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Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
SALTS FINE FOR
Aching KIDNEYS:
We eat too much meat which GlOgS.
Kidasyh then BaOk hurts and
Bladder bOthe5 you.

Most folks forget that tie hdnSyl,
like tho bowels, get SluggiSh and cloegsd
and need . flushing occasionally, else We
have bachache and dull misery In tho
kidney region, severe headaches, rhsu-
matte twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach,
sleeplessness and all sorts Of bladder dis
orderA -.s-
You simply must keep your kidnsyB
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces OF Jad
Salts from any good drug store here
take Q tablespoonful in q glass Of Watg
before breakfast for . few days and
your kidneys will then act hns. This
famous salts IL made from the acid nt.
grapes and lemon juice, combined With,
lithia, and Is harmless 70 Aush eloGgsd
kidneys and stimulate them 70 normal
activity. Il also neutraliEes The aeid1
IN the urine 20 It no longer trFitatoA
thus ending bladder diSordGrss
Jad 6alts IL harmlessj inexpensiv0a
makes q delightful e1srvesoent hthia-
water drink which everybody should tain
nov and than 70 keep thsir hdnsyB oloaa,
thm avoiding ssrious -eomphoatiolA
A Well-kn0Wn local dfpRgist sayu -
bsIls lots Of Jad 0slfs % foln Who bOligVs
n overcoming Eidnl t.oubla Wh1a- -h-iS
nly trouble. - - ,iF
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
BIC ZINC MILL
DESTROYED BY FIRE
EldOradO Mill at st. Louis Burn
ed to Ground Last Saturday
Mill win be Rebuilt
Soon.

Miami, Okla, Aug. 6.-The old FL
dorado mill at st. Louis, formerly
belonging to the Merrill company
but now belonging to the Huttig Lear
and Zinc Company of Miami, burned
to the ground late Saturday afternoon
The origin of the fire is unknown, but
it is supposed to have started in the
boiler room.
The mill has only been built about
eight months, and only the compress
or and the pumps have been kept
busy. 1t is stated that it was the in
tention of the company to start the
mill in q short time. The mill was of
200-ton capacity, completely equipped
and the loss is estimated to be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Whether
or not the loss is covered by insurance
is not known.
Chemical carts from Picher and the
surrounding points were on hand and
suct eeded in saving the store room.
Chief Clarence Ivey started with the
P'cher engine on the first alarm from
the fire whistle, and was on the
scene in q few minutes, where the
Picher engine did a good part in the
work Of keeping the fire limited to
the mill.
Jim Yates who was baling hay on
the prairie near the mill, hauled out q
lot of baled hay in the danger zone
and kept hauling all day Sunday in
order to keep the hay safe in case any
more mills caught fire.
At 1880 o'clock, the mill was in
ruins, including the blacksmith shop,
engine and boiler room.
1t is thought that the mill will be
rebuilt in the near future.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
TREECE VOTES SCHOOL BONDS

The electors of Treece, a Kansas
mining village lying six miles west Of
Baxter, Monday held school election
and voted unanimously to issue bonds
in the sum of $4,000 with which to
build another school house. The new
building will be of brick. The frame
building will be moved to the west
side of the district and the new school
located on the old site.
Treece is said to be the most pros
porous town in the district now, ex-
cepting Baxter Springs. All houses
are occupied and the stores are hav-
ing a good business.
The 1000 foot we'll recently COM
pleted is supplying an abundance of
good water.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Mrs. L. L. Willard very delightfully."-
entertained the Holly Club Monday
afternoon. The time was devoted to
needlework and concluded with re-
freshments delightfully."- served. Men,
bers present were Mesdames W. T.
Hope, R. M. Gilman, John E. Wiles,
F. M. Perkins and Miss Grace Per-
kins. Guests, Mesdames A. B. Will
lard and d. Riseling. The club will
next meet with Mrs. Mary Wheatley
on September 2.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
INDIAN WOMAN TOOK LIFE
Used q % Rifle to Shoot Self Through
the Heart at LincOlnville Yes
terday Morning.

Mrs. Nellie Real, wife of DaviC
Real, a Lincolnville miner, commit
ted suicide Monday morning at 7:3C
using a % calibre rifle. The bullet
passed through the woman's heart
An attempt to shoot herself earlier in
the morning was frustrated by her
husband.
While Real was dressing himself
for his days work in a nearby mine,
the wife walked out a short distance
from the house with the gun, firing
the e tai shot
Mrs. Real is a fu'i blO'ieil Quapaw
a daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. White
bird. She was married to Real two
years ago. She leaves her husband
and a daughter four years old. The
body was taken in charge BY her par
ents and viii be buried at Lincoln
vile.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

light of geology; and here, going
through the store house of nature, we
come to examine the wise, beneficial
provisions that have been made, and
which through countless ages have
been awaiting the coming of man.
Speaking of the whole formation of
the state of Kansas professor Nudge
says: "The uplifting of this state
and the adjoining country from the
level Of the ocean, must have been
slow, uniform and in n perpendicular
direction, which has left the strata
in nearly horizontal position. This
may have been as slow Us that now
going on in Florida, or a rise of five
feet in a century. From our knowledge
of the geology of the west, this un-
doubtedly took place after the rise of
the Rocky Mountains, and probably
did not come to q close until after the
drift period"
The rock formation of Cherokee
county plainly show that the land,
some time in the remote past, lay up
on the seashore, and that at a still
more repote period, It was probably
submerged. Crustaceous formations
abundant in many places, give unmis-
taxable evidence of the fact. In times
long gone by there was an oyster bed
about two miles southeast Of where
Columbus now stands, as shown in the
rocks in that locality, and besides this
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

even with that start It cannot COM
pete with Lowell for manufacturing
Importance.
"Wirtonia, located at the Forks Of
Shawnee Creek, is another 'Would-be,
town" like Neutral City and Pleas
ant View, boasts of two dwellings and
a store, and all of them with Baxter,
are making pretensions for the future
county seat of Cherokee County; but
from their geographical positions, and
the general wish of the settlers to To-
cate the county seat in the center of
the county, predict that neither Of
these places will get it. l would re-
spectfully suggest Centralia as a
proper place for the future county
seat of Cherokee County. It is a
beautiful and elevated point, COM
manding q very extensive view Of the
surrounding country. The soil of the
Spring River country is generally a
gray clay, gravelly in places, and
said to be excellent for small grain.
There is also fine tracts of black land,
in the valleys of Shawnee and Crook
ed Creeks, well adapted to raising
corn.
The prairie near Spring River is
rolling, with many beautiful mounds
and gentle elevations, affording splen-
did building sites. Many springs Of
pure and some of mineral waters
greet the traveller and emigrant Of
this country, that gives it peculiar
charm and fascinating interest. There
is considerable settlement here; new
houses dotting the prairie miles out
from the timber, indicating the indus
try and great numbers of the hardy
frortiersmen that have chosen these
beaut.tu! and fertile lands for thei:
homes. and yet there is roor, for four
times as many more"
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

"Went then to the Missouri line,
fixing the point where Spring River
enters 1.-THE state), and tracing 1t
thence to where it makes its final exit
from the Neutral lands, locating its
tributaries, Centre, Turkey, Shoal,
Short, Shawnee and Crooked Creeks.
Spring River is u bold rapid stream of
clear water, about one hundred and
fifty feet wide, ten inches deep on the
shoals at low water, running over a
rocky and pebbly bed, and affording
great water power and fine mill seats.
Shoal Creek, its principal tributary, is
nearly us large as Spring River, and
of the same character, afrording the
same advantages-both skiIted by
large bodies of good timber. The mill
seats and the timber claims on the
streams are all taken up and some Of
them are offered for sale at from ST.
POO to $4,000.
"Timbered lands came quite down to
Spring River on the side next to Mis-
souri,, along Shoal Creek, giving an
abundance of mill timber. Enterpris-
ing men are erecting mills at and near
the mouth of Shoal Creek, where the
town of Lowell is laid out, which has
superior advantages to build up q
town. With unsurpassed water pow
err, an inexhaustable supply Of good
timber in the midst of q great farm
ing country, and bounded by Long and
tennessee Prairies on the east, Round
and Kretchfield prairies on the north,
Spring river prairies on the south and
the great fertile Neutral Lands on the
west, is destined to make a consider
able town in a few years.
Baxter, two miles south of Lowell,
west side of Spring River, is a rival
town. 1t attained a start and some
military note during the late war; bat
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Oliver Greenstreet says that he is
receiving inquiries every day about
his soldering fluid, and from large
manufacturers too, who are contem-
plating the use of the new process.
Recently he got an urgent call for an
interview with the manager of large
rolling mill in Oklahoma City. While
in St. Louis recently Mr.. Greenstreet
talked with the manager of the Him
ois Zinc company, Mr.. Wolf. He ex-
pressed the opinion that the new fluid
would soon come into great demand.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
ONE OF LOW COUNTIES, AC-
C0RDING TO COM
MISSION
BARE AND VALUED s2s.44
Land With improvements VAL
ued at 1921 by the State
in This COunty-LOw in
Comparison

The Topeka Daily Capital recently
published two maps in the papers
showing. the value of land in every
county in Kansas outside of cities as
equalized recently by the state tax
commission. A map shows the values
exclusive of improvements, the other
the values including improvements.
The comparisons are very interesting
to the farmers and land owners gen.
orally.
Here are some comparisons from q
block of counties in southeast Kansas.
(Nine counties.)
Exclusive of improvements: Mont
gomery, $500. Labette, $30.23;
Cherokee, $29.44; Crawford, $S6.A5;
Bourbon, 5000; Allen, 1920; Green
wood, $25; NeOshO, $S2.74; Elk, $19.25.
Including the improvements: Cher
okee, 1921; Montgomery, $42.07; La
bette, $94.97; Crawford, $41.S9; Bour-
bon, $S4.2S; Allen, $SS.5s; Greenwood,
$27.56; Elk, $21.OS: Neosho. $4O.19.
We note that values run higher up
in the Solomon Valley and around
Wichita. Also the tier of border
counties beginning at Kansas City and
continuing around the border of the
state through Leavenworth and to the
north center Of the state. In Norton
county, the southwest corner county
in the state, land is valued at $3.50
and the improvements are only valued
at "a cents more. Cheyenne, the
northwest county is valued but little
higher. Wyandottte county is valued
the highest at $1S9 per acre.
The valuation is averaged over the
county. If the north half Of Chero-
kee county was as valuable as the
south half, the valuation would prob
ably be much breater than It is.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
CITY MEN ARE GOOD
FARM WORKERS

Use of city men as farm workers
in emergency seasons has demonstrat'
ed not only that many men employed
in cities and towns were reared on
farms and are skilled in harvest labor
but also that city men can stand the
heat and exertion of the harvest field
and attack their tasks with willing
ness and patriotic enthusiasm. This
was reported by the Federal farm
help specialist in Kentucky at the
Department of Agriculture's recent
harvest labor conferences in Birming-
ham, Ala.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
INvENTS WOODEN TIRES

Portland, Ore, Aug. 6.-H. j
Breeze, a local undertaken, has in
vented an auto truck tire composed Of
wooden blocks, which he has now had
under test for q number of months.
The tire is said to be successful, and
is much cheaper than the usual rubber
tire. Plans to manufacture the new
tire in quantity are now being COM
pleted.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
COMMEND SUNDAY FARM WORK

Judges in Tennessee have refused
to punish persons accused Of work or
farms on Sundays, but have commend
ed them for so doing. This was re-
ported to the Department Of Agricul-
ture's recent farm labor conference in
Birmingham, Ala. Not long ago the
rural churches of Indianay in a confer
ence at Purdue University, took the
position that it is quite right and
proper to do farm work on Sunday If
that Sunday work is necessary to pro-
duce food crops to help whip Ger
many. al-
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
TONsORIAL PRICES SOAR

Boston, Aug. 6.-Haircut, fifty
cents shave, twenty cents; plain
shampoo, seventy-five cents.
The above schedule of prices is now
in eect in the Boston barber shops
where the employing BARRIERS are
members of the Journeymen BARRIERS
International Union.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Aug. 3, 1866, Samuel j. Crawford,
Governor Of the state, appointed and
commissioned A. V. Peters, Reese
Cadwalter and ]. w. Wallace, special
county commissioner for Cherokee
4 county, and Julius C. Petit, special
county clerk. julius C. Petit was
sworn in by ]. S. Emmons, county
clerk Of Bourbon county, September
6, 1866, and he that day appointed
Daniel Finn as his deputy.
The appointment Of the special
county commissioners by the govern
or of the state was for the purposeNof
calling an election. At the time Of
these appointments Governor Craw-
ford fixed the county seat at the town
of Pleasant View, the site of which
is nine miles east and four and half
miles north of the present county
Court house at Columbus.
The first appointment that the spec
ial county commissioners made was
that of C. A. Kentley, whom they ap-
pointed Justice of the peace for
Pleasant View township. This was
on September 13, 1866. The county
commissioners met at the county seat
and proclaimed ]. W. Wallace presi-
dent of the board. The date of the
election is not given. On the day of
the meeting they ordered the county
clerk to draw on the Secretary of
State for law books. 1t seems from
the old records from which | get these
facts, that Julius C. Petit, the county
clerk, did not attend to these duties,
as the papers are all signed by d. c.
Finn, the deputy.
On September Is, 1866, the county
commissioners called a general cleo
ton for State and county offices, the
county offices being the following:
Three county commissioners, sheriff,
treasurer, assessor, Probate Judge,
county attorney, coroner, superintend-
ent of public instruction, county clerk,
district clerk, register of deeds and
county surveyor. The election was
called to be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November,
1866.
On September %, 1866, the county
commissioners appointed D. D. Finn,
Probate Judge and he was sworn in
on that day, and the records do not
show that he continued as county
clerk, which it seems that he might |
have held had he desired it, as will
appear hereafter.
The election was held that year on
November 6, and the following cOun-
ty officers elected: Representative,
D. C. Finn; County commissioners, J.|
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

You have for your money one mil
lion three hundred thousand American
soldiers, well-fed, well-trained, we'll
armed. and full Of fight, side by side
with your brothers of the. French Re
public-right up in front where they
have an excellent view Of the Prus-
slams in retreat.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Saturday night, Rev. C. F. Par
ham will deliver an open air address
to the people. He will speak from
the corner Of Military and Eleventh
street His subject viii be ''The War,
from a Patriotic and q Prophetic
Standpoint" i'.'s'-
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

First published in Baxter Springs
News August 8, 1918.)
BEFORE JOHN JONES, A JUS
TICE OF THE PEACE IN AND
FOR THE CITY OF BAXTER
SPRINGS IN CHEROKEE C0UN-
TY, KANSAS.
S. L. Tompkins, .......................Pl Plaintiff
VS..
H. H. Russell, Defendant.
Notice of Attachment.
The above named defendant will
take notice that on the 18th day Of
July, 1918, an order of attachment for
the sum of $169.25 and for the fur
ther sum of $4,000 probable costs, was
issued by the above named Justice OF
the Peace against your goods in the
above entitled cause and that said
cause will be heard on the Srd day Of
September, 1918, at 8 o'clock a. m. be-
fore the above named Justice at his
office in Baxter Springs, in Cherokee
County, Kansas.
V. ]. Bowersock,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Attest, John Jones,
Justice of the Peace.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

there were numerous cHhstacea, whose
petrlfed fossils are plainly to be seen.
Later on, but not probably until the
lapse of many ages, came the carbOni-
ferrous period, when the land was lift
cd gradually from the water and was
covered as gradually by vegetation,
through which a soil was built up, in
preparation for the great forests yet
to come; and thus age after age went
by, the processes Of nature going on,
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
H. H. Russell, Defendant
Notice of Attachment.

J. H. Hannah and family have been
on fishing and outing trip this, week,
near Pryor, Okla, their old home.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09
HISTORY of CHEROKEE COUNTY
From N. T. AllisOn's History of Cherokee County.
By Courtesy of R. f. Mountjoy, Columbus, Kansas.
Cherokee COunty-Baxter Man Was COunys First Lawyer

Organization Of Cherokee COBaxter Man Was COun First Lawyer
HE ORGANIZATION of Cherokee County the which
put force for organizing began the Of 1866
shortly after the Cherokee Indians transferred the Cherokee
Neutral Lands the United States noted former chapter
This before the boundary Of the county had been
ded The people neny into this country that something
had to be done towards pecg organization In 1862 the Legislature
had passed providing for the organization countless where
dons the requirements but account Of the trouble between
the settlers of Cherokee county and James Joy pertaining land titles
the organization of the had beer DELAYED
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

In Washington, Secretary Daniels,
who has the facts and holds the re-
cord for transportation efficiency,
calls the German Emperor's subma-
rine theory an exploded theory. Well
he may. The submarine was to make
it IMPOSSIBLE for American to
send troops to Europe. And not a
single troop ship from this country
has been sunk.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

step by step, making ready for the
coming Of man. The conditions Of
temperature, with the increased fer
tillty of the land and the humidity Of
the atmosphere, brought on the great
vegetable growths, which afterwards
swept down by the devastating tenn
pests and covered by soil drifts from
the higher lands, now form the coal
beds which yield SO much comfort to
the people now permitted to open
them up for uoe.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Mrs. Frank Faubion and daughters
Hazel and Marie, were Joplin visitors
Monday.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Forty years ago when there was
scarcely any land in the county that
had been touched with the plow, and
when there were no roads established
by any public act, the meager wood
land was found only along Spring
river and its larger tributaries, and
probably mere fringe along the Neo-
sho river and the larger streams
which flow into it. The county was
almost solid sward of prairie grass;
and from the higher points which af-
forded views of the land as it lay in
repose which nature had given it
through the centuries, many Of the
most pleasing landscapes could be
seen. To those who came first, with
imphments of tillage for bringing the
virgin soil into subserviency to the
purposes Of civilization, it was a
~gOodly land" fair to look upon and
full of the promise, and to those who
stayed and endured the hardships in
cident to pioneer life, sowing and
reaping as the years went by, it yield
ed its fruits in season. and with these
the quiet satisfaction that comes to
faithful husbandry.
Geological
Necessarily Mr.. Allison's know
ledge upon this subject is only what
was known up until 1904.)
Going beneath the surface Of the
land, We come to consider it in the
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Those working in the Surgical
Dressing department of the local Red
Cross are as follows:
Miss Nichols, Miss Grubaugh, Miss
Sarchet, Miss Whitmore, Miss Phil
lips, Miss Thomas, Charlene opper-
man, Helen McAboy, Gladys Edensr
Lucille Bennett, Bessie Dively, May
Hamilton, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Living
ston, Mrs. Tracy, Mrs. Ray.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

HE AUTHOR Of the pamphlet then the Cherokee
Neutral Lands district "There considerable settlement low
Cow Greek and its tributaries The towns Of Neutral City and
Pleasant View located here the Military road All of the
good timber claimed by the settlers but these mbered
claims offered for sale cheap and immense excellent prairie
land lies here yet unclaimed inviting immigration Mills machinery
terprise"
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Miss Anna Stewart, of Miami, Is the
kuest d Miss swannie Smith.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

Note readers: The following taken Ans history Of Chero
is under the head Some Early Documents Letters
Other Things The following little phampet published by VIM
H. Dodge in 1867:
Baxter Springs news., 1918-08-09

AavsrtIss 3 ths NeWE f0r TaIulta.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Steamship Reaches an At
lantic Port After
Running Fight
Raider Quits Chase
OFF Virginia Capes
Another Vessel Reported
Under Fire Arrives
Safely in Port

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June IA.
"A story of an all-day fight yes
terday with a German submarine off
the Virginia coast was brought here
to-day by Captain George Aitkin of
the British steamship Author. He
said the raider gave up the chase
seventy miles from the Virginia
Capes, apparently fearing to brave
the coast patrol.
Captain Aitkin, whose ship is one
Of the few armed craft to be at
tackled by the U-boats since they
came to American waters, said the
German showed no disposition to
come within the range of the guns
Of his armed guard of British blue
Jackets, though he trailed him at
long range for twelve hours. Many
shots were fired without effect.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Day Passes on Mont
didier-Rheims Line
Without an In
fantry Action
Flower of Foes
Army Sacrificed
Large Forces of Enemy
Reserves, However,
Are Held for
Next Blow

The fourth. German attempt to
crush the Allied armies came to
a dead halt yesterday. Paris re-
ported officially last night that
there had been no infantry en-
gagements during the day.
Ludendorff has seemingly aban-
doned the advance southwark
toward Compiegne. The attacks
Of some of the best German
troops, thrown into the struggle
between Montdidier and Noyon,
have met a sanguinary check. The
tremendous losses inflicted by the
Allies have made further prog
ress impossible. -yv
Both Allied and enemy military
critics agree that the German ar
mics will strike a new and more
powerful blow this year.
Large forces are still held in re-
serve by the German command,
and where they will be thrown
into the next great effort to end
the war is now a subject for spec
ulation.
With the obviously stiffened Allied
power exhibited in the last Of
fensive, confidence in Foch's abil-
ity to stem the new tide when it
sweeps forward has markedly in
creased.
Along the entire front from the
Channel to Champagne the thun-
der of the guns continues intense.
In the Franco-American sector
north Of the Marne, near the
Anglo-French juncture on the
Somme, and in the Allied sectors
in Flanders, the artillery has
been especially active.
Early yesterday a German local at
tack on newly won positions near
Merris, on the Ypres front, was
repulsed by the French with
heavy losses. An enemy attack
Thursday night on Antheuil,
southeast Of Montdidier, met the
same result.
Berlin announced yesterday that the
army of General Won Boehn,
which took the principal part in
the Observation-Disclosures offensive,
had captured total Of 750 guns
since May 27. 1t also declared
French attacks had been repulsed
south of Ypres.