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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Thirty years is II long time 10 fight
so painful a trouble as piles. but
Jacob Mitchell. OF Unionville, Pa,
II struggled that long before he tried
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvc. which
quickly and permanently cured
him. 1t is equally eifective in ecze
ma and all skin affections. W.E.Price
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
A Word to Physicians.

Do you know that mauy broad
minded physicians are using Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar Cough Syrup
in their practice! They have found
no remedy that gave as satisfactory
results for all throat and lung com.
plants az this great cough medi-
cine. W. L. Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

When the spring time comes,
gentle Annie" like all other sensi.
bile persons, will cleanse the liver
and renovate the system with De-
Wits Little Early Risers, famous
little pills for the liver and stomach
all the year round. W. Is. Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Not only acute lung troubles, that
may prove fatal in few days, but
old chronic coughs and throat
troubles may receive immediate re-
lief and be permanently cured by
One Minute Cough Cure. W.E.Price
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Baxter Post, No. l23. G. A. r.. at lis
regular meeting last Saturday even.
ing, made arrangements for tli,'
proper observance of Memorial
Day, which this year comes on Sun.
day, May 10. Services will be held
on that day.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
BuckIsu's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises sores, ulcers. salt rheum. fever
sores. tetter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles. or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded Price a5c per box.
For sale by w L Price
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Shoes at half price at Clary's.

DIED-On Tuesday, May 4. 1897, at
his late home in the Shawnee res
rrvation. Geo. O. Mitchell. sou of
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. s. Mitchell, aged
twenty nine wears. Funeral services
were held on Wednesday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

The supreme lodge officers Of the
Order of Select Friends met on
Tuesday of this week at Lakeside
Park near Carthage TO make prepa-
rations for their annual picnic, that
is TO be held at Lakeside June 8.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

A strawberry and ice cream festi.
val win be given by the ladies' of
the Presbyterian church at the res-
idence of Mrs. J. c. Painter Friday
evening. May "a Everyone invited.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

PRRsoNAL~-The gentleman who
annoyed the congregation last SUM-
day by continually coughing will
find instant relief by using One
Minute Cough Cure. a speedy and
remedy for throat and
lung troubles. w. b. Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Group and whoopIng cough ere
childhood's terrors; bat llks pneu.
moHia. bronchitis. and other ihrSkt
and lung tr0pbles, can be quickly
cured BY using One Minute Cough
Cure. We Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Leeman,s, Galena. Kan

W. +. Brooks of Melrose has pur.
chased an interest in a new patent
window shade holder and will leave
next week for trip through Kan.
sas aud Colorado to introduce il.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Charles +. Cosand, of the Lowell
Academy, was in town Thursday
and left AL order with the NEWS job
for catalogues for thai,
institution,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

The outside stairway leading TO
the second story of the Mrs. Kooutz
building was completed this week
by Smith q Ryon. Although II 10
built7of the best material and the
workmanship is e4eellent Il looks
about as much out pf place as . big
knot on log.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Township officers will please
remember that the NEWS Office
prints township blanks of all kinds
on short notice and OH very reason.
able terms.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

For a pain in the chest . piece of
flannel dampened with Chamber
lain's Pain Balm, and bound over
the seat of the pain, and another
on the back between the shoulders,
will afford prompt relief This is
especially valuable In cases where
fhe pain is caused by a cold aud
fhere is . tendency toward pneu-
nonia- For sale by J. G. Polster.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
liax. You liad the QrlpY

II you have, you probably need .
reliable medicinelike Foley's Honey
and Tar to heal your lungs and
stop that racking cough incidental
10 this disease. W. T. Price.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

When you want to speak of fel-
low who is slightly daft or shows
signs of unsteadiness in his upper
story it is now perfectly proper to
state that "He is chasing the air.
ship" HE is off his trolly" and
"He has wheels in his head" are de-
cidedlv otit of date
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

James L. Palmer drove up to this
city from his home near Miami last
Saturday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Wagner Palace ParIor Sleeping Cars.

Beginning April lst the Memphis
Route, Kansas City. Fort Scott and
Memphis railroad. innugurated. in
connection with its night trains, the
Wagner Palace Parlor aud Sleeping
Car service between Kansas City
and Joplin via Pittsburg. Leaves
union depot Kansas City daily $50
p. m. Leaves Joplin daily 1l:25 pm.
Both day and night trains have re-
clining chair cars free to holders of
first class tickets.
]. 4. LOCKWOOD.
Genl Passenger Agent, Kan. City.
L. w. PRICE,
Travelling Passenger Agent,
Kansas City, Mo.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Baxters implement dealers are
selling implements to farmers who
live south of Fairland, |. I.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

All the new toes in Green, Or
blood and Chocolate and Black
Shoes at
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Ladies' of the q. A. K.

You are requested to meet at the
G y. Il. hall Saturday. May s. 1897
81; = o'clock p. n., To make arrange.
n,rnts for Memorial Day.
By order of
MRs. NJ. T.. NORTON, Pres.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Prof. C. S. Bowman of Joplin, Mo.
spent last Saturday shaking hands
with his many friends in Baxter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Everything in the bread. cake
aud pie line at Mira. Meyerding's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Mrs. Mary Banning has purchased
a cottage In the southwest part of
Baxter and will henceforth be a
resident of this city.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Rocking chairs from SOC up to the
finest. Tables, book cases and ev.
erything else in proportion at
COoPER n STOUGH's,
Galena, Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Co to Leeman, caiena, kan.,
for all the new things in shoes
Green, Oxblood aud Chocolate,
aud everything in black.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
FOR 80 DAYS.

&C ingram carpets 3Oc TO 40c; all
wool extra supers. 2-ply. 45c to GOc;
same. 3-ply, 75c to 3)c; Chinese mat
ting lac to 40c per yard.
COOPER * SLOUGH.
Gaiena. Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

]. B. Opperman's fine black mare
got away from home Monday night,
but was found about ten miles
south of Baxter Thursday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

NJ. c. Clary is selling shoes lower
than you ever bought them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
A.WILLARD,

dealer in
Staple and Fancy
Groceries. PrOviS-
ions, Flour, Feed.
Leader in staple
goods at the very
lowest prices.
Have added to our stock
Amber and Fodder Cane
Seed arid German Millet
Seed, which we will sell
cheap.
Highest prices paid for
Chickens, Stock Hogs and
all kinds of country produce.
l will pay the Highest
Cash Price for Grain.
81 per bu. for No. ? wheat.
l am doing the business
because my prices are lowest
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Col. w. b. Glasse of Columbus
was in town yesterday on legal
business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

See those Green, oxbIood and
Chocolate Shoes at Leeman's,
calena, Kan.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

o. J. Nichols of Miami was in the
city Wednesday on business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

c. b. Puterbaugh has been sworn
in as deputy city marshal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Shoes at half price at Clary's.

Deputy Sheriff McKillop was In
town yesterday on official business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
WARRANTY DEEDS.

The News job department has on
hand large supply of warranty
deeds. Remember this.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Remember, we. have large lot o
chattel mortgage blanks. Ais
blank bills. of sale.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Hardwood 3-piece bedroom suites
$l0.25, Sl2.50, $li. and OH up TO 500, at
reduced prices.
COOPER & SLOUGH.
Galena. Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Miss Pearl Watson, who has been
quite i'll for several months, is, we
are glad To say, considerably im-
proved in health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
FOR SALE OR RENT.

Ono Mi1ut., :, :; a.. ,ca-> =.
Tha; '.';.' ,''..'t ia.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

All kinds of fancy cakes at Mrs.
Meyerding's Steam Bakery.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

The weather is getting decidedly
summery.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Mrs. ]. p. Hartley has been quite
i'll at her home west of the city the
mast week,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Best square meal in the city for
the money at Mrs. Meyerdiug's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

. will pay car fare on each bill
of shoes bought of me.
II. T. LEEMAN,
Galena, Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Merchants and farmers lunch at
Occidental hotel Ii cents. Sunday
dinner % cents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Yon never saw az low prices for
shoes as NJ. {. Clary is making.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

LIGHT DRAWING DONE DAY
OR NIGHT, BY MAC GILL
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08
Shoes at half price at NJ. c. Clary's.

Miss Jessie Cooper returned home
Monday evening from visit of sew
eral days with friends in Columbus.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-08

Ex.Sheriff James Babb was in the
city yesterday on business. Jim
is u farmer now and lives near Col
uuibus.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17
The Story Of Aqua Pufa.
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

Latin name to proclaim to the world
that it was not rowdy town. The
new yellow pine of the little village
cleaned in the clear sunlight. 1t could
be seen for miles on a clear, warm day,
as it stood upon a rise of ground; and
over in Maize. six miles away, the
electric lights of Aqua Pura, which
flashed out in the evening before the
town was six months old, could be
seen distinctly. A school house that
cost $4,000 was built before the
town had seen its first winter; and the
first Christmas ball in Aqua Pura was
held in an opera house that cost $10,-
900. Money was plentiful; two and
three story buildings rose on each side
of the main street of the little place.
The farmers who had taken home
steads in the country around the town
had prospered. The sod had yielded
handsomely from the first breaking.
Those who had come too late to put
in crops found it easy to borrow
money. There was an epidemic of hope
in the air. Every one breathed the
contagion. The Public Library Asso-
citation raised a thousand dollars for
books during the winter, and in the
spring a syndicate was formed to erect
library building. Aqua Pura could
not afford to be behind other towns,
and the railroad train that passed the
place threw off packages of the newest
books as fast as mails could come from
New York. The sheet iron tower of
the Aqua Pura water works rose early
in the spring of 'S7, and far out in
the high grass the hydrants were scat
tered. Living water came bountifully
from the wells that were sunk from
my to one hundred feet in the ground.
Barringer was elected Mayor at the
municipal election in the spring of '87,
and he plated out Barringer's addition,
and built a house there with borrowed
money in June. There were 1000 peo-
pie in Aqua Pura then. Hacks rolled
prosperously over the smooth, hard,
prairie streets; two banks opened, and
the newspaper, which was printed the
day the town was laid off, became a
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to the big red grade OF the unfinished
Chicago Air Line

to the big red grade OF the unfinished
Chicago Air Line"
Barringer did not go East that year.
He could not. But he wrote-wrote
regularly and bravely to the Eastern
capitalists who were concerned in his
bank and loan company; and they
grew colder and colder as the winter
deepened and the interest on default
ed loans came not Barringer's fail
ure was announced in the spring of
49, Nichols had left. Johnson had
left. The other founders of Aqua Pura
had died in 'S7-'SS, and their families
had gone, and with them went the
culture and the ambition Of the town.
But Barringer held on and lived, rent
free, in the two front rooms of the
barn of hotel. His daughter, Mary,
frail, tanned, hollow-eyed and with
cred by the droughts, lived with him.
In 1890 the hot winds came again
in the summer, and long and steady
they blew blithly everywhere There
were only five hundred people in
Fountain county that year, and they
lived on the taxes from the railroad
that crossed the county. Families
were put on the poor list without dis
grace-it was almost mark of pol
tical distinction-and in the little town
many devices were in vogue to distri-
butte the county funds during the win
ter. There was no rain that winter
and the snow was hard and dry. Cat
tie on the range suffered for water
and died by the thousands. A pro-
cession from the little town started
eastward early in the spring. White
canopied wagons, and wagons covered
with old table cloths of various hues,
or clad in patchwork quilts, sought
the rising sun.
Barringer grew thin, unkempt and
gray. Every evening, when the wind
ratified in >-e deserted rooms of the
old hotel, and made the faded signs
up and down the dreary street creak,
the old man and his daughter went
over their books, balancing, accounting
interest, figuring on mythical problems
that the world had long since forgot
ten.
Christmas eve, 1891, the entire viii
lage, fifteen souls in all, assembled at
Barringer's house. He was hopeful,
even cheerful, and talked blithely of
what lone good crop" would do for
the country, although there were no
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17
REFORMER LOSES HER MIND.
Whisky, Corsets and Religion Drive a
Georgia Girl Crazy.

Young girls who start out to reform
the world had better take warning from
the sad fate of Miss Annie Ward, of
Macon, Ga. This young woman was re-
Gently adjudged insane and committed to
an asylum. Miss Ward has been filing
the role of reformer in her town for
several years. The evils which she chose
out of the long category to which human
ity are subject were whisky and corsets.
SO bitter was she in her crusades against
them and so ardently did she work for
their suppression, that it resulted in turn
ing her mind.
In addition to this she has had a re-
ligious mania which has been intensified
of late since she commenced attending
tent meetings. She announced that she
had a mission to perform, which was that
she should kill a number of people. in
Guiding her mother, who is a widow. On
several occasions she created a sense
ton in the neighborhood by preaching
against whisky and corsets from the front
porch of the house. Miss Ward is only
- years of age, pretty and accomplished
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17

farmers left to plant it. even If nature
had been harboring a smile for the
dreary land. The year that followed
that Christmas promised much. There
were spring rains, and in May the
brown grass and the scattered patches
of wheat grew green and fair to see.
Barringer freshened UP perceptibly.
He sent an account of his Indebtedness
on home ruled MANILA paper-to his
creditors in the East, and faithfully
assured them that he would remit all
he owed in the fall. A few wanderers
struggled into Fountain county, lured
by the green fields and running
brooks. The gray prairie wolf gave
up the dugout to human occupants.
Lights in the prairie cabins twinkled
back hope to the stars. Before June
there were thousand people in Foun-
tain county. Aqua Pura's business
houses seemed to liven up. There was
Fourth of July celebration in town.
But the rain that spoiled the adver-
tised fireworks in the evening" was
the last that fell until winter. A car
load of aid from Central Kansas saved
a hundred lives on Fountain county
that year.
When the spring of 1898 opened Bar
ringer looked ten years older than he
looked the spring before. The grass
on the range was sere, and great
cracks were in the earth. The winter
had been dry. The spring opened dry,
with high winds blowing through May.
There were but five people on the
town site that summer, Barringer, his
daughter and the postmaster's family.
Supplies came overland from Maize.
A bloody county seat war had given
the rival town the prize in 1890. Bar
ringer had plenty of money to buy
food, for the county commissioners dis
tributed the taxes which the railroad
paid. 1t was his habit to sit on the
front porch of the deserted hotel and
look across the prairies to the south
west and watch the clouds scatter into
the twilight He could see the water
tower silhoutted against the sky. The
frame buildings that rose in the boom
days had all been moved away, the
line of the horizon was guarded at
regular intervals by the hydrants far
out on the prairie that stood like sem
tinels hemming in the past. The dy-
ing wind seethed through the short,
brown grass. Heat lightning winked
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17

Baltimore. October 15-H. A. darcy.
OF Baltimore, has a scheme which. if
1t is adopted, will make him a national
benefactor
1t will save the thousands of men
and women who annually go to their
death over Niagara Falls. The Mag
ara river has a current that has never
been measured.
Niagara Falls is the home of sui
cldes. Father Hennepin published in
1878 pamphlet describing the Falls,
in which he says: 1.-The temptation to
throw ones self down this incredible
precipice Isl almost too great for re-
sistance." From that time Niagara
Falls suicDd es has increased as the
2opulationA has become greater.
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daily. Society grew gay, and people
from all corners Of the globe met in the

daily. Society grew gay, and people
from all corners of the globe met in the
booming village.
There was no lawless element. There
was not a saloon in the town. A bill
lard hall. and dark room wherein
cards might be played surreptitiously,
were the only institutions which made
the people of Aqua Pura blush when
they took the innumerable Eastern
capitalists" over the town who visited
Western Kansas that year. These
Capitalists were entertained at a
three-story brick hotel, equipped with
electricity and modern plumbing in or
der to excel Maize, where the hotel was
an Indifferent frame affair. There were
throngs of well-dressed people on the
streets, and sleek fat horses were
hitched in front of the stores wherein
the farmers traded.
This is the story of the rise. Bar
ringer has told it thousand times.
Barringer believed in the town to the
last. When the terrible drought OF
1887 with it's furnace-like breath singed
the town and the farms in Fountain
county, Barringer led the majority
which proudly claimed that the country
was all right, and as chairman OF the
Board of County Commissioners, he
sent a scathing message to the Governor
refusing aid. Barringer's own bank
leaned money on land wherein the crop
had failed to tide the farmers over the
winter. Barringer's signature guaran-
teed loans from the East upon every
thing negotiable, and Aqua Pura thrlv-
ed for time upon promises. Here and
there, in the spring of 1888, there was
an empty building. One room of the
Opera House block was vacant. Bar
ringer started man in business, SELL
ing notions, who occupied the room
Barringer went East and pleaded with
the men who had invested in the town
to be easy on their debtors. Then came
the hot winds of July, blowing out of
the southwest, scorching the grass,
shriveling the grain, and drying up the
streams that had filled in the spring.
During the fall of that year the hotel,
which had been opened only in the low
err story, closed. The Opera House be-
gan to be used for aid meetings, and
when the winter wind blew dust-black-
ened snow through the desOlate streets
of the little town, it ratified hundred
windows in vacant houses, and some
times blew sun-warped boards from the
high sidewalk that led across the gully