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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
Or. ". r. BURGETT, D. Y. S.

United States Army Veterinarian. for n
period Of one year. now located nj
Benhams Livery Stable, Columbus. Kas.
Treat all diseases Of the domestic ami
mails. including horses. cattle. swine. ca
mines and poultry. by the most improved
and scientific methods known to veteri-
mary science.
FlstuIa, Poll Evil and Lump Jaw
successfully treated. Removing Tumors.
Warts, Cancers, Castratins. Spaying and
Dentistry speciality. II You have an an
imal that Is not thriving. come and consult
me. A consultation with me may mean
many dollars to- you. Consultation and
examination free. Calls attended prompt
ly day or night. Phone Al, Columbus
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
YOU'LL HAVE TO CLEAN UP.

We are glad to tell you that II you
lust won't take our advice and clean
up your premises-you'li have to do
Il anyway. The board of health
held meeting n few evenings and
and organized by electing DIR. c. N
Jones. chairman and the city clerk
will keep 4 record Of the doings.
The board of health 10 composed OF
Dire. Jones, English, Wear and Free
land and Councilmen Morrow and
Gaines. II affords 40 . great deal
of pleasure to state that the board
is going to make Hal ter Syringe q
clean town-which means that Bax-
ter Springs will be good town to
live in. And now We want TO give
you a tip. II the marshal hands
you q nice little notice, notifying
you to "get busy" and clean up your
premises within i've days, or posi-
bly, sooner, you would better do II,
because II 10 the firm purpose OF
the board to make considerable
business for the marshal and polics
Judge If the clean up orders are not
obeyed. And better yet-the may
or and council are going to back up
the board of health in it's efforts to
make a cleaner town. This is as II
should be. The city administra.
ton and board of health working
ia harmony can work wonders.
And here ia something else that
will make your heart glad: The
board of health is going to enforce
the weed cutting ordinance, which
provides that you must cut your
weeds or appear before the police
court. If you are a nonresident
and don't cut your weeds, the city
will have them cut and the cost will
be taxed up against the property.
Now, good people, get busy and
help the city administration and
board of health in their effort to
make a heater town. Don't hang
back.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
Citizens Of Baxter.

At the election this month
there was, as You are aware, a
large majority in favor of ac-
cepting the Johnston Library
bequest.
In accepting this trust the
city must provide ground upon
which to erect the building.
The time is short and prompt
action is necessary. A number
of sites have been mentioned
from which to choose. All sites
offered must be rendered to the
trustees free of cost and with
perfect title. Any person or
persons desiring to offer ground
upon which to locate the library
will please submit their propo-
sitions in writing to the under
signed committee appointed by
the Commercial club and in
structed to get all propositions
together and submit them to
the city council, to be by said
council submitted to the Johns
ton trustees for their considera-
ton and decision. If we are to
have this library, quick action
is necessary. Get busy and let
us have your offers.
T. Conner
A. j. Thompson Committee.
j. A. Dent
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
THE CLUB.

Club met last night with fair at
tendance.
Several matters of Importance
came up and were discussed. En-
tertaiument, advertising and mines
and mining committees made re.
ports.
Mr.. Rucker attempted to resign
az president of the club, but of
course dobody would stand for it,
30 he didn't resign.
A committee consisting of 7. ].
Morrow and C. L. Smith was ap-
pointed to visit the Kansas City
Commercial Club, in an effort to
induce that club to give our city
and mining district a visit when it
makes it's junketing trip through
here.
Mr.. Fribley was made a member
of the good roads committee in
place of Mr.. Rucker.
Many other matters were dis
cussed. There will be big meet
ing of the club next Wednesday
night. Be sure and come.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
THE CITY COUNCIL.
Quite q Lot Of Business Transacted
New administrator Doing Well.
April q, 1905.

April Is, 1905.
Council met In regular session,
Mayor Hartley presiding and all
mem bers OF the council present.
Finance committee reported &C
count of Ex-City Treasurer Chas.
Polster correct In every particular.
The board of health reported, and
announced that In day or two II
would make inspection and begin
general cleanup.
The matter of putting the new
steel ceiling on In the city hall was
referred to the committee on city
property, with power to act.
Sam Brown, ire, acceptance OF
electric road franchise ordinance
was read and ordered spread of
record.
Ordinance No. 70, being an ordin-
ance TO amend section 20 of ordin.
ance No. Z, was read and passed I'M
der a suspension of the rule.
Claims were allowed as follows:
Alb Jarrett, salary, etc., $l7.55.
J.E. Fagg. hauling, SOC.
King Wright, hauling, $l00.
]. Bischofsberger. coal, 75c.
The reports of the arbitrators in
the King and Etter matter regard
ing the strengthening of River and
Cedar streets were approved, and
as soon az the titles to the lands to
be correct, settlement will be made.
The committee on laws and or
dinances was instructed to present
at the next regular meeting an OF
dinance regulating sala fies of city
officer.
Committee on city property was
instructed to renew insurance on
city building.
Committee on streets and alleys
was instructed TO examine bridge
west of high school building and
culvert near Hotel Baxter. and take
such steps as seem necessary.
Needs covered himself with glory
by moving that the marshal be in
structed to rigidly enforce the dog
tax ordinance. The motion carried
unanimously, and it means more
more money for the city or fewer
dogs in the city. There ordinance
provides for tax of 81 on male dogs
and - on female dogs. The clerk
was instructed to buy all the dog
tags necessary.
The library matter was discussed,
and on motion of Gaines, the city
hall building and park, or any part
thereof, is rendered to the library
trustees for a site. Parties having
other sites are requested to present
them to the council at once, so they
may be suggested to the library
trustees. The trustees are going to
select a site for the johnston libra
ry, and the more they have to pick
from the better.
The library and ordinance COM
mittees were instructed to take such
steps az are necessary in carrying
out the terms of the Johnston will.
The matter of moving the city
Jail was referred to the committee
on city property.
Rummel was elected president of
the council.
Adjourned.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27

The city administration is getting
started off we'll. The mayor and
councilmeu get along together, and
are courteous towards each other.
No man is sat down upon if his
ideas do not meet with the approx
al of the rest. This is as it should
be. In numbers there is wisdom,
and out of the minds of many much
good can be accomplished. Persons
present at the last meeting of the
council could not but note the har-
mony in that body, nor could they
be other than favorably impressed
with the business.like manner in
which every proposition brought
up was handled.
FULL BLOOD BUFF ROCK CHICKEN.
Buff Plymouth Rock Eggs-$1O0
per setting of fifteen.
MRS. J. C. HAsKETT.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
THE MINES.

A siudge mill has been built on
the Buck land.
Myers & Company are drilling on
the Dardeene land just south of the
state line.
I.G. Baright of Omaha was here
Monday. He is going to do some
development work In the district.
Mr. Donehoo of the CRANKY Min
ing and Smelling Company was
here Tuesday taking observations
In the new district.
There was big turn-in last week,
but not all of II was reported.
10000 of lead and 10000 of zinc were
left out of the tabulated report.
The NJ. X. & T., and Strong Bow
will now make regular turn-ins.
The former lie making lots of lead
and jack, and the latter is cleaning
considerable lead.
]. W. Watson of Omaha 10 here to
look after development work on his
company's lease of the Angel land,
where big drill strike was made
last week.
The Joanna and Big Squaw mines,
near the Farmer Boy shaft, will in
a few days be into the same run OF
ore the Farmer Boy discovered last
Thursday.
The rains Monday and Tuesday
interfered considerable with pros.
pect work but were fine thing for
the country in general, 80 the min.
ers do not complain.
C. w. Craney ct. al, are not feel.
ing badly over the strike in the
Farmer Boy on the Angel land.
They are sinking about 200 feet
south on the Beaver land.
E.. C. Gaines has leased to W. c.
Stotts of Little Rock, Arkansas, 12O
acres of the Fannie Crawfish land.
This land lies due south of this
city. PR. Stotts will at once begin
development work.
Gaines, Smith, Brewster and New
conner have leased 40 acres next
west of the Mission mine 40 to WA.
Batson and w. Dickson of Joplin
and W. C. Stotts of Little Rock. A
shaft will at once be started on a
drill hole which showed lots of
good ore.
Two of the most important strikes
yet made in the district were those
at the Farmer Boy" and Strong
Bow" the one at the former being
made last Thursday evening and
the latter one Saturday noon. The
Farmer Boy" is just across the
road from the Joanna, and the sink
ing has been very hard. but good
steel, determination and powder
conquered. and at depth of 81 feet
the cap rock was broken and the
ore body penetrated. The ore is
zinc, and it lies apparently in sheet
formation. It is mixed with white
tiff, and the dirt will run at least 40
per cent. zinc just as it comes from
the ground. The bottom of the ore
will now be hunted for before drift
ing begins. The other strike was
made in the Strong Bow shaft,
northwest of the Dark Horse. This
shaft has been producing lead for
some time, about II feet of lead
ground having been penetrated,
and on last Saturday stump shot
was put in, which burst through in
to rich body of zinc ore. The own
ers are of course very jubilant.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
published in the BAXTER SPRINGS NEW
April 20. Ioo5.)
ORDINANCE NO. 70.

An ordinance amending Section 20 of Or
dinance No. 2 of the ordinances of the
City of Baxter Springs, Kansas:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council
men of the City of Baxter Springs:
SECTION 1. That section 20 of Ordin-
ance No of the ordinances of the city OF
Baxter Springs be and is hereby amended
to read as follows: Section 20. All ap-
plications to commence prosecutions in the
police court shall be made to the police
judge. or to tie city attorney. or to the
person acting as such. who shall prepare
the affidavit of the person desiring to make
complaint, if in his judgment there is just
cause Of complaintNa nd when such affi-
davit shall be fled in police court. the
Judge of said court shall issue a warrant
for the offender. as provided by law"
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts OF
ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Baxter Springs News.
Approved this z6th day of April. 1905.
w. T. HARTLEY. Mayor.
Attest: F. c. EASTER. City Clerk.
I. F. c. Easter. city clerk Of Baxter
Springs. Kansas. hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy Of the above ordinances. as the same
now appears on file in my Office.
r. c. EASTER.
[sEALl. City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
cnN0DON.BENNETT.

Mr.. Ed. Congdon, son of Mr.. sad
r. N. Congdon, wac married last
evening to Miss Bessie Bennett
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. /. r. Ben
nett, Rev. w. T. White, officiating.
This worthy young couple need
no words of commentator from
us. Both bride and groom are well
and favorably known here and they
have a host of friends who join the
NEws in extending congratulations
and best wishes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
HART.

Black Spanish and Mammoth Jack
years old, good bone and body,
151s hands high, fine style and &C.
ton, and a sure foal getter. Can't
be beaten in the Southwest. Season
opens March %. Stock can be seen
in town until the 10th, then on farm.
TERMS.-$l0 to insure colt to
stand and suck. Money due when
colt drops, but if paid within ten
days from that time, will give 10
per cent discount, making il 30 ii
paid promptly. If mare is traded
or leaves the country, money ie due
Immediately.
Care will be taken to prevent &C
cidents, but will not be responsible
should any occur.
1t will pay you to see this stock
before breeding.
p. B. WHITE,
Baxter Springs, Kas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
For SALSA pretty good lumber
wagon. Call at this Office.
Baxter Springs, Kas.

Leek, the jeweler, does watch,
clock and jewelry repairing. All
work strictly guaranteed. West side
Barber chop, Baxter Springs, Kss.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27

A gentlemen dropped into this
city and inquired the price of GER
tain piece of vacant property, say
ing he desired to build a fine resi-
dence, The property cost the own
er about $500, but he asked the
aforesaid gentlemen $1,000. The
sale was of course not made.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27

Three-room house and 8 nice lots,
500. Daniels 4 Plumb.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
COMMENC EMENT.

Commencement exercises next
Monday evening ats o'clock at NJ
E. Church. Reserved eeats on sale
at SINNERS news stand. Reserved
seats 25c. General admission 20c
Program as follows:
Invocation ...... .................. Rev, BridgeI
Piano Solo .... Mrs. Helen S. Gaines
Salutatory and Grafton ... Mabel Allen
ION the Threshold"
Vocal Solo ............ .......... Mrs. kachelskl
Prophesy and Grafton ........ Ethel Crowell
Look Before You Leap"
Cornet Solo (Selected) Miss Ruby Covey
Quartette Soldiers Hope. miss Catlett'
Mr.. Gaines, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mr.. Perkins
History and Grafton ................. Eta Black
Heroic Deeds
Vocal Solo (SelectedD ...... Mrs. Kachelski
Reading Selected. Miss Loree Keethler
Grafton and valedictory ...... :. Ida Tuthill
I'm the Twilight"
Presentation of Diplomas...,.."J. ]. Fribley
Benediction .......................... Kew. White
l.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27
J. w. DeMOSS
PAYS THE
Best Prices
at aII times for the following

at all times for the following
Hens, per pound. .......... 100 c
Spring chickens, per pound. 90 C
Broilers, IL to 2 lbs., per lb.....lO c
BOOSTERS, old, each. 10 c
BOOSTERS, young, each .........2O c
Hen turkeys, per lb............n C
Young gobblers, per pound. IL C
Old gobblers, per pound 10 c
Ducks, per lb...................O' c
Geese, per lb....................O 5 c
Butter, packing stock, per Id. 10 c
Eggs, per dozen. I'D c
Green hides, per Id ............Oo c
Prices subject to market change
ALSO BUYS HIDES AND FURs.
South of Cooper's, Baxter Springs
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-04-27

Go and hear "Chips and Banks"
at opera house Wednesday evening,
May 3. Admission free.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

scale, and contained what was said TO
be the most complete collection of We
h1cles known to history. ranging as it
did from the chariots of the Greeks and
Romans, down through the tilburys,
tally-hos and bobtail crosstown cars of
today to the zebra power automobiles
of 1868, in which the zebra himself pro-
PEELED the huge machine by working a
treadmill arrangement upon which he
stood at the rear. These two establish
ments-Onyx house and Marmo-Zette
lodge-were typical cottages of Zoo
port, and give us some idea of what
the world may expect from a monkey
when he comes into full possession of
that intelligence which some scientists
believe lies dormant within the Simian
race.
Rather intimate inspection of the in
terror of these homes did not convey to
my mind that the monkeys will ever
become great readers. 1t is true that
all the ZoopOrt dwellings, I entered had
libraries, but these were rooms rather
than collections of books. The shelves
contained, it is true, laltge numbers of
heavy and expensive volumes, richly
bound in full morocco, tree calf, and
other ornate substances, but they were
for the most part built into the walls,
SO that only monkey of super Simian
strength could possibly get them down,
and even their contents were more in
the line of pictures than pure reading
matter. I would not have it UNDER
stood, however, that the libraries of
Zooport were not used. They were, as
the number of tall glasses, boxes of
cigarettes and cigars, and card tables
to be found in them in great profusion
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

would indicate. Even a superficial
glance at their contents was sufficient
to prove that the monkey had discov-
cred for himself that other things than
reading maketh a full life.
In its diversions found monkey So
ciety most entertaining Its day rarely
began until o'clock in the afternoon,
but it continued until pretty nearly the
same hour in the morning 1t ran
largely to card parties, teas, music and
dinners. The first at the moment of
my entrance upon the scene were the
passion Of all, and while no one of two
or three games seemed to have great
er popularity than the others, it was
only the game in which one monkey
could separate another from his cocoa
nuts that seemed to appeal to them.
spied upon one charming game in
which only the ladies of monkey So
ciety participated, in which the win
nings and losing mounted up into the
thousands, even with what one of the
ladies called "a peanut limit"
The dinners were wonderfully bril-
liant and successfully refuted Col.
Gabster's assertion that two minutes
conversation with a monkey would be
impossible, for at the six or seven that
I looked in upon in the course of my
investigation I found all of the guests
talking at once and continuously, each
one endeayoring to make himself or
herself heard above all the others. Of
the quality of the conversation ] can
not speak, for none of it took definite
shape in the din of the diners, but it
was continuous and seemed to prove
that once given command Of words the
monkeys will avail themselves of the
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

opportunity to express whatever
thoughts or ideas, or other things, they
are at present, for the lack of speech
compelled to keep hidden in their
minds, as well as anybody. AT one of
the dinners there was a great deal of
amusement because a bright young
Sfmian of the most exclusive set had
brought human being along with him
as sort of joke on his hostess. At
first the other guests did not know
just how to treat the newcomer, but
when it became evident that his table
manners were fairly good, and that he
could use knife and fork as we'll as
any of them, even though he had no
tail with which to use his coffee spoon,
and appeared to be pretty thoroughly
society broken, the uneasineSS wore off
and he was treated as well as though
he had been monkey himself.
In sporting matters Simian society
was all that it should be. In point Of
fact one of it's most encouraging fea-
lures was it's devotion to outdoor life
during the season when days were long
enough to permit it's members to play
the games of the Country club before
dark. There was much golf, a deal Of
polo, in which was excessively divert
ed to see the expert handling of their
mallets with their tails, and lot of
cross country riding in chase of the
peanut bag. They sat their zebras in
fine form and took their fences better
than any of our modern riders, al
though now and then, as might have
been expected, the real monkey in them
would crop out / saw at least half a
dozen riders-both ladies and gentle
men-in the excitement of the chase
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

take their high jumps on all fours
AS to their music, had little time to
look into that, but 1 was not a little
amused to overhear one of the ladies at
what was afterward called 1.-THE HUI
man Dinner" observe to her companion
that she and Mr. Primate had at last
succeeded in getting an opera box for
the coming season.
"Charmingi" said her companion.
Us it one Of the balcony boxes?"
"Oh, no, indeed" she replied. Its
one of the chatter-boXe on the grand
tier
From which judge that Congo opera
in the future is not likely to differ rad
ically from that which we enjoy today.
Limited space prevents my going into
further detail here as to the social de-
velepment of this interesting race. I
hope at some future date to reveal all
that l saw through the Spectrophone Of.
the Zootopian condition of the future.
think I have shown enough here, how
ever, to refute Col. Gabster's asper-
sionS, and to still his forebodings,
though frankly 1 have never had any
misgivings on the subject myself. A
close study of the ways of monkeys
and a collateral study of the ways of
polite society have always induced me
to believe that if the Simian could only
get the opportunity to show what is in
him he would shine as we'll in social
life as most of the favored sons OF. for
tune who now grace it. The Spectro-
phone has confirmed my confidence in
the ultimate destiny of the buoyant
Jocko, and l for one am going to do all
l can to help Prof. Garner in giving
their potentialities a chance.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

highly ornate insane asylum. It was
an extremely spacious edifice, and from
what could learn was the summer
home of Mr. and Mrs. Marmo-Zette-
some newcomers into monkey society
who had made some 60,000,000 cocoa
nuts in a sudden turn in peanuts. They
were a childless couple, and it sur
prised me somewhat to find them so
luxuriously quartered in respect to
space, but closer inspection of the
premises showed that the huge build
ing was only one part dwelling, the
rest Of it being given over to the Mar
mo-Zette stables. Marmo-Zette him.
self, I learned, had a decided penchant
toward Zebras, and Mrs. Marmo-Zette
was what we of today would call
horsy woman, and all this grandeur
which had come to them through
sudden turn in the wheel of fortune
Marmo-Zette had begun life as hum
bic errand monkey in a South African
department store, and Mrs. Marmo-
Zette had been the daughter of a gorilla
sea captain from the Cipango country,
with only her beauty to commend her
had been constructed about their mu-
tual passion for zebras. The stables
were the most perfectly appointed
things of the kind 1 ever saw. The
stalls were covered with plush, and
sterilized hay and specially prepared
antiseptic oats were fed to the zebras,
and each striped little. animal in the
establishment was cared for by an in
dividual groom, and in the matter of
wardrobes was provided with the most
lavish and gorgeous harness trappings
that can be imagined. The carriage
house was on an equally magnificent