Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-16
RrpLY 10 rHE JUDGE.

Our learned Shakesperian friend,
Judge Lykins, of the Indian territory,
whose communication was published
in last weeks News, expects an an
swer TO his letter or we should let II
90 by without a word. There was q
good deal of truth In the article, but
even facts are sometimes misleading
and II is the province Of the NEWS to
keep people on the right track even
though we have to sometimes stretch
the truth q little In order TO do SO.
The Judge infers that the associate
editor is opposed to all sorts of i'm.
provements, electric lights. water
works, horse cars, wind mills, secret
societies, public buildings, bichloride
institute, elevated railroads, warm
meals at all hours, and all other insti-
tutions that go TO build up a stump
tail city without taxes or bonded In
debtedness. 1t must be admitted that
the above inference, as applied to the
associate editor, ia true and cannot be
denied, but when the judge infers
that we are opposing the new towns IN
the territory he certainly goes outside
his Jurisdiction. We do not consider
any Of these embryo cities rivals to
Baxter, but rather as feeders to our
trade. Baxter is the hub around
which these smaller consultations re-
volve and if we can do anything to as
sist themin their progress We will do
1t cheeriully. rSt4 sn' .
We do not feel called upon to adj
vertise and commend every new town
that springs up on the prairie or in
the brush without remuneration, (say
5 cents line) as we would soon fill
ND our columns with uninteresting
and unpaid matter to the detriment OF
regular customers who always pay In
advance, g cents a line or 81 per
square, but as q matter of news we
are glad to note the formation of ev-
cry new town site company and
would be glad to publish their pros
pectus at regular rates.
In this connection we are pleased to
state that our old friend j. p. Nc
Naughton has just started new city
called Max. 1t is or will be located
near his big fish pond in the rear Of
Bakers hog lot, and is said to. be one
Of the most desirable towns in the. ter
ritory. 1t already has a post office
with three prospective mail routes and
fine view of Mack's goat ranch.
Within gunshot of the post office are
number of elegant sites for public
buildings, colleges, electric railways
and ice cream saloons. Mr.. McNaugh.
ton is now in Washington city secur.
ing appropriations for custom house
and post Office building.
Just north of Max and within easy
range another city has been planned
and the bill is before the present con.
gress to plat off and sell at S. a lot
some seventeen hundred acres of buck
brush land to actual settlers who have
been crowded out of other towns and
wish to form themselves into an in
corporated city without taxes or bond
cd Indebtedness. Judge Firms fine
hand may be observed in this piece OF
legislation and there can he no. doubt
of it's ultimate success.
We might also mention the city Of
Seediick, near Jim Charley's barn,
Peoria among the jack oaks Of War
ren's branch, Ladoga at the junction
of Spring and Neosho rivers and a
dozen other projected towns with bril-
liant prospects and unsurpassed ad.
vantages, but the NEWS has about all
1t can do looking after the interests OF
it's own town, the city of Baxter
Springs, and we would suggest that
the proprietors of the so-called rival
cities either establish paper of their
own or secure a column or two of the
News which they can have at the
usual rates. "a
Many people who pride themselves
on their blue blood would be tar hap
nier with Dure blood: but, while we