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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-10
BAXTER TRANSFER AND BAGGAGE LINE.
Hemstreets old stand, Syringe hotel
. GENERAL FEED AND BOARDING BARN.
Special boarding horses Cabs make all ain
day and night Bale parties gatherings attended.
Calls promptly answered Phone SO
w. A. DOUTHTT. Proprietor.
F0R SAlE-ulRT CHEAP
Special attention given to the boarding Of horses.

A new four.sooR hoese and 50x
i42 feet lot In good location. If seld
quick can be had for $3.50. Call at
this ONCE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-10
Drop Your Eye
on This
and see that we are right and
govern them all alike:
SEED POTATOES.


Early Rose, per bushe 13O
Burbanks per bushel ....... ................. lis
Yellow Jersey Sweet Potatoes for Plants
Onion SETS Globe, Wethers6elds Yellow Onions, White
Onions and all kinds of Peas, Beans Cabbage Lettuce
Radishes Tomatoes Beets, Cucumbers and Melons, and
other Seeds and fresh Onion SETS quarts for DC
or 3Oc gallon.
Best hard wheat -four, per hundred s. 80
Best soft wheat -four, per hundred ed........... $50
A SIS order of anything in my line entities you to
3 pounds best granulated sugar for SlOO.
And for an order amounting to $40 will give
II pounds best granulated sugar for $l.OO.
And for an order amounting to SIS will give
ID nnilndc hacf neanul afod cmmae Co. CT AA
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
ITO Be Continued
The Wurst Yet

as this the best wurst you can
send me?" asked the lady who walked
into the meat store with a package
of that edible in her hand
Madam" answered the man, 1T
is the best wurst we have
well, it is the worst wurst | ever
saw"
81 am sorry to hear that The best
| can do is to try and send you some
better wurst from to-day's lot. but
as | said, that was the best wurst we
have at present. I am sure. how
ever, that the wurst we are now max
ing will not be any worse than this
and it ought to be better / assure
you that as soon as [ get the wurst
you shall have the best of it, We
never gave anyone the worst of it so
long as we have been in the wurst
business and you may be sure when
we give you the wurst it will be the
best, for our worst wurst is better
wurst that the best wurst of our
competitors"
But the lady. whose eyes had ia
ken on stare of glassiness. was
seen to throw up her hands and flee
from the place, for she was afraid
the worst was yet to Balti.
more American.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
CITY BOYS FOURTH.
CHICAGO WILL CELEBRATE THE
DAY FOR THE CHILDREN.
IN THE oLD-FAsHIoNED WAY
Less Danger and More Sport Is the
Object of the Authorities <
Firecrackers and Tor
pedoes for All.

Chioago-Over at Eagle Lake, down
1T Swan station, and even at Rolling
Prairie, the Fourth of July is under
discussion
In the country the day belongs 10
he boy.
The boy looks forward to it as his
irst real holiday between New Years
and the beginning of the summer
school vacation.
1t is the day of the picnic grove. the
6fe and druta, the reading of the Dec
aration of Independence by the pref
test girl in the hamlet, and then a
laundering grafton from the leading
politician of the county.
After that a dinner in the grove,
simple fireworks and home to bed.
Through it all runs, the fuse of the
irecracker and the crack of the tor
pedo
This has not been the city boys
Fourth of July ever. The boy of New
York city, of Boston, of Baltimore. of
Chicago, of Pittsburg has had for dec
AIDES past a Fourth of July of eX-
plosions, streets Uttered with the
wreckage of dynamite bombs, private
property burning through the careless
Or illegal use of fireworks, and the
morning after the Fourth a hospital
list of killed and wounded little ones
that would simply appal the managers
of any country celebration of the ma
tional holiday.
Now comes Chicago, always unique,
oil .,eri al init iofi n
great, big, Overgrown city, so big. that
it's own people do not realize them
selves it's magnitude, and purposes to
have country" Fourth of July for
it's own children. 1t proposes to go
back to first principles, to have Z
Fourth of July that stands for the
simple things in the way of 61ter-
tainment and yet which shall have be-
hind it all the power of the wealth Of
the leading citizens.
The proposition, connected as 1t is
| with city having at least 2,200,000
| population, is so extraordinary that it
| is almost funny, and yet it has serl-
GUS side of so much municipal and ma
| tional Importance that if it can be
made successful for one year at least il
| may later revolutionize the celebration
of the Fourth in every large city OF
| the country.
What Chicago proposes to do is just
what Grassmore. Fair Oak, Blue Duel
and Birdseye have been doing fol
yearS-make the Fourth of July one
| for the children. for the Grand Army
veteran, for the public schools. for tbs
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
Kansas Mining story.

: Down in the Joplin mining district
once a travelling man was rampsing
around in the suburbs of the town
at two o'clock in the morning The
country down there is as full of
prospect holes as the top of a pep
per-box. Some of them are 800 feet
deep As natural consequence the
travelling man stepped into one of
those holes. He fell ten or twelve
feet. and then striking cross tim.
Der clutched it and saved himself from
what appeared to be terrible death.
All night long he chung to that cross
timber. yelling himself hoarse for
aid. When day broke he was still
hanging there EXHAUSTED, disheveled,
and pitiable. When the sun came
up it cheered him "a little, and, grad,
ually, as hope came back, he sum
moned courage to look into the
yawning abyss beneath HIM Nerv-
ing himself for the supreme test he
glanced downward, and found that
his feet were swinging within four
inches OF the bottom of the hole.
The prospectors had abandoned it at
, septhpf Is feet.-To Topeka Capital.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
SIDNEY.

is only a little northwest of here
When it gets dark 1 will hold her
north, and take no chances of run
ming ashore on this island.''
AS the afternoon wore away. the
haze settled and slowly blotted out
the shore line. They crawled along
at hardly two knots an hour 1t was
eXasperating progress, but there was
no help for it. In the evening the
haze lifted and showed the cape still
in the northwest. This proved that
the tide was pulling against them.
The wind died away to a breath, and
the sun sank, a huge red ball of fire
in bank of orange clouds At ten
o'clock the wind swung into the
southeast and freshened, but the haze
vet hung over the sea, and Sidney
held his course to the north.
All but Sidney and Mr.. Kent retired
to the hunks and slept soundly as
if on an ocean liner. Save for the
bank of fog, it was perfect night
on the water. The raft swayed gent
ly to the deep breathing of the sea,
and the masts groaned in musical
cadence to the ripping of the water.
At midnight Mr. Kent took the tiller,
and Sidney stretched himself on a
steamer chair and enjoyed two hours
of untrOubled slumber. He aweke
and relieved Mr.. Kent, who then took
his nap.
Twice during the night Sidney
turned the boat to the west, and
held that course until the hollow
thunder of the surf warned him to
stand out. At about three o'clock
the breeze quickened, and a 2O-mile
breeze sprang up. coming straight
from the west. This compelled him
to cease any more landward expert
ments, and The Jumping Jupiter
rolled along at a -milean-hour
rate.
1T is satisfaction to know that we
are going somewhere" said Sidney
to himself. Eve must be past the
cape by this time. If the fog lifts
with this breeze, daylight will show
where we are"
AS he spoke there was a faint glow
in the eastern sky. Mr.. Kent awoke
with yawn.
Where are we at?" he asked.
Sidney shook his head.
eve are headed north" he said.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE RESCUE.

Representatives of the New York
Record watched every European port
for the arrival of Walter b. Hestor
and the steam yacht shark" Ac-
cording to all calculations, the yacht
was due at the Azores not later than
May 18th. but no word came from
these islands. Day succeeded day
with no news of the famous million
aire correspondent.
In the meantime the detective
staff of 40 picked newspaper men
under Jack Stevens was indomitable
in zeal but barren in results. Mr..
Chalmers was steadily losing faith,
but by no word or action did he dis
close his loss of confidence to Miss
Carmody. He prepared the leader
for an article to be published in
The Record on Wednesday, May 18th,
in which was set forth the discover
res which had been made pointing to
HeStor as the prime mover in the
conspiracy. This was in keeping
with his promise TO Miss Carmody.
In the meantime Editor Van Horne
had sailed for New York, but was not
due until the 22d or 33d of the month
In cipher cablegram Chalmers had
given his superior the essential facts
concerning Hestor. The reply of
Robert Van Horne was prompt and
decisive in instructing Chalmers to
make public the facts. The Inference
was plain that Mr. Van Horne had
no hesitancy in sharing his manag-
ing editors suspicious. Mr.. Chalmers
therefore prepared a four-page arti-
Gle, and awaited for the day fixed for
the disclosure.
Miss Carmody ordered the steam
yacht bearing her name put in COM
mission, and her captain announced
that he was ready to weigh anchor
on an hours notice
At three O'Clock Tuesday afternoon
cablegram was handed to Mr.. Chal-
mers. 1t was in the cipher which had
been given to the reporters working
on the mystery. Translated it read
as follows:
Havana, Cuba. Tuesday. May is. To
William Chalmers. New York Record:
Have solved mystery. Col. John McIn-
tyre, of Havana, built Hestor bungalow
year ago Hestor designed it. Located
nine hundred miles southwest of Havana
Mcintyre will act as guide Mcintyre
Is ileA4ayana with me. I saw the Shark
sunday in Gulf. Wire Instructions to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
he lit a cigar and leaned back in

as he lit cigar and leaned back in
his chair.
There is but one thing to do" said
Sidney. eve must keep on this
course until we round that cape. At
this rate it will be dark before we
make it. We will stand well out to
sea. so as to have plenty of leeway
in case of an east or northeast wind"
The big mountain peak was now
almost exactly to the west of them.
eff that is old Popocatepetl, as
think it is" said Sidney. pointing
at the huge purple mass, Vera Cruz
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15

of the city OF Chicago proposed u
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, as far back
as last October, that the city itself un,
dertake to have the celebration OF me
Fourth under its own control. and
through its police. power do away with
the annual blowing up and mutilatins
of the small boy, and even aduIt-the
small boy that stands on the sidewalk
with a lighted Roman candle in his
hand and discharges its contents into
loaded and passing street car. and
the adult who places dynamite caps on
street car tracks, or discharges heavily
loaded dynamite firecrackers in public
places.
Unfortunately Chicago is bigger than
her charter; she has outgrown every
thing but her forceful identity. The
city could not legally appropriate a
dollar for any observance Of the
Fourth of July. 1t therefore came
about that, through the suggestions OF
Col. George Fabyan, of the firm OF
Bliss, Fabyan & Co., of Chicago, New
York and Boston; Isaac Miller Ham
ilton, president of the Federal Life In
surance company; Edward M. Teall.
president of the Chicago Board of I'm
derwriters; Col James w. Nye, one OF
the most prominent fire insurance men
of the city; Chief of Police Francis
O'Neill, Chief of the Fire Department
William Musham, Mrs. Charles Hen
rotin and Mrs Fenton B. Turck,
Charles j. O'Connor, a prominent at
torney. Col Henry L. Turner, preSi.
dent of the Pan-American bank, and
others, it was proposed that an associ-
alton be incorporated to represent the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15

entire community, along sane and ra-
tiOnal lines. 1t is a radical attempt on
the part of a great city to return i'll
some measure to the ways of the SIM
pie country folk, who have always re-
vered and celebrated in simple, Amer
lean fashion, the Fourth.
Chicago's experiment will be
watched by not only every large city
in the country, but every center Of
population, bag or small.
The Chicago boys Fourth of July Of
the past has been a variegated one
Take few statistics rather carefully
gathered, and it will be noted that
nine of them were killed in 1899 and les
injured on the Fourth through the use
of the dynamite bomb. dynamite cap
and dynamite firecracker, and the toy
pistol or blank cartridge pistol.
The next year IA of them were killed
on the same day and POI injured
through the same causes BY 1903 10
of them were dead and 314 injured in a
single day by the improper use of IL
legal explosives. In five years of the
history of the city II boys, girls and
babiek were killed through fireworks
and 1.20O injured in Chicago alone
In ten years in ten of the large
cities of the country the casualty list
OF the Fourth of July has amounted
to.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
THE CITY rNcoRRuPrIeLE.

HarkI 'Tis roar of labor,
A c.aseless. deafening sound.
Now from the trembling scaffolds,
Now from the yawning ground;
Not the red fires of Vulcan,
Nor Cyclops pristine powers,
Could match their feats of magic
Who shape this world of ours!
With myriad painting engines,
With countless picks and drills,
They arch the threatening rivers,
They pierce the hostile hills;
In steam and smoke and lightning
Earth's captive forces play
To weld with Titan touches
The city of to-day.
Still from their sunken fOotholds
Those cobweb buildings rise
Whose panes ray back the morning,
Whose foreheads touch the skies:
While many a crowded workshop,
And toiling mill and mine
Yield up their costly treasures
To make them fair and fine.
Yet void of civic honor
OF justice, light and law,
What were the proudest structures
That e'er the round world saw?
Rome was a queenly empire
But power and wealth and state
And fame and triumphs failed her.
With sons no longer great.
Firm stand the nations bulwarks.
Her fortunes wax apace,
While Virture guards her hearthstones,
And Truth her market-place;
Lo. theirs are streets and temples
That dwarf the courts of kings
A free and. glorious city
OF incorporeal things
Dora Read Goodale, i'm Youths Com
panion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15

ISAAC MILLER HAMlLTON.
Chairman Executive Committee, Chicago
Amusement Association.
city and to carry out the plans for
new and simple Fourth of July.
This received the hearty approval OF
Mayor Harrison, was endorsed by the
city council, the board of education
and the fire underwriters, was incor-
porated by the secretary of state OF
May 3, with a capital stock OF
81 900 900, par value of shares five dol
lars, each share non-profit bearing and
leach bearing the following motto:
For the Children and Their Fourth
of July. Nothing for Profit, bui
Everything fer Healthy SPORT"
The incorporation, now known as
the Chicago Amusement association,
and already actively engaged in prep
arations for the celebration of the
Fourth. faced the problem that Chi
cago children and adults use approx
mately each year about 5000 900 sep
arate pieces Of fireworks for the
Fourth alone.
During the "a hours between the
evening of the third and the night OF
the Fourth it is estimated that IL, 000,-
600 firecrackers are discharged, 6,000,-
900 torpedoes, over 300, 900 Roman can
dies, and over 100000 explosives of
other character. A large percentage
of these are fireworks prohibited by
the law, explosives that the city ordi-
nances do not permit to be sold by
dealers, or, if illegally sold by them, to
be discharged by the purchasers in the
public streets.
AS 1T is the purpose OF the Amuse.
ment association to have the ordinan-
ces of the city observed during the
Fourth, it has also been and is it's in
tention to provide for the small boy
and his sister a substitute equally en-
tertaining and much less dangerous tic
life and limb. The association for the
municipality of Chicago is to act the
kind parent and to see that every
small boy within its borders has the
very best kind of a Fourth of July.
The Amusement association, sup
ported by 255 prominent citizens who
are acting as trustees. offers the
following program:
On the close of the public schools
the distribution of 100000 framed
copies of the Declaration of Indepen.
dence, one to every school child.
To provide for INDECENT children free
fiIecrackers and torpedoes on the
Fourth
To have every public school play
ground in the city, various convenient
lots and the public parks entirely
thrown open the day and night Ct the
| Fourth to the children and adults OF
the city.
To have the school children educat-
| ed as TO the danger of suffering from
| lockjaw from injuries incurred through
the use of blank cartridges and pis-
tolls
To give at night in three or more To-
cations of the city extensive free fire
works displays for the children and
their parents.
To prosecute every dealer in fire.
works or user of fireworks who DISC
beys on the coming Fourth the ordi.
nances of the city.
To have music, public parades, q
naval sham battle and other entertain
ment in lieu of the past violations o.
| the law
This is to be the city boys new
Fourth of July, SO far as the present
plans OF the Amusement associations
are concerned. They promise to be
successfully carried out.
L HENRY BARRETT cHAMBERLA1S.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
CHAPTER XXH.-Coxr1NUED.

Copyright 1901 by Lothrop Publishing Company.
All rights reserved.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-15
Fire loss
4h-1..-H

To overcome such a loss of life and
injury of body some big-hearted zen
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
NEW
Query B0bs Up
In Affairs
Of The City Which Is
That As To
LEGAL RIGHT
of Mr.. Parker to
Serve in Capacity
Of Councilman, He Being Also
a Member of Board of
Library Trustees.

Another new query has arisen in the
city affairs OF Bellefontains which con-
Germs the eligibility Of G. g. Parker
to serve the city as q councilman at .
salary of "a q month. During the
past Is months he has 90 served the
city and has been paid about t75 for
his services During the same period
of time he has been acting as one of
the members of the Board Of Public
Library Trustees and the question nat
urally bobs up as 70 whether or not
his service OF the IS months as CITY
alderman has been legal, he having
served the city at the same time as q
library trustee. II il is found that he
has served the IS months without legal
right he must return the salary
drawn and then the question will
arise as to his right 10 serve out
the term to which ne was elected even
il he resign tbs Office of Library
Trustee. Solicitor Riddle says that he
has for some time past been of the
opinion that Mr.. Parker was serving
tho city as councilman with nut the
legal right to do 80. Being aware of
this why did ne not let the fact be
known in order to give the council a
chance to secure legal advice on the
question if the SJlicitor was fearful to
express an opinion in the matter.
Mr.. Parker curing the IS moaths has
voted for the payment of some bills
and some ordinances and res solutions
which p,rhsps would not have gone
through without his vots. If hs had
not The legal po~er to vote were thsee
bills allowed legally and are the ordi-
nances and resolutions passed of legal
birthf These are other questions
which arise. Mr.. Parker is called
upon to bear no blame. He was legal
ly elected councilman and has served
the city in the capacity faithfully
and well being unaware that he might
be so serving the city illegally by
reason of his also being one of ths
members of the Library Board, which
Board he has also served in faithful
manner.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
LOSSES ARE PAID.

Paul U. Batch Tuesday paid to
Keller & Dowell and Mrs. Charles
Darlington, who sustained losses by
fire Monday the result OF their proper
ties located on west Chiliicothe and
east Sandusky avenues being damaged
by fire. sums covering the losses of
each Both Mrs. Darlington and Kel-
ler & Dowen carried insurance In the
Cincinnati Underwriters company.
Insurance Agent Cory L. Lane Tues
day paid to Mr.. A. K. Gibson q sum
covering the loss sustained by him last
Friday evening when his household
goods were damaged the result of the
property of Miss Della Starrett located
on Powell avenue and occupied by
him being damaged by fire.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
Denies the Charge.

William witzenbacher, of Bellecen-
ter. who according to dispatches was
charged with swindling large num-
Der Of persons in Xenis and Greene
county from whom he took subscrip-
tions for ths Ladies' Home Journal
aud the Saturday Evening Post. was in
the city Tuesday and denied the
charges. Mr.. Witzenbacher says he is
the accredited representative of these
periodicals and wishes his friends to
know that he is innocent of the charg-
es made at Xenia.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
Asked for q ReeeIvsrshIp.

Trenton, N. J., Nov. 30.-The Intsr->
national Graphophone Co. yesterday
instituted suit in the court Of chancery
asking for the appointment Of q re-
ceiver for the Edison phonograph
works, Of Orange. N. J., and also ask
ing that Thomas A. Edison, John F.
Randolph, William e. Gilmore, the
Edison Phonograph and the National
Photograph Co. make discovery Of the
assets and profits Of the Edison
phonoeraph works, alleged in the bill
to be wrongfully diverted to the Ma
tional Phonograph Co. and to the Edi-
son Manufacturing Co.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
The Golden Text.

Them that honor Me I will honor"
Divine reciprocity. A recognition of .
mutual relationship, desirable both to
God and man What does God desire?
The will, the heart. the life. What does
man need? Redemption-because tho
natural man IL . stranger to God.
Eph- 1:13. 10. Fellowship. because
Il IL essential to the Christian life
and service. Cor. 1:s; John 1:3. Rev.
elation-because without an UNDER
standing of God and His Word. the
Christian is like the ship on the ocean
without chart OF compass. Cor. 2:10;
: Tim. Sis.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
Death In Kentucky.

A message was received here Sunday
morning announcing the death of Mrs.
Elizabeth W. Colvin, wife Of p. w.
Colvip, at her home near Falmouth,
KY, Saturday evening. Pneumonia
was the cause of her death.
Mrs Colvin was the eldest daughter
of the late Benjamin CHM, and was
born in West Liberty, Sept. %. $780,
West Liberty Banner.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02
Electricity in Far East.

Electricity never played 30 important
a role a. 1t does At present in the far
east. The japanese generals use both
telegraph and telephone in issuing their
commands. AS soon as firing IL heard In
any direction bamboo poles are planted
and wires strung. and In q short time
the line 10 ready for use.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02

Postmaster Rodger Murphy, of Or
bana, was in the city Tuesday con-
sulting with Inspector Rising in re-
gard to the connection of Champaign
and Logan counties. When solid
mail delivery is inaugurated
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-02

A strong reaction in Temperance
sentiment in Vermont has taken place.
II viii manifest itself In the legislature.
rorty-four towns which last year voted
In favor Of license this year voted NO
license