Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-12
PICK UPS FROM PUTHRBAU0h
PATCH.

PATCH.
Cards are up oil over the town.
ship announcing the organization
of On Auti.Hunting Associations
and notifying hunters and tress.
passers TO keep OF the grass, under
penalty, etc. Our farmers are In
dead earnest this time aud they
will surely make II expensive for
trespassers.
Comrade Hedrick has removed to
the Stein farm on Tick Ridge.where
he 10 still open to conviction and
ready TO entertain propositions from
desirable widows with small farms.
Uncle Hedrick wants Il understood
he drives fine best horse and buggy
In the Patch.
A silly editor made the state ment
last week that there was q case OF
smallpox In Baxter, end the Colum.
bus papers make a standing adver.
tisemeut of the misstatement.
When everybody knows that Co.
lumbus 10 rotten with the small
pox and that Baxter has not had a
case In 10 years, either In the city
or within FIVE miles thereof, your
editors should be more careful.
Such statements are not news items
but dangerous libels.
Our people are all signing the pc.
tition to abolish the high school
and will donate literally when the
money 10 required to push IL
through the Legislature.
Did you ever hear how Charley
Collins got his first appointment
as COW inspector? A good many
years ago out in the big Seventh
district there came up an irriga.
ton proposition and petitions
were circulated all over the district
asking for an appropriation.
Every body signed it and when the
various petitions were pinned to-
gether IL was something over a
mile long. 1t was never used for
the purposes intended, but some
years later Collins applied to the
governor for position. The
Governor asked for some recon-
mendations. Collins got hold OF
the big petition, cut off the heading
and fired II in. After the Governor
had uurolied three or four hun
dred yards he exclaimed "Huiiy
Gee! This man ought to have been
sent to the Court of ST. James. Mr..
secretary. make him out commits.
sion as tick examiner for Cherokee
county. Virture 10 its own reward"
The patch" did not attend the
colored minstrel show last week,
but understand the 40 of Baxter
white aud black. turned out and en-
joyed the entertainment hugely.
The show was of high order and
the manager paid all the bills, in
GLIDING drayage. The troupe ought
10 give Columbus whack at them
and then die.
Mr.. Collins has gone to Topeka to
see what can be done with the leg
isiature in the way of abolishing
the high school. He thinks Capt.
Seaton and Ed. Weilep will put II
through the house and he has two
or three senators ia view to work
the senate. don't believe House.
holder will work agin the bill when
he knows four.fifths of the honest
farmers of Cherokee county favor
aboiishing the school. Every far
mer should quit trading in Colum-
bus till the fraud 10 done away with.
The astute jury in the Plummer
case set an example that should be
followed. The idea that preacher
can have respectable citizens hauled
up and thrown in jail on u criminal
charge without provocation or just.
ification 10 abhorrent to our imper-
ialistic form of government. II 10
very proper that the complaining
witness in such cases should suffer
a severe penalty. Such christianity
10 worse ia theory and practice
than that of Elder Hunt who war
"siienced" for q less offense. Good
bye, John!
The Grand Army Post meeting
this Saturday evening will be red
hot one. The subject for discussion
10 the hauling down of the flag on
the Missouri state house and the
old comrades will be likely to work
off some blood curdiing oratory in
denouncing the silly action of the
old Missouri moss backs.
1t is rumored that Clayton Puter-
baugh, Capt. Price and Capt. East
ham are all converts TO Christian
Science, and have sworn of card
playing, cigarette smoking and
other loose habits.
The Chetopa road 10 being ma
cadamized by the farmera. This 10
a move in the right direction. Half
the amount of money and work
spent in disfiguring our roads
would ia a few years put a good
coat of gravel on the principal
thoroughfaree. II the citizens OF
Baxter and the hay haulers would
unite with Us we could soon have
fine turnpike Baxter and Puter-
baugh Patch. Then Il would not
be long till others would follow
suit and the trade of your city
largely increased. HI KICKER.
q. A. r. INSTALLATION.
Department Installing Officer,