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all this ksws . ' THAT'S FIT TO TtQTt BOOSTS FOS BAXTER -ALL THE TIME VOLUME XXXVIII BAXTER SPRINGS, CHEROKEE COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919 NUMBER 18 If TO nvnfo)p M ! i P in it igut mm K I .1 ' t i ' y -a - i.i - v IN V ... (. '. snn mm I Jit Lijd Scramble of States f sr Tcnrtrd Places in RaUScaUoa CO umn lleans Early Vote New York, Juno 1L Ratifleatio of the suffrage amendment k-y the legis latures of Elfaois, Wisconsin and Michigan, with Governor Smith's call for aa extra sesslc in thia state to act oa the amendment caused Jubila tion at the headquarters of the Na tional American Woman Sulfites as sociation tonight .' News of Governor Smith's .action followed close on telegrams to airs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the association, from the executives of Kansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Minnesota, promising slmilisr action. Governor Allen, of Kansas, tele graphed that he had issued a cafl for a special session oa June 16, aid tlfct he believed a unanimous favorable vote would be recorded. Governor Harding, of Iowa, wired that be had no- doubt the amendment would be adopted at the session of the legisla ture which will meet in January, 1920, Governors Bartlett, of New Hamp shire, and Burnquist, of Minnesota, qualified their promises by saying that special sessions of their respect ive legislatures would be called if there was reasonable assurance that the legislatures of sufficient states to make the amendment effective were going to act I Would Not Be Without Them In Ely Home This is what thousands of people are saying about Naturized Liver Tablets. They are guaranteed to be better than calomel. They do not make you sick and weak, salivate, gripe or leave you constipated. 16c and 85c. For sale by Scott Drug Co. BREWSTER STARTS GOOD New Mine of Federal Company Promisee to Be a Fine One Operations at the Brewster mine the new property of the Federal Min ing and Smelting Company, located near the Lucky O. K. at Hockerville, is said to be a good one and to' give promise of being fully as good as the Lucky 0. K. The ground is not well opened at the Brewster, but it has been mak ing thirty tons a shift for several days, and one day made forty tons. It is believed this production can be bet tered as soon as the ground is better opened. The Aid Society of the Methodist church met Wednesday afternoon in the ladies' parlor of the church with a very good attendance. Mrs. M L Nichols, the vice president will pre side at the- meetings this summer fa the absence ox tne president, airs. o. H. Shields. At this meeting Mrs. Min nie Touse was appointed as assistant vice president Committees were ap pointed for the summer for the vari ous work of the society. After the business session those present were in vited to the dining room where delic tus apricot ice cream and wafers were served by Mrs. O. L. Orton and Mrs. Margaret Meads. Those present were Mesdames D. S. Chubb, L. L. Cardin, J. W. Cook, P. D. Hartley, J. L Ab bott Liathicum, Margaret Meads, 0. L. Orton, James Simmons, Minnie Youse, E. L. Clark, Walter Hartley, J. W. Twente and Mrs. Gillespie. Cat This Out and Take It With Yea A man oftea forgets the exact name of the article ha wishes to P"? and as a last resort takes something else instead. That Is always dwtp StotinfUS imaatislariory. The ..f. way is te cut this cot Jind take it . you so as to make sure of gett ChamberUin's Tablet. Yoa wiU tu4 Nothing quite so satisfactory for cn stipation and indigestion. W. Fred Adams, manager of Jack aoa Drug store, Is la Miami conduct irr the one cent sale for tha stores t , Cf tit rtsrs trrt fjr ths next TO IQ9QE Ottawa County Commission em Performinz a Service of Immense Value to Baxter Springs The eosnmlasioners of Ottawa coun ty, OUa have given out the contracts for grading and graveling the road running from the state line starting south of Baxter, on south to Lincoln' ville. A crew with a grader is now at work, and Wade Hibbard, who has the contract for putting on 8,000 yards of chats is following right along with his work. The road from Baxter to Lincoln ville has been la bad shape and the actios of the county officials of Ot tawa county Is making this improve ment surely is a good turn to Baxter, When the Ottawa county work is completed it will leave the only tad piece of road on the entire stretch ly- lr between Baxter and the state line. .1 is very likely that the city council will take steps at once to meet our neighbors to the south with a graded and graveled road from the city limits to the state line. m If r. and Mrs. E. M. Hodgkins and Miss Mildred Tuthill spent the day Wednesday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hodgkins. . Roy Chubb, headquarters company 8S6th Infantry 89th Division, arrived home this ssorning. Mr. and Mrs. Til. man Hocker met him in Joplin. He has been a year in Germany and Fjwcfc.;i . . ."V .... , NOTICE The name' of the Cunningham- Wells Oil Co. of Baxter Springs, Kan sas, has been changed to Cunningham Marks Oil Co. a NOTED GEOLOGIST TO LECTURE HERE Mr.' Otto Ruhl, one of the best post ed men on the geology of the Joplin District has been scheduled by Prof. A. C. Terrill, for two lectures in Bax ter, on June 24 and 26. These lectures will be held at 8.30 p. m. in the library lecture hall on the last Tuesday and Thursday evenings of the 'month, and will be of unusual interest to the Baxter people. June 24. "Stratigraphy as Related to Drill Prospecting," taking up the question of what markers can be used and how. June 26. "Theories of Ore Deposi tion in the Tri-State Zinc District" The theories of Messrs. Siebenthal and Buehler will be discussed and those who attend the lecture will sure ly be interested in the large amount of geological work which is to be done in the Tri-State District during the next twelve months. These lectures are a part of the School, of Mines program being put on here by the University of Kansas Mininsr Department of which Prof. Tenm hafl beQ head or the la8t your years. SOLDIERS' LETTERS American Expeditionary Force, . Camp Guthrie, France. May 17, 1919. To Mesdames Skinner, Kane, Dively, Mr. Clark and Porter, Jr., and all kind friends of Baxter who helped in the death and burial of our beloved little sister: I am writing for Ray and myself, William R. Estes.- I just received a letter from home, mother and father was writing me how nice the people treated them in the sad berievement of our little sister, so I am writing to thank you all and hope that you all may live long and prosper and flowers may grow along your path. Someday I may return some kindness, although would like to look down on little sis ter's sweet face again but if I live right I will meet her in that sweet place whsre there arc no accidents and I feel like she was taken, care of by my friends of Baxter as good as if I would have been there myself. So I must close by saying good bye and good luck and God bless you. From Bay and WHliam E. Estes. ta Truss asaunirre. ray tin mum Guests Are Filled With Both liood Food and Valuable Ideas for Community. Building One hundred and twenty-nva or more people enjoyed the Community banquet given under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce fa. Good eagle Hall last night The general expression wss that it was one of the best meetings of the kind ever held fa Baxter Springs. Deviating from the custom of the past the food was handled in cafe teria style, each guest helping him self to a plateful and then taking a place at the banquet table. There were present men and women fa about equal proportions. Chicken and ham sand wiches, cheese, salads, pickles, olives, and a variety of drinks were served. Rev. John Garretson presided over the banquet' table and introduced the speakers with clever compliments. The principal speakers were Judge Allen McReynolds of Carthoge, and E. E. Wood, proprietor of the Wood's department stores fa Baxter and Webb City. Judge McReynolds' talk was on Community Building and it was preg' nant with excellent advice most appli- cable of which to Baxter Springs was perhaps his caution against permit ting petty differences to prevent the union of thought and action necessary to put over movements that have the good of the whole community fa view. The speaker condemned the spirit -that would hold back needed improvements because of the increased taxes that might follow, saying that the people who' were satisfied to do without the modern conveniences of present day city life rather than pay' the added cost are not an asset to any commun ity. E. E. Wood spoke in a most inter esting and .pleasing -vein giving a his tory 6f the Webb City Chamber of Commerce, how it had emerged from useless club affair for a few mea who would meet and play pool and pitch, into a live and powerful body which in the past year had secured two or three good factories, establish ed a co-relation with the farmers and altogether had made a live city out of an almost dead one. Mr. Wood was strong for the Chamber of Commerce and hoped that the business men would all get behind it and thereby increase its influence. Before the principal speakers were introduced the toastmaater called up on several gentlemen for short talks on pertinent topics. Prof. A.-i Ter rill, explained the purpose and work of the vocational school which has re cently been established by him in Bax ter, Riverton and Galena, under the provision of the federal Smith-Hughes law. This subject has been explained in the Citizen on different occasions of late. Mr. Terrill won the approval of his audience by the clearness and earnestness of his talk and impressed all with the importance of this new educational movement fa this com munity, as well as elsewhere through out the country. . ( Ira Perkins, of Galena, county com missioner from this district explained the concrete road situation very clear ly.' Regarding the proposition of the Galena people to build a road, under the federal aid plan from Galena west through Riverton to the road running south from Columbus to Picher, de clared that it would cost about $180, 000 to bridge Spring river, and the total cost would be greatly fa excess of the meximum of 830,000 of which the government gives half. He infer red that the high cost would prevent the success of Galena's plan. He de clared himself in favor of the pn posed concrete road from Galena through Lowell to Baxter Springs, thence west from Baxter on the Cbe topa road to the west county Jine, and he hoped the promoters would be suc cessful. ! L. Li Cardin spoke briefly on the progress of the Dairy Products plant and assured the people that the plant would soon be fa operation. E, IL Richardson, when asked to re- (Ccrl!zr:l r Urt r-) UTTIE ISffi'JB .m m iieip She Want Uncle Sam to Send Troops to Prevent In vasion from Costa f. Rica The United States has been asked byiNkarauga to land troops in that country to aid preventing a threat ened invasion from Costa Rica. The matter is being investigated by the State Department It is stated at the Nicaraguan Legation at Washington that President Tinoco of Costa Rica has massed large forces of troops on the Nicaraguan frontier which are a menace to the peace of the latter country, and it is suggested that; "In accordance with the plan by which the United States gives us friendly ad vice, we think that the United States should give us, fa this emergency, the moral and material protection of sufficient guard at our frontiers to prevent an invasion.'' Ia this connection it Is interesting to Bote the fact that Nicaragua is one. of the signatories of both the League of Nations and German Peace Treaty, while Costa Rica is not i party to either document This situa tion being a tthreat of war," would seem to be one of those which wiU, when the League of Nations becomes an established institution, come under die provisions of Article XI of the Covenant and consequently be "a mat ter 'of concern to the whole league' regarding which the league would be called upon to "take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to s.rfBttrd the peace of nations.?-. .It would also seem to be covered by Ar ticle X which provides that "The mem bers of the league undertake to re spect and preserve against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the league." Then, too, there Would have to be considered a number of other provisions, including paragraph 3 of Article XVI, which reads fa part as follows: The mem bers of the league, agree further, that they will mutually support one anoth er in the financial and economic meas ures which are taken under this ar ticle." Article XXI, which would also be involved, reads as follows: "Noth ing in this covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements . . . like the Monroe Doctrine, for securing the mainten ance of peace." From the foregoing it will be seen that some interesting questions will arise fa connection'with the practical operation of the league-of-nations plan; Would Article XXI make this Nicaraguan matter one for the United States and Nicaragua alone to settle or ould it be "a matter of concern to th whole league?" Then again, would the expense be paid by America alone or would it be apportioned among all. of the members of the league? BRIDE OF HOUR KILLED BY TRAIN Father and Brother Badly Injured fa Accident Muskogee, Okla June 11, Mrs. Dessa Guthrie of Oktaha, had been a bride less than one hour when she was killed on a railroad crossing south of Muskogee this afternoon, as the wed ding party was on its way home. The young woman was 19 years old. Dessa Elam and V. F. Guthrie were married by Justice W. G. Miller fa the presence of her father and broth- er. ine party got in an auwmouue to drive to Oktaha. As they were crossing through a deep cut south of Muskogee iheir car was struck by a Midland Valley train. Mrs. Guthrie was thrown beneath the wheels and, both legs cut off. Her husband, her brother, Glenn Elam, and her father Sara Elam were all Injured. -The father is injured internally and may die. The others will recover. - Tuesday evening Mrs. L. D. Hodg kins and Mrs. L. S. Tuthill attended the revival services of the Baptist chuh at Picher and Mrs. Hodgkins assisted fa th music with a vocal ae- Ixi'aa. Labor Head Says 60,000 ; Key man Are Out-Sympathetic Telephone Striice May Be Called Monday. STACK YOUR LVJiEAT "TO SWE IT Railroads and Elevators No Adequate to Handle Im mense Crop As Fast As Threshed . Hutchinson, June 10. Unless a big percentage of the Kansas wheat crop is cut by binders and stacked away for threshing in the future, millions of bushels of this new wheat crop must be stored on the ground, literally piled in heaps fa the open. It has happened before, but never as it will be this year," declared O. P. Byers. president of the Anthony Northern railway, today. The rail roads are going to be utterly unable to haul away this wheat as fast as it is threshed. There is not storage ca pacity enough to take care of even a small percentage of this crop. "In previous years the farmers have held onto a big part of their wheat put off threshing it and deferred mar keting, to get higher prices. But this year with the market price fixed they nrill all onripavnr tn bpiI Bonn BR porsibk W8 arfgomg U be tt,abfc4& .Brick.-G- to take care of the flood of wheat "It would take 200,000 freight cars to haul away this wheat crop," Mr. livers said. The railways will not be able to haul as much this year as two years ago, for they have not been able to keep up their equipment," Mr. Dyers added. The grain storage of the wheat belt is also no larger new than two years ago. "New elevators have been built it is true, but the depreciation of others offsets that and the net storage is no (aJ.h (Van lik?AVUk tit. nr. 9 Mr. Byers declared. The Gab-a-Bhe-wfa camp fire girls met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Miss Pauline Congdon, 1225 East 'ourteenth street and spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the close of which dainty refreshments were served . Those present were' Misses Mildred Burton, Leta Wilson, Rosa mond Rathbone, Opal Dowty, lsabelle ibbs, Jaunita Mettler, Thelma Calks, and the hostess. Miss Rosamond Rathbone will be the next hostess Wednesday, June 18. o SINKING A THIRD SHAFT, Mary Ann Company Will Go After Ore Body Near Huttig Lease - After extensive drilling the Mary Ann Company has decided to sink a third shaft, and sinking operations have been started. The location, is near the line dividing the property from the Huttig Lead and Zinc Com pany's best mine. The Mary Ann has been operating steadily, taking all of its dirt from a field shaft a considerable distance to the west of it A third shaft nearer would mean a lower rock ton cost for the property, and this is needed fa ev ery mine now, particularly one where there is some Iron penalty to contend with, m REDS MASSACRE PEAS ANTS IN HUNGARY According to the latest reports from Vienna three thousand peasants, men, women and children, have been shot or hanged by the Bolshevist Govern ment of Hungary under the leadership of Bela Kun. The massacred popula tion, the report says, refused to join the Bolshevists and insisted oa their loyalty to Austria. The peasanta gathered a small army and started a revolt agalns the Soviet Government of Bela Kun. But they were no match for the Red army and were unmerci fully slaughtered. One entire village, Kolnhoff, was burned. He reports from Eurjary hart dAT--?J ia tie fast few we: La.' At Chicago, June 11 Union leaders declared tonight that the first day re sponse for the call for a nation-wide strike of commercial telegraph oper ators gave promise that the tie-up would be complete fa three days, de spite claims of company officials that the strike had failed. Reports received by the Associated Press from towns fa various sections of the country, indicate that commer cial telegraph business was not ser-. iously interrupted fa most instances. A statement by President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union that only about 166 perscons, 121 of them operators, answered the strike call, brought from S. K. Konenkamp, in ternational president of the Commer cial Telegraphers Union of America a remark that more than that number of Western Union employes in Chica go alone had joined the strike by noon today. "Reports up to late today point to 90 per cent response in the Postal Telegraph company service, and a 70 per cent response from Western Union employes," said Konenkamp in a statement to the Associated Press to night The east has shown up sur prisingly well, and fa the southeast alone the number of strikers already exceeds 8,000. Telephone worker have added to the strikers' numbers in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Columbia, . electrical workers go on a nation-wide strike Monday, additional telephone workers will also go out Railroad telegraphers in all parts of the coun try are refusing commercial business and trouble anew is pending in Can ada, because of refusal of Canadian telegraphers to handle American busi ness. 1 The young peoples class of the Bap tist Sunday School enjoyed a roast. and picnic supper last evening at Lowell. The party drove over to Lowell and after the camp fire sup per the time was spent with games. The party included Misses Dorsey, Love Parkins, Lois Williams, Alma Lewis, Evelyn Fineficld, Leona Wyatt, Edna Howard, Eva Parkins and Messrs. Lee Wyatt, Carl Campbell, . Carl Haley, James Thomas and Nestor Judd. The party was chaperoned by? Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Judd, Rev. Joha. earce and Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Rit- ter. Miss Helen 'Marrs, who has been visiting in this city at the home of her aunt, Mrs. John Wiles, left Wednes day for her home in Oklahoma City. - ' 1 ' WILL SIGN BEFORE JULY I. - , Paris Paper Believes. Germans Are i' .-Anxious to O. K. Pact Paris, June 10. The signing of die peace treaty by Germany before July 1, and its ratification by the various parliaments before August 1 is pre dicted today by the Echo de Paris. It expects the answer to the German counter proposals to be handed over probably oii Friday. The course of the Germans, it thinks, will be to re place the Scheidemann government by another in' case the present govern ment determines not Jo sign the terms aa the allies finally present them. first it was reported that Ferdinand of Bulgaria waa about to enter Buda Pesth, that Bela Kun, the Soviet Premier and his government had fled to Switzerland and that Bolshe vism in Hungary- had collapsed. It appears from the latest reports how ever that Bolshevism is still in the saddle fa Hungary. Bela Kun and his henchman, Commissioner Somely, who executed. the "bloody -massacres around Dedenburg, stQl seem to be fa command of an army strong enough to put down any revolt Lice this one -which ended so disastrously for the rebels. m Mrs. Walter Sullivan and dangers. Clara Mae and Grade, and son, Hoy, drovt to Jfj 'Jn today. f