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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Terrific Engagement a, Panama.

Colon, Colombia, July GA terrific
engagement still continues between
the government troops and the in
surgents around Panama, but the
former IRE still holding their ground
Many have been killed and wounded,
and four hours nrmistice was agreed
upon TO attend the wounded and bury
the dead. The steamer Bernard Hall
arrived Mt Colon from Savanilla at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon
with reinforcemcnts for the govern
ment numbering 1000. They were
brought by Gen. Campos Serrano, gov
ernor of the department.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
m.rouette. ON Lake Superior,

Is one of the most charming summer resorts
reached via the Chicago, Milwaukee q St.
Paul Railway.
Its healthful location, beautiful scenery,
good hotels and complete immunity from
ouette, Mich, very attractive from the
standpoint Of health, rest and comfort.
For a copy Of 1.-THE Lake Superior Coun-
try" containing description Of Marquette
and the copper country, address, with four
az cents in stamps to pay postage, Geo. II.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chi
cago, III.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

III, where Abraham Lincoln used to
sell groceries. He said the gavel rep
resented the principles Of Abraham
Lincoln and the two steel rims the
great democratic and peoples party
respectively. The woodrepresented the
Lincoln republican party, cementing
the two great parties. The sixteen
wedges in the end of the gavel rep
resented the great financial plank OF
the three parties and the hickory
handle the sturdy Andrew jackson
sentiment of the American people.
The report of the conference COM
mittee was now called for and Z. j.
Pfost, Of Wyandottc county, read II.
The report was received with great
applause. especially the section which
gave to the populists the office of u.s.
socinte justice.
The Peoples Party Platform.
Briefly outlined, the platform adopt
ed by the populists is as follows:
First-Commends to the people COM
parison between the last populist admin
lstration with the present republican adj
mInistration.
Second-The usual plank pointing out
the danger of the tendency OF the repub-
lican party TO Imperialism and milltarism.
This plank covers the entire ground OF
expansion.
Third-Favors the election Of United
States senators by direct vote OF the
people.
Fourth-Denounce the present admins
tration of the pension bureau.
Fifth-Demands the adoption OF the
principle OF the initiative and refercn-
dunn ms the only means OF correcting ex-
listing evils by legislation.
Sixth-Holds the republican party re-
sponsible for the abrogation OF the pop
ullst railroad law, first by refusing to en-
force II, and next by wiping II from the
statute book by n decision OF n partisan
supreme court
Scyenth-Demands the withdrawal Of all
specini privileges now enjoyed by corpor-
atoms and individuals and the applica-
ton OF the principle of government own
ership OF Mi monopolies.
Eighth-Congratulat the people upon
the growth of populist principles In the
government of Kansas, citing the peni-
Tertiary binding Irvine plant and the
school book law as examples.
EIghth-Favors state stock yards and a
state oil refinery, as means of protecting
the people from two great mS non g.,
,hH Loci cards law the Insurance law.
the banking law, the corporation law.
the fees and salaries law, the scrip and
screen law, ana other ae, n,n nuop'ea W '"e
'' M,n,h Calls W ,i,cn,ion af the farmers TO
the grain combine west OF Chicago and
pledges the nominees OF this convention
to night II. ,norauor, 70 the
.,ata honIIn@ law that will protect
dcpositors as well MS the note-holders.
acknowledgements Gov. Stanley for
unlawiuily removing ,he ,a regents ,a ,bat
uii, n,,, all state educational institutions
under n civil service.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
One ON the Summer Girl.

One Of these girls sat in hammock on
q Hollywood piazza when q summer, boy
in a gray suit came along. lie looked un'
The girl looked at him frivolously, and
spied q button Of pastel shade in his
lapel. :. -.
"What is it? Have you sworn of or are
you q son Of something or other
NO." he answered, shortly. 1--WE Joined
when did you join" she asked. =,
"The day after met you," he rejoined,
cleverly.-Chicago Times-Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
MuIlons Tor nasetaiI.

A million Of dollars are spent every yearup'
on the game Of baseball, but a. large as this
sum Is, It cannot begin TO equal the amount
spent by people in search Of health. There
Is . sure method Of obtaining strength ana
Il Is not costly one: We urge those I Mno
letters Stomach Bitters. II strengthens
the stomach, makes digestion easy and nat.
ural, and cures dyspepsia, constipation, bu'
iousness and weak kidneys.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
rv.ntIcth Knnaan. 60 attend.

Topeka, KAN, July 2e.-Many for
mer members of the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment will attend the meet
ing for the organization of the Nation
nj Association Of the Army Of the
Philippines at Denver, August IL, II
and rs. Col. Wilder s. Metcalf will
head the Kansas delegation.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
pretense n. to Contents.

"Jedge," said Mr.. Zeke Darkleigh, II
wants to hab dishyere Gabe. Snowflake
arrested. He done sol me er kaig er beer,
en- day, amt muffin in the kaig but rain
watch"
"All right" replied the, Judge, "you want
10 swear out warrant charging him with
"No, sub. / want dat niggah sent up 70
OATS what. jedge."-Baltimore American
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Deat Tor the DoweIs,

No matter what ais you, headache to q
cancer, you will never get well until 1Il your YOU
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has c. G. G.
stamped on it. Beware Of limitations.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

T6' % %s's II sh SDcSE Co 81 sas
Of st. Louis, NO., are beyond all question.
This firm has succeeded In furnishing the
Army and Navy. They went into business
In lS4l, and have steadily grown In favor
with the public, not having one failure to
report in fifty-nine years Their Benno
Plant, Cundurango, ETC., have become O
household word. They are sold by oil drug
gists. Ask for booklet free, and II YOU ever
get Diarrhea, Dyscntery or Cholera Morbus,
give the Benne Plant trial, and you will be
convinced. Every article made by the
Mcguire Medicine Company Is guaranteed
to do what Is claimed for its
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
According to His Greed.

She-Do you believe that every man gets
the wife that Heaven intended for him ?
Hell dare not doubt it; otherwise my
religious belief would be shattered.
"What is your belief, pray"
II believe that men are punished in this
world for their sins."-Chicago Evening
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Some men are so stingy they refuse to
smile except at the expense OF others.-Chi'
cago Daily News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Good Hair.

r. you are bald, or getting so, or want q
new growth of hair, or IRE interested In
preserving what you have and want infor-
nation free, write Good Hair Remedy
Company, Lock Box 017, Newark, Ohio.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Explained.

Mrs. Yung Wife-You are sure there are
FIVE pounds Of sugar in this package! 1t
seems very light.
Grocer-That, madam, Is because II is
entirely free from sand.-Boston Tran
script.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
DO Your Feet Ache ana Durnf

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot. Ease,
.powder for the feet: 1t makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy; Cures Corns, Itching,
s swens Fs : ca h b S%a5n SGrf s aas
Stores sell il, Csc. Sample sent FREE. Ad.
dress, Allen S. 0lmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

"What kind of house did you succeed
in getting, Howard?" "0h, it's the kline
Of house which has windows that won't
stay open and doors that won't stay shut.
indianapolis journal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Blue. Rapids. Kan, July 2e.-Prof.
Clark, assistant principal Of the
Waterville school, ate two dozen
peaches. He was Immediately taken
sick and died.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

The Mexicans allay their thirst by chew.
ing Chicle, which is the main ingredient Of
Whites "Yucatan" Gum.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Tho Democratic Platform.

Fort Scott, KAN, July 26.-The DEM
ocrats adopted their state platform
Tuesday night. David 0vermyer, chair.
man of the resolutions committee,
read the report of the committee and
It was adopted without debate. It
says:
The democrats OF Kansas, In state con-
vention assembled. hereby indorse the
Kansas City platform. We regard this
platform as a second declaration OF indie
pendcnce. and point to Il as the hope OF
the liberty-loving people OF this country
and OF the world.
Railway companies are common carriers
and public servants. They are given fran
chises and great powers with tho agree
ment on their part that they will serve
the public impartially for just compensa-
tlon. Our state has never had an efficient
system OF railway legislation and present
conditions call for comprehensive. INTEL
ligent and courageous legislation. We
believe the first step In any efficient sys-
TEN OF railway regulation IL to secure
publicity OF railway affairs, and we there.
fore favor the creation OF state officer,
TO be known as railway auditor. with fun
powers to examine, check. duplicate and
Keep lOT puuHC use, al pOohs' iecoiuS'
papers and accounts OF the railway COM
panics, and to be the public auditor and
accountant OF all the affairs OF railway
companies Of the state. There should bo
created by law u public tribunal clothed
with all the power necessary for the COM
plcte and efficient regulation and control
Of the railways OF the state In their re-
lations to the public and TO their agents,
servants and employees and to all persons
whomsoevcr. and in all Of their conduct
and actions In the operation of their
roads. and In the prosecution OF their
business In all things and ut all times.
Among the matters requiring the special
attention OF the Legislature as relating to
regulation and control Of railways may
be mentioned the fixing OF passenger fares
and freight rates and the absolute pro-
hibltlon Of all determinations as to either.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

A parlor match is often the result, rather
than the precursor, OF q steady flame
indianapolis News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

MY wife," boosted the happy young
benedict, "is an open book to me-" Mine,
too" declared the old married man. u
can't shut her up."-Philadelphia Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Will serve you well to the choicest resorts
Of Canada, and the East:
For fares, descriptive literature, and gen
eral information apply to j. II. Burgs, City
Passenger and Ticket Agent, 2i9 Clark St.,
corner Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Minds Of steel are often narrowed down
that they may have a cutting edge.-Ram's
Horn.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.
John +. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES produce the fast
est and brightest colors Of any known dye
stuff Sold by oil druggists.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

The good Samaritan does not carry oil
in his cruise and vitriol on his tongue
Rams Horn.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

It is surprising, sometimes, how a man
that is way oil gets on. - Indianapolis
News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

The hen is a liberal fowl; she gives a
peckwhen she takes grain.-Chicago Daily
Newa
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

II is one Of the mysteries that man who
has given his heart unreservedly to won.
an, still has the heart to refuse her new
hat.-Detroit Journal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Write DR.. c. j. Moifett, st. Louis, Mo-,
for his valuable little Teethina Wash.List
Book, free.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Give pig plenty Of milk and il viii make
! hog Of itself.-Chcago Daily News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
FUSION rs ARRANGED.
AntLRepublican Forces at Fort
Scott Name q Ticket.
Democrats Yielded to Popuiist Demand
for Associate Justice and David Martin
Was Named I,reidonthal by Accia-
mation-The Platforms.

Fort Scott, Kan, July ee.-The
triune forces of Kansas effected full
fusion yesterday upon the basis agreed
upon at Tuesday nights conference,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

The best Prescription for Chills
and Fever Is bottle OF CRovE's TAsTELEs,
CHILL Tonic. tits simply iron ind auininei In
ntastclcss form. No cure-no puy. Price, SOC
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
Did You Ever Run Across

an old letter-ink all faded out? Couldn't
have been Carter's Ink for it doesn't fade.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28
To Cure q Cold In One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money ifitfails to cure. &c.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Peru has adopted the IinEla goa
standard
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Halls Cntarrh Cure
Il q Constitutional Cure. Price, 15c.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-28

Arkansas City; secretary, W. Ia. Z.
Pepperell, of Concordia, treasurer,
Frank s. Thomas, Of Topeka. These
are the same officers rs the commit
tee has had for the last two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
or mountain Is blown down to be crushed
INTO stone Tor our roads and driveways
It's Action Downward

one OF the peculiar actions of dynamite
as compared to other explosives is that its
action is downward. Often when in a
quarry 1t is desired to break huge rock
quickly. a cartridge of dynamite is simply
placed on top of the rock and after being
covered with a little heap Of earth, is set
or The rock is split into a number of
pieces. Were black powder heaped on a
rock In the same way the heap of dirt on
top would simply be blown away, leaving
the rock unframed. This downward ac-
tlon or dynamite makes it at once the most
useful and the most powerful of explosives
KNOWN L once assisted at a number of eX-
periments at the Stevens Institute it being
desired to prove the downward action of
dynamite and its incredible force num-
Der OF docks OF iron, six inches in diameter
and three inches thick, We're practiced
upon An ordinary newspaper was spread
over one of the blocks. cartridge of
dynamite was placed on top Of the paper
and after being connected with fuse and
covered with a heap of dirt the charge
WIS set Off. When the block was examined
after the explosion the print of the paper
was distinctly impressed into the surface
of the iron. The reason was that the pa
per, where the printers ink had touched
1t, was harder than the rest of the paper.
and by the incredibly hard and sudden
blow struck by the dynamite, the imprint
Of the shape of the letters was made as
A similar experiment was then made with
an ordinary oak leaf and the outlines of
the leaf. ribs and all. was gouged into the
iron. Both Of these blocks of iron are in
the museum attached to the institute.
with a few outlines of dynamite, or
nitro-glycerine. as it really is, made public,
perhaps it will quiet an uneasy army of
experts, who fear that dynamite and SINH
lar explosives are stored under their dining
rooms. There are hundreds of explosives
besides these best known and most dreaded
agents that might have caused the Tar
rant explosion. Fierce as that explosion
may seem to citizens who saw it, and care
full as the explosive chemicals should be
excluded from the midst of a community,
if that particular explosion had been
caused by an agent intended for that pur-
pose, New Workers would have a little spot
in their midst which it would be worth
travelling miles to See"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
AN EXPERT ON EXPLOSIVES
DYNAMITE ALL RIGHT If NOT CARE
LESSLY HANDLED.
1t Has It's r centricities, However
and Cannot Always BE Depended
Vpon-Compnred With a Woman.


From the New York Times.
speaking of dynamite and other explo-
sives' said an expert blaster, 1T Is doupt-
full if there is another subject on which the
average lay mind Is more mlslntormed.
Taking the Tarrant explosion, for example,
more ridiculous theories have been aired
by citizens in letters to newspapers giving
the possible causes Of the explosion than
would fill a good-siZed joke book. And as
IL to make sure that the opinions expressed
should receive the proper attention. many
of the writers felt cock-sure Of their
own conclusions that they have not hesi-
tated to mention in their communica lions
that they were experts on the subject.
LAS will be remembered, four so-caled
suspicious iron drums were discovered in
the ruins shortly after the fire. The drums
were of quarter-nch sheet iron, were two
feet in diameter, were four and half feet
long, were provided with stout iron chimes,
upon which they were to be rolled. and
were of about 100 gallons capacity. When
found two of the drums showed that their
heads had been blown out, leaving ragged
hole about one foot in diameter.
Now, there is probably not an expert
in existence who would be willing to tes-
tify as to what those drums contained UNI
less he made a thorough examination. Yet
the ridiculous statement has been made
that the drums contained ntro-glycerine-
in other words, liquid dynamite. l am no
more prepSred than any other man who
handles explosives to say what really was
in the drums But for several good rea-
sens l am willing to swear that nitro-gly-
cerine was not the contents.
ITO begin with. nitro-glycerine is never
packed in drums-the manufacturers have
too much respect for the compound. Five
gallon cans is about the extreme quantity
in which this explosive is shipped. and
then there are chimes other rolling
arrangements about the cans. There is
not a place in this land where nitro-glyce-
rine Is drawn OF from tanks through a
splgot and sold like beer. Moreover in
the heart Of New York there Is no more
sale for nitro-glycerine than there is for
life RATS On Broadway. Again, no matter
how used a man has become to handling
explosives, he retains his esteem for nitro
glycerine. Finally, had nitro-giycerine been
in those drums and had that quantity OF
that explosive gone of not a sky-scraper
within four blocks of the scene would
have remained standing. The island would
have rocked Not house in the lower
part of the city would have escaped I'M
damaged. The shock would have been felt
down on Fire Island. and instead of heap
of wreckage where the building collapsed,
there would be hole, blown from twenty
to thirty feet to rock. and the rock would
be burned and crumbled so that 1t could be
scratched away in chunks by ones finger
nails.
ut may seem to a layman that the men
handling high explosives In Quarries and 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
DAN RICE'S LAST NICKEL
was soon Increased That He Might
Give Church 800.

ri"ii the hahsas city World
Circus people, as rule. are the best
travelling class railroads have to deal
With. said George B. kretsinger Of the
Kansas City Southern, who has had much
0 do with such combinations. They are
always found to be close f1gurers present
ing million and one contentious asking
as many. If not more, courtesies, but In the
end the results are generally satisfactory
to both parties.
1T is only within the last few years that
railroads began handling circus outfits.
The country road and wagon once afforded
cheap method of transportation between
small towns where nickels dimes and
quarters rarely ever failed to be taken in
by the hatful Those not on country roads
We're found on the large rivers shifting
their dates to suit the seasons all the wav
from ST. Paul and Cincinnati to Cairo H.
and New Orleans. The late Col Dan Rice
VINO probably pleased more people as a
clown than any other sawdust king, was a
striking figure among the performing river
craft. and one of the first to put his show
on the rails
This was back in '7s. when a panic
swept over the country and river towns
had hit the sky, right and left, for the
show business. Rice and his animals were
tied up at St Louis. waiting for times to
a good lump sum for ms boats He fig
ured II was go broke in almost any event
SO he sold, and then began to tour east
ward with train of borrowed cars II
was big undertaking, even for Rice who
was about the richest in the business in
those days, but everything went reason
ably we'll until he started to enter Indiana
The last Illinois town was rotten The
show had hardly made animal meat TO
say nothing of the money to get to another
stand. AS a last resort Col. Rice soaked
the show to the railroad company to put
him into Vincennes, just over the state
line. agreeing that the company's agent
there should play doorkeeper and hold out
what was coming. Vtncennes did not look
a whit good The town was dead and the
inhabitants wouldn't enthuse a bit over the
bum band and bright-colored wagons. An
hour before the afternoon performance was
to begin found Col. Rice pacing In front OF
the main entrance. figuring with himself
for dear life, when party OF ladies ap
preached
Col. Rice they began we have al
ways heard Of you as a very charitable
gentleman, and, unfortunately, our church
has been damaged and needs a new roof.
We thought you might be willing to SUBJ
scribe toward it.
There was a man who had just stood up
railroad asked to give money away, but
he was equal to the occasion when he
pulled from his pocket nickel and posing
it on his finger replied
Ladies. l am now balancing a cash
account. 1t appears small to you, no doubt.
but in truth represents all the money I
possess If this show does any business
pairing your church. but I'll put a new
roof on It,
THE two performances that day Melted
the old man $780, paid for the next Jump,
and out of 1t was donated 800 to the
church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
Recruiting the Navy From Farms.

A plan of recruiting sailors for the United
States navy from the farms and the country
towns is now under consideration at the
Navy Department. Already the recruiting is
carried on outside of the large cities, but it
has not reached the interior sections remote
from large centers. Representative Hep
burn of Iowa has shown much interest in
the subject. and states that number of
boys in the interior of his district would be
glad to ship as sailors in the navy II they
had the opportunity to enlist. The depart
ment has now taken up the subject with the
view of devistng some means by which en-
lstments can be secured even in the most
remote sections, and from the farms and
country districts.