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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
Brides Tears Win Officers Hearts

CORTLAND, oRE.-A brides tears
softened the grim hearts Of Detec,
tivCs Litherland and Van Overn when
the officers went to arrest NJ. B. An
derson, twenty-five years old, on a
charge Of decamping from a hotel
without first settling his bill. Mrs.
Anderson, q comely girl-wife Of nine
teen, declared when the officers came
to arrest her husband, that she could
not endure 1t to be separated from
him, and asked If she might be locked
up, too.
With tears glistening in her pretty
eyes and sobbing softly in their room
at the Rowland hotel, Mrs. Anderson
was told by the detectives that she
might go to the Jail with her husband
and was placed in the custody Of the
matron. Anderson was locked up IN
the mems ward on the same floor.
By tearing up the sheets in the room
where they owed rent, to make ropes
to lower their suitcases to the
ground, Anderson, who is the son Of
a detective in the service Of the
Santa Fe railroad in San Francisco,
and his pretty wife, who has kept her
identity from the police, escaped
from the Cody Apartments at No. 4S1
East Taylor street. The evil genius
Of a gas meter, which Anderson is
charged with having robbed Of five
25-cent pieces, followed them, and
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
Gets Hunters License to Stay Men

right" and thinking that the razor
merely comprised the mans effects
the license was issued when the re-
quired amount was paid.
Armed with his license and his razor
Tesso cut such a swath among his CON-
patriots employed in the New York
Central yards at Hammond that a riot
call was turned in. When the tumult
subsidized three Italians were so Sc
vrely carved that they had to be
rushed to a hospital. Tesso, clutch
ing his razor in one hand and the II
cense in the other, was arrested.
When arraigned before Judge Prest
Tesso proudly produced his license
with a smile.
II gotta da right to keel evera one
in Indeean," he explained. II gotta
whatcha call da license"
The judge smiled and the attaches
and spectators laughed, but the Ital-
ian was so persistent in his plea that
he had been told that a hunting IL
cense obtained in Illinois would give
him the right to kill anybody he
wished in Indiana that the charge was
changed to assault and q small fine
imposed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

nITTSBURG. AN irate fathers
j sensational chase OF nearly loo
miles in an automobile in his efforts
TO intercept his clipping daughter and
her flance, came to an abrupt end at
$40 o'clock the other night when the
big iron gates at Union station were
banged in the face of c. Billy Merck
les, a retired coal operator Of Cam
eron. W. Va. Merckles' daughter, Miss
Anna Regime Merckles, aged twenty
one. n recent graduate Of an eastern
school, and Calvin A. Rocker, aged
twenty.seven, bond salesman Of New
York city, eluded the aged Merckles
and boarded the New York Night Ex-
press just about to start.
Miss Merckles met Rocker ut one
Of the series OF smart receptions that
followed the New York automobile
show last year. Rocker asked Mr..
Mercllles for his daughters hand, but
this aroused the fathers Indignation.
Not to be discouraged, young Rocker
and Miss Merckles carried on a cor
respondence between New York and
Cameron. Young Rocker a few days
ago arrived in Wheeling, and there
met Miss Merckles. They came to
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

when they attempted the same meth
cd of escape from the Rowland hotel
they were caught.
According to their story, told to De
tectives Litherland and Van Overn
after they had been arrested, they
eloped from San Francisco and were
married at Santa Cruez. Cal, a month
ago. Then they started to Portland.
Arriving here, Anderson was unable
to secure work.
When a bill of $25 for rooms had
been run up at the Cody apartments,
they took the midnight method Of es-
cape. The manager swore out a war
rant for their arrest, but they were
not captured.
Hearing that they were intending
the sheet method Of escape from the
Rowland, the proprietor telephoned
to detective headquarters, and Detec-
tives Ltherland and Van Overn, rec
ognizing Anderson, who was regis
tered under another name, arrested
him on suspicion.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

dirt TO be mixed with the milk, and
that such carelessness Is a violation
OF common decency.
If a man has been thus trained
from childhood, a law will not be
necessary to force him TO use SAM
tary methods in producing food pro-
ducts. Such training should begin in
the public schools.
The dairyman of today must be
brought to an understanding OF the
purpose of the law and must be taught
the principles underlying all sanitary
regulations. He must be taught TO
apply these principles. He will not
then defeat the purpose of the law
through unconscious ignorance on his
part. Let those who make the laws
appreciate this fact and they will
provide amply for the enforcement by
education rather than by the power
of the police.
Let agricultural colleges, our busi-
ness organizations, our farmers orga-
ulIdllUuSp Jul NlNiN AAhPiO'
societies take this matter up and work
to the common end Of securing pure
food products because the people who
make such products feel instinctively
that anything else would be viola
ton on their part of the civil and
moral code and OF the ethics of good
citizenship.
have less and less sympathy with
the argument that IL the dairyman Is
to produce good, pure products, he
must be paid something extra for
them. That may be q necessary start.
ing point. but the whole way will!
never be travelled until the dairymen
produca good products because they
feel that they would be lowering them
selves in the estimation Of their fell
lowmen II they offered their neighbors
anything less than pure, clean, whole
some products. and thus sacrificing
something within themselves tnat no
money could buy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

NHICAGO.-Obsessed with desire
- for revenge, but imbued with a
spirit OF refrain from breaking the
law, Joseph Tesso, a Chicago Italian,
armed himself with an Illinois hunt
ing license before he started the other
day to Hammond, Ind, to carve up
three of his fellow countrymen with
a razor in a vendetta Of long stand
ing.
When Tesso appeared at the win
dow for a license he presented a
bland smile and large razor.
You're in the wrong place." said
the clerk. 'You want a barber IL
cense."
mo wanta shave, 'wanta keel" re-
piled Tesso, grinning.
want to kill, do you? Well, !
guess you want a hunting license all
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

stinctive or acquired, the degree al
tanned is not greater than the expert
ence of the individual.lack OF expert
ence, the failure TO reason from cause
to effect because he sees neither,
makes the progress of sanitation and
the improvement of dairy products in
general, slow and difficult.
That there is widespread disregard
for cleanliness in the production and
sale of dairy products is evidenced
by the multiplicity OF laws and ord e
nances devised to check or to control
the trouble. That such laws are bus
imperfectly enforced, is plain to all
who have taken the pains to look into
the matter.
How can We reach the producers
problem? The enactment OF 4 law
will not solve it. You might as well,
by statute or regulation, decree that
after . o'clock tomorrow morning all
the children in the school district
must talk Chinese. Is 1t any more
reasonable to demand that by law
after 0 o'clock tomorrow every dairy
man selling milk or other dairy pro-
duct in your town shall have COM
piled with a set of regulations, the
meaning of which is entirely outside
of his experience? In too many cases
the meaning of such regulations IS
Just about as clear to the dairyman
as the Chinese language would be to
the children, and he would be just
as successful in carrying 1t into ef'
feet.
Law OF itself will no: solve the
problem. The children could learn
the Chinese language If you give them
time enough and good instructor.
The dairyman can learn the language
OF clean milk II you give him the
same advantages. The law must not
only provide the edict, but must pro-
vide the means OF training and the
instructor, or compliance with its pro-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
IMPORTANCE OF USING HOME GROWN SEED
Tsy c. c. Cunningham Demonstrations Kansas State
Agricultural coIege.l

would be the results? The Kansas
corn crop would be reduced about
twenty-five per cent, or S16,0O00OO in
value.
During the last three years thirty
five variety tests Of corn were con-
Quoted by farmers in various parts OF
the state in cooperation WITH the Kan
sas Agricultural College. These men
were supplied with seed Of live of the
most widely grown standard varieties
Of corn-namely: Kansas SunAower
Hlldreth Yellow Dent, Reds lellow
Dent, Boone County White and Com
mercial White. These varieties were
p anted in test plots along With one
or IT ore OF the best varieties OF ccrn
grown in the respective localities in
which the tests were conducted. With
but very few exceptions local grown
varieties of corn produced the highest
yields of the best quality Of corn.
The Kansas Sunhower. which was
the best yielder CT the Ave vssietiesr
supplied to each of.ths ca-operatOrs,
produced 31.S bushels an acre. The
O"s local varieties III the same num-
Der of tests averaged 81 bushels an
acre.
In these experiments the seed used
for comparison with the local grown
corn was obtained from portions II
the state having different soil ana
climatic conditions.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

hotel that can be Of more conven-
fence to a drummer than the head
porter-the man who has charge of
the baggage. That chalk mark simply
will indicate to the next porter who
comes across that trunk that the man
who owns II is cheap, that he won't
come through with the tip. If he tips
the next fellow the mark will be
rubbed on. II he don't the mark will
be made a little longer. Very few
travelling men fail to come through
with a liberal tip, but occasionally we
find one with a marble heart and we
don't forget him. Mind you We don't
neglect the baggage Of the man who
don't tip, but We Just forget to do a
lot Of little things that We might
throw in extra"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Changing a grain from one environ
ment 10 another is OF no benefit to 1t,
but on the contrary temporarily de-
creascs rs producing capacity. A great
many Of the farmers think otherwise
Among them there Is general opin'
ion that grain grown continuously in a
given locality will gradually run out
or detcriorate, and that better yields
can be obtained by obtaining new seed
feet on the grain. Corn is shipped in
from some other part of the country
state or county. they think that a
change in location has beneficial Ell
tect on the grain. orn is shipped IN
from Iowa or Illinois. Other seeds
are often Obtained from distant sourt'
es.
II is positively known that Tor the
great majority OF crops grown In ran
sas, home grown seed will give the
best results.
During 1909 to 1908 inclusive the
Kansas Agricultural College made
thirty.five tests comparing Kansas
grown ccrn with seed OF the sane
varieties obtained from other sources
The home grown corn produced an
average Of SIS bushel an acre more
than the corn brought in from out
side the state. Suppose the corn crop
in Kansas would fail and that IT
would be necessary to obtain seed
corn from these osAsr states! What
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
Irate Father Fails to Thwart Cupid

Pittsburg by the first train and ar
ranged to get married here, but, ow'
ing to the fact that Miss Me-ckle Is
Catholic and Rocker Protestant
they could not find priest who woulc
marry them without a letter from
Miss Merckles' pastor.
The elder Merckles, missing hii
daughter, learned she had left fol
Wheeling. mo train for two hours,
was the dlscouraging words of the
station agent at Cameron when the ex
cited Merckles asked him how soor
he could get train. Engaging an au'
tomobile he covered the distance be-
tween Cameron and Wheeling, n
miles, in record time.
Arriving there he found that the
couple had left only an hour before
for Pittsburg. In his effort to head
them off, the father drove the dis.
lance from Plttsburg. 66 miles. He
traced the clippers to a hotel and
learned that they We're to leave for
New York at 9:40. He went to Union
station and found they had purchased
tickets and had engaged staterooms
on the New York night express.
Merckles took up his position at the
gates. He was standing there look
ing at the New York night express,
when suddenly Rocker and his In
tended bride shot past him. Before
he could recover himself the gates
We're slammed. Finally he got out
to the platform-but too late-the
train carrying the clippers was moving
out of the station.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
DEAN WEBSTER OF STATE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE SPEAKS FOR SANITARY MILK
The Kansas Educator Believes the Problem Of Clean Dairy Products Can
Only be Solved by Educating the Child at Home and in
the School in the Underlying Principles
of Sanitation.


visions Is, to large extent, lmpos'
slble.
The problem before the people is
greater than the passing of corrective
laws; It Is a problem OF education
education that must begin with the
child in the home and in the school,
an education that will teach the COM
ing generation the underlying princi-
pies regarding sanitation. The child
must be taught more than the fact
that dirt in milk is considered vio'
'lation of n city or state law. He
must be taught what dirt is and the
nature OF the trouble that comes from
the careless handling that will allow
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
PerpetuaI Worth.

why was it you never married
again. Aunt Sallle?" inquired Mrs
McClane OF an old ColOred woman in
West Virginia.
deed, Miss Ellie" replied the old
woman earnestly, dat daid nigger's
with noah to me dan a live one. 1
gifts n pension. "-Lippincott's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
Ought to Be All Right.

Mr. Notwithstanding wrong with
this hash this morning. dear.
Mrs. Bacon-Why?
Il don't know. It needs something.
81 can't think what 1t can be. put
in everything could find"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Yesterday we cheerfully Clipped in
two metallic men to help inter friend
OF ours who could take drink or let
Il alone!"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

There is no excuse for the dyspcptic, with
Garfield Tea accessible at every drugstore.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

cleanness Is largely relative. A
woman had called a physician
to attend her sick child and was
asked IL she had bath tub In the
house, exclaimed: Eyes, but thank
the Lord We have never lad 10 use
it," certainly had different idea Of
the term "clean" than has the person
who deems his morning bath rs es-
sential as his breakfast.
There are those who are instructive
~ clean and there are others who,
having no such inherent qualities, have
TO be taught what uncleanness Is.
Whether the idea of cleanness is in.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
AnpeaI.

Stella-What is the matter?
Cholly-I wish you'd tellyour faith
er he's gotta quit kickin' me nroun'.-
New York Sun.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

It's difficult to discourage a girl who
can't sing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Political economy may be all right,
but political liberality counts for more
about election time.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Keep your troubles to yourself and
they will not expand.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Friendship and confidence are plants
OF slow growth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

Many a man with one foot in the
grave does enough kicking with the
other to make up for 1t.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11
ROCKSFLOWERS

Are Grown In Kansas City
Send for Easter Price List Free
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-04-11

~HE ABSTRACT conception OF v
cleanness Is largely relative. A S
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-10-24
J. w. W.COLLINS.

]. w. Collins, candidate for In
surance Commissioner on the Pro
gressive ticket, is native of Indi-
ana, having been born in 1879. He
resided in that state and in Iowa fol
eleven years and removed to Kirk
land, King County, in 1890. where
his family has remained since that
date.
He was educated in the local
schools and the University of Wash
ington, having been a member OF
the class of 1899. He is member
of number of local organizations
and has been associated with the
Seattle Commercial Club since its
organization.
Mr.. Collins candidacy should be
a matter of especial interest to fra
ternal organizations as his past rec
ord and reputation guarantee them
a square deal and an impartial ad.
ministration of the insurance laws
of the state so far as they relate to
their societies. He is a Mason and
a member of the Congregational
church. Mr.. Collins has been con-
sistent Progressive. He is a first
class accountant and has been in
the fire insurance business for the
past five years.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-10-24

COTu
Born in Louisiana in 1874.
Graduated at Yale 1897.
Admitted to Bar 1898.
Elected City Attorney of Bremen
ton, 19O7-1912.
State Senate 1908.
Volunteered at first call for SER
vice in Spanish War.
Organized first Direct Primary
League in state of Washington.
Introduced in senate the resolu-
ton which ratified Income Tax A
mendment.
Voted and worked for proposed
statute limiting judges in cases of
constructive contempt"
Perfect record in state senate ac-
cording to Labor, Grange and pro-
gressive leaders. Ask them.
Opposed removal of Supreme
Court from Direct Primary. Pro-
tested against hand-picked delegates
Mr.. Bryan was the first candidate
to file with the Progressive Commit
tee. He is a lawyer-editor, good
fighter, Yale graduate, and is
unusually well equipped to take up
the fight at Washington for the peo-
pei of this state.
The joint legislative committee of
the Washington State Grange, the
State Federation of Labor, the State
Farmers Union, and the Direct Leg
islation League investigated Bryan S
record at three state legislative SEES
siOns, and found him absolutely
right on every ballot.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-10-24
]. A. FALCONER.

J. A. Falconer. Progressive can
didate for Congress-, was elected to
the house OF representatives at 0
lympia in 1904 and served in the
session of 1905. Those who recall
his first term remember the per-
;istent fight he waged for a state
depository bill. providing interest on
all state moneys deposited in banks.
rhe result of his labors in that ses-
sion bore fruit in 1907. He was re-
elected and served in the session of
1907, and was unanimously elected
speaker of the house, and it is con-
ceded that a better organized and
working body of men never served
the state in legislative capacity.
In 1909 Senator Falconer served
his first session in the state SEN
ate. With untiring energy he prose
cuted committee work, and was a
recognized authority on the subject
Of revenue and taxation. He waf
chairman of the revenue and taxa.
ton committee. 1t was probably
in the session of 1911 he did his
best work. AS chairman of the cont
mittee of appropriation he was 9
close student of the needs of the
state institutions. Much progress
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-10-24

of evidence that it is proving Il
greater task to sift it out than to
get it. We are taking our time so
as to be able to present to the
people of the state our side of the
case in a manner that will make it
easy reading. There is not one
single point that reflects on the
character of Mr.. Hodge that We
will not be able to answer to the
satisfaction of any fair minded man
We are on the trail Of the most "a
mazing plot, hatched by the Hay
people, to wreck the character OF
our candidate, and when the people
learn the truth We cannot see how
they can help flOcking to the cause
of Mr.. Hodge in such numbers that
he will be placed in office by a
vote that will be of landslide pro-
portions.
1--WE will produce proof that the
Hay people and the papers knew
that the charges were false when
they appeared. We will show that
the lengths to which the machine
has gone to protect the office it now
owns, and to keep in it a man who T.
they own, body and breeches. are
such as to forever bring disgrace on
the once virile republican party.
The spectacle of Hay hiding behind
the skirts of woman and urging
her to disgrace her own sons for his
political ends is such as to nauseate
any decent man or woman. If we
did not have conclusive proof. which
we will offer shortly. of the depths
to which the republicans have fall
en-. we could not believe it ourselves
Meantime we ask the public tC
do two things to read the affi-
davit in the P l. very carefully. and
to suspend Judgment until the 9th.
er side of the question is present
ed, If the mere fulfilling of the first
( request does not make the second
one unnecessary. The affidavit it
self is so full of contradictions as
to defeat the end it tries to ac-
complish, If it is given careful con
sideration."
The following letter from Seat
tie explains itself:
C. G.. Siegel, Secretary, Bellingham
Washington.
| We are unearthing a most dastart
ly plot hatched by the Hay people
to wreck the character of Hodge
We are accumulating mass of evi
dence as to falsity of every charge
and ask the people of the state t,
suspend judgment until our side il
presented. When the truth ii
J known it should result in a revul
sion of feeling that will cause
landslide for Hodge. Already peo
Pile here are flocking to his side.
|, E c. Snyder, State Chairman.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-10-24

Arthur S. Cory, candidate for stat
treasurer on the Progressive ticket
is resident of Chehalis. Lewis
county, where he is cashier OF the
Chehalis National bank He was
born in Wisconsin in 1880 and mov-
ed to South Dakota when about ten
years old. He worked his way
through college, graduating from tn
Dakota Wesleyan University in 1901
he was editor of a country paper for
q time but he soon found out that
he would never learn what money
looked like If he stuck to that job
40 he entered q bank where he coul
see bundles of it. He soon rose from
bookkeeper to cashier.
In 1903 Mr.. Cory came to Che
halls. He has been city treasurer
for two terms. His frequent writ
ings on financial matters are rapid
ly making him recognized author
ity. He won second prize in coast
wide contl st instituted by leading
banking journal on the topic, Dis
tinctive Problems of the Country
Banker"
Mr.. Cory has two children, botf
of whom were born in Chehalis. He
takes an active part in the Method
ist church and was superintendent,
of the Sunday School for severa
years. He is a member OF the Mod
ern WoOdmen of America, Yeomen
Odd Fellows and Masons, and ].
treasure of the Sunset Chapter o.
the Royal Arch Masons. In polite:
he has been a progressive since th'
inception of the movement. His IN
diyidual interests are extensive.
One of the important planks II
Mr.. Cory's platform is that relatlnt
to the depositing of state funds. Ht
promises that if elected he will keel
invested all the idle funds as close
iy as possible and will deposit th'
balance with sound banks in al
,ections of the state. He thinks
hat as state funds come from al
parts of the state they should be re
.urned for use as largely as posi-
ble to every portion of the stat
rather than piled up in a few larg'
institutions.