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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05

lectures at the Winfield, Kan,
Chautauqua, on Saturday, July
Z. In the afternoon he will
speak on, ".The Most Tragic
Story in Human History" For
his evening subject he will have,
Between the Devil and the
Deep Sea-"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05
miami NOW
WITHOUT mine
One at Horshoe Lake is Being
Moved to Near Lincolnville.

The mill going up on the Mis-
sion lease at Lincolnville was mo-
we'd from the lake northwest Of
Miami. This leaves the city
without a working mine. The
nearest is four miles away
Commerce News. ~,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AMI
CoUNCILMEN OF THE CITY OF BAXTER
SPRINGS, KANSAS.
SECTION !. That u aide walk Of concrete, bt
and the same il hereby ordered to be built in said
City. beginning at the Northeast corner Of Block
Fourteen IA. higgins Addition to the city Of
Baxter Springs; thence running West along the
Northslde Of Blocks Fourteen IA. Eleven III,
Six 49, and three 49, in said higgins Addition. to
the Northwest corner OF said Block Three t3j.
SECTIoN2. All side walks shall BE- Of material
and workmanship as Is provided for first class
cement aide walks Of Section !, Ordinance %.
SECTION 8. Construction Of all side walks
shall be completed within sixty 1907 days after the
publication Of this ordinance.
SECTION I. All construction and material
used shall be under the supervision and subject to
thu approval Of the City Street Commissioner.
SECTION 8. II any property owners Of any lot,
part Of lot adjacent or abutting any aide walk
herein mentioned. fails TO build aid side walk,
within the time prescribed TO this ordinance. such
side walk shall be built under the direction Of the
City Street Commissioner and the expenSe Of the
same paid by the City Of Baxter Springs.
SECTION s. All expenses incurred and paid by
the city Of Baxter Springs in the construction Of
any aide walk herein mentioned, shall be certified
together with penalty Of twenty-five percentum to
the County Clerk Of Cherokee County. Kansas, by
the City Clerk Of said city, a. taxes against any
lot, or pieces Of ground adjacent to. abutting
any side walk herein mentioned
SECTION z. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after lie passage approval and
publication In The Baxter Spring. News
Passed. signed and approved this 18th day Of
June. 1917.
Ell. WRIGHT
ATTEST: Mayor
o. NJ. SPRATT,
City Clerk.
10. NJ. Spratt. City Clerk hereby certify that
the above is q true and correct copy Of Ordinances
No. 100, As the same was passed by the City
Council at meeting held June %, 1917. and as the
same now appears on file in my Office.
o. NJ. SPRATT,
City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05

tFzu Published IN Ths Barter SPRING. NswA
June 20. 1915
NOTICE OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
stnts Of Kansas, County Of Cbsrokse, -
In tn Matter Of tn EStats o. Halle B. Cecil late
49,. K~,nmn
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05

Noties b hosby given ea-tha - day a June.
A. d. 1917, ths undGiEnsd va By ths Probuts
Court q Chsrokss Counfy. KmEls, duly appointed
nd quaIlhsd e .kdmlnitratU q tie eStats o.
H.nls p. Gel lais q ChEIohno County. dsesasd.
AZ p.rtia Intaustsd b nd e1tats WI tlks notics
~ rssurn th.n-livrl nccrldhely.
Al. HARVlf, Admniltruto.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-07-05
ORDINANCE NO. 100

AN ORDINANCE TO BUILD SIDE WALKS.
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORN
Err OF BLOCK FOURTEEN tl4, HIGGINS
ADDITION TO THE CITY OF BAXTER
SPRINGS; THENCE RUNNING WEST
ALONG THE SOUTHSIDE OF SPRING
STREET AND AUDITING ON BLOCKS
FOURTEEN. (l4l, ELEVEN III, SIX t6l.
AND THREE 49, IN HIGGINS ADDITION
TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT
SIX (6I IN BLOCK THREE 49,. HIGGINS
ADDITION TO THE SAID CITY OF BAXTER
SPRINGS. CHEROKEE COUNTY. KANSAS.
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Publi.hsd in The Baxter Spring. Ncw.. Jul'
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Jefferson Garage
Changes Hands


R. B. Page of Galena and Roy
VanHorn of Baxter Springs
bought out the Jefferson High
way garage last Friday evening.
The garage was being run by ;:
p. Schaefer. Mr.. Schaefer will
take a touring trip and after his
return he expects to go into some
kind Of business. The new
owners will operate the garage as
before-emphasizing service.
Baghdigian to
Winfield Chautauqua
Bagdasar X. Baghdigian, of
The News staff, will deliver two
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
Fifteenth EPISODE
The Sting of Victory.
DARK HOURS.

1t was shortly after sunrise when the
first shots signaled the attempt of
Patria Channing's little handful of pa
triotic adventurers to stem the inva-
sion Of American soil by the allied
force Of Mexicans and Japanese COM
manded by Baron Huroki.
Patria's first move, then, was to dis
patch kilograms to the nearest post of
the United States army as well as to
Washington. giving notice of the inva-
sion and asking for help.
Within an hour, Japanese field bat
teries, shelling with shrapnel the ad-
vanced trenches which commanded the
international boundary line. had rem
dered them untenable and japanese
infantry had swarmed over them in
pursuit Of the retreating defenders.
At the same time Baron Huroki and
his staff, taking possession of Patria's
hacienda, had converted 1t into field
headquarters. From its patio Huroki
directed the efforts of his troops to
overcome the resistance of the de-
tenders.
The latter had meanwhile occupied
their main intrenchments, far strong
er position furrowing the ridge of n
range of low hills lying back of the
hacienda and something slightly less
than a mile north of the border line.
Here they took root stubbornly. De-
spite the disparity between their num-
bers and those of the invaders, they
hnn DI,or -
Japanese and Mexican infantry, with
ering and blasting them with the ma
chine-gun fire which sprayed the ter
rain with death us garden hose
sprays lawn with life; while their
batteries, cunningly secreted back of
the hills and directed In mastery fash
ion, kept the guns of the invaders too
busily on the move to permit their do
ing much damage to the trenches.
But II the defenders fought with un-
shakable determination and fearless
ness they fought with despair in their
hearts. For their commanding eleva-
tiOn permitted them to overlook all
the land between them and the bound
ary, and they could hardly help being
appalled, by the flood of allied troops
which was sweeping across the bor-
der and arraying against them.
Again urgent prayers for aid were
dispatched to the authorities.
As before, they gained no acknowl-
edgment of any sort.
Failing to take the main line
trenches by assault. Huroki ordered
his forces to fall back and dig them.
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

salute returned, he executed an about
face and strobe into the adobe build
ing.
After him went Kato.
For an hour he sat in the Office of
the commander in chief, industriously,
methodically putting in order all his
affairs, official as well as personal.
When there was no more to do, he
rose without hesitation, and strobe in
10 the adjoining room, which had been
his sleeping quarters.
Here Kato was awaiting him-Kato
translated from the trim and soldierly
aide in the field uniform Of the Japa-
nese army into figure that might
have been conjured from some Japa-
nese print, a servile, fawning, obse-
quious figure in the robes of his race
and humble caste.
Upon the plain canvas cot which
had been Huroki's bed were laid out
the magnificently embroidered robes
of Samurai.
Beside the cot stood the steel trunk
which had contained these robes, and
which for many years had formed an
essential adjunct to Hurokis travel
ing gear.
Assisted deftly by Kato, Baron HUI
rolSi divested himself of his soldiers
clothing, bathed and dressed in the
robes of his nobility.
Throughout neither uttered a single
word
And in silence Huroki turned and
entered the room beyond, leaving his
footwear at the threshold.
The door closed behind him. On its
other side Kato, the imperturbable,
knelt and ground his forehead into
the dust of the floor.
In one stride Baron HuroN had
screens masked the earthen walls and
the matched roof Of the room. The
floor was covered with a clean white
cloth. In the middle Of it rested O
small rug of glowing, sanguinary scar.
let. At the edge Of this small rug
was low stand on which rested q
jeweled dagger in jeweled sheath.
Kneeling on the rug, Baron Hurok
swiftly denuded his body to the waist
Then taking up the dagger and draw
ing It from Its sheath he tested iti
edge and point upon the thumbnail.
Satisfied, he held the dagger be
fore him on his two hands, outstretch
ed. open palms uppermost; and in thi!
posture remained motionless for man!
minutes, his grave, intelligent eyei
fixed in meditation upon point, o.
scene, or memory, thousands Of mile
removed beyond the narrow confines
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

the grimest determination on bott
sides. But wherever the tank
moved-and nothing served to swerve
one Of these from whatever course II
chose to take-the ranks of the enemy
melted into disorderly rabble Of panic
stricken fugitives.
A shell from the howitzer found the
Charming hacienda and laid It ir
flaming, smoking ruins about the ears
of Huroki and his staff.
Thirty minutes after the tanks had
inaugurated the offensive, the inva.
sion had been turned into rout. The
roads beyond the border were choked
with fugitives. Huroki and his per.
sonal aides forced their armored motor
car through the milling mob upon the
bridge at the border and regained
Mexican soil a bare minute before an
other howitzer shell destroyed the
bridge utterly, and with it hundreds of
neeing Mexicans and Japanese.
The last action of the battle was an
engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry, in which
the latter, attempting to cover the rear
OF the defeated army, were vanquished,
dissipated, sent scurrying into the
south in disorder as great as that Of
their comrades and allies whom they
had sought to save.
But in this engagement Rodman
Pillsbury fell, killed instantly in ac-
ton.
Ordering her batteries up to the
boundary line, Patria instructed them
to shell the fugitives mercilessly. Fur
ther than this line she would not per-
init them to move. Nor would she per-
init one Of her decimated little army
to carry the war into Mexico.
In defending her own property
against aggression she had acted with
in her rights as private citizen. If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressors, that was the prerogative
of the government of her country-not
her prerogative.
Thus the invading army of Baron
Huroki and his dupes and allies melt
ed away into those sun-baked plains
and arid hills of Mexico, and was no
more-like the army of dream.
SAMURAl.
In the heat of that breathless after
noon the armOred mOtorcar, a grim
gray unit Of mechanism rendered only
the more grim and gray by its heavy
coating Of dust and the evidences of
hard usage 1t wore, lunged heav-
lily around the wide curves of the
military road penetrating the secret
heart Of those Mexican mountains, de-
bouched on downgrade with the
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

manded the wandering interest Of his
tagged staff with single glance. his
pose gestureless. With single i'm.
pulse they stiffened to attention.
After moment he addressed them
In a level and toneless voice, with
the manner of one imparting informa-
ton concerning person of particular
unimportance.
"Gentlemen," said Baron Huroki, ut
becomes my duty to impart to you GER
tain advices. 1 have here a message
from his majesty, the emperor"
He paused to make obeisance to the
effigy symbolized by that name.
II need hardly remind you that, up
on the untimely death, day before yes
terday, of the late commander in chief,
Count Nogi, !, acting on authority
vested in me by his imperial majesty,
assumed the functions of commander
in chief, and in my supreme discretion
initiated that invasion of the United
States which was the ultimate pur-
pose of our presence in Mexico. For
this action assumed, professed,. and
accept full responsibility.
"That my action was ill-advised is
beside the point. alone was, and am,
liable for it's consequences. The onus
of failure rests upon single head,
my own.
'By my lack of sound judgment, my
haste and rashness, 1 have brought
down defeat upon our forces, have
needlessly sacrificed unnumbered fel-
low servants of his majesty, the en-
peror, 1 have wrought confusion with
his imperial designs, I have set at
naught his ends.
$50 be it. 1 explain without attempt
to extenuate the consequences of my
madness. 1 accept without protest
the penalty of failure.
"The command Of our scattered and
shattered forces I resign to your
capable hands. You are instructed
to reorganize them as quickly as
possible and withdraw from this
part of Mexico, marching westwards
to effect junction with the army en-
camped at Magdalena Bay. This you
will do not only with all possible ex-
pedition, but with all feasible secrecy.
II have one request to make Of your
pity; If 1t be within your power, I
would like my dishonored body to be
conveyed to Nippon for burial.
Gentlemen, 1 60 to join my fore
fathers, in full confidence that the
honorable fashion Of my death will
secure for me the freedom Of their
company"
Huroki ceased to speak, drew HIM
self up, and saluted his staff. That
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

clamor of the pacifists, cOntending at
once that to prepare to resist agrees
sion was to invite aggression and that
the defeated invasion had been mere
ly a minor skirmish between cow
punchers and Mexican raiders, an af-
fair exaggerated beyond reason; the
simmering down of popular interest;
the return of the common apathy; the
renewed reign Of lethargic indiffer-
ence to the need for preparedness !"
And so she began to understand
that the victory Of that day was but
a barren one; that she had fought and
endured and sacrificed lives and hap
piness and treasure to no end what
ever, but only to be beginning; that
the battle, the battle of her country,
the battle of common sense patriot
ism, was merely beginning; that he
who would save his country in spite
ing as it is thankless.
Nevertheless, to this plough she had
set her hands; and there could be no
turning back.
She must fight on and on and on.
shoulder to Donald's shoulder, his
hand in hers.
Bending forward Patria tenderly set
her lips to the lips of Donald Parr,
dedicating anew her life and his, that
was hers to do with as she willed, to
the service of their country. that 1t
might be saved.
(THE END.)
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
Proverbs.

Proverbs have not always been an
unmixed benefit to the world. There
are several very mean and malignant
proverbs embodylng the wit of one
man and the ill-nature, not the wis
dom, of many men. One Of the worst
Of these proverbs is, "There is no
smoke without fire"-a proverb which
has lent it's aid to thousands of gross
calumnies. Perhaps we might ven.
ture to adopt a counteracting proverb
which has Mt least as much truth,
physically and metaphysically, as the
foregoing one. 1t is: "The less fire
the greater the smoke."-Sir Arthur
Helps.
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
At the Wedding Feast.

In some parts of the country 1t is
the custom to send congratulatory tele-
grams to friends at distance who are
being married. That is, the message
is timed to arrive just after the cere-
mony, and during the feast which u.s.
ually follows.
Now, certain man, a large farmer,
was about to be married, and shortly
before the time he heard that one Of
his cattle had strayed. 1t being q
valuable animal, he told his bailiff to
let him know at once when it was
found. The bailiff, being an econom-
ical man, combined the two affairs,
and the happy bridegroom received the
following message just as they all sat
down to dinner:
Congratulations. The beast is
caught ~
1t is fair to conclude that the tele-
gram afforded at least as much graft
fication to the assembled guests as to
the actual recipient himself.-TitBits.
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
Touchy People.

Beware of touchy people! There
are always some about, ready to poster
you in some way. Hurry on past, so
you cannot hear them, and above all,
refuse to deny what they say. Just
keep sweet and 60 ahead, and let their
unkind words swelter in the cleaning.
How much time and patience are vast
ed on touchy people. And yet such
people think they are the salt Of the
earth and everybody else dirty water.
1t is a real wickedness to be touchy.
1t is as bad as lying and cheating.
1t does the world as much harm. 1t
spoils more religion than swearing. If
you find touchy person in your
church, turn him out as soon as pos
sible; If not, he will infect the whole
brotherhood and sisterhoOd with his
sin. We knew touchy person one
time whose loneliness struck in on
him and he died. We hope all our gen.
tie readers will escape SO sorry fate.
Ohio State Journal.
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

swiftness of an angel of death into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment, and drew up sharply, as
if checked by some invisible but i'm
movable barrier, before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses of the
commander in chief and his staff.
Half a dozen men, worn. haggard, ST.
lent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust, alighted from the car and weari-
ly threw themselves, rather than
walked, up the steps to the veranda
in front of the headquarters building.
Deepest disconsolation was the key
note of their common demeanor.
In the lines that furrowed their dust
masked faces, in those red-rimmed
eyes which stared out of them, despair
was written plainly-the despair OF
gamblers who have staked all on a
single throw and have lost.
Foremost In their number was Baron
Huroki, that arch-conspirator, that
gambler incurable-a presence of COM
manding distinction even in the shad-
ow of defeat, disgrace, and death.
At his heels moved his shadow that
one whose devotion and loyalty to his
master passed even that devotion and
loyalty which was the due of his en-
peror-Hurokis aid de camp of today,
his body servant of yesterday, his fa-
miliar spirit of all days, that japanese
who answered to the name Of Kato.
| Their four companions were officers
Of high rank, subordinate only to the
commander In chief of the army which
Japan had thrown into Mexico to CO.
operate with the native troops In that
great drive" designed to split the
United States asunder by invading the
Mississippi valley via the Southwest
ern states, leaving the Pacific slope de
fenseless against invasion by way OF
Lower California and the sea.
As Huroki moved toward the door oi
the adobe building, Japanese orderly
came out, paused, saluted stiffly, will
a countenance expressionless. ant
proffered folded paper.
Huroki recognized the form OF
which incoming telegrnphic dispatches
were transcribed. He could hav,
hazarded n shrewd guess ut the na
ture of this communication If pu
to It, could have foretold 1t almos
word for word.
None the less he extended a stead,
hand to accept 1t, unfolded the paper
read 1t without permitting the slight
est phase Of his emotions to be re
fected in his face. and deliberately re
folded It.
J At pause before the doorway. b
! rounded smartly on his heels and com
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

selves in-which they did with trained
expedition and efficiency, throwing up
4 line Of intrenchments roughly par
aileling those on the Interest.
And their batteries. presently finding
shelter, rained shells upon the Ameri
cans to keep down their fire. until Pa.
tria's guns again searched them out !;
when the battle passed into a tempo
rary phase OF big gun duellng, and the
infantry had a little time to breathe
and take account of its losses.
These last proved astonishingly
slight. but none the less terrible in Pa
trin's understanding. Already the field
hospital accommodation which she
had provided were overcrowded and
~ stan of surgeons with their as
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

would happen within tNe next few
days and weeks; the storm Of popular
indignation; the massing Of troops
along the border; the Interchange
Of diplomatic amenities; Japan's stu
diously polite disavowal Of Huroki
and all his alleged works; Mexico's
disavowal Of the part it's troops had
played in the conspiracy and the at
tempted invasion; the administra-
tion's grudging acceptance Of both
demands for measures of prepared
ness" voiced in congress; the shrill
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
The Kind Of Floors He Wanted.

"Would you like the floors in mosa-
ic?" asked the architect.
The Springfield man looked dubious.
"Would you like the floor in mosaic
patterns?"
IT don't know SO much about that"
he finally said. II amt got any preju-
dice about Moses as n man, and maybe
he knew lot about the law. As re-
CARDS laying floors though, I kinder
think I'd rather have them unsectar-
ian."-Harper's Weekly.
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29

Of that little room in the adobe build
ing in the mountains of Mexico.
There was neither hesitation nor
mutiny in his temper, but only repin-
ing that his efforts In the service of
his emperor had been SO Inflated.
He would have been glad of q long
er life IL that permitted him to repair
the errors of which he had been guilty.
But he had had his chance, and had
failed.
What must be, must.
With sudden, swift turn Of his
hand this unhappy gentleman of ia
pan reversed the point Of the dagger
and drove 1t in toward his diaphragm.
THE COST.
When Patria appeared in the door
way the nurse rose and with a friend
ly and reassuring smile slipped out of
the room.
Donald Parr lay moveless on his
cot, asleep. The girl sat down on the
chair by his side and gently dropped
her hand upon one of his that lay
outside the sheet, dark, strong hand
that seemed, in her sight, to dwarf
and render altogether puny and in
significant the slender white grace of
her own.
Still Donald did not stir. She was
content with that. Sleep was what
he needed, the best of all medicines
for his hurts. She asked for herself
no more than this, that she be per-
mitted to rest little by his side, to
touch his hand, to know that, though
his wounds were grievous, he would
live, and in day to come be whole
and sound once more-and hers.
She was very weary. The need to
rest oppressed her like heavy bur-
den. Yet she did not dream Of clos
ing her eyes in sleep. She had too
much to think about, the victory of
the day to contemplate, its cost to
reckon. Her brain seemed to burn
with thoughts, doubts, fears, regrets,
memories; the screen of its vision re-
fiected in endless succession flashing
scenes from the splendid, awful
pageant Of that day and night of
fighting.
1t was three o'clock in the after
noon. The last shot at the routed and
fleeing armies of invasion had been
fired hours ago. The last fugitive had
long since disappeared. The last
stricken horse had been killed, the last
wounded man had been found and
cared for, the last dead man buried.
Remained only the stricken field,
bloodied and deflled and trampled and
furrowed almost beyond recognition;
the consciousness that the day was
won, the invader disastrously defeat
ed, the country saved in spite Of it.
self; the bitterness Of victory.
Sitting there in that close little room
that reeked Of iodoform, with her
hands touching the hand of her be-
loved, the girl abandoned herself to
reverie, her dark eyes fathoming inn
measurable depths of thought.
Unconsciously she began to con the
toll of victory: Donald wounded nigh
unto death, Rodman Pillsbury and
Bud Morgan dead-and these but the
beginning, names that headed the hun
dreds upon the lists of casualties
merely because they were most init
mate to Patria; the hacienda wrecked
beyond repair, the fair countryside
that surrounded it turned into stink
ing shambles, great treasure expend-
ed in ammunition and the business of
war.
And all to what end?
She foresaw quite clearly what
Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
Correctly Defined.

The women were discussing their
marital troubles, when one asked by
the way. what is your husband doing
now?"
"Oh," said the other, "he's a-settin
round tellin' what's goin' to happen
next election"
"Then he's a prophet?"
mo, he amt. So far as this family
Is concerned, he's a dead loss"