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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
FAMED SPRINGS OF vERNET.
Town Amid Mountains Called the
Paradise Of the Pyrenees.

A correspondent writes: 'Vernet
calls itself on its note paper the para
disc OF the Pyrenees and It has GER
tainly some justification for this piece
Of conoeit, for more beautiful little
place ! have seldom come across.
Right away up on the wild valleys OF
the eastern Pyrenees, which lie close
to the Spanish frontier. the green oasis
which surrounds Vernet adds charm
to the scenery and gives an air OF
freshness. and GOODNESS which makes
one quite forget even in mid-August
the hot, dusty journey across France.
"Vernet Is. Of course, first and fore.
most. Vernet-les-Bains owes its ex.
istence so far as the outside world 10
concerned to the wealth of mineral
springs, which are said to be In their
way as efficacious as those Of the bet
ter known resorts of the western
Pyrenees. II Is claimed for Vernet--
and with justice-that its sulphusous
waters, while efficacious In the cure Of
neurasthenia, rheumatism and some
affections OF the skin, are not so
strong as those Of other places and
can therefore be safely used by pa
tients whose constitutions are not Wig
orous enough to stand the more pow.
erful springs Of the western Pyrenees.
II has the further advantage OF being
open all the year round and arran ge-
ments are made for continuing the
treatment not only in spring and au-
tumn, but during the comparatively
mild winter. The amount Of water 10
enormous-in fact, q large Roman
swimming bath is entirely fed by the
mineral springs.
"Vernet Is, however, more than Q
mere health resort. It Ia charming
center for tourists, though ] should
advise these to avoid II possible tho
hot summer months and come In
spring or autumn. Over 1000 feet
above the sea, 1t Is free from the great
heat, and the pretty green park which
surrounds the Establishment is al.
ways kept fresh, full advantage being
taken Of the many streamlets which
run down from the mountain side.
There are endless climbs and walks
over the mountains, from 10.0OO-foot
Canigou downward, while Mont Louis
and Bourg Madam, the last town ON
the French side. as well as Puicerda.
the first on the Spanish, are all within
easy reach. There are plenty OF troue
In the many streams running into the
valley Of the Tet and It Is said that
there are many lizard. a kind OF
channels, in the mountain. ! certainly
saw one brought In on the day of the
opening OF the 'chasse.' Living Is %
you like TO have It; the company
which runs the reimbursement has ho-
tells with prices to suit all purses.
Westminster Gazette.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Sulphur Springs. /. T., until
Withdrawn, round trip %.71, 90
day limit.
Home visitors excursions to
points in Iowa, Mimi, No. OAK,
So. OAK, Wis, Mich, Ill, Mo.
Rate one and a third fare round
trip. Minimum selling rate $40.
Sell Oct. 9 and %, November 10
and n. 3O-day limit.
Round trip home visitors exc
cursions to points in the east.
Fare and a third for round trip.
Sell Oct. 19, return limit Nov.16.
Tickets sold to points in Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Onta-
rio,A Pennsylvania, New York,
Michigan. West Virginia.
]. NJ. Wilson, Agent.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

That 1t pays to have telephone
as a matter of cool business cal
culation, is no longer debated.
The experience of thousands OF
communities is that in saving Of
time, in increase of work efficien-
cy of the entire force of the farm,
human, animal and mechanical,
the telephone is profitable in
vestment. In case of breakages
in machinery, repairs are quickly
ordered from town and can be
sent out by the rural carrier in
many cases before it would be
possible to accomplish the same
result otherwise. Most import
ant of all, the family doctor is
summoned and reaches the bed
side of the sick child or adult in
half the time formerly consumed,
in many cases saving a priceless
life. But why elaborate? No
community which installs a tele-
phone system ever goes back to
the old way. No neighborhood
which has a good line and we'll
made instruments can ever be
satisfied thereafter with inferior
telephones or a cheap and badly
line. The properly
constructed telephones; correctly
on a well-built and we'll
managed line is no longer a
luxury on the farm. 1t is a nee
essity."
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
List % Listers

List % Lsttsss
Remaining in the postoffice At
Baxter Syringe. Kansas. for the
week ending with Oct.24 1905.
which II not called for within two
weeks will be sent to the dead
letter Office at Washington. ID. c.:
Mrs Faye Ebenstein Finis Forham
] H Hager Harvey Knell
Eli A McFadden Mrs James Marns
Miss E M Wood Miss Ina Roberts
Henry Skinner John Vancannon
John E Willis M A Weir
Persons calling for any of the
above letters will please say "Advei
tised." giving date list.
W. BAXTER. Pm.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
rh. Haluful nartender.

TIE bartender sneered as he say
the guest alp q handful Of matches
into his pocket.
pardon me. but them's safe1
nntches,s he said. 'sThey don't strika
Ouiy on the box"
.sThank yon." returned the otha..
aYour grammar h airocIoua. but !
grn1p yoaf meaning.
hhf. lirn|n1 hats. he took ne ~
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

If you are undecided as to
what you want for your new fall
suit or skirt, just see those new
goods at Cooper's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

In talking to The Standard at
Excelsior Springs, Mo-, recently,
Homer Montfort, Special Agent
Of the Bell Telephone Company
said of the rural telephone:
Probably none of the marvel
osls Innovations which have revo-
1utionized farm life in the past
ten or fifteen years has effected a
more radical change than the
General introduction of the rural
telephone. The transformation
has been so complete in commun-
tiles having first class, well man.
ICED lines that those not similar
favored can hardly imagine
.Dw thoroughly conditions have
Seen altered; and even those who
Hjoy these benefits do not always
alize how different things were
NV years ago. Americans are
enterprising people, quick to
apt themselves to new manners
.1 methods; and old fashions
|'ckly disappear and new ones
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
CORN HUSKERS WANTED.

/ will pay S cents per pushed to
have my corn husked. Over 1000
bushels to husk. Good corn. Six
miles west of Baxter Springs.
DAVID WEBER, r. F. ID. 5.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Here is just what you want, a
beautiful residence with IL big
lots, well and fine barn cheap
for cash. Daniels & Plumb.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Arrangements have been made
for regular services at st. Marks
Episcopal church. Rev. Pooley,
who will have charge of the Col
umbus and Galena parishes, will
also have charge of the Baxter
Springs parish. Beginning some
time in November, there win be
services at St Marks every Sun
day evening. We win announce
the beginning in a later Issue.
eaIs.. d.IicIa11 am. n.,a.in..
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Four lots and 3-room house,
with good we'll; only $3.50; this
is a snap. Daniels & Plumb.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
Announcement
Extraordinary

In order to..help business little we
will during the month of November
give to each subscriber to the
News, who pays one dollar for a
years subscription, one fine photo
graph 8 x 10 inches. The photo.
graph can be of the subscriber, or
his wife, or his baby, or his sweet
heart. or his whole family, or his
neighbors.
The photograph alone will be
worth the price of the paper, as it
will be handsomely finished, and
be first class in every respect.
Don't all come at once, now.
Remember, this offer is good during
the month of November, 1906.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

FOR SALE.-ONE HARD
coal, base burner, good as new,
very cheap. II. J. Morrow.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

1t will remind you that the
fall season is pretty near here
when you see those new Fall
Goods on display at Cooper's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

BARrLETT MEAT MARKET.
All kinds Of meat In their seasons.
Win buy your fat stock and hides-
RARTLRTT 4 Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

I have for sale a five-year-old
Durham-HerefOrd bull. He is a
a fine animal. Also a coming
two-year-old DurhamHereford
bull. These animals can be seen
at my place east of Baxter
Springs. S. J. Crawford.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
THURSDAY, OCT. IS.

the one VINO does the business In
these days of push and enterprise.
There are more newspaper readers
today than ever before in the
history of the world. The news
paper places your business under
the ewes of the buyer. He sees
what he wants, and knowing
where to find it, looks up the
wide-awake merchants who asked
him to come and see them. Sue
cess in the days of sharp compe-
tition calls for eternal vigilance.
We sometimes think this anti
pass talk is all rot. We wonder
if some fellow would not raise
howl if some grocer was to give
some fellow some groceries, and
want a law passed forbidding it.
We sometimes think the Ameri-
can people are a great deal like a
lot of cattle. One fellow scares
at something and stampedes the
whole bunch. 1t is our humble
opinion that it is none of our
business who rides on a pass, and
we doubt if it is the business of
anybody else. Railroad compa-
MES have a great deal of grief,
same as any other line of bust
ness, but the agitators never
take the grief into consideration
unless it interests them individu-
ally.
The Cornell, ILL.,, Journal ed
itor has made a telling shot in
the following: There is a lot
of rotten telk about the catalogue
houses among country merchants.
If catalogue houses have been
successful it has been through
advertising; and all the country
merchants have to do to offset
it and get the business is to
do the same thing and it's not
necessary to print a catalogue for
they have their home papers,
which 60 into every home and
are read. 1t does not meet the
same fate as a circular. The
people are not fooled any more,
and the sooner the country mer-
chant contracts for regular space
the year round in the local paper
and makes it a part of his BUSH
ness and advertise his wares lib
orally, the sooner the catalogue
houses will 60 out of business
and there is no other way to meet
~ auccaeefu11v.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Haskell
spent Sunday in Columbus.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

We have for sale one of the
prettiest homes in this city.
There is a fine seven-room house.
with first class cellar, well, els
tern, $50 feet front by 200 feet
deep, lots of fruit. The lots are
covered by beautiful forest trees.
If you want a fine home at a very
reasonable price, just come in and
see us.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25

Persons intending having a
public sale should remember that
the real first class sale bills are
printed at this Office. We can
get you out a sale bill in just one
hour from the time you hand in
your copy. And if you haven't
your copy ready we will fix it up
for you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26

Wednesday. Captain Williams has been
having a bad ankle all season and it is
still giving him a lot Of trouble. It was
on this account that he did not play
in Wednesdays game. Tice has q
broken nose which may keep him out OF
the game Saturday. It is not yet known
who will play the backheld in Satur-
days game. If Millice is in position to
play he and Captain Williams or Smiley
will probably play the halves and either
Platt or Glenn Haughey will play the
fuIback position. Tice and Maxwell
will probably be sent in at half at some
time during the game
At any event whoever plays in the
backfield the eleven will lack team
work With White out of the lineup all
the fast plays for which the Washburn
backfield is noted will be lacking. The
forward pass, the quarterback kick and
the double pass will be unable to be
brought into use on account Of the fact
that the men who are depended on for
these plays will be out of the lineup
The line will however be in pretty good
Reports from Manhattan indicate
that the men of the Aggie team VIII be
in first class shape for this game and
the team will be pointed especially for
it. With the Manhattan team In first
class condition and with the Washburn
team badly crippled, the game will I'M
doubtedly be a very close one Wash
burn will not endeavor to roll up a large
score but will be content with a low
score and with keeping their goal line
clear.
ManhattanwiI send several hundred
students to Topeka to root for the team
and their roofing is bound to make the
team play ball. On this account and in
order that all the Washburn students
and supporters of the Blue team may
get together there will be no admission
charged for the grandstands Wash
burn viii get together In the west
bIea chers and the spectators at the foot
ball game may expect to hear the best
exhibition of roofing that has been
heard in Topeka for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
THEY HAD A FINE GRAFT.
ImpersOnators of Internal Revenue
Officers Now in Tolls.


Columbus, Kan, Oct. &c. H.
Crumpley, who says his home Is IN
Yates, No, and Charles Bond of Stone
CITY were arrested in ScammOn upon
the charge Of impersonating revenue
oIfcers, and are now in the Columbus
jail. Their preliminary examination
has been set for today before Justice
ODonnen at Scammon, but it is likely
that the government will take their
case In hand as a notice has been sent
10 the government official at Fort Scott
who Is expected to come after them.
Their plan of work was to enter
saloon and find cigar boxes that had
been opened and were being sold out.
Ihis would be called an infraction of
the revenue law because the stamps
wer not Cancelled and the proprietor
would be asked to pay a fine of $50 or
go 10 JAIL reduction would then be
made under certain conditions and col
lections Of from $40 to $40 would be
made.
In this way the game worked sue
cessfully among the outside camps but
they became bold and tried it in Scam
mon and got into a trap.
Their victims as far as learned we're
Dave Clifford and Antoine Maletti, sa-
loon men at Roseland, from when
they got about $40.
Crumpley has been about Stone City
for about two weeks and while there
formed the acquaintance of Bond who
conducted q saloon at that place. He
admits it all and said that he did it
In order to make a raise of money and
said that he needed the money. He
does not seem TO think much about the
predicament he is in with Uncle Sam
and apparently cares less.
Bond says that he is innocent of any
intentional wrong and says that he was
simply riding around with Crumpley.
He said that he had become acquaint-
ed with him while he was in Stone City
and thought he was all right and was
what he said he was.
While in Stone City he loafed around
Bonds place and gained his conf
dence. Bond does not say whether
CrumpIey worked him or not
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upon the soft flesh between his thumb
and fOrednger, decorating the hand
badly. The quick move Of the chief is
all that saved his life. It is all that
saved Pats life, too, as Officer Hicks
had his gun pointed at his head and
was just going to shoot, when Wan
enWetsch calmly said, Don't kill him;
can handle him now" At first, though.
the chief was trying to draw his own
gun and if he had succeeded he would
have shot his assailant.
In the meantime almost a like strug-
gle was going on in the other corner
of the saloon. Officers Howard and
Fletcher were fighting to disarm Bill
Boswell and Howard at one time had
his mind made UP that he would be
forced to kill Boswell to save an Off
GERS life. Raymond beat Bill over the
head until he was subdued. Both Of
the BOsWells were badly beaten up in
the melee and all of the officers re-
ceived some slight scratches. Howard
was just going to shoot Boswell when
the chief ordered him not to fire.
When the fight started the crowd at
the bar vanoosed in just three seconds.
A negro hack driver went through a
glass partition and had to jump four
feet in the air to get TO It. A white
man duplicated the performance at an
| other part of the partition separating
the saloon from the restaurant in
| front. The rest of the partition was
broken down IN the fight.
The Boswells were taken to jail and
then the officers returned and com
PEELED Thurman. who had barricaded
/ himself in his joint, to open the door
| and surrender. Several 1requenterS OF
! the place were also arrested and all
/ are now in jail.
The fight in the saloon was one of
| the most ticklish places the police have
/ been in for a. long time and the officers
! would have been justified in shooting
/ the Boswells down in their tracks
/ It is the first time either of the Bos-
wells have ever been IN jail here, and
/ the experience they had last night will
/ doubtless do them some good.
The gun George Washington had
was stolen by him from Fire Chief
| Miller yesterday morning.
/ Several amusing incidents occurred
I incidental to the big rush for the exit
when the fight started. The white
I man who jumped through the parti-
| ton, yelled Don't shoot me; I am a
! stranger here" He evidently thought
he couldn't be legally shot until he had
been in the state one year and in the
/ county six months.
] When arraigned, George Washing
/ ton entered a plea of not guilty to the
4 charge Of carrying concealed weapons
/ and his trial was set for Thursday
| morning at 9 o'clock. The Boswell
| brothers were arraigned on the same
! charge and both pleaded guilty through
/ their attorney. J. H. Keith They were
| fined 500 and costs. They were also
/ fined $40 each in police court for dis
/ orderly conduct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
ROBBERS MAKE $4,000 HAUL.
Call On Benedict and Neatly Crack the
State Bank.

Call on Benedict and Neatly Crack the
State Bank.
Benedict Kan, Oct. 26.-Bank robbers
visited this city Wednesday night and
robbed the Benedict State bank of So, 900
some time after midnight. The explos-
ion was not heard and no one in the
city knew of the robbery until yester-
day morning. The A H. T. A blood
hounds kept near here were secured at
once and trailed the robbers to the little
town Of Roper, eight or nine miles north
of here on the Pacific. Dave Wilson and
wife Of this city. who were on the night
passenger on their way home from
trip, say that they saw three suspicious
looking characters get on the train The
supposition is the thieves boarded the
train at this point. coming on down
through Benedict, going on to some
point south.
The bank was entered by the aid Of
skeleton keys, both Of the inside doors
being found unlocked in the morning. The
vault was entered by the aid of a pick
a hole being dug through the 20-inch
wall. The safe was blown, Wrecking the
vault.
The Benedict State bank was organic
ed in 1904. Senator S. S-Benedict for
merly was president, and c. A Sprague
now holds that position. S. B. Nelson
is cashier. The bank is capitalized at
$4,000. It is well established, and will
resume business at once as soon as the
wreckage can be cleared away.
No clues other than the one mention
| ed are known, with the exception that
two suspicious characters were in Ben
edict Monday evening. One was tall,
smooth shaver, wore a blue serge suit
and crushed hat, and the other short
and heavy set with a three weeks
growth of hair on his face
This is the first bank robbery in this
vicinity for a long time. The robbers
do not bother towns the size of Chanute
any more, where there is police protec-
ton and where the banks are well sup
piled with electric burglar alarms, but
go to the small towns, as in this in
| stance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
CoMBoY HUNT PARDoNED.
Roosevelt Shows Cemency to Long
Term Prisoner.

Leavenworth, Kan. Oct. 26-Frank
Hunt the son of a wealthy cattle raiser
of the Indian Territory who, while out
on a cattle roundup, got into fight
with another cOw-puncher whom he al
legged called him a vile name, and killed
the fellow, has had his sentence in the
federal prison of Is years committed to
five years and six months actual i'm
prisonment. He will be released No
vember 8.
Hunts case is known to nearly every
one in the Indian Territory. He and
the cow-puncher got into a fight and
both pulled guns. Hunt happened to
be the quickest and best shot and drop
ned his man. He was arrested for the
crime of murder and at his trial entered
a plea Of guilty, but pleaded evtenuat-
ing circumstances. There were no wit
nesses to the shooting. He claimed that
he was forced to shoot in self-defense.
The judge and jury thought otherwise
and sentenced him to Is years.
No sooner did Hunt reach the prison
than friends in the territory began to
try to get him out. He made an eff
fort to secure a writ of habeas corpus
before Judge Hook in the year 1902 here,
on technicality. but failed.
It is said the judge of the court, the
Jurors and the court officials recon-
mended that clemency be shown him
and the president considered his case
one for clemency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
like DAYS OF OLD
Desperate Fight for Police in
COffeyvilIe Saloon.
Quick Action Probably Saved a
Number Of Lives.
BAD BOSWELLS TAKEN
Chief of Police Showed Plenty
of Good Nerve.
Unique Plea of One Nan Not to
Be Shot.
BAD BOSWELLs TAKEN

Coneyville, Kan, Oct. pa bloody
battle between officers and desperate
criminals at the Walter Thurman sa-
loon on South Walnut street Wednes-
day night about o'clock came near re-
sulting in the death OF one or more
policemen and of Pat and Bill Bos-
well, two notorious desperadoes who
had openly announced that the entire
police force Of Coffeyville could not ar
rest them.
The first chapter Of the evenings ex-
element was the finding of C1ayte Jor-
dan, laborer, bleeding and unconscious
from wounds on his head lying near
Thurman's joint. Officer Hicks brought
him to jail and the blood was washed
from his face and his wounds attended
to- Chief Wanenwetsch then ordered
Officers Howard and Hicks to tell Thur
man to close up his joint at once. He
also told the policemen to let him know
If the joint was not closed at once.
The two officers Immediately started
for the joint. On the way Officers Ray
mOnd and Fletcher Joined the others.
Thurman was found standing on the
sidewalk in front Of his saloon. When
the officers told him what the chief had
said, Thurman replied.
"Weu, I guess I'll just take a long
chance at it once and stay open"
The officers then phOned to Wanen-
wetsch and he ordered them to wait
until he and Marshal T. c. Harbourt
arrived. A few minutes later the two
last mentioned Joined the other officers
and then all entered the saloon
HarbOurt at once arrested George
washington, a negro who had a gun
in his pocket and started to draw if
when the officers entered. HarbOurt
then took his man to jail. No demon
atartion was made when the officers
entered and sized up the crowd. See
ing the two Boswells leaning against
the bar Chief Wanenwetsen walked UP
to Pat and said; Wei, you had bet
an-ns-
Boswell Immediately jumped back
drew a vicious looking 45 and pointing
IT at the chiefs breast pulled the trig-
ger The gun was of the double-actiOr
variety and just before the trigger
struck the firing pin the chief grabbed
the weapon and the trigger descended