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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
MACkEREL in kits cheap at
ANDERSON'S.

]. III. Humphrey was up from
uuapaw Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
WARRANTY DEEDS.

The NRws job department has on
hand a large supply of warranty
deeds. Remember this.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Township officers will please
remember that the NEWS office
prints township blanks of all kinds
on short notice and on very reason.
able terms
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

c. b. Skidmore has rented the X.
d. Davis property on Spring street.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Everything in the bread, cake
and pie line at Mrs. Meyerding's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Harry Miller of Weir City visited
his grandparents, MIR. and Mrs. ii.
Henley, in this city Thursday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

J.. q. Pols,cr had business in Col.
umbus Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Ray Brock visited his parents at
Eac levillc. Mo, this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

c. Il. Gould's implement shed re-
ceived "a new roof this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

SUNBEAM" syrup, in buckets,
cheap at ANDERSON'S.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

County Attorney Stevens was in
Baxter this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Miss Cora Mullen has accepted Il
position in the post-office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Roy Harvey went to Galcna on
Tuesday to cmbalm the body Of
DIR. ]. Hutchins. who died al that
place Tuesday morning.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Go To Mrs. McNicklc's grocery for
the best flour and feed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

In an obituary notice in the Long.
ton Cleaner we see that the deceas-
ed gentleman was married in April,
1897. and that the union was blessed
with seven children. No wonder
the man died. Howard Courant.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
AT COST. BELOW COST.
My entire line of Ladies
Shirt Waists.
j. M. COOPER.

Remember. we have II large lot OF
chattel mortgage blanks. Also
blank bills of sale.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

SUNBEAM" syrup, in buckets,
cheap at ANDERSONS.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Go to Mrs. NcNickle's for fresh
groceries cheap.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

All kinds of fancy cakes at Mrs.
Mcycrding's Steam Bakery.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Meals and lunch at all hours at
Mrs. I. Meyerdings.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

We guarantee the baking powder
called Perfect" strictly pure. No
indigestion. We sell il DC per TO-.
Everybody can use il now. Call for
"Perfcct." Cooper X HOdgkins.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

MACkEREL. in kits cheap at
ANDERSON'S.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
ONLY "OId Wheat Flour"
in town at
DENTS CASH GROCERY.

We will have some important
news about the electric line next
week,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Rev. Gerhard OF Galcna will
preach at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning. The public is
invited To attend.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

O. l.. Skinner of Columbus visited
relatives in this city Monday.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Lead aud zinc ores have been
found in paying quantities at and
near Smithiield.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Light, healthful and nutritious
food guarateed from any -four by
using the Perfect" baking powder.
Cooper & Hodgkins.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Best square meal in the city for
the money at Mrs. Meyerding's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

BORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. \. l.. Huff
at their home in Galcna, on Mon.
day, July 10, 1897, Il daughter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
Reunion August 30 to Sept. 4.

Mrs. ]. X. Anderson of Lamar,
Mo-, visited her son, I. +. Ander.
son, this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

Galena is going to have a vigi-
lance committee aud do little nec-
essary killing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24
Only "OId Wheat Flour"
in town at
DENTS CASH GROCERY.

Harry Seaman has returned TO
the city.
Mrs. Hugh Lecman of Galena Wis.
tied friends in Baxter this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

LIGHT DRAWING DONE DAY
OR NIGHT, BY MAC GILL
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-07-24

present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

from Guthrie. Okla, to a Star man at the
Shcreham the other night
"a couple of deputy United States mar
shals let the daylight in and the life out
of Wakeman on the trail couple of miles
from Cnecotah, 1. r, on Sunday, November
I. and on the following day another set of
marshals rounded Clifton up in Sid Will
liams' shack, fifteen miles west of Checo-
tab, and managed to give him his finishing
desc of lead after one of the hottest one
against-many gun fights on record. The
reason We thought it queer was because
Clifton and Wakeman were known to have
been deadly enemies for the last couple
of years, although they were formerly
sworn comrades in banditism Wakeman
having once been, as 1 said, member. and
a mighty important one, of Dynamite
Dicks gang. Wakeman broke away from
Clftons gang about three years ago ard
formed an organization of his own. Cliff
ten, 1t vas said around the territory didn't
mild this muCh-for he wasn't man,
you see, TO place obstacles in the paths
of his friends ambiticns-but when Wake
man got collared in a clean hod-up by a
posse of marshals in the Cherokee country
Jail at Guthrie, he did a bit of 'peachng'
on his old chief that caused Clifton to give
1t out that he purposed killing Wakeman
on sight. Wakeman escaped from the
GutnTle jail before MS case came to jail,
but he never managed to get his gang
together again, because of the way he
wilted when he was locked up. He be-
came drifter around the two territories,
employing all of his wit and his knowl-
edge of the country to keep out of the way
of the detached parties of marshals that he
knew were after MIN. When he was
caught and given his quietus on the Che
cotah trail last month it is not likely that
he had the smallest notion that his former
chief was pocketed in a shack only a dozen
miles away, or ne would probably have
forsaken that neighborhood on the double
before the marshals got him, for Wakeman
Is said to have feared Dynamite Dick more
than he did the combined civil and military
authorities or the United States. Nor can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

1t be at all likely that Clifton knew that
Wakeman was anywhere in his vicinage,
or he would certainly have gone after him,
IN spite Of the cliques of marshals that
he knew we're gradually hemming him in,
alone and accidentally detached from his
gang, In the Checotah country.
A Characteristic Fight.
1.-THE fight that Clifton put up against the
posse of nine marshals who finally put it
on him and wound him up in the door Of
Sid Williams shack was characteristic Of
the man. He was a bad lot, this Charlie
Clifton. but this has got to be said of him:
He was a fighter in the open. He was
never known to crack a gun from ambush.
After this posse had chased him all over
the Cherokee nation. making the game SO
swift for him that he voluntarily fur
Laughed his gang so as to give each man an
even chance to squeeze out of the network
of hunters himself, he made for Williams
cabin in the Checotah country, with the re-
solve Of taking his last stand there. VIII
liams, although an honest man himself,
was an old friend Of Clifton's. and the des-
perado knew that he could depend upon
him. Williams lived in the shack with his
wife and two children, and when Dynamite
Dick turned up he gave him the best well
come he knew how, for the two men had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

took the trail from Wichita and 1t was a
bad trail at that, so that we didn't cover
very much ground in a day. We had been
about eight days, and had gotten pretty
well into the territory, when one night, Just
as we were preparing to make camp in the
wagon, three men on horseback rode I'D in
the moonlight to our outfit They didn't
make any hostile demonstrations but /
didn't like the nosey way they sized our
outht up, for all that. Finally one of them
rode to the rear end of the wagon, where
l was hustling around with the cooking
gear. making ready for supper, and said
to me: :
Anything much in the wagon, cap?'
kind o. thought the voice sounded ia
miliar, and / looked up and took a good
peek at the mans face in the moonlight.
1t was Charlie Clifton. He hadn't recog-
n!zed me in the shadow cast by the schoon-
er's hood.
What the DEVILS that to your said I.
going on with my rassling with the pans
Well said he, cool as you please, be-
cause I'm under foraging orders from Bill,
and I guess I'll take what you've got
Well said I, you're a pretty neryy
ombrey. Bill whor
Bill Dalton he replied, quiet like, and
guess made pretty quick turn on him
then.
Why. blast your hide. Charlie Clifton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25
An UnexDcctcd Meeting

We'll, the next time 1 saw Charlie Cliff
ton he was Dynamite Dick, and bad. 1t
was soon after the opening of the last
Oklahoma strip. and my partner and my
self were on our way down in a prairie
schooner to locate a business plant We
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25
Polarity and Railroad Iron.

Prof. Berton has just published an inter-
esting collection of statistics which prove
the influence that magnetism is exerting
in producing phenomena. which otherwise
would be inexplicable. Among other things.
he shows that in making railroad running
east and west, as many as thirteen steel
rails will become crystallized and break. be-
fore one rail a north and south track
is similarly affected. THIS Is due to the
generation of magnetism by friction, and
to the fact that in the former instance the
polarity of magnetic current Is resisted in
the rush of the train: whereas in the latter
case 1t is undisturbed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25
Narrow Escape.

FROM the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Perry Patettic-"1 hear you was caught
takin' a bath. more or less.'
Wayworn Watson-''Wot could I do? A
woman throwed q whole bucket Of soapsuds
on me. an you didn't think I was goin' to
let it stay on an soak into me system, did
YER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25
And Each Met His Death With His
Boots On.
Two TERRORS OF THE SOUTHWEST
Dynamite Dick Was a Member of
Bill DaIton's Gang.
RED BUCKS GAME FINISH



rather singular down
Our way that Charlie
Clifton, better known
as Dynamite Dick,
a I'd Red Buc k
Wakeman, a former
member of Clifton's
gang of desperadoes,
should have been
killed so close to-
gether, both in point
of time and place"
said Frank 5. Wick
thall, a business man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25


1.-THE story about Cliftons handkerchief
duel with Bill Dalton is genuine. The
two men had been growing over the divi-
sion of plumber for a long while. until,
about five years ago, the quarrel came to
a head and the two men shot at each
other in hot blood down in the Choctaw
country, both missing because their shoot
Ing arms We're thrown up by members OF
the band. Then both Clifton and Dalton
made a declaration. There wasn't room
for both of them in the same gang. They
were a unit on that point. Clifton an
nounced that he would quit the outfit and
start a gang Of his own. Dalton wouldn't
have this. probably out Of fear as much as
from sel1ishness.
".An right said Clifton, then we fight
this thing out at powder-singeing range,
and the man that lives, If either of US
does live, runs this OUTFIT
There was liquor aboard all hands at
the time of this talk, and both Clifton and
Dalton were at least half drunk, as Wake
man. who was a member of the gang at
the time, confessed when he was locked
ranged. With their guns in their right
hands the two men grasped the ends OF
a red bandanna handkerchief with their
left hands, and stood back TO back. Cal
Forman one of the worst members of the
gang gave the command to fire. Dalton
lurched as he turned to fire, and his pis-
tol was discharged prematurely. Clifton
caught Dalton in the right shoulder and
gave him bad wound. Neither man hav-
ing been killed, as was anticipated, Clifton
quit the band forthwith and formed the
organization of his own that terrorized
the two territories more than the Dalton
boys and their desperadoes ever did
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

said 1, shaking a pan at him. for the thing
mace me feel pretty warm, do you mean
10 tell me that you've gone and got YOUR
sen mixed up with Bill Daltons gang of
cutthroats? What the devil do won mean NV
IL. hey! I've got a good notion to pull YOU
on that horse and spank you. like I've done
many a time before
The young fellow recognized me. and
had the grace TO look a bit ashamed of
himself. He called me out by name gave
me his hand impetuously. and 1 guess he
was pretty glad TO see me.
What kind OF a game Is this you've
got yourself tied up with? | asked him
after while. How'd il happen, any
how?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

Cholly-"Are you positive she is not In y''
The Maid-.T am: I'd lose my job II {
wasn't."--Puck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

Tommy-"Paw, what is an extraordinary
session of the legislature?"
Mr.. Figg-"One in which no fool bills
were passed would be very much that
nd."-Indianapolis Journal
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-06

From the Chicago tribune.
My friend" said the Grand High Punk a.Punk
with sepulchral s%olemnity. you now approach that
portion OF the ordeal Of initiation into our noble order
in which you will b, required to take upon yourself
a~binding obligation. While this obligation will not
conflict with any duty you owe TO society. your fam
lily. your religion. or your country, It Is my duty to
warn you that IL commits you to the performance of
what we regard as important and necessary works
and TO the forsakius of certain things we regard as
evils. Bearing this IN mind. are you ready to proceed
further in this solemn ceremony
~ am ready TO take the Obligation replied the
candidate in Q clear. hrm voice. provided It does
not deprive me OF the privilege OF manufacturing and
selling the housekeepes' friend q little device Of
my own for seeding raisins. grating horse radish. put
ting scallops around the edge OF a pie. opening n tin
can, lifting a pan OF hot biscuits from the oven with
out burning yourself, and cleaning lamp chimneys.
The usual price of this unique article. gentlemen, Is
rs cents. but in order to introduce II I will sell IL to
memberso OF this noble order at the ridiculously low
ngure of is cents. with Q further discount TO pur.
chascrs OF six or more. Upon the removal OF this
hoodwink FRI m my eyes, gentlemen. IL will AFFORD me
pleasure to read to you q lot or unsolicited testi.
monials TO the merits OF the .housekeepers' friend
from parties who have used II and are thoroughly &C
quainted with It's inertia. Go ahead. mister. with tho
Obligation"
He was subsequently tossed in . blanket and treated
with great personal disrespect in other ways, but he
had no regrets He had got his work in.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-06
An Indian on h Future OF His Race.

A singularly interesting article on 1.-THE
Future of the Red Nan" is contributed to
the August number of the Forum by Mr..
SIMON PoKAGoN, a full -blooded Indian.
and the last chief of the Pottawatomie
Pokagon band. The Pottawatomie tribe
is a branch of the Algonquin family, which
originally occupied nearly all that part of
the United States lying west of the Missis-
sippi River. The writer's father. LEOPOLD
PoKAGoN, had been a Pottawatomie chief
thirteen years before the battle of the
Thames, and SO remained until his death,
t~wenty-seven years later. Most of his
band was sent west in 1897, but he
and some 500 of his people, having en-
braced Christianity, were permitted to
remain in Michigan. 1t was h who, in
1888, conveyed to the United States for
about 3 cents per acre the site of the pres.
ent city of Chicago. His son, the contribu-
tor to the Forum. was the guest of Chicago
during the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
and is now agent for the Indian school at
Lawrence, Kan.
AS regards the inherent moral attributes
of his race, and their capability of assimi-
lating a humane civilization, the writer
points out that, aside from the singular
gentlenessa scribed by all authorities to the
natives of the Greater Antilles, almost all
Of the European adventures who sailed
along the eastern coast of North America
during the first century after CoLuM.
BUS reported the natives as peaceable and
kind when not misused. We are reminded
that PONCE DE LEON, on his first visit to
Florida, was Hospitality received by the red
mon. 1t was only on his second visit, when
the atrocious treatment of the Cuban
natives by the Spaniards had become known
on the ~neighboring mainland, that he and
his followers were set upon and driven
from the peninsula. The additional facts
are recalled that the French, who were
more Just and sympathetic in their attitude
toward the aborigines than were the
English, had but little trouble with the red
men IN Canada, and that for seventy
years after WILLIAM PENN concluded an
equitable agreement with tho Indians, not
a warwhoop sounded in Pennsylvania. In
a word, Mr.. PoKAGoS maintains that the
auimosity and cruelty exhibited By Indians
toward white men during most of the last
hundred years is the outcome of despera.
ton, the natural, inevitable result Of the
faithless and brutal treatment received by
them at the hands of the greater part of
the English ~colonists, and of their de.
~scendants, the citizens of the United
States. On the other hand, he heartily
approves OF the present policy OF our n a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-06

" LnN-LI ..aL.Aa
tionaI Government, considered az 3 whole,
but he does not think, we'll OF The ration
system under which so many OF the In
dams are fed on reservations. His fear is
that the system may eventually vaga-
bondize many Of them beyond redemption.
His view is that the Government should
provide the Indians with something to do,
even though they should fail at first to BIO
self-supporting, the aim being to develop
habits Of industry. That the red man Is
capable of education he has no doubt.
OF this, indeed, the paper before US
Is a conclusive proof. Mr.. PoKAeoF
tells us that, while a guest at Chicago dur
ing the Worlds Fair, he spent much time
at the United States Indian School and
met there delegates from different Govern
ment institutions. He was interested par
ticularly, he says, in the delegation from
New Mexico, composed Of Navajos, Pinas-
Mojaves, Pueblos. and others, and bis be-
lief in the capacity of his race was con
flrmed by an inspection of the articles
which they had made and Of their wellkept
writing books. He considers also that the
Indian School at Carlisle, Pa, has done
wonders in the way of showing what can
DC expected from the coucbtioh VI -
dren Of red men. 1t is pointed out that the
test there made is trustworthy, inasmuch
as that school is made up Of pupils from
more than sixty different tribes.
On the whole, Mr.. PoKAGoN Is Inclined
to think that his people are destined to
lose their identity by Incorporation with
the dominant race. No matter how dis
tasteful such a result may seem to the red
men or to the whites, in his opinion 1t is
unavoidable. For his own part, indeed, he
disclaims any desire to witness the ANAL
gamation of the red men with the
white stock. He speaks, Of 1t, however, as
an event that is almost certain. By the
middle of the next century all Indian res.
ervations and tribal relations will have
passed away. Then the red men will begin to
scatter, and the effect will be a general
mixing up of the races. The writer has
been asked often, he says, "PoKAGoN, do
you believe that the white man and the red
man were originally Of one bloodf' His
reply has always been: 81 do not know.
But from the present outlook they surely
will be soon."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-06

I'M this rebellion, crazy though u seems TO
be, and even II ita leader 10 called n mad.
man. There are strong elements Of disaf.
lection In the country, as has been made
manifest within the past half year. There
are disturbances in the south, along the
Uruguayan border. as we'll as in the north.
There are again signs Of trouble in the
State of Rio Grande do Sui. There are
many rebel sympathizers in the large sea-
board cities, men who do not belong TO tho
fanatics, but are rather querulous malcon.
tents. There Is q monarchical party. There
has been turbulence at the capital. The
Church is discontinued because OF the
ecclesiastical changes that have been
brought about since the establishment
OF the republic. The Administration
is feeble militarily and financially. The
President is in such bad health as to be al
most unfit TO perform the duties OF his Office,
and has been so greatly discouraged on ac-
III of the condition of affairs that he en-
tertained a purpose Of ~resigning his place
after the outbreak of the fanatics. II the
army, when reinforced By the hattalions
now on their way 10 Canudos, or under or
ders to go there, shall fail TO max an end
of the revolt, it is probable that there will
be danger for the young and aspiring re.
public of Brazil, which was delivered from
monarchy less than eight years ago. We
trust most sincerely that the clouds will
roll by. Life and liberty for BRAZIL