Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-01-30

| LIN q
BAXTER SPRINGS,
w. d. Pinnick-feed store.
Caples' Collie Cure cures. W. E. Price
REX Flour is the best. Anderson
sells it.
FOR SALE-Good seed oats at my
place. IT, EMBRf'
And now it is called the "Saud(sp
bank.
Roy Harvey and l. N. Lynch had
business in Columbus Thursday.
CA. McNeill of Columbus was in
town Wednesday on legal business.
Goods and fashions for spring
and summer of 1897, at ID. Beathon's
the tailor.
Wells Thompson and family oc-
cupy the Penke property on River
street.
Miss Bertha Quigg has opened a
select school in the public school
building.
"Boonierang" No.. 3 was dandy,
wasn't it: Copies of it are now in
great demand.
DIR. c. NJ. Jones aud family have
moved into the Lyman property on
Sheridan avenue.
Mrs. Henry Ohlen visited her
daughter, Mrs. II. Kretchmar, near
Carthage, last week.
County Attorney Stevens came
down from Columbus Wednesday
morning on official business.
The old muskets continue to do
effective work among the rabbits
and the markets are full OF them.
Whnt's become of that law and
order league that was to have been
organized at Columbus last Satur-
day!
". S. Norton returned Saturday
evening from Kansas City, where
he has been taking treatment Tor
rheumatism.
Baxter Springs has Il fine system
of electric lights-nit. Parties
using them frequently have to EN-
ploy a good lantern to find them.
Sixteen car loads of spelter, or
zinc metal, was shipped from Weir
City last week to Liverpool. Eng
land. The spelter went via Calves
ton, Texas.
A gentleman said to us the other
day: There is one thing you must
give Colonel Warner credit for, and
that is his nerve" We do; he GER
tainly has plenty of it.
Chas. Jones, the ape-headcd coon,
who slugged W. ID. Pinnick, was
given Jail sentence OF six months.
He should have been hanged and
then sent TO the penitentiary for
life.
A. r. Kramer has bought an
eighth interest of Mrs. {. A. Childs,
of Baxter, in the Rock Island and
the Christmas Eve mines in Empire
City. Consideration $600.-Galena
Times.
Roy Harvey found a 25.pound
sack of "Reindeer" flour in one OF
his ou,buildings back of the furni
tnre store Tuesday morning. The
thief was q little late in getting
around after il, and Roy beat him
to the stall. Who lost it!
"
Representative Brown of Pratt
county has introduced n bill in the
Legislature TO prohibit the sale oi
cigarettes in this state. The pen
atty for violation of the proposed
law is fine of from $50 10 $500 and
Jail sentence of from 30 TO 80 days
The Pittsburg Kansan gives tie
an insight into private life i'll that
town: A Locust street dame was
having a tiff with her hubby the
other night. "If l should die,' she
said hotiy, you'd never get another
wife like me-" Said hubby before
he went out into the cruel world
"Who ever told you l wanted an
other wife like your"
w. p. Archer, John X. Archer, JAS
S. Archer and Mamie +. Propp, the
children of Mrs. A. Willard of this
city, have recently fallen heir TO a
one-sixth part of the estate of Gran
Vile w. Archer, deceased, of Texas
The estate includes 1,620 acres oi
fine farming land in Gonzales coun'
ty 100 miles east of Valasco. The
land has been claimed and sold un.