Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-09-02

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Weeds In stubble Fields.
The thousands of acres of grain stub
BILE which will lie over unplowed ag
awaiting the corn lister in the spring pc
will be neglected on some farms, and bu
wherever It is neglected will produce We
weed seed enough to give q serious Ia:
backset to the war on weeds, even on an
an otherwise well-tilled farm. The tn
number Of seeds produced by some Of yi'
the stubble weeds is enormous. Esti- a.
mates based on partial counts gave for i'm
the cookie bur 9,7O0 seeds, or half that We
number of burs. Rag weed showed po
23, 100, while one of the pig weeds Su
(acnida) headed the list with 954,0 f.,
seeds.
Lost Child Killed by Train. a..
There was great excitement in Wet w.
moro over three-ycar-old child that -, ..n
had been lost. The parents went to =
see n balloon ascension and left the an,
child asleep in the buggy. II awoke It I
during their absence and wandered off. att
Hundreds of people were out looking m ~,
for It. The dead body of the child tIo
was found beside the Central Branch bit
track q mile east of COTS, five miles the
from Wetmore. One arm and one foot sii '
was missing and the child had I'M 1''
been hit by n train. Its
father is r. B. Aichinger, u farmer
living near Grenada. wa
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Col. Anthony Banquets His Employees. LIE
At Leavenworth Col. ID. II. Anthony etl
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday pc
by entertaining the Times editorial Stu
staff and employees and their families Ph
with an elaborate banquet. Col. An no
thony and d. Il. Anthony, Jr., were II.
born on the same day in the year, Au- ha
gust %, the colonel in 1894 and Dan, in
Jr., in 1870. Each Of the guests were
presented with handsome souvenir ,
silver spoon. Col Anthony has been q
proprietor and editor more VIZ
than As years. w., w
Temperance War mt Topeka. an
War has broken out again between no
the temperance people of Topeka and ira
County Attorney Jctmore. The tenn thu
perance people claim that Jetmorc will fur
make no effort to prosecute the joint ira
lists even when evidence is furnished csc
him. At meeting recently it was de-
cided to go after Jetmore's scalp, and G
n committee was sent to the attorney
general to request him TO bring pro- ~
to Gust Jetmore from Office. "'
Made IL Too Warm for Him. III
At the Brechbill farm, northeast OF Au
Abilene, where the sect known as TO
the ''Fire Brand" is holding meetings, OF
n party Of indignant farmers cut ropes ma
to the tent and let it fall. Evangelist sta
Irwin, who was conducting the meet me-
ings, made his escape, but his assistant n
was caught and repeatedly ducked in {
\ large tank till life was nearly extinct tie
lie decamped us soon as he was able to Ka
walk. Ma
Winner bought so Mile. Of Track. ~,
Willard Z. Winner, the promoter, a -,
bought the Carbondale branch OF the S r
Union Pacific. which extends 80 miles t'e
of Lawrence. There were on
bonds against the road aggregating o"'
HlSo ~ o,Uuu ucluuitcu iUtcTtnts
II is said Winner paid about $4,000 for j
the line. He will use it for his electric ed
railroad between Lawrence and To- rot
peka. He
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Congressman Rceder Has u Scheme. H.
-. Nong,ensniah W. ~ hee"ei, vi 'he VIII
sion of congress held in the west, and o.o
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congress to bring this about. In order
10 accomplish it, the federal constitu- a
lion must be changed. SO he will intro thi
duce a bill submitting the question TO to
4 vote of the people. sta
Lightning Kills boy aud Horses. flo,
While pPwing near his home four fee
miles north OF 0lathe. the 1i-year-old owe
son of John Bednorkowsky was struck cell
by lightning and instantly killed. Not
. trace was found of tic lightning's .
work on the boy except that his hat =.
was burned. He was blowing with H.,
three horses and every horse was in. n",
stantly killed. a.
Two Cowboys and Cattle Killed. day
While herd of 900 cattle was being Br,
driven over it the bridge which spans
the Big Caney river south of Elgin was ,
broken down. One hundred and forty !,
cattle and two cowboys-John Leheu pea
and Tom Baker-were killed. The W
bridge stood so feet high. Ses
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Lightning sets Firo to n barn. bel
The hay barn of Hendry Bros. near san
Neosho Falls was struck by lightning
and burned the other night. 1t con- T
tained 400 tons OF hay. The filling of N,
The barn had just been completed. mn
In Place of Chester l. Long. y!
The Kingman county republican con- DO
vention passed resolution indorsing ,in'
W. NJ. Wallace. of Kingman, for con- hin
yress from the Seventh district. Wal
lace is prominent in A. o. Y. w. circles. I
old
ThIs Beats the Record. lie
Mrs. Jerry Shaclslcford. wife Of an era
blacksmith. Is the mother OF he
nine babies and she Is not 30 years old. hor
The children are all living and none OF
hem are twins. 7
Good Find OF Coal Near Wichita. ma
While boring for gas Il miles east Of sas
Wichita, W. II. Widows, an old miner. Coz
struck 81 foot vein Of coal so feet airy
rom the surface. upc
The Same Old Story.
While VISITING m hcr friand Miss Edna