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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
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On December 20 and n, 'es. the
Kansas City, IT. Scott q Memphis
R. r. Go. will sell round trip tickets
from Kansas City and all coupon
tickets Offices on it's lines TO poinls
to Georgia, Alabama, Florida spd
the Southeast generally. ut rate Of
one fare, with return limited %
thirty days. On December a q q
81, and January and 2, tickets r''
be sold at one fare between oil X g
F. s. & n. stations, limited 20 ls0.
nary 4, for return. No ronnd.ll'1
tickets will be sold at reduced ro|,@
less than 30 cents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
O. e. s.

Magnolia Chapter, No. las, will
elect officers for the ensuing year at
its next regular meeting, Dec. o.
All members are requested to be
present. SARAH A. CRowELL,
Secretary.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

Edwin 6. Hogan has begun suit
against ]. J. and Mary Osborn to re.
cover $3.50 alleged to be due him for
for service AZ attorney, and has at
tached the brick store building
opposite THE Office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
A FARM NEAR BAXTER SPRINGS

is worth more than any other part of the state We
always pay Chicago prices for grain and produce and the
farmer always receives Is cent more for his products
than other towns pay. For instance if the Chetopa
Oswego farmer receives 1000 for his crop the Baxter
farmer would get $50 for the crop The mines of
Cherokee county enhance the value of all crops IS per cent
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

Dennis Flynn, delegate-elect from
Oklahoma, was in Baxter Thursday.
He was accompanied by VIM.
Grimes, chairman of the Republic
can Territorial Committee of Okla
homa.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

Mr.. aud Mrs. 1. w. Harris left
Tuesday evening for San Diego,
California, TO spend the winter and
perhaps to make their future home.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

The prize fight at Galena Wedues-
day night resulted in victory for
Ferns, Purtell being knocked out in
the fifth round.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

L. 6. Jones, at one time the gen.
eral travelling representative of the
Kansas City, Journal, has been in
Galena for the past six months on q
prospecting tour, and il is with
great deal of genuine pleasure that
We state that he has been very sue
cessful. He has interested a party
of Chicago gentlemen in lease
near Col. Greggs King Solomon
mines, and he informed ne Friday
morning that they have an immense
prospect. We don't know of any
one whom we would rather see
make 500 q day for s65 days In the
year than Louis Jones. He came
here with absolutely no knowledge
of mines and mining. He wasn't
afraid of callousing his hands, and
he bought n pick and shovel and
went to work. he didn't try all the
arte and skill of an accomplished
man In trying TO beat some one out
of q prospect. bat he found one
himself. We are indeed glad TO see
earnest endeavor amply rewarded.
-Galena Republican.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
First published Dec. 3. 1888.
Publication Notice.
In the district court of Cherokee county.
Kansas.
Edwin G. Hogan, plaintiff.
Mary Osborn. defendant,

Mary Osborn. defendant.
The above named defendant. Mary De-
born, will take notice that she has been
sued In the above named court by the
plniutlff. Edwin G. Hogan, for the sum of
three hundred and eighty dollars esaso.ooD
for legal services performed by the plain
tiff for the said defendant ut the defend,
ants request and instigation. and that
unless she. the said Mary Osborn, appears
and answers the petition of the plaintiff
therein filed on OF before the 18th day Of
january. 1879. said petition will be taken 90
true and Judgment rendered therein ae-
cordingiy and the attachment therein
sustained.
CD. sKrDHoRR.
Attorney for Plaintiff
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
The Best
County on Earth!
Prosperity and Success!
Cherokee County, Kansas, is increasing in popula
ton faster than any county in the state.

ton faster than any county in the state.
BAXTER SPRINGS Cherokee county
mining steady agricultural aud terrific
trade only strictly moral town in the state
Springs the health and pleasure resort of Kansas and OF
the rich mining district city, which has
population of about 100 delightfully."- located the west bank oil
ghany Rocky plateau the midst of pic
surroundings altitude of 1000 feet above the level OF
the and being in the southeast of the
Missouri line aud and half miles
beautiful Indian Territory The adjacent country for ag
cultural horticultural and grazing purposes not y
region United in respects the
grass region Kentucky Baxter Springs of the best
surrounded rich
producing holding lucrative trade for
miles Territory which filling with white settlers
raise good every year.
whitening winds the reach this point Our
section flowing failing springs which
make raising dairy the West
the best fruit producing section in the state county
eight thousand of orchards and vineyards
Springs of territory trade without
order good schools good roads,
good good territory is lily supplied with
schools many roads speak Of and the akali
water will en- he bowels of beast
looking location for or Tor Pheasant
come nd Baxte Springs before you locate.
The peculiar advan
tages small farmer fruit poultry raiser dayman and
While lands rich and capable OF pro-
ducing anything supporting l
people lead and zinc mining industry too poor to raise free
producers enabled command New York
prices In Baxter Springs farmer realize
than the Dakota farmer from 400
climate mild winter and much cooler and more pleasant IN
climate Arkansas without the sava
on better than Florida without the yellow fever better than
without the sand, akali or heas
Anna a good corn
living with Arkaneaw and blind
wealthy One thousand has been real
lied small vegetables This
by Mr. Hartley)
becoming famous strawberries and small fruts
big
early berries We have some nice small tracts land Tor sale
Springs.
CY- forget this
BUSINESS.
with push, pluck and
Springs best fields the state We
good opening of We command trade
Indian Territory which increasing year We
need more wide up business
Territory rich agricultural and mineral
capable supporting times the population
There finer opening in the West for as
all kinds goods and the material lies
al our in abundance
OLD SOLDIERS.
Spring old soldiers and considerable
portion members of the Grand Army of the Republic
desirable bargains resi-
the West where the old soldier can
declining Baxter Springs We offer lots
veterans of The war al S. and upwards.
A HOME FOR ALL.
residence lots which will sell monthly
payments Price lots from $40 SIS EACH These nice
of the city and offered price that
comfortable and pleasant home
business will find Baxter
the We have no business failures
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

LIGHT DRAWING DONE DAY
OR NIGHT, By MAC GILL
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

Four miles north of Miami there
10 field of about 100 acres of corn
going to waste. A bunch of cattle
has been turned into it TO do the
gathering act, but instead the cattle
are just stripping the blades from
the stalks and trampling the large,
fine ears of corn into the ground,
Such wastefulness is criminal.
There are lots of people in the
country who need corn, yet here is
100 acres of II going to waste. A
bunch of hogs turned into the field
might save some of il, but IL some
thing isn't done soon IL will all be
mashed into the ground. tits per-
haps none of our business il a man
chooses to waste his property in
this way, but we have q right to say
that in our judgement IL is a shame.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03

Attest: L. G. SCRANTON
Clerk District Court.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
A HOMIE FOR ALL.

We cheap which will sell monthly
from $40 SIS EACH These
the city offered at price that
comfortable and pleasant home
business will find Baxter
exce We have business failures
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-12-03
BUSINESS.
OLD SOLDIERS.

Spring favor for old soldiers and considerable
of Army the Republic
old comrades desirable bargains in resi-
the West where the old soldier
declining well Baxter Springs We offer lots
veterans OF S. and upwards
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
Advertising Makes Business.

don't care how big and rich and
widely known concern is, let it take
its ads. out of the papers for, say, two
seasons and it will never again be able
to catch up. Why, some dealers take it
to be sure sign that a company is fall
ing back, perhaps getting ready to make
an assignment, when it stops its ad and
keeps out for longer time than usual
Right here l want to say that l don t
think there is class of mea on earth
which reads ads. closer and attaches more
significance to them than the average
retail dealer. You can send him all the
catalogues, circulars, letters etc., you
please, but unless he can find your ad.
in his trade paper he don t. count you
as being i'll the front rank. Some of our
most successful travelling statesmen tell
us that if they had to do without one
or the other-our catalogue or the trade
journals containing our ads. - they
would leave the catalogue behind. No
business man can afford to let his ads.
drop out of the papers that reach his
customers. would almost as soon think
OF using cheaper material in the con-
struction of goods themselves, because
the loss would not be nearly SO sud
den. Farm Machinery.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26

600. No wonder that our people stagger
under such a burden, which they do not
seem either to realize or to understand.
This means that it costs the people of
South Carolina every year $1,000, 900
more to do the hauling and the travel
ing which they now do on the public
roads than it would cost to do the same
amount of hauling and travelling if
there existed in the state good macadam
roads instead of the present poor dirt
roads. Every tax levied is supposed to
benefit tie people who levy it and the
money thus paid by the people as the
tax soon comes back into circulation
and reaches them again, but this s., =
600, 600 mud tax, which is levied re-
gardless of the will of the people by the
ineXorable law of nature and the condi-
tion of trade, is a complete loss, as it
benefits no one. 1t is simply an enor-
nous yearly drain upon the energies,
resources and money of our people,
which is as senseless and useless as it is
enormous, and is "A total loss.
Our people complain that they are al
ready too poor to build costly macadam
roads. The truth is we are too poor to
do without them, and so long as our
bad roads continue we may expect to be
poor. Indeed as compared with other
states and countries which have good
roads we may expect to become annual
ly poorer. Without good roads every
phase of the industrial progress of the
south will be greatly retarded and her
agricultural interests will relatively go
backward.
This public road problem is of too
vital Importance to be left longer in
the background. We must give it the
recognition which it demands. We have
been asleep long enough. We are not
wealthy people, nor have we a dense
population, but we must accept the sit
uation as it is and make the best of it.
We must regard roadbuilding as
business. 1t demands intelligent super
vision as much as railroad building or
cotton manufacturing or any sort of
business. We must select for the posi-
tlon of road supervisors the most COM
petent men to be found, regardless of
their politics or other considerations,
and whenever we can find a better man
for the place we should feel duty bound
to make the change. In turn the friends
OF good roads must uphold the super
visor in doing the best possible work.
We must not make the mistake of vast
ing the little money which can be raised
by taxation for this purpose, and hence
we need constantly the best engineers
and the best rOadbuilderS that can be
employed
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
MICHIGAN ROAD LAW.
Counties Have Full Power to Vote Bonds
For Highways.

The county road system in Michigan
can be adopted by majority vote in
any county. Five road commissioners
are elected, none of whom can in any
way be interested in any contract that
may be entered into by the board. They
have full power to lay out county roads;
to change the width, direction or loca-
ton of existing ones purchase property ;
unite with adjacent counties in laying
out and maintaining roads and to adopt
any road as county road, except that
i'll incorporated villages the consent of
the village must be obtained.
They can grade, drain gravel, macad-
amize or improve in any way according
to their Judgment; construct and main
tain culverts and bridges, but can con-
tract no Indebtedness in excess of the
amount at their disposal i'll the hands
of the county treasurer. A county may
by vote bond itself for road purposes,
and is liable for damages growing out
of their bad condition. The system was
adopted by Chippewa county in 1894,
bonds for 500, 600 issued, and in the
two years following nearly 100 miles
of road were improved and built to tho
satisfaction of the people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
An Artists Slip.

Half century ago, says a London
paper. the late Sir John Gilbert was
commissioned to illustrate short story
for London weekly When he had fin
ished the work, the editor remarked,
Why, Mr. Gilbert, the story says All
escort of infantry soldiers, and here on
the block you have given us mounted
ones . Dear me- so have, respond
ed the artist, but haven't time to do
another drawing now Cant you make
an alteration in the story to make it fit
in?' The copy" was handed to sub,
ordinate to make the requisite altera
tion, but that gentleman forgot to de-
lete the chapter describing how the sol
diers had gained the summit of a steep
mountain, parts of which they were
obliged to scale with ladders Horses
could not have been got there unless by
the assistance of a crane. Afterward
shoals OF letters from subscribers wish
ed to know how the cavalry got there.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
w HOLE Nunnrn, 1879.
REPROACH.

Sweetheart, sweetheart, what do ye want O.
me?
Low the crying guIls are flying, skirls the
yeasty sea-
Little lips, soft lips,
hear them crying far;
hear their voice go calling me
Where'er the shadows are.
Sweetheart, dear heart, what do ye want o.
meP
Sunlight and starlight are over all the lea,
But dusty lies my heart, dear; rusty lies its
key.
Sweetheart, sweetheart, what do ye want O!
me?
fweetheart, sweetheart, why do ye long for
mef
Cold the palling snow was falling; skies no
more We're blue.
Little hands, soft hands,
Laid away to rest.
feel their fingers seeking out
The old wound in my breast.
Sweetheart, dear heart, what do ye want o.
Bare and empty were my arms; lonely was my
knee.
Where my heart is laid, dear, can't ye let me
be?
Sweetheart, sweetheart, what do We want O.
Post Wheeler in New York Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
AMERICAS LUkBtn "
The Planting of Forests Likely to BE an
Important Industry.

The Planting of ForeGts Likely to BE an
Important Industry.
Loohing not very far into the future,
it seems that the planting of American
forests will become productive indus
try. Preservation of old forests, with
their masses of dry underbrush and fire
inviting collections of dry leaves, may
be advisable for some reasons. These
Immense masses of firewood undOubted-
ly tend to collect snow, which, by its
gradual melting, furnishes a supply to
the water reservoirs beneath the surface
OF the ground. Snow thaws less quickly
under the shade of trees than in the
bright sunlight Less water, therefore,
runs to supply floods and freshets than
when the snow is made to pass away
gradually. But this question does not
affect the solid timber interests
In old forests, where there is strug-
gle for life among the trees by reason
of their growing so thickly together,
the result is the necessity of waiting
many years before the trees will reach
size to make them desirable for tim
ber purposes. Where trees have room to
grow and are properly cared for most
kinds OF American trees will furnish
useful timber i'll 20 Or 30 years, and for
many other purposes they can be en-
ployed even younger. 1t takes we'll on
to century for the strp A. ng trees in
dense wood to have "a marketable
value.
While good timber is becoming grad
ually scarcer on account of our annual
forest fires, rising from the conditions
already stated, the demand is increasing,
and, what is more remarkable Europe
is already calling on America for sup
ply of lumber American oak especially
is i'll great demand i'll the old world,
while our black walnut is closely fol-
lowing in its wake. Our lighter woods
also-such as the tulip tree and poplar
are coming into great demand there
for packing boxes and cases where light
weight is Il great object. Those who are
interested in forestry in our country
should take up the matter Of encourage
ment of forest planting. 1t will soon be
greater question than forest preserva-
tion. s Monthly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
DISPLAY THE TOWNS NAME,

Large Signs Should BE Placed Where
Travellers May See Them.
These are the days when lots of peo-
pie are getting back from vacations that
included more or less railway travel
ing, and it is quite certain that many
of them will thrill responsive to a COM
plalnt about the excessively modest way
in which towns reveal their names to
the traveller passing through them, says
the New York Times
The person traversing this and other
countries has no difficulty in learning
what pill to take for his dyspepsia,
what plaster to apply to his lame back,
what powder to use on his teeth, or
with what soap to wash his hands. Ev-
cry hamlet and city and all the places
i'll between scream advice at him on
these subjects by means of huge signs
posted where he cannot help reading
them, however little he may be in need
of such instruction. If, however, he is
struck by the beauty or liveliness of
any big town or little one through
which his train carries him, hfs only
chance of learning its name-unless he
makes himself obnoxious to the conduct
Or by asking questions-is to look for
little board stuck up on some dark cor
ner of the railway station, and unless
he has both luck and sharp eyes the
chances are that he will be whizzed by
with curiosity unsatisfied.
The result is that instead of advertis-
ing the merits of that town by mention
ing them to his friends, and instead pos
sibly Of becoming resident of it some
day, the only feeling excited in him is
one of irritation, soon to be displaced by
entire forgetfulness. This is matter to
which towns should attend on simplest
business principles.
The railways, to which it is now left,
have no particular reason to spend mon
ey for big signs of this kind. They are
interested only in carrying people from
place to place, and American restless
ness already makes that sufficiently
profitable task. The local officials must
do the work if it is to be done at all,
and the residents of each town should
see that they perform their duty. 1t has
been so long neglected, no doubt owing
to the fact that everybody knows so
well where he or she lives, that it rare
ly occurs to him or her that other peo-
pie do not possess the same valuable in
formation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
ANCIENT POLITICAL "RINGS.'
Olden Time Schemes For Obtaining Wealth
and Power.


and Power.
The evil of monopolies and rings was
known to ancients, Aristotle referring
to them i'll his "Politics, and then, as
now, it was found necessary to hold
them in check by legislation. The mo-
nopolist was in Roman law called
dardanarius and punished under the
Lex Julia de Ammonia. Monopolies of
clothing, fish and all articles of food
were prohibited by the Emperor Zeno
under pain Of contiscation and exile, so
that it is certain that the 'rings" Of
the ancient days We're as mischievous as
they are now. At Athens law linn
ited the amount of Il corn man might
buy. The earliest recorded instance we
have was a corn ''ring"
There is an ancient tradition that the
king who made Joseph his prime min
lister and committed into his hands the
entire administration of Egypt was
Apepi. Apepi was one of the shep-
herd kings and ruled over the whole of
Egypt as Josephs pharaoh seems to
have done. The prime minister during
seven years OF remarkable plenty bought
up every bushel of corn beyond the alb
solute needs of the Egyptians and stored
it. During the terrible famine that fol-
lowed be was able to get his own price
and bartered corn successively for the
Egyptian money, cattle and land, and,
taking one-tifth for pharaoh, made him
supremely wealthy. 1t was not merely
provident act, but very polite one,
his policy being to centralize power. in
the monarch's hands. London An
SWerS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26

DIR. Tyson Of Philadelphia calls atten-
tion to the painful sight of fine street
trees i'll that city being decapitated by
the ignorant tree butchers who make IL
living by this execrable work during
the winter The trees are reduced to
trunks with few score of huge stumps
several feet long i'll the places where
the former beautiful branches grew
Much of the trouble GENES from the ig-
norance of the original planter in select
ing unfit trees. The silver maple and
Canadian poplar (miscalled Carolina
poplar are utterly untitled for street
trees They grow rapidly and are for
this reason very useful for 10 or 10
years But they grow too tall soon aft
er, and the owner easily falls into the
views of the tree butcher to give him
job ill beheading them.-Meehan' S
Monthly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-03-26
MUD AND SAND TAX,
South Carolina Annually Wastes an Enor.
nous Sum.


Professor Holmes told the people of
S,,uth Carolina some wholesome truths
at the good roads convention at Colum-
bia. Here are some of them:
Bad roads have retarded our develop
ment along every line. They have in
terfered with our schools and with our
churches and with the pleasures and
the comforts of our people in many other
ways. Their blighting influence bears
heavily on all, and especially on the
farming classes, but what is of more
vital Importance is the fact that these
bad roads constitute an enormous mud
and sand tax of not less than So per
capita per annum on every man, woman
and child living i'll the southern states.
In South Carolina alone this terrible
burden amounts to not less than So, 600, :