Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-07-01

Dcut D Sdou StoSSty uoo Juos AN'
ceived car load of the celebrated
Topeka -four. Everybody uses II.
ii. T. Lee,uan, Gslcna, Kansas,
has patent leather shoes, war
ranted, for both ladies and gents.
Nobody else has them.
The Fribley Hardware and Imp
lement Co. has bought Is feet on
Military street of w. II. Hornor.
The ground adjoius the big Fribley
warehouse on the south.
Edwin Hogan, q prominent attor.
ney of Baxter Syringe, will have
rooms in the Arthur building when
completed. Thus do we grow and
expand.-Galena Republican. We
have no objections.
To eradicate worms from the sys-
tern give the child plain, nourishing
food and Whites Cream Vermifuge'
The result will be, the worms will
disappear aud the child become
healthy and cheerful: Price II cts.
Cooper Drug Co. -
Our hay men are having . hard
time of Il this year owing to the fact
that the dealers can get only email
amounts of bale ties NJ q time. The
trust should open a few Of the fac
tories which were closed down so
the price could be raised.
Work on the Jarrett farm seven
miles northwest of town, where jack
has been found. 10 being rushed.
Not less than half q dozen shafts
are sinking. The company shaft 10
now about 20 feet deep and q little
jack haa been found all the way
down. Two drilling companies will
begin work newt week. The lease
10 controlled by T. II. Garner and
w. T. Gregory. of this city.
DIED-At her home on East Cedar
street in this city on Tuesday night,
June q, 1899, Mana. wife Of s. s.
Gates. aged fonty.njne years, nine
months and twenty-five days. The
funeral services were held at the
residence Thursday morning and
remains taken tG Galena for inter
ment Besides her husband, de.
ceased left two grown children, one
of whom is Mre. Elmer Ulrey, to
mourn her death.
They have an original way of do
ing things down in the Cherokee
nation. A baby was born to q
Cherokee couple some time ago.
and the doctor affixd n revenue
stamp to that part itsite down on.
The nurse found II there when she
came to wash the child and in
quired why II was put there. The
doctor said he understood that
every thing issued on and after
July I, required q revenue stamp
affixed 90 he put On one in order
not to get in any trsab,e. We pre-
sumo this was resident doctor in
the nation and not one that lives in
any of these border towns.
The postoffice department has re.
Gently promulgated m order con-
cerning the failure to rate up and
collect deficient postage. II hss
ascertaiued that Q great deal OF
mail matter of fiTst class 10 permit.
ted to 60 through without being
rated up TO the requirement of Law.
The new order of postmasters 10
very positive. and hereafter Il will
be rigidIy enforced. Il 10 therefore
to the interest of business men TO br
certain that all matter 10 proprri,
rated and stamped befpre being
mailed, otherwise the delay conse-
Quent upon being held for the pro.
per rating will undoubtedly follow.
II is just ne easy togrt things right
If the proper effort 10 made.
Captain Mayse, who represents
the Cooley Land & Investment
Company, as its agent at Peoria.
sent ina report Of she saie Of $50
worth of lots during the past three
weeks. The company have sold
over 5000 worth Of lots within the
past sixty days, aud many improve.
ments are contemplated in that
town iu the near future. No spe.
cial effort 10 being made in the sale
of the property, and those consum-
mated are with people who have
faith Ia the future of the town and
the mining camp. Many foreign
capitalists are seeking investments
ia the mineral belt Of which Peoria |
10 the center, and an old.fashioned
mining boom is liable to occur at
any time.-Miami Record.
A rich deposit of guano has been
discovered In q cavG near Glasgow,
Illinois. Circumstances surround
ing the discovery of the deposit
lend unusual interest TO IL George
p. Ball, the discoveser, 10 . veteran
prospector. He estimates that the
deposite will approximate 400 tons.
Guano 10 worth now 80 . ton de-
livered on the market, and the val
ne of the find thus aggregates $l2..
900. The cave 10 an uncanny place,
extending about 1000 feet under
ground. Stalactites of unusual