.
A. Miks accidentally dropped his
hand onto a buzz saw at the planning
mill last Saturday and had the little
finger of the right hand literally split
to the second joint. Although it was
quite a serious hurt he managed to
work right along, beginning Monday.
A new ferry line was started across
Five Mile Greek Tuesday. ID. B.
Peake and w. w. Scott sole proprie-
tors. The initial trip was somewhat
disastrous and may provo fatal to the
enterprise as the entire cargo was
dropped in the middle of the stream
to wade out of her own accord.
The iron work and blacksmithing
department of the Baxter Springs
Mig. Co. will be in q new building
erected this week some distance north
of the main building and will be in
charge of A. Miks. A new lathe and
drill, fine pieces of machinery, were
received for this department few
days ago.
The Quaker Valley horticultural
Society will hold its next meeting in
Newly Hodson's grove, one mile north