Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-23

BAXTER SPRINGS.
Caucus tonight.
Remember the caucus this Saturday
evening at city hall.
Another exceedingly heavy rain
fell Tuesday night IN this vicinity.
Capt. Price got onto that "taith cure
business before the ink was dry on
the charter.
Baxter Springs will only he allowed
fifteen delegates to the Republican
county convention.
Tnrrence ComnOr will have charge
of the LOng-Bcll lumber yard here
during the absence Of Mr.. Slater.
The eniicing game Of marbles now
engages the attention Of the small
fwy-also of some who are not 80
small,
There will I've an Ice cream festival
at Mrs. c. NJ. Polster's next Wednes.
day evening for the benefit of the M.
E Sabbath school.
The Methodisis and faith cure peo-
pie are having quite a row out Mel
rose way and unless compromise is
effected soon il will end serious.
We have the faith cure as an es-
tablished fact. Now for the bichlo.
ride and kite shaped track. Talk
about rival towns. "Fear boys with
bugs"
Mai. Hartley has already had a
number of enquiries for stand privil.
eyes at the reunion and II looks as II
all would be sold before the date OF
the meeting.
Dad Wahl came in from Melrose
Yesterday and reports a majOriiy IN
| L, on and NeoshO townships for Muir
dock for governor and kirkpatrick
for congressman.
Charles Horn, who was tried in the
United States court at Topeka this
! week for selling liquor to Indians,
was acquitted, there being 40 evidence
10 sustain the charge.
U, S. Marshal Jones accompanied
by Pete Clabber, Joe Buffalo, Jim
Medicine and a half dozen other
Quapaws, left for Topeka Sunday
morning 10 attend the Z. S. district
court.
A posse Of ncn from near Lowell
passed through Baxter Sunday in
search of thief or thieves who had
stolen horse from H. e. Bradshaw
and one from c. w. Chambers the
night previous.
Mrs. Peake writes from Kansas City
that although that town Is full OF
business and has some good news-
papers she prefers Baxter Springs as
residence and the Baxter NEWS as
paper to anything she has seen yet.
Miss Minnie Reynolds opened q
select school last Monday in the public
school building and is meeting with
good success. She would like few
more pupils, however, and will give
them good instruction. Terms 81 per
month.
We received u letter Monday from
Joplin containing dollars worth of
stamps, but nothing by which we
could tell who it came from. If the
party who sent it will write us further
we will give him credit. Don't all
speak at once.
Robt. Milne received his claim In
full from the Phoenix insurance Co.
of Hartford through its local agent,
|C. w. Daniels, and will proceed at
once 10 rebuild his hay barn. In fact
he will make it considerably larger
than it was before
When a man is left at home to cook
his own dinner, clean house, wash the
dishes and take care Of the children
while his wife is off attending to the
affairs of the nation, he begins to
realize that the woman's department
of the Columbian Exposition is moi
altogether delusion.
N. T. Harris, esq, of St. Matthews,
KY, a we'll known breeder of thor
oughbred horses and dogs, Is stopping
in the city for few days and putting
in his time hunting jack snipe and
plover in the territory. Mr.. Harris
has brought one of his fine dogs with
him, "Wun Lung" who has pedigree
u mile long and winning record sell
dom beaten.
Some short sighted people have an
idea that Baxter Springs Will be IN
jured by every new town started IN the
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