Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-09-13

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groom went his way.-Kansas City
Journal.
Good Enough to Try!
A couple Of. enterprisins farmers
near Oneida plowed up their road
sides last spring, throwing the earth
near the center of the road and
sowed the land to millet. The road
sides are now clothed in living green
and form bright contrast with neg
lected ones in the same neighbor-
hood. The millet keeps the weeds
down and several loads Of hay will
more than pay the bill.
Miss Coburn's New Position.
Miss Gertrude Coburn, daughter Of
the secretary of the state board OF
agriculture, has gone to Peoria, ILL.,,
to take charge of the domestic
science department in Bradley poly
technic institute. Miss Coburn has
lately returned from Beloit, Kan,
where she equipped and installed
for the state board of charities do
nestle science department in the
girls industrial school.
Brothers in Opposing Armies.
The death by drowning of James
Kittner near Fort Scott brings out the
fact that Kittner and his brother, al
so living at Fort Scott, were on oppo-
site sides in the civil war. Often
they were in the same battle and
once they were close enough on
picket duty to recognize each other.
The drowned man was in the rebel
arlny.-Kansas City Journal.
/. Jackson's Leg Broken.
Congressman A. M. Jackson, of the
Third district, after speaking at
Mineral the other night, while on
his way to his carriage, stepped off
the sidewalk into rut. His right
leg was broken just above the ankle.
Mr.. Jackson's appointments will be
filed by Judge Sapp, of Galena, I'M
til Mr.. jackson RECEIVERS.
Last Old Soldier Removed.
T. C. Keifer, a civil war veteran,
has been discharged as clerk in the
internal revenue collectors Office at
Leavenworth, and S. G. Pottle, OF FL
dorado, named as his successor. The
discharge Of Keifer removes the last
old soldier from the internal revenue
collectors Office in Kansas.
Commissioner Ware mt Home.
Eugene F. Ware, commissioner of
pensions. is at Topeka, where he will
spend a vacation of two weeks with
his family and friends. Mrs. Ware
and two daughters will accompany
the commissioner on his return to
Washington.
A Costly Experiment.
While loading hogs at the farm OF
Dug Beeler, near Mankato, his hired
man noticed that some of them were
very warm and threw a bucket of
cold water over them with the result
that three died in scarcely as many
minutes.
Cemetery's Distinguished Dead.
With the burial of Judge Horton,
Mount Vernon cemetery at Atchison
contains the remains of United
States senator, q. governor and q
chief justice Of the supreme court.
Abilene Woman Drowned Herself.
Miss Ann Hargreaves. a middle
aged woman of Abilene, drowned
herself in the cistern at her home,
presumably while temporarily in
sane.
Eighty Bushels TO the Acre.
Eighty bushels of oats to the acre
is the phenomenal yield Of a ten
acre tract ON the Isaac Baughman
farm near Centropolis.
District Judge Resigned.
W. T. Bland, fusion Judge of the
Atchison county district court, has
resigned to enter the wholesale drug
business. 2
This ought to Hold Him.
A Cimarron jointist got $1,000 and
420 days for trifing with the af-
fections of the prohibitionists.-ot-
tawa Herald.
Historic Character Dead. 81
DIR. George Isle, who was the first
white resident of Labette county and
who founded Chetopa. is dead at the
age Of IS