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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

one leg. Since then a determined
effort has been made to kill il, as it
became menace to stock in the
community. tits thought the ami
NAL had den in the big cave on
LATE Haines' farm. This cave was
partially explored few weeks ago
by couple of men, who went into
it distance of some 200 yards.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER Q.

With this issue the NEWS begins
another year, as above indicated.
We thank our patrons for the lib
eral patronage given US the past
year and hope they will keep it up
the coming year.
We know II is customary to use
about a column of gush when a
new year is begun in a country
newspaper Office. but we fail to see
the necessity of il.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

The strange animal which has
been terrorizing the people of Low
ell and vicinity was killed Tuesday
by Chris. Rickner, who lives south
west of Riceville. Nobody who has
seen the animal has been able to
tell to what family of critters II be-
longs. Mr.. Rickner says he will
send the body of the animal away
to some school to have It mounted
and to find out what it is. The ami
NAL recently killed dog belonging
to farmer near Lowell, apd ate all
of the canine except the head and
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31
PLAN To SEE

The Presidents Reception Enter
tainment at the city hall on Friday
evening, Feb. 20, given by the EP-
worth League. Fifty-five of our
citizens will take part In this his
torical, educational, entertaining
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31
Prisoner Re.captured.

Marion McCumber, the young
fellow who escaped from Deputy
Sheriff Jim Babb at Neodesha sew
eral weeks ago, has been re-capt-
ured. -
McCumber was being taken to
the. state reform school by Babb,
and as the train wac leaving Mood
esha the prisoner made his escape
by jumping from the moving train.
The officer stopped the train and
made q search, but the prisoner
could not be found.
Il was known that McCumber had
relatives at Bridgeport, Okla, and
the officers we're notified to be on
the lookout for him. Word was re-
ceived by Sheriff Charles Rains
thst his man had been arrested at
Bridgeport and was being held,
awaiting further information,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

These are only few of the bargains have for those
who come to my store have very large stock of Dry
Goods Shoes and Clothing, which will go at very low
prices until can reduce stock and get more room.
Remember, these prices are for SPOT CASH ONLY.
NJ. Ct. JUSTICE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

MARRIED-At the home of L. q.
Berry in this city on Thursday Jan.
20. Mr.. Geo. Taylor TO Mrs. Ellen
Peanor. Justice Jones officiated.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

Baxter Post and W. z. C. will give
a Valentine Supper and entertain
ment on Saturday. Feb. IA, at the
city hall. Details will appear in
papers next week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31
GOOD ROADS MEETING
AT THE
CITY OPERA HOUSE
Saturday Evening, Jan. 81.

Everybody interested in good roads is urged to be
present at this meeting. The hall should be crowded
Don't stay away, good people Roads, and good Ones
an absolute necessity Come out.
The band will furnish music.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

Attend the sale at the Baxter
Hardware Co. Friday and Satur.
day, Feb. al. Benefit of the New
Christian Church.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31
RED TOP SEED.

600 bushels of fret class red top
seed for sale. Clean and free from
chat. Call on
+. d. BREWSTER.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

Don't fail to attend the good roads
macs meeting at the city hall this
Saturday. evening. Bring your
neighbor with you.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

Substantial offers of aid toward
graveling the Chetopa road have
been made this week. Among the
best ones are those of L. d. Brew
ster and C. E. Collins. Mr.. Brew.
'ster offers SIS and Mr.. Collins 500.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

Good gravel roads leading into
Baxter from the east, west and
south would double the trade Of
the town.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-01-31

The county commissioners were
in Baxter Tuesday on business.
They went from here to Tar creek,
just east of J. C. Naylor's, where
they viewed a site for bridge. We
understand they will order the
bridge built.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
PORTSMOUTH,.

The Kings Daughters win meet with
Mrs. Frederick A. Field Thursday az
ternoon
The third district convention Of the wo-
mans Christian Temperance union will
meet at the Methodist Episcopal church
ThqT'di H,rnsy %SrnnF pS ppSvs.er m
president IL expected 10 be present in the
afternoon and give an address.
Mr.. A. l.. Wilbur has entered his gray
gelding Monte Joe" In the 2:ls class at
the Brockton fair.
Mrs A. NJ. Steele is visiting relatives
In New Hampshire. c
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spoke AZ the
Christian church Sunday evening from
were representatives from Fall River
Tfvcrton. Middletown and Newport The
threatening weather deprived n number
Of people the pleasure Of listening 20 Mrs
Howe. There was n good attendance.
and many pleasing comments were made
on the beautiful voice OF the gifted speak
or. She was accompanied by her daugh-
vice and while some were waiting for the
car a hurricane lasting few minutes
passed by
The wind was OF such force that the
ladies waiting Cor the car had 10 cling
20 n tree and 10 each other 10 keep them
selves from being blown away. Their
call for help was heard amidst the thun-
whe carried closed umbrella had some
of the rihe broken. her hat blown Of ana
q comb I'm her hsir broken. The leaves
were whirled against the windows in such
quantities and with such force as To
sound like heavy hall.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
VALLEY VILLAGES
Ministers Circle Took Action
In Regard to a High School
In Warwick. ..Other News.

A special meeting Of the Pawtuxet VAL
ley Ministers Circle was held yesterday
afternoon AT the Phenix M E. church.
when the ministers who are members
gathered The meeting was called TO order
and the call relating to the Warwick
high school subject was brought up A
discussion OF considerable length was in:
dulged In until In regard 10 the need OF
town high school, especially at the
present time, and to urge that such a
high school be built as quickly as possible
The session was short and reached an
adjournment shortly after the resolu-
tions had been passed
CLYDE.
Yesterday Constable Fred Paul captur-
ed a small boy carrying beer into the
Clyde print works In pail. The young
ster had attempted TO dodge I'm through
the coal yard gate when the officer nabed
him. He was marched 10 the office where
the lad told who sent him out after the
liquor. Results are expected. II is a
practice INDUCED in for some time that
OF sending out by this back way for liquor
to saloon situated nearby and the new
management has decided that IL Is about
time IL was stopped tas s,y
VILLAGE HAPPENINGS.
This morning the River Point Rocky
bound terminal at Buttonwoods instead Of
running to the Rocky Point station The
cars still continue to run on the hour
schedule. and will continue to for some
time yet.
Thomas Muirhead formerly employed
at the Clyde print works as a second
hand In the color shop. has finished his
labors. He will begin work in a similar
position at the Apponaug print works on
next Monday. He has been employed at
Clyde for 10 years
Many Warwicktes are at present won
dering why the council took the trouble
to pass town ordinance regulating the
depositing and removing OF sewage. which
was done on July "a. and which for some
reason was repealed on Monday.
The last band concert of the season will
be held at Phenix tonight. The stereopu-
con views will again be thrown upon the
screen upon the Spaulding building.
Warwick lodge. A. r. and A. M. met
and held rehearsal of the degree work
last evening In Masonic hall In Phenix.
The electric car roadbed Is being re-
paired I'm Centreville.
The work OF installing the new boilers
I'm the Hope mill has been completed.
Narragansett lodge. X. OF p. met as
usual last evening at their rooms In
Hines block. Little beyond the regular
routine business was done.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
WARREN.

Land deeds have been transferred by
James A. Seymour to Margaret +. Wood
and tax assessors deed have been passed
90 John l.. Sullivan, Louis Lebesult and
Louis deMonsst OF lists lots on Union
street.
A row occurred among Polanders on
the premises OF a tenement off North Wa
ter street. in which man named winciz
received a cut on the top OF the head
from a club In the hands OF one OF his
compatriots. A warrant was sworn out
for the offender. but he left town i'm
mediately after the trouble.
Letters remain uncelled for at the post
office for the following persons: Mamie
Cane. Mary Quinn. William Latour. s.
Rochem. Fred sibley. John Fraser. John
West. Manuel Adascieiriez. Jose valeir
de Farias
Assistant Superintendent Kennedy Of
the Worcester division Of the New York.
New Haven & Hartford railroad. and his
two sons. accompanied by Orlcer Beattey
of the Consolidated railroad are enjoying
a fishing trip on watchaug pond
The Bristol County Game Protective as
ISOLATION met last evening I'm the com
mittee room of the town hall and elected
four new members
AZ n special session " the Fifth dis
trict court yesterday before Judge Ros.
worth, Patrick Torkey pleaded guilty to
the charge of being a common vagrant
and was sentenced % the state work house
for six months.
The pupils of the high school are try
Ing 10 revive the old custom of having
school close ~ an earlier hour peg
titicn IL in circulation IN the school and
will Re presented - the school commit.
tee
About ihree-qusrters - mile 81 the
new state sample rosd on child street is
finished and IN shout another week the
Lane Constructing company expect. %
have the road nearly completed
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
T|VERTON.

A Democratic caucus was held Friday
evening. George L. Church chairman.
The nominations were for senator. Ma
thaniel b. Church; representative.
George F. CottreJl.
Mr.. and Mrs James r. Hambly OF
Providence. are the guests Of Mrs. Eliza
Hambly at the Stone Bridge.
Mr. Burbridge OF Providence was In
town Tuesday on a business trip.
Mr. Donovan and family OF Fall River.
who have been occupying Henry A. Dur
fees cottage returned home Tuesday
Notices are posted around the town an
nouncing that the Stafford road from
the state line TO Bliss -Four Corners. will
be closed TO travel from Wednesday,
Sept. 20. until further notice. 10 allow the
bdllding Of mile OF macadamized road
William J. Brown OF Proyfdence.
guardian. has sold for Frank ". VIII
co To Edward J. Cory OF Tiverton. two
acres Of land more or iess. situated south
Of Tivertcn Four Corners for sg2s
Billings. Clapp q company have soId
30 Catherine r Dunn OF Portsmouth.
loo square rods. together with buildings
and improvements. the first par-eI con-
tains six acres 104 as-iO0 square rods the
second parcel three acres. Sc and 22-i0o
square rods
Tram n. Smith OF Fall River has sold
at auction sale real estate OF the late
Felix and Maria Owens to Edward
Bropley Of Tiverton. containing "a and
$40 square rods. being lot Is. section r.
for $3.50 -
Republican caucus was held IN the
Town hall Tuesday evening. with George
X La~ton chairman. There was very
large attendance ~ voters Three
hundred votes were cast. resulting IN ,h.
nomination ~ George v Lavton Cor
senator and William 7 Frost for rer-
resentstive. they having ia votes ~hii,
Henry osborne and Frank r. ortn.
nell had iS votes
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
1.-THE NEWS OF THE STATE.

old fashioned farm house on the east
band OF Bullocks cove, just south OF the
trestle bridge.
Mr.. A. p winchester Is repairing his
cottage on Lincoln avenue.
Frank Thurber. former resident OF
this place but now OF Providence spent
the day here yesterday
GETTING READY
The management at Crescent Park is
hustling TO get things ready for the
big dinner which will be served there
to the distinguished military organiza-
tions which are TO take dinner at the
park Saturday The work OF erecting
the kitchen which is being added onto
the exposition building is progressing and
there is no reason TO believe that every
thing will not be ready on schedule time.
All the booths have been removed from
the building and tables are put In for the
accommodation OF the guests.
AT PoMHAM.
Yesterday was club day at the Pom
ham club and as there Is 10 be but one
more club day before the close OF the
season there was a good attendance OF
the members OF the club. Friday will be
the last ladies' day Of the season.
TO INCREASE FACILITIES.
The school committee are considering
the recommendation in their annual re-
port OF an increase In the school facilities
here. There is some talk about building
an addition 10 the Turner avenue school
house but this idea does not meet with
general approval as the building has al
ready been enlarged and altered over and
II is thought that the steady increase Of
the school population should be provided
for by the erection OF a new building.
For years there has been considerable
difficulty about heating the Turner ave.
nue. building and on many occasions II
has been necessary oomit sessions OF
the school because the heating plant did
not rise 10 the occasion and furnish a
sufficient amount OF caloric to render the
rooms Of the building comfortable enough
for school purposes.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30
nAGIC HAIR STAIN.

for brown or black. prepared by
SbohSE oRMsBY. Wig Maker and
=, nanrorker' lss fremont street Boston.
IL H. simple. safe and easily spnl,.a. CO.,
tains no lead poisons; use N ono. .na
you VII never use any other. pI.ANDINo
bLANDiNc. % weybosset street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-30

JOHN o'coNNgll,
hsts. Caps. Furnishings. Trunk store and
Laurhfk is Just above the postofice
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
Turkeys Will be High.

If you want turkey for Thanksgiving
the chances are you will be compelled
to pay a good stiff price for the luxury.
Dealers are of the opinion there will be
a scarcity of the birds owing to the
rainy weather Of the past summer. The
famine embraces the entire state of
Iowa, but not in the east, where the
birds are more plentiful. The dampness
OF the present season has caused but
little headway to be made by the young
turkeys, and as a consequence no king
turkey, which makes such harmonious
delicacy with the cranberry sauce. The
eastern states, which are the finest
turkey raising country, have had a
splendid season, and so the American
people in general will not have to do
without the delicacy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
A Most Liberal Offer.

All our farmer readers should take ad
vantage of this unprecedented clubbing
offer we this year make, which includes
with The REPORTER, The Iowa Home
stead, it's special Farmers Institute edi-
ton and the Poultry Farmer. These
three publications are the best of their
class and should be in every farm home.
To them we add, for local, county and
general news, our own paper and make
the price of the four one year only ST.
Never before has so much superior read
ing matter been offered for so small an
amount of money. The three papers
named, which we club with our own are
well known throughout the west and
commend themselves to the readers
favorable attention upon mere mention.
the Iowa Homestead is the great agri-
cultural and livestock paper of the west
The Poultry Farmer is the most practi-
cal poultry paper for the farmer, while
The Special Farmers Institute Editions
are the most practical publications for
the promotion of good farming ever
published. Take advantage of this
great offer, as it will hold good for
short time only. Samples of these
papers may be examined by calling at
this office. o. E. HULL,
Publisher LEON REPORTER.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
Left Three Wills.

There promises to be an interesting
legal squabble over the estate left by
Mrs. Marie Ronat, an eccentric French
woman who died last week at Lamont,
three wills having been filed with Clerk
kehler for probate. In the first will
she bequeaths the bulk of her estate to
the LID. S. church, in the second to E..
l.. Kelley and other personal friends,
and in another to two nephews and a
niece, her nearest relatives. A number
OF years ago the old lady joined the i. d.
). church, and about three years ago
she came to Lamont, having at the time
about $4,000 in cash which she loaned to
the church as she claimed for one year.
and as the church claimed for five years.
Shortly after the money was due her
from the church as she claimed she COM
menced suit against the church for
the money, but about this time was de-
clared OF unsound mind and incapable
OF managing her affairs, and J. r.. Smith
was appointed her guardian 1t is hard
~ probable that any of the wills will hold
good, and the old lady's property, which
she accumulated by market gardening
in California, will probably go to her rel
atfves according to law.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
"Than a Serpent's Tooth,

Do children really love their parents?
Isn't the love of the average child for
| the average parent a feeling of licensed
imposition? Parents work hard all
their mature years for children, sacri-
| flee everything for them, wrap all their
hopes in their children, and the first
whim that a child takes after it is
grown up it gratiiics at the expense Of
it's parents. In Emporia there is no
minute of the working day when one
may not look down Commercial street
and see some mother and daughter
going along; the daughter dressed in
the latest fashion with the most expen-
sive hat and gown, and the poor old
mother shrinking along in an old shawl
and black straw hat dyed for winter
use. The fathers of this town wear a
suit of clothes three and four years that
the sons of this town may have q spring
suit and go to school nine months in the
year. The world is full of abnegation
of parents.
But when the children grow up they
ignore these bonds, snap them as
though they We're twine and break par
ent's hearts without so much as consid-
ering that parents have any hearts.
Take the case of the Bryan girl, who mar
ried q stranger she had known less than
a year, and made scandal and disgrace
10
the kindness that the Bryans gave her?
When she was q baby her mother put in
night after night with her and gave the
best years of her life to that child. And
yet wantonly and without thought or
feeling, she flares into a tantrun, leaves
the house, makes gossip and violates
the wishes of her parents as though
they were strangers. Would she do
this to a casual friend? If she really
loved her parents would she act thus?
The truth of the. matter may as we'll
be admitted. Generally speaking child
ren do not love their parents. Children
regard their parents as soft snaps.
Children arc pampercd too much; in the
home there is too much one-sided love,
not enough partnership. Children are
not taught to bear their share of the
troubles and tribulations. They are
shielded and made outsiders by mistak-
en- love of parents ard when the test
comes children become indeed outsiders
and have nosreal love FOR their parents.
A sacrificing mother will breed mean,
selfish daughter. In this town the
mothers who have the most loving
children are the mothers who take their
coffee in bed sometimes, and make the
girls cook half the meals, and do their
share of the housework. The mothers
who slave for their daughters are gem
orally neglected, and the fathers who
give their grown up sons spending
money always get the worst Oh it.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
Public Sale.

l will sell at public sale at my farm
81 miles east and ] mile south of Leon,
on Leon and Woodland road, on We'd
nesday, Oct. %, 1908, the following
property to-wit: 90 cattle, milch
COWS, 8 Sspring calves, 3 yearling steers,
! Short-Horn bull 2 years old, yearling
heifers. 6 horses, 2 brood mares with
foal, gelding, / three year old filly,
saddlers. 26 hogs, 2 brood sows, Is
shoats, ] sow and pigs. l hay stacker,
I 1 sweep rake, 1 Champion mower, 1
sulky rake, | disc harrow, steel har-
row, 3 stirring plows, / cultivator,
wagons spring wagon, sets double
harness, 2 saddles, 40 tons hay in stack,
oats in bin, hay ladder and ether
things too numerous to mention Terms
- months. j. M. MUSE.
ID. "A. MCMAINs, Auctioneer.
Rev. G. w. Reederis conducting a
series of union temperance meetings at
Van Vert.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-10-22
Will GET A New TRIAL
The Supreme Court on Monday Re-
versed the Case of DR.. CrOff0rd
Convicted of Murder.

\
!. The famous murder case of DR.. j. w.
Croiford, the Lamont physician who was
convicted in the district court of this
county of murder in the second degree,
for an alleged criminal operation per-
formed on Miss Maude Stone, promi-
nent young lady of this county, who
died in his sanitarium at Lamont on
January %, 1901, was reversed by the
supreme court Monday, and the case
remanded back for another trial.
The case against DR.. Crofford attract
time Of his trial in November 1901,
when jury found him guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree and he was
sentenced by Judge Towner to a term
Of thirteen years in the penitentiary at
Et. Madison. He was taken to prison
Immediately and after staying there a
few months gave an appeal bond and
the case was taken to the supreme
court, his attorneys, V. r. McGinnis,
Hoffman Y jackson, and NJ. L. Temple
alleging a number of errors in the trial
in the district court, and it seems, the
errors really existed, the supreme
court reversing the case on the ground
that one of the jurors had expressed an
opinion in the case which should have
made him ineligible as n juror, and
other errors.
After being released on bonds DR..
Crotford returned to Lamont and resum-
ed his medical practice in spite of the
| fact that the state board of health re-
voked his certificate as a physician and
endeavored to stop him practicing, but
it was held that as he had appealed the
case he had right to practice and they
could not revoke his certificate until
the supreme court had passed on the
case.
Ira Hammond, the young man who it
was claimed was the author of Marule
Stones ruin, was also indicted with the
Dr.. but after the Crofford case had
been tried in this county his attorneys
secured a change of venue to Ringgold
county on the grounds that he could
not secure a fair and nnprejudiced trial
in this county. The case was tried
| at Mt. Ayr in March 1902, and the jury
returned verdict of acquittal. Since
the acquittal Of Hammond Crofford's at
torneys We're very confident that they
could secure his acquittal If a new trial
could be secured.
| The case must now be tried again and
as it has been tried in this county once,
| it will probably be taken to either
Clarke or Wayne county on change of
Venue. The trial Of the eases against
Hammond and Crofford have already
cost Decatur county five or six thousand
dollars, and it will cost probably three
thousand dollars more to try DR.. Crofford
again.
The attorneys for DIR. Crofford feel
| highly elated over securing a reversal of
this case, it being great legal victory
for them.