Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-12


BAXTER SPRINGS
Galena has new bank.
Now Is the time to pay city licenses
Weir City too has an original pack
age ordinance.
The dust in places is getting to be o
uncertain depth.
Vegetables of all kinds are gettinI
: scarce in market.
A lead mine near Seneca, Mo-, yield
its owner 4 hundred dollars u day.
Many parties have taken their COW
off the pasture and are now stall feed
ing them.
j. +. Mcdowell has purchased an,
Is now conducting the Webb Cit,
Daily Crusber.
The public sale to be held by w. G
Bates OIL the 18th inst. has been indef
initely postponed.
1t will be four weeks tomorrow
since this section OF the county wa
visited by a rain of any consequence
Joplin recently paid $500 for a writ,
up IN Frank Leslie'S Illustrated, Civ
ing description of that town and it
resources.
What was the matter with the Ga
lena Times OF last week? 1t did no
reach us till Wednesday morning o
this week.
The electric lights "kerfunked" ;
few minutes Monday evening. Tba
is to say they went out. We did no
learn the cause.
Rev. G. G. Shirk Of New York will
preach in the Baptist church (the cit,
halD next Sunday at 4 p. In., at tnt
close of the Sunday school.
A Kansas City paper contained 30(
"rooms to. I" advertisements in one
issue. No wonder that town is not sat.
isfied with its census enumeration.
Mrs. l.. G. Weldy of Galena lost 8
new gossamer willie attending our 4tl
of July celebration. Anyone finding
the same will please leave it at this
office.
The last report of The state board OIL
agriculture says that the Cherokee
County Agricultural Association will
hold no fair this fall. Wonder what's
the matter.
MARRIED.-At the residence of and
by Justice T. Ii. Williams in this city
Sunday evening, July 6, 1890, Mr.. S.
w. Bailey TO Miss Maude Justice both
Of Lowell, Kansas.
The Kaw Valley Association of
Primitive Baptists will convene in
Willow Greek church at Baxter
Springs on Saturday before the second
Sunday in August.
The fire in Galena last week des-
troyed the building that the Galena
Miner was first printed in, and in
which the editor Of this paper set his
first type in Cherokee county.
We know of number of persons in
this city who intend applying for a
pension under the new law, which
grants to soldiers of the late war a
pension for disabilities received since
the war closed.
Wonders will never cease. Recent
" woman invented q machine that
will photograph sound. Ifit will also
photograph the ugly faces some peo-
pie make while singing it will indeed
be a great machine.
Will Brewster struck lead at Peoria
Monday at a depth of seven feet.
Nearly ten pounds of high grade of
float mineral was taken out and the
boys are consequently much pleased
with their prospect.
Our Peoria correspondent writes
that a rush of business has so over
whelmed him the past week as to pre-
clude the possibility of writing his
usual letter. The new mines are still
booming, however, with prospects
Frightening every day.
The night train on the Memphis
road was late the other night on ac-
count of leaving Kansas City without
its conductor and having to run back
for him. The train had proceeded as
far as Rosedale before it was discover
ed that that important person was not