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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
BARN BURNED.

Last Friday afternoon about 2
O'Clock the barn on the NJ. F. Davis
place, two blocks west of the pub
lie school building, was destroyed
by fire. The fire is supposed to
have caught from the burning of a
pile of rubbish near by. The prop
erty is occupied by F. N. Tuthill.
Mr.. Tuthill was in Joplin that day,
but his daughter, Jessie, got mare
and colt out of the barn and began
single-handed to fight the flames
Help was soon on the scene and az
IL was impossible to save the barn
attention was turned to the house
which was saved only by the hard
est work. The furniture was all re-
moved. A new buggy belonging
to one of Mr.. Tuthilrs sons was
burned as was also lot of feed and
several sets of harness.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

The Missouri Pacific is going to
do more business on the line that
runs through this city than they
have been doing, as they are going
to connect it in good shape with the
main line out at the west end, and
for that purpose will put in con-
meeting link between Larned and
McCracken. Then, to make this a
direct line between Denver and
Memphis, the missing link between
Chetopa and Joplin will be put in,
to connect with the link in process
of construction from Joplin south
east to the Iron Mountain.-Chetopa
Democrat
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

One.way secoud-class colonist
rates to California during March
and April.
Homeseekers excursion to Arkan
sas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma
louisiana. Texas, Arizona and New
Mexico. Tickets on sale March
and IS, April and Is, May 8 and 70
Tickets to be good from starting
point on date of sale only and to
destination within fifteen days
from date of sale Return trip will
be for continuous passage within
q days from date of sale.
Homeseekers excursions to Cal
ifornia one fare for the round trip
plus 81. Dates of sale April and
IS, May 6 and 20. Final return limit
q days from date of sale.
Second class Colonists Rates to
the Northwest March and April.
Points in Utah. Oregon, Montana,
Washington and British Columbia.
For further information call on or
address ]. NJ. WILSON. Agt.
Very low rates to points west and
northwest via Frisco System.
Every day in the week during
March and April. San Francisco,
Los Angeles and points intermedi-
ate, SIS.
Helena and Butte, Mont, Ogden
and Salt Lake, Utah, and points in
termediate, $2l.65.
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle and
Puget Sound points, also to North
port, Wash, $26.S5.
Spokane, WASH, and Wallace
Idaho, $24s5. ]. NJ. WILSON, Agt.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
BEEF TRUSTS FOLLY.

Great industrial combinations OF
all kinds should look with concern
upon the operation of the packers
trust. The natural and necessary
effect of such extortions is to great
ly stimulate the popular hostility
to trusts in general. When every
voter in the land is made to feel
directly and seriously, in the heavy
increase of his necessary living ex.
penses, the harmful results of in
dustrial monopoly, feeling is
aroused that bodies no good to
trusts. 1t is never safe to drive the
masses to desperation. If the peo-
pie are goaded too far by the mer-
CHESS greed of such concerns as
the packers combine they will
start a revolution that will not stop
until it has wiped all such consol-
idations out of existence. says the
Kansas City Journal, Republican.
The public had not made up it's
mind whether trusts as a whole are
an evil or a blessing. Some of
them have seemed to be grinding
monopolies, but many others ap-
peared to be harmless and benefi.
cial. Business has been much bet
ter since the trusts came into exis-
tence 80 beautifully and there was
a disposition to give the trusts
credit accordingly. But the extor-
tons of the meat combine and
some other similar combinations
are rapidly destroying whatever
friendliness the masses may have
felt toward trusts and trust meth.
DDS. The sentiment that the trust
"evil' must be downed is becoming
both widespread and fierce. Unless
something is done speedily to allay
it the next congress may be elected
on a platform whose chief plank
will be "Down with the trusts"
The American people can stop
the trust business if they become
sufficiently aroused and deter
mined. Ifpresent laws are unavail.
ing they will insist on stronger
ones. If the national constitution
is in the way, they will insist on a
constitutional amendment-and
they can get it. The results of such
a popular upheaval would be dis
astrous to many consultations that
are not oppressive. as well as to
those that are. For that reason the
large business corporations of the
former kind should view the reck.
less work of the beef trust with un-
easiness, if not alarm. If the mo-
nopolistic ROBBERY to which consum-
ers are now subjected continues a
few months longer the antitrust is-
sue will overshadow all others and
the political party that promises
most in the line of eradicating
trusts will sweep the country.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
RLOPRMRNT AT LOWELL.


A pretty l7.year old girl, deter
mined lover. unwilling parents and
a high school commencement fig
ured conspicuously In little love
affair, which eliminated In an
elopement last Thursday night at
Lowell says the Galena Times.
Mics Bertha Simmons, youngest
daughter of Henry Simmons, an
old resident of Lowell, and Bert
Watson, a nephew of Judge Skid
more, were the central figures in
the romance. The details of the af-
fair, as given to Times reporter,
are about az follows:
Miss Simmons was high school
student at Lowell and had been re-
ceiving attention from young Wat
son for several months. The girl's
parents didn't look upon Watton's
suit with kindly eye and at
tempted TO break off the match. In
this, as generally the case, they
were unsuccessful, hut the young
people bided their time.
Last Thursday night was the
evening for commencement exer.
cises at the Lowell high school and
Miss Simmons was one of the four
graduates. Her commencement
gown of white was also very ap.
propriate wedding dress and the
young couple decided that the OPP
portunity was too good to be
wasted. The girls parents attended
the exercises at the school house,
proud of their daughters gradua-
ton. AS soon as Miss Simmons
had delivered her Grafton and the
program had been finished, she
stepped to side door of the school
house, where Mr.. Watson was wait
ing with carriage. They drove
rapidly to the girls home, where
note was left for her parents, telling
them what she was going to do. and
saying that they would return Mon
day from Carthage. where the cere-
mony was to be performed. This
part of the note was merely a ruse
to throw the parents off the track
in case they should attempt pur-
suit. The young couple drove to
Baxter, where they were married by
NJ. E. Bramhall, a Methodist minis
ter appropriate initials, by the
wayD
Immediately after the ceremony
the happy couple went to Column
bus, where they stayed with some
of the groom's relatives until yes
terda, when they returned TO Lowell
for the customary forgiveness and
blessing.
Miss Simmons, the bride, ia one
of six children and twin, the other
being a boy. She is said to be quite
pretty and has hosts of friends at
Lowell.
The groom, Mr.. Watson, is a
young man about Il years of age
and is a miner by occupation.
Hogs are climbing toward the IS
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
DR.. English's Office and residence
over Gould's hardware store.
You Have Seen

DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin ad-
vertised for months, but have you
ever tried it? If not, you do not
know what an ideal stomach RENE
dy II lie. A 30 cent bottle will show
pou it's great merits as a cure for
indigestion, constipation and sick
headache. At Morrow & Co and
A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Down in the territory about six
miles south of Baxter, in front of
Alex. Cardin's has been for a long
time a bad mud hole. It reached
from fence to fence and there was
no way to dodge it. But it has been
fixed, and whoever did the work
should have half a dozen white
marks made by the recording angel.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
WARNING NOTICE.

All parties are warned against
throwing stones at or in any way
molesting the property of the Bax'
ter Telephone Co. Transgressors
will be vigorously prosecuted un'
der Section / of Ordinance No. 80
which provides penalty of $25.
E, W. Dow.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
Never out Of Season.

There is no time in the year when
DR.. Caldwelps Syrup Pepsin is not
q benefit to mankind. It cures in.
digestion and constipation, and
cures diarrhea caused by bad con.
dition of the digestive organs. In
SOC and $l.O0 sizes at Morrow & Co
and A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Baxter Springs public schools
closed today friday. Now the
kids are picnicking and having a
general good time.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

The Galena Times says it knows
no candidate for office whose an
nouncement is not in the news
papers. Same here, Burke.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Yes, Miranda, it costs IS to bt
announced in the News as a can
didate for county office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
FREIGHT DEPOT MOVED.

The Frisco company moved its
freight depot this week. 1t is now
located up near the passenger sta
ton, just south of it. The work
was done by Mr.. T. NJ. Hobson an
expert from Paola, Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Dardenne left
Tuesday evening for Dallas, Texas
to attend the Confederate reunion
and see the country.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
Raw or luflamed Lungs

Yield rapidly to the wonderful
curative and healing qualities of
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t prevents
pneumonia and consumption from
hard cold settled on the lungs.
A, r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Miss Pearl Masters of Mount
Valley, Kansas, is visiting he
brother, ]. L. Masters, in Baxter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
You Know what You Are TakinI

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle
showing that il is simply Iron and
Quinine in a tasteless form. No
Cure, No Pay. SOC.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Claude Pinnick left this week for
Litchfield. ILL.,, to join show COM
pany. Claude is trombone artist
that is. he plays with a broken
horn.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
To Cure q Coldin One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money IL IL fails TO cure. Is. w.
Groves signature Is on each box.
DC
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Mrs. VIM. Vaughan, Chas. Adams
and Mrs. L. d. Sweem left Monday
for Northport, Wash.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Mr.. and Mrs. p. r. Slater have
removed from Bowling Green, Ken.
lucky, to Shelbyville. Kentucky.
We understand Mr.. Slater's health
is somewhat improved.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26
StOps the Cough
and works off the Cold,

Laxative Bromo. Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No cure, No
Paw. Price 3 cente.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Since the trusts have made it we'll
nigh impossible for the la borer and
his family to have full stomachs
owing to the high prices of meat
and other food-stuffs, what has be-.
come of the picture of the full din.
ner nailI
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

The country is chock full OF
young mule and horse colts this
sprinp.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Fred L. Erwin, the produce buyel
of Keelville, was in Baxter Satur
day on business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

L. Fl. Winter OF Galena was in
Baxter Tuesday night in the inter.
est of his candidacy for district
clerk. We want to see Lou get that
nomination and be elected. He is
a perfect gentleman, fully compe-
tent to fill the office, aud in fact is
lust the man for the place.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

Hogs are clim bling toward the IS
mark in Kansas City.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

The Best Prescription Tor Maiarfa
Chile and Fever 10 a bottle OF
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. It lie
simply iron and quinine in taste
less from. No Pay. SOC.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

In going to Kansas City, take the
Missouri Pacific at Joplin. You can
go to Joplin on the Memphis at SIS
o. m. Missouri Pacific train leaves
Joplin at 2 p. M, arriving in Kan.
sas City at 1:30 a. m, 30 you can go
to bed and get good rest before IL
is time to do business. For further
information address c. 81. Rohrer
agent Missouri Pacific, Joplin, Mo.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-04-26

brother, ]. L. Masters, in Baxter.
Baxter Springs public schools
closed today friday. Now the
kids are picnicking and having a
general good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Dardenne left
Tuesday evening for Dallas, Texas,
to attend the Confederate reunion
and see the country.
The Galena Times says it knows
no candidate for office whose an
nouncement is not in the news
papers. Same here, Burke.
Claude Pinnick left this week for
Litchfield, Ill.,, to join show COM
pany. Claude is trombone artist
that is. he plays with a broken
horn.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. r. Slater have
removed from Bowling Green, Ken.
lucky, to Shelbyville. Kentucky.
We understand Mr.. Slater's health
is somewhat improved.
Since the trusts have made it we'll
nigh impossible for the la borer and
his family to have full stomachs
owing to the high prices of meat
and other food-stuffs, what has be-
come of the picture of the full din
ner pails
L. Fl. Winter OF Galena was in
Baxter Tuesday night in the inter.
est of his candidacy for district
clerk. We want to see Lou get that
nomination and be elected. He is
a perfect gentleman, fully compe-
tent to fill the office, aud in fact is
lust the man for the place.
Ed. Henley and Tom Clay, two
gentlemen of color, got small
sized jag on last Friday night and
were arrested on a warrant charg-
ing them with discharging fire
arms within the city limits. They
were arraigned before Acting
Police Judge Weaver and got off
with a fine of ST. each, accompanied
by the usual trimmings.
Speaking about the high price of
meat these days, the Modern
Grocer, published in the interest of
Chicago grocers and butchers says:
There is little doubt that prices
are being manipulated. The ad-
vanced prices of cattle and corn do
not seem sufficient to justify the
exorbitant rates now charged.
Moreover, the condition is a great
hardship on the laboring people of
the country. who have been obliged
to curtail their consumption of beef.
Decisive action is required" Hard
ship is a word too mild to describe
the effects of these arbitrary prices
on all the poorer classes. Not in a
generation has a more cruel time
than this been seized upon for cold
and relentless money making. Not
only are the poorer people com.
PEELED to give up meat, but when
they have done that they have no
economical food to which they can
turn. For that reason alone, say
the friends of the humble, mercy
should induce the trust TO unloosen
it's grip, even if for little time it
lost money, for peoples good
rather than make it for it's selfish
growth. We do not say the packers
are taking advantage of a natural
situation to squeeze the public, but
it is very evident that they are de-
termined to dodge their share of
the natural losses by making the
public bear them. To seize the
crisis as an excuse for profit max
ing would be q brutal action, but
the evidences of today point to the
practice of exactly that brutal doc
trine.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
The Crisis With Nursery Trees.

IL Is something of a science TO trans
liant trees that have been received
=. m distant nursery and have them
nve. 1t used to be thought that there
must always be large percentage of
loss anyway-even under the best con-
oluons. Both the nurserymen and the
planters have now learned that trees
OF all kinds can be handled in q way
10 insure their living when placed in
tneir new locations. well-packed
tree has its roots kept moist by being
rolled in damp moss and tied up in
Dagg1ng. The old scheme OF pulling
trees out of the ground, exposing their
roots and sending them away without
any protection was the cause OF many
tree proving failure. When these
trees arrived at the dista~t station
they were thrown out ON tie platform
and left there exposed to the heat Of
the sun and the drying effects OF the
wind. In the course OF time the pur.
chaser drove around and got his con-
slgnment, perhaps q couple OF days
after their arrival. BY that time their
home and set out mis- trees In any old
way. Even had he set them In the
best possible way IL Is altogether like
ly that good many trees would have
persisted owing TO the drying out OF
the roots. When a large part of his
trees failed to grow OF course the
nurseryman was to blame-so the buy
er said. He was right Id some extent,
In that the trees were sent away with
roots not properly protected. In send
ing trees long or snort distances the
roots and their moisture supply fur
nish the key to the situation. Proper
treatment Of the tree from the time II
comes out of the nursery row to the
time 1t goes into the place assigned to
1t in the orchard will insure a good
healthy tree. LII setting n hundred
OF these there need be no failures.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
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Points on Asparagus Culture.

When the asparagus plants come
up In the new bed they should be Civ
en- every opportunity to grow and
make leaf. for the leaves are what
must be depended on to develop root.
Inc fact that the roots depend on the
top should not be forgotten. Con.
stant pruning OF the top does not in
crease the roots, as some might sup
pose. All the material that goes to
the extension of the roots first goes
into the leaves and Is elaborated, that
Is. changed into form that can be
used In cell construction. The ground
must be kept free from weeds and
from hard crusts. Every encourage
ment should be given for the forma-
ton or top, and this should be con.
tinued till the berries form and turn
red. Then the tops that have the red
berries should be cut off or the her,
ries picked off and thrown away The
berries should not be permitted TO
form seed, for that will take much
substance from the roots Moreover
Ii the berries are permitted to stay
on the plants they will fall to the
ground when growth is done and the
next year multitudes OF little plants
will start from them. This is the
cause OF many a bed running out or
the stalks getting smaller. There
will. however. be a good many other
tops than those with berries and these
may be permitted to remain. The
water should not be permitted to
stand on the asparagus bed but
should be drained away from it, aa
the asparagus plant is very suscepti-
bic to rust and other fungous dis
eases.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
Saves q WOman's Life

40 nave given up would have meant
death Tor Mrs. Lois Cragg, of Dorcbes-
ter Mass. For years she had endnrad
untold misery from severe lung trou-
ole and obstinate cough. Often . che
"r''es' l could scarcely breathe and
sometimes could not speak. All doc
tors ana remedies failed till I used DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consnmptien
and was completely cured" Sufferers
rom Coughs, Colds, Throat and Lung
Trouble need this grand remedy for Il
never dlsappoints. Cure is guaranteed
by Ritter Bros, Drug &C. Price 5Ocand
Sl.OO. Trial bottles free.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
English Buying American Cows.

The agent OF large creamery es-
tablishment in England Is In this
c. Nntry purchasing cows to ship
home. He says that the English have
bt,en for some time purchasing cows
IN the European countries, but espe-
cially In Holland. It has, however,
bten found difficult to secure enough
COWS of the kind needed. and SO he
has crossed the Atlantic for that pur-
pose. 1t is a pity that American dai.
rymen find It advisable to sell cows
to go across the water. We need in
this country all the best cows as
breeders. It may well be feared that
American dairymen will sell the best
they have in this line, as the English
will pay enough to make IL an object
to do SO. It Is reported that cows
are very much higher In price In Eu-
rope than In this country, and that
is a disturbing factor viewed from
the standpoint OF the American dairy
industry. It IL to be hoped that this
buying will not become popular with
Europeans, as 1t pays the American
far better to sell the products OF our
dairy cows than to sell the machines
that produce the dairy products.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
Heartburn.

When the quar- tity of food taken is
too large or the quality is too rich, heart
burn is likely to follow. and especially
SO if the digestion has been weakened
by constipation. Eat slowly and not too
freely of easily. digested food Masticate
the food thoroughly. Let six hours
elapse between meals and when you feel
a fulness and weight in the region of the
stomach after eating, indicating that
you have eaten too much, take one of
Cham berlains Stomach and Liver Tab
let's and the heartburn may be avoided.
For sale by LYMAN. the druggist.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26
Fruit in Michigan.

According to reports, the Michigan
fruit crop Is going to be O good one.
taking all things together. Some
kinds will be short, but the aggregate
will be good. Peaches promise less
than any OF the other fruits, aud are
estimated at two-thirds OF a normal
crop. This In reality Is a good crop
for there are no years when all local.
ties have normal crops. Cherries seem
to lead the list in promise of yield.
Apples come next and will without
doubt be very fine crop. a condition
that will be welcomed both by the an.
pie growers and by the multitades of
consumers that have been going with.
out apples for several months. Pears
also promise well, as do plums and
small fruits.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-07-26

A tablespoonful of kerosene added tc
four or Ave quarts of starch will make
the colored starched clothes iron
EASIER
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19

government will equal the receipts
for some years to come. Then
again, as the appropriation would
have to be made every two years
there would be much uncertainty.
Therefore, we advocate that while
at present real estate is taxed alone
for road purposes, an especial state
tax be assessed and collected by
the state on all corporate and per-
sonal property for road fund for
the improvement of the public
roads of the state. It would be
the best investment ever made.
State control of the roads is op-
posed. 1t would create hord of
officials, and in many instances be
turned into the worst kind of po-
litical machine. The control of
the public roads, as well as other
matters, should be as near the peo-
pie possible 1t is essential to
good citizenship.
Nc Howard.
I,etart w Va