Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-21
Items Of Interest In the Sun
flower State.
A Record OF Happenings for the Past
week Gathered from Our Exchan-
gee and Boiled Down for
our ROnd0rA

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Herbert In Hiawatha II he will cut the
leaves OF his paper.
The Baker Beacon thinks Lydia
Pinkham has never looked better than
she is looking this year.
A Lawrence paper spells diphtheria
without one OF the his. This In O uni
versity town Is scandalous.
Gossip is the name Of Riley county
school marin. What an interesting
young woman she must be!
The Parsons papers speak respect
fully OF Congressman Clover. He has
promised to get government building
y for that town.
Swift & Company sen: 5000 head Of
sheep to Ell Dorado to winter and full
feed. They will add several thousand
more to their pens there.
Eugene Wares pretty poem, the
''Geese and the Cranes" written
twenty years ago, has just started the
rounds OF the newspapers.
/ One day last week the thermometer
registered 1l5 on the south side Of a
Maryville drug store. That's pretty
uOL, 0Nou tut uruS oVOiS'
! Since October 5, 1891, Colonel Neff
Of Arkansas City, has paid out S1l, 2l6
for hogs which have been shipped. He
is one OF the several hog buyers there.
Independence has q club OF young
ladies called the Sympathetic
society" Young gentlemen are occa-
sionally invited to attend the sessions.
A single buyer last Friday bought
1000 bushels OF corn at Republic CITY,
paying thirty cents o bushel. Repub-
lie City is 200 miles from the Missouri
river.
Kansas has O railroad, the Dodge
City, Montezuma & Trinidad, which
last year earned 81, 800 and spent $1,000
for operating expenses and $4,000 for
taxes.
Blue Rapids has elected man named
Death to attend an Episcopal conven-
ton at Atchison. or course he will
make the Journey overland and ride q
white horse.
! The profits Of the Nortonville cheese
factory for the month OF September
were over $1,000. The proceeds from
eacn 100 pounds OF milk are about sew
enty-two cents.
Going Is the name OF Nooks county
nan SHS af is stsaS s dG ss hf sS%h
drouth and flood and bobs up this year
full OF prosperity.
B. Rodgers & Bro. recently shipped
forty head Of grade Galloway calves
and thirty head OF yearliugs to Missouri
to be wintered on blue grass, says the
Junction City Sentinel.
The smoke OF the battle has not en-
tirelY cleared away at Lebanon. but it
has lifted sufficiently to allow the editor
OF the Journal to see ruin for the paper
unless the subscribers pay up.
Two deformed men being examined
at Manhattan, it was discovered that
the humps on their backs were stuffed
with bottles OF whisky. They were abb
eolutely bowed down by drink.
Ten years ago there was mailed at
Savannah. Mo-, to Miss Mary E. Meeker
OF Eddyville, Ia, wedding present OF
six silver spoons and one day this week
they reached the lady at Wichita.
Finney county, another irrigated re-
gion, Offset Cheyenne by electing the
republican ticket. Irrigation is proba-
bly, managed by different system there,
or possibly water is more partisan.
The Emporia Republican is still
scolding Galloway on account of his
mortgage circular in 1888, forgetful OF
the fact that 1t was afterwards con-
firmed by the United States census.
Young Bert Bates Of Parsons, who
has had both arms and legs broken
several times, has reached the height
of q boys ambition in being nearly
killed by the bursting Of shot gun.
Bishop Fink saws he does not know
why he Is transferred from Leaven-
worth to Kansas City, Kansas. He |
simply obeys the direction OF the SOW
ereign pontiff at Rome. He has lived |
In Leavenworth twenty years.
Half Of Leavenworth will go to Kan
saa City, Kansas, next Monday to in
stall Bishop Fink in his new house. 1t
Is like pulling teeth for Leavenwerth to
lose the bishop, but the Holy Father at
Rome has decreed it, and that settles
Frank Lynch thinks Andrew Carne-
gie's gift to President Harrison Of
eighteen gallons OF fine Scotch whisky
comes just in the nick OF time. 1t Is
safe to predict that the next annual
message to congress will be q spirited
paper.
The people of Atchison county de-
feated the new court house proposition.
The temple Of justice they have drifted
upon its present site ut the time of
Noah's food, and the people, generating
ancient landmarks, do not like to tear
Il down.
A dining out club has been organized
IN Atchison by somebody who seems 10
possess the genius Of Ward McAllister.
For the present, until others prove ELI
Eibla, Il viii be limited to FIVE married
couples. One feed will Be given q week
by first one couple and then another,
and when all have had their turn tile