Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-28
Early vegetables In market.
Fruit prospects are all right.
Tomorrow IL Easter Sunday.
City election u week from Tuesday
next.

IUC WVNtItCI uuo OOOu NSNhNNNay
gloomy this week.
The papers say the smallpox scare
at Joplin is abating.
Undoubtedly every body will he glad
when old blustery March Is gone.
The registration is very full this
spring. Nearly every voter Is enrolled.
The Columbus opera house has been
closed as 1t did not pay the managers.
The rain was slightly inclined to be
wet and persistent IN its coming Mon
day and Tuesday.
Candidates for constable are almost
as thick as flies around a sorghum las
ses barrel IN summer.
We have heard the name of Morris
Doty mentioned as a possible police
Judge for the next two years.
Almost everyone has arrived at the
conclusion that the city election a
week from next Tuesday will be hot
one.
The present incunbent0f the office
Of justice of the peace, Thomas w.
Williams. is suggested as his own
successor.
Morgan Rush of Galena and S. ii.
KenwOrthy of Crestline had business
at w. w. Scott's Kentucky stock barn
last week.
The little "relninder" IN the News
last week from the city marshal rela-
i've to stock running at large had the
desired effect.
So far as the NEWS office is concern
ed times are pretty good, thank yOu.
We are having all unprecedented run
of job printing.
The Commons judgments against
the city have been settled by the pay
ment of 5000 10 j. II. Commons and
SIG TO Margaret Commons.
The proposed changes in the bylaws
of the Baxter Springs Butter and
Cheese Association were ratified at
the meeting of stockholders last week.
The farmers are "kicking" slight
" on the wet condition of the weather.
They want q little Of this wetness
held in reserve for next July and Au.
gust.
City politics are almost up TO the
boiling point and stranger might
easily suppose that whole batch of
state officers was to be elected in few
days.
We would call the attention Of the
public to the Kentucky Stock Barn
owned by w. w. Scott, Baxter
Springs, Kan, before breeding else
where.
II. H. Talbot has posters out an
nOuncing a sale of horses and cattle
for Monday, April 6, at his farm one
half mile west of this city. j. p.
Hartley salesman.
Extra copies of the News contain
ing a history of the Baxter dam and
an account of the difficulties concern
ing it for sale at this Office at &c each
or three for dime.
The lazy man and the fishing rod
are thinking of a combine now
DAYS, and we look forward TO a little
warmer weather to see them bring
their deal to a close.
The reduction IN the tariff on sugar
takes effect next Wednesday. Some
think it will make little difference IN
the price, but we judge 1t will be COLI
siderably cheaper than now before
long.
Mr.. j. j. Fribley spent several days
the past week at Mansfield, Ark.
where he traded for a stock OF hard
ware goods a part of which he sold
there and The balance he will add 10
his stock here.
The coming city election seems to
have over-shadowed everything else
and we hear nothing relative 10 the
two or three new railroads to be built
down this way the coming season.
Better look after them.
"Do hogs pay ?" innocently inquiries
verdant journalist. Whereupon an
inksiained country editor stops wrest-
ling with bis hand press long enough
10 say that he has some on his subscrip.
ton book that "hain't paid q cent In
five years. ."-Ex.
J. e. POlster returned home Thurs
day evening from the county jail hav-
ing received q full pardon from Gov.
Humphrey. He has been gathering
up few choice bits Of history during
his stay at the county seat which he
NAV have uee for In the future.