Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-02

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umbus Reporter, took In the reunion
lat night. Y
-Major Bloomfield of Columbus
came in yesterday wearing silk
plug hat. lie did not know Il was
against the rules aud will not do il
again.
We got COmrade Mulliken a.
"Mulligan" aud his regiment the 77lh
Pennsylvania, when il should have
been the 77lh New York, in the paper
yesterday
"A. j. Georgia, one of the sturdy
&. A. II. men of Pitisburg, is here
with his entire family. Comradc
Georgia is third in communicative
ma or Of the encamrment.
Rev. Springer met "A relative
found him in iact--at Camp Logan
yesterday. whom he had not met be.
fore in fifty years. Camp Logan is
great place tor everything.
The DAILY News would liked
To have mentioned every comrade on
the ground. said something about
him, if the editor had 10 lie To do it,
bu, there are too many of you boys.
-Comrade w. II. II. Moore of Ga
lena came in yesterday. The Galena
W. II. &. finally decided that he
NIL hl con" over if he would give
bond To keep quiet the rest of the
week.
The Mexican war veterans held a
meeting at the grand stand Yesterday
morning. There were not many pres
ent-only ten, but il was very good
representation of men who partici-
paled in war forty.five years ago.
-Comrade Frank Arnold of Lamar.
Mo-, so well known to the comrades
generally here, arrived last night ac-
comranied by Mrs. Arnold and their
Two little girls, who entertained the
people so well last year. They will
give skirt dance and other exercises
at the camp fire this afternoon.
The DAILY News. as well as all
visitors and campers, are under obliga-
lionS to the Joplin Drum Corps for
excellent martial music. The young
fellows 0i the corps are gentlemen IN
every sense, and we can assure them
that the old vets in particular appreci-
ate their music.
The Kansas City Journal is the
only metropolitan daily in the West
that knows good thing and goes to
it, viz: The Baxter Springs reunion.
That excellent paper has two represent
taives on the grounds who have been
with us all the week and expect to stay
her out. The Journal is giving daily
reports of the doings at Camp Log an.
-Comrade w. w. Mcdowell of
Smithtield, Mo-, who served three
years in the Goth Indiana, has very
kindly furnished the REUNION DAILY
News with the number OF tents on the
grounds-that is, the Camp Logan
grounds proper. There are four hum
dred and forty tents occupied. He es-
Inmates, on an average, ten persons to
each tent. This would make nearly
5000 people camping on the grounds
in tents. There are, at the least calcu-
ation, thousand people using wagon
sheets for tents, camping in wagons
and temporary shelters. In a word,
there are from six TO seven thousan
people camping on the ground. This
is far in excess of anything in the his
tory of state reunions and puts the
Baxter reunion at the bead OF all IN
Kansas.
The reunion officers are having al
easy time of it this year. The boys
are running things themselves and it
is not uncommon to see half dozen
camp fires running at the same time,
in various parts of the camp. There
is no formal opening of these meetings.
A couple or more old comrades get to
talking about the gang at Washington
and. feeling as they do about the out
fit, they don't talk in whispers, but
spit Ter out in tones that can be heard
half way to Joplin. a crowd gathers
to hear. BY and by some one starts a
song; the crowd grows larger; some
one feels called upon to make speech
and Others follow until genuine, old
fashioned camp fire is on. We counted
no less than half dozen of these i'm
promptu meetings going at the same
time yesterday morning. The great
big camp fires at the amphitheater are
crowded, of course, but there is no
cranking about being entertained this
year. Everybody is entertaining him
self and Col. Wcldy and his assistants
are for the first time getting rest
and enjoying the reunion like other
people.
Hon. George Douglass, speaker of
the Kansas house of representatives,
arrived on the early morning train
yesterday. About 8 o'clock he rode
out to Camp Logan with Col. Warner
and others. In few minutes it be-
came known that he was on the