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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
A Kansas t,Iri for KiondIke.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 3O.-Ex-Senator
H. d. Kelly has received letter from
his daughter, Miss Emma Kelly now
in Chicago, in which she says she will
sail from Seattle for the Klondike Sep
TENDER II. Miss Kelly is Kansas
girl. She was born in Howard, Elk
county, "a years ago.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
NIaxIm,s wonderful light.

New YORK, Aug. S0.-Word comes
from London that Hiram Maxim, the
American scientist and inventor OF
the Maxim gun. has just invented the
cheapest and strongest electric light
ever made. One light has burned
steadily for 1000 hours, aud still re-
mains brilliant The film Is made Of
mineral. instead Of vegetable sub
afanco,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
EIrnhnr. Rurn = Barn.

PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 2s.-Firebugs
burned q large barn and all its con-
tents, belonging to Van Adams, we'll
TODD farmer living east Of this city.
They also attempted To burn the
Adams house. They tore boards from
the house and stuffed straw next TO
the lnths and ignited il.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04

FIVE women have just been enrolled
for three years course of study in n
New York college for veterinary sur
geons Their speciality will be the
treatment of dogs, cats and other
household nets.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
italian Women for Alaska.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3O.-Anton Dolino has
secured the names of 100 Italian wom-
en- who are willing to go to Alaska and
net rs packers in getting the goods OF
prospective miners over the mountains
t big wages. His intention IS to en-
ter into competition with the Indians
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
I,opr ygorop min OF Lumber,

GUTHRIE, Ok. Sept Lone hundred
wagons are loading with lumber here
to move In procession 40 miles east,
70 the townof Perkins, where the lum-
Der will be used to complete bridge
across the cimarron river, the longest
wagon bridge in the southwest
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
Fierce Forest FiFsa.

81. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. Sian Ana
couda, Mont, special says A aerce
forest are Il raging q few miles west
Of hsrs and spreading with alarming
rapidify toward thil city. The Gre
has already burned over iooQo ncrpl q
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
Hnr Nnld Dor a1.lOo.

sPRnGPtELD, Ill, Aug. aa-At .
ssle Of Poland China hogs hers yester.
day, . boar named Klstsr's Modal sold
for os,f0o Thia Il The largest price
ever paid for = hoa. Il was purchaloi
n Z lgndicRt1
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
co,or.ao,. Gold Output.

DENVER, Col, Aug. S1.-Thc receipts
of gold Mt the United States branch
mint in this city for the fiscal month
of August, which closed Saturday,
amounted to 81, s15. 937.bs; the receipts
for August, 1896, were ssss, 4So.s4. an
increase for this year Of ssS5, 77i.74, or
ann ,anY. cent
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
w. r. HARRlTY pEPosEp.
Pennsylvania Democratic Convention VOTE
Him on the National Committee.

Pennsylvania Democratic Convention votes
Him on the National Committee.
READING, Pa, Sept. 1.-The demo-
cratic state convention met In this city
yesterday and nominated Walter Il.
Ritter, Of Lycoming county, for au-
ditor- general, and NJ. E. Brown. Of
Blairsville, for state treasurer. The
matter OF the selection Of candidates
was entirely over-shadowed though
ny the fight to force the retirement of
william +. Harrity from the national
committee. The opponents OF Mr..
Harrity passed resolution, 200 to
1874, indorsing James n. Guffey for
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
tn Reliave Her Frlenda.

GUTHRIE. Ok, Aug. sO.-The wife of
Black Horse, a prominent Cheyenne
sub-chief, living in ID county, commit
ted suicide by hanging. She had been
sick for some time and committed the
act TO relieve her friends from caring
a Aaw
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
MISSOURI HoNoRED.

Mrs. Sarah j. Martin Chosen National Pres-
ident Of tho woman's Relief Corps.
BRooKFIELD. Mo-. Aug. 3o-Mrs Sarah ..
Martin. OF this city. who was elected national
president Of the W. r. C. ut Buffalo. n r. last
W eek. was born In Wheeling, W. Va. In ieis,
her maiden name being Wilson. In lsoS sne
was married to George W. Martin. VINO mao
done gallant service in the Forty-Fiith ONO
volunteers. leaving his right arm on the Get
tysburg battlefield. Immediately after tney
were married Mrs Martin accompanied ner
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
WANT MRS. HOFFMAN DEPosED
Jefferson City Members Of the w. c. I. U.
Have . Grievance.

KANSAS CRY, No., Sept l.-Some
members Of the W. c. I. U. desire to
discipline Mrs Clara Hoffman, the
state president. A petition is being
circulated over the state asking for
her removal. The grounds for the pc
tition are that she wrote an article for
q Sedalia paper, in which she said that
II the taxpayers of jefferson City voted
against capital removal they would
prove themselves bigger idiots than
she had always supposed them to be.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04

LADY HABERToN will preside at the
congress of women in behalf of ra-
tional dress at Oxford. Eng, some time
this month. All of the delegates are to
wcar boomers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04

The two Creighton brothers, wealthy
farmers, who were arrestsd for alleged
rohborv Of the post once Of Aantef
Kan. wsfo discharged b the fedora
ornrt et Fp<l Scott
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
HER IDENTITY A MYSTERY.
Handsome Young Woman Commits Suicide
In q Chicago Hotel

In q Chicago Hotel
CHICAGO, Sept LA handsome young
woman, whose name is unknown, killed
herself yesterday in the Victoria hotel,
where she was guest. The suicide
was evidently carried out with the ut
most elaboration, as the young wom-
an had evidently slept in the bed dur
ing the night, taken bath in the
morning, made up the bed and then,
swallowing morphine, lain down to die.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04

SPANS public debt is sl,sOO, 900, 900.
Her income is only $3.50, 100000. Secre-
tary sherman had good grounds for
saying she was bankrupt.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

SpIRiTuALisTs in Jeffersonville, Ind,
have rented II haunted house as their
meeting place.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
|posr OFFICES FOR FARMERS.

Fourth Assistant J. L. Bristow Talks OF the
Adminlstration's Mall Policy.
TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. 3l.-J. l.. Bris-
tow, fourth assistant postmaster-gen-
eral, came here to-day and was met by
numerous republican brethren. He
sxpects TO visit es-Gov. Morrill, at Hia-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04
CLICK OUT, LELAND IN.
A New Man In Charge OF the Pension
Agency ut Topeka.

TOPEKA. Ram, Sept. l.-Cyrus Lei
and received the pension agency last
night from ex-Gov. George W. Click.
There is only one employee Of the pen
sion office who is not under the civil
service rule. He is the janitor 1t is
announced that he will be discharged
Immediately and republican put in
his place. It is also announced that
Mr.. Leland will fire every democra,
employed in the office. lie will, II Il
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-09-04

Assistant Secretary of State Adee
has gone to Europe for n two months
vacation. He will spend 1t bicycling
through France.
The herald., 1897-01-11
PICK AND PAN.

A strike of very rich gold rock has
been made two miles northwest of Gar
lock, Kern county, in the Mesquite can
yon
John Long. who found the Lost Horse
mine at Indio, Riverside county, has
found new ledge about a mile from the
mill which he claims is as good as the
Lost Horse or Desert Queen.
The mill of the Lost Horse mine, In
Iio, Riverside county, is running ON roc k
worth $50 to $100 per ton.
The mines and water right belonging
to John Wilson at Twenty-Five Palms.
in Southern California, have been sold
to San Francisco men.
Riverside county has dug two wells in
the desert mountains. The one at the
head of Big Canyon, fifteen miles from
Waters station, on the road to Cotton
wood Springs, is of great help to miners
in that direction
The new five-stamp mill on Case J.
Couts' Rancheta mine, three miles east
of Banner, San Diego county, has been
started up.
In doing assessment work on the Val
entine mine San Diego county, they dis
covered large ledge carrying rich sui
phurets.
AT the Green Lead mine, Holcomp
valley, in Southern California, there are
now twenty men employed, and the new
mill is kept running.
The Golden Cross mire a Hedges, San
Diego county, is yielding about $1,000 per
day.
big steam arastra is to crush the ore
IT, f-A ~5s~~ --;~,o q,
The herald., 1897-01-11
PITY THE STOCKHOLDERS.

When g bank fails the first thought of
the general public is about the losses de-
positors are likely to suffer. The stock
holders are forgotten. But a bank fail
ure is really very much greater shock
" the average stockholder than to the
Gepostor. AS a rule. very much the
larger part of the stock of banks is held
by investors who know absolutely moth
ing about the management Of the bank
The National Bank of Illinois had 81 900, =
600 of capital stock, held by hundreds of
shareholders. The president of the bank
possessed only So. .0c0 A few months
ago the stock was worth 1920 a share.
and its holders looked upon il as among
their most secure investments. But al
most in a moment they find their stock
worse than useless, for they will have
to stand an assessment on it. and prob
ably set nothing out of it In the end. It
is safe to say that recent experiences
with banks Will make it very difficult.
1or years to come to organize new
banks with widely scattered capital
Bank officials will thus be required to
have large holdings of Stock They GER
tainly will be more careful about hand
ling other peoples money when a large
amount of their own money is at stake,
1t might not be a bad idea to require
tnat a man cannot serve as cas- shier pres
ldent or director of a bank without hold :
ing large amount of the stock of the
Dank.--kansas City Star.
The herald., 1897-01-11
THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS

The Union Pacific reorganization
committee Will be prepared to pay its
obligations to the government in cash
if the refunding bill is defea ted. The
final arrangements to do that were COM
pleted last Saturday. OF course the
committee hopes the bill will become a
law. but it does not propose to let the
property be put up at auction, which the
government would have to do if the bill
fails and the money is not forthcoming.
If the Union Pacific can get the re
quired sum to make settlement with the
government. could not the Southern
Pacifi, raise enough to pay its debt?
And if the roads in interest can raise the
money, what is the sense of fooling with
a refunding bill? The fact of the busi-
ness is, the purpose of the bill is to ena-
BILE the debtor roads to swndle the gov
ernment out of $l2O, O0OO 900, but the Union
Pacific is taking time by the forelock by
having the amount of its Indebtedness
on land in case IL ma 10 pay up, winch
is evidence conclusive that it can but
does not want to pay its debts.
Congress will commence voting upon
the amendments and substitutes to the
refunding bill today, and most likely the
bill proper will be reached and disposed
/ of. How the bill will fare no one can tell
but it is pretty safe to say that it will
not become law during the present ad-
mnistra ton. for it is almost sure of
being hung up in the senate if it passes
the lower house: besides. the Union Pa
cific having shown its ability to pay
what it owes will be a strong argument
against the measure.
The herald., 1897-01-11
GREATER THAN DUTY.

One of those soft evenings of two or
three weeks ago reporter and frient.
OF his had sat down for a few minutes
in Fdrragut square to quietly pull at
their cigars, it being about that time in
the cleaning when to pull a. cigar is most
pleasant and permeating to the human
system says the Washington Star. AS
they sat enjoying the fact that they were
able TO do what they were doing, they
were approached by a person who was
not able to do it.
Il beg your pardon, sir" he said. in o.
plain English accent, to the reporter,
can you render me a bit of assist
ance?"
"A drink, 1 suppose?" queried the re-
porter.
Yes, If there's enough after a bite to
eat, sir | like a drank quite as we'll as
most men, sir, and l am willing 20
make sacrifice to get it; but there are
times when man must eat, sir. in or
der to keep alive, SO he can be able to
drink"
Il hadn't thought of it that way"
laughed the reporter, but 1 see the
force of it, and I would suggest that. az
You are on your way you might as we'll
go up to the British embassy and get a
bite there. 1 understand they live well
up there"
80 I've heard, SIR" replied the En-
ghshman, and that's where I'm going;
but 1t occurred to me. sir that it was
my duty to go there, as it was the duty
of the people there to feed me when I
arrived. and. sir, England expects every
man to do his duty. But you are an
American, sir, that England hasn't a
right to expect anything from, and il
you helped me a bit, sir, you see, it
would be so much more to your credit
sir
1t was skillful bluff, and 1t won, az
it deserved to
The herald., 1897-01-11
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT

The senatorial fight is getting interest
ing. It is very evident that Perkins has
been shamefully betrayed by some of
his hitherto supposed close friends, but
for all that he is in the lead and is un-
doubtedly the first choice of his party
as a whole. The candidacy of Short
ridge is as yet mystery, but develop
ments today are likely to throw a good
deal of light upon great many things.
At any other time, or rather under ordi-
nary circumstances, Shortridge's can
didacy would be regarded as a joke
something to amuse the boys between
drinks-but he is being played in
serious game of political three-card
monte.
Yesterdays dispatches hinted that old
Claus Spreckles himself would probably
turn up at the right moment and try TO
run enough members through his politi-
cal sugar refinery to give him Perkins
place If that be true, the candidacy of
Shortrdge is explained. The sugar king
is using the elongated young man to
beat the bushes to see how many vot-
ing animals and vermin can be relied
upon to rush out of the bushes and into
his trap If enough run out il is safe
to predict that old Claus will be the next
senator, and if the scheme works all
right the man who would say that Sam
is Of no earthly use should
be stamped Cuban rebel and delivered
over to Weyler.
1t is a Republican family fight. and
every Democratic member of the legis-
lature should use every honorable
means" to add bitterness and intensity
to it. but when it comes to show down
and the Democrats find they can elect
Perkins by joining with the better ele-
ment of the Republican side, why they |
should at least take the proposition un-
der prayerful consideration. If the |
nuddle reaches point where the good |
name of the state is likely to be be- |
,mirched, the Democratic members |
would be justified in combining with |
he decent Republicans, if there are any,
md saving the commonwealth from the |
lisgrace of having a senator whose |
craftsmanship is reelected in his bank |
recount
The herald., 1897-01-11

ly, staggered to his feet and with one
strong blow sert the three Goughnuts
spinning under tie divan. Then clasping
the child to his breast, he said, in firm
voice:
Cheer up. darling. l know I'm weak.
sodden wretch, but l have manhood
enough left to defend the feelings of my
loved ones. l promise that not another
sinker shall ever pass my lips Now run
away to bed. little one"
With a glad cry, the obedient 6augh-
ter kissed her papa and bade him good
night, folding his hands in gentle caress
as she withdrew. At noon she sought
his chamber 10 wake him as usual, but
the Ioon was empty. In the base ement
they found poor Scoops dangling at the
end of rope. The wrinkles in front Of
his vest were full of crumbs
A thorough search of the library failed
to discover the doughnuts that had rolled
under the divan. More oily crumbs,
however. Uttered the table cover and
the bottom of the easyChair. The scrao-
book lay open a an article written by
the deceased, and entitled, Why Sane
Men Commit Suicide.
The burden of this treatise was that
victims of perniciouS habits sometimes
kill themselves on finding that the VIII
power can no longer be exercised =
Charles Dryden in the New York Jour-
nal
The herald., 1897-01-11

Guich. on the Greenhorn, not far from
Bakersfield, Kern county
The Redrnan mine at Banner, San
Diego county. is turning out some rich
ore.
There are reports Of good discoveries
In the Chihuahua district, in the north
ern part of San Diego county.
Coal is the principal fuel at Rands-
burg, Kern county, and costs SIS per ton
A gasolene launch has been chartered
IN San Diego to take some Bakersfield
tAern county, projectors for trip down
the coast of Lower California. Mean
time San Diego county men are coming
up into Kern county on prospecting
trips. THE hills look green afar of"
The Pelton water wheel is a California
invention, and though it is not so very
many years ago since it was introduced,
there are now upwards of 5000 of these
wheels running. Nearly all of the
large quartz mills in the country obtain
their motive power from that wheel.
The herald., 1897-01-11
SATDAY NIGHT.

"The's never a week" says Uncle ST.
With his corncob pipe alight-
"The's never week o. sob an sigh.
Wen clouds r gloomy an floods run high,
But comes to Sat'day night.
Mondays hours O. toll may drag
IS if they'd never git pas.
An Toosday an We'n'sday may linger an
lag,
VILE tn sun is hot an our sperits flag,
But Satday comes at las.
''Wen things goes wrong, jes' stop an low
AT time IL set 'em right.
Mebbe the darkness at kivers us now
Is meant to try us an teach us how
To 'preciate Satday night.
GIVE toiled an troubled an sorrowed much.
I've fit through storm an calm
Fer Dead sea apples at cheat the touch
An roses at leave but thorne to clutch,
But Sat'day night brings ba'm.
"An So" says Uncle ST. yell find,
Eff We value yer blessin's right,
The hain't no place for mortal mind.
'Ith the Sabbath ahead an the week be-
hind,
Like a restful Sat'day night
Y Y. Heatnn in THE Quilting Bee"
The herald., 1897-01-11

cent of the tickets handled by scalpers
are furnished them by the railways. The
scalper is the weak" lines strong right
arm. More than ninety-five per cent
of the agreements between railways to
maintain passenger rates are broken
by one or more roads in interest surrep-
titiously loading up scaipers with tick
cts at prices which enable them to ''cut
the rate and still make profit There
never has been a time in the history of
the railways when there were enough
offerings of unused portions of tickets
by the travelling public to support one
scalper to the city. But. anyway. the
Railway Age only shows the size of the
monopoly collar it wears when it at
tacks the travelling statesmen of the bust
ness enterprises of the United States
for asking for fair ard reasonable treat
ment at the hands of the railways.
The herald., 1897-01-11
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS

The Railway Age, a weekly publica-
ton whose business it appears to be
to abuse anyone and everyone who dares
to stand up before a railway and claim
that his soul is his own, insults the COM
mercial travellers of America for pre-
suming to ask concessions of the rail
ways in this brutal way:
Instead of organizing conspiracy
to force state legislatures to pass two
cent fare laws-which courts of equity
would nullify as unreasonable-hoW
would II do for the commercial travelling
fraternity to cease its support of ticket
scalpers who are robbing the railways
of their legitimate business, and thus
enable the roads to establish the inter-
changea BILE mileage tickets which ticket
scalping now renders unsafe? Even If
the two-cent rate for everybody should
be adopted, the scalpers would stu de-
wise ways to cut rates, ard travelling men
would still be their chief patrons. The
first step to lower passenger rates is the
adjustment of The dishonest, destruc-
tive, illegal trade of ticket-scalpinS, and
it seems strange that honorable bust
ness men do not voluntarily inaugurate
a crusade against the real enemies OF
lower rates, instead of joining in schemes
to boycott and 'bulldoze' their best
friends, the railways
The commercial travellers have not
tried to boycott" or "bul!doze" the
railways, and the Railway Age knows
perfectly we'll that they have not, but it
is willing to grossly misrepresent them if
thereby it can catch a smile from its mo-
nopolistic hackers and supporters. The
commercial travellers ask for q
rate of two cents per mile,
with interchangeab tickets - that
is, with mileage tickets good
on any road over which their business
calls them. There are thousands of them,
and their business is very valuable to
the railways, but the ROADS have taken
them ION the hip" so to speak, and are
not disposed to slacken their grip upon
them.
AS lOi commercial lidN ClCio hcdlllS :
with ticket scalpers, the Age should
know, if 1t knows anything at all about
it, that they travel on mileage books that
are issued in the name of the buyer by
the passenger departments of the rail-
ways, and the Age should know, TOO,
that nearly every commercial traveller
is too well known TO conductors to use
a book that was in the name of another,
even if he wanted to. But the purpose
of the Age is to hold the commercial
travelling fraternity before the public
as a class of thoroughly disreputable
characters, and hence it cares little
what it says, if only it can accomplish
its purpose; but as between the frater-
nifty of commercial travellers and the
Railway Age outfit Of monopoly hire
lings, the public would not be slow TO
endorse the travellers.
AS to ticket scalpers, it is only the
densely stupid man who does not know
that there is not a scalper in the United
States who could keep his doors open
thirty days were it not for the direct
support he gets from the ticket depart
nent Of the railways. Seventy-five per
The herald., 1897-01-11
THE OLD YEARS BLESSING.


am fading from you but one drawe;h
near,
Called the angel guardian OF the coming
year.
Let the New Years angel bless and crown
them yet.
For we work together: he and 1 are one;
Let him end and perfect all l leave un-
done.
I brought Good Desires, though as yet
but seeds:
Let the New Year make them blossom into
Deeds.
I brought Joy, to brighten many happy
Let the New Years angel turn it into
Praise.
If I gave you Sickness, If 1 brought you
Care.
Let him make one Patience. and the other
PRAYER.
Where / brought Sorrow. through his
care at length
1t may rise triumphant into future
Strength.
If brought you Plenty all wealth's boun-
teous charms
Shall not the new Angel turn them into
Aims?
gave Health and Leisure, skill to dream
and plan;
Let him make them nobler, Work for God
and man.
were dust
Let him turn the knowledge into heavenly
Trust.
If I brought Temptation. let Sin die away
Into boundless Pity for all hearts that
stray.
If your list of Errors dark and long ap-
pears.
Let this newborn Monarch melt them into
Tears.
May you hold this Angel dearere than the
last
So ] bless his Future while he crowns nv
Past.
Adelaide a. Proctor in the Newark Call.