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....,v .. ' , ... .v. HOME OF SAMUEL II. SMITH. FIVE MILE NEWS. Monday. G. Kwers took a bier load ' of green corn, potatoes and beam to Galena. Tueaday-Reed Wilson waa on the creek to collect aome money those people owe him on timber. John Mohawk waa on five Mile Tuesday. He took dinner with G Ewers. Miss Anna Mohawk la expected home from Haskell to spend tier vacation. Jesse Grant and three others from opting urvTB came uuu vu v creek to fish and camp out. The cows ate their bread and coffee. They were fortunate to find some one down on the creek who bakes bresd for sale. Mines on Tennessee Prairie have almost beaten the water and by the middle of the week everything will be mining in full blast. Everett Wright of Kansas City writes to his mother that be expects to come home on a visit soon. Carnel Berry has mumps and is quite sick. Hattie Evans waa calling on Five Mile Wednesday. Gregg Ewera bought Carnel Ber ry's leaae and improvements. Clarence Bradley has a bad fooL Ha stuck a wire in it Ladyhood speaks for itself. Just ao the really well bred woman never finds it necessary to tell peo ple she is a lady; the fact speaks for itself. ' , If some people were as intelligent as they believe they are wouldn't) thia be a world of orainsr It amuses yotf to hear illiterate people call others down in use of their Enelish. Bill Brown and Mrs. R. Boden of Galena went fishing Wednesday. VrmitrhHnar c-ooda from Galena to Peoria, I. T. Mr. Walker spent from Monday until Friday at Haskell. He came down with Quapaw pupila. There were fifteen came down. Mra. Peake Ewers waa in Baxter Friday to meet her eon, Georgie. He came home to spend his vaca tion. Mr. and Mrs. John Mohawk made a business call.on Five Mile Thurs day. Pete McCoonse was. in Galena Thursday. Ran Havana has returned home after quite a viait with his grand !! tn Arkanaaa. parcuia, WUW Mr. Jobnaon la visiting his sister, Mrs. Bell Meddlin, on the branch. Burt Eetabrook called on Geor- trim Peaks SundaV. Frank McDonald made some fine trades in horses Saturday in Gale na. Bennie Cousbtte was a Galena Ultnr Sntnrdav. Steve Porter went to Galena Sat- nrAav. Taiaea Porter has some fine roads i (mill nf hla home, and he baa trimmed the bed ere. It looka fine. WTho next? Tenneasee Prairie farmers have their wheat in stack-those who are industrious have. Church dinner at West Tennessee .Prairie achool house Sunday. The cloudy weather kept many irom going. Mrs. Hlcksonbaugh ia suffering with a bad thumb. She aaya abe walks all night Mra. AL Burrowa ia some better. Frank Qnawla took hia partner to buy timber laat Friday before day. Camble Berry baa moved to Lowell to work. Mr. Bradley moved tbem. Freddie Moulton and hia mother epent Friday with friends on Five Kile. Can people take cows out of here into Kanaas? Thursday a man took . ..if tn iran and the COW fol lowed along. Who geta contract to timber Ten aetsee Prairie mines? John Heatherington has moved Lis Utile bouse to Turley's and all live as one family. Cb, yes; lady on Tennessee Prai ri r If ie aign and have the BAX : ' f rrxjrcs News sent to your ed :': r-'r ?1 a yer ia ad-! sV.;i'v 1 -I'"" won't have it torn and soiled when it ia delivered. Take the hint, now. It will be more plain next time. Now, aome people are much wor ried about a reporter down in thoae wooda. Good people don't mind to see their names in print and bad ones act much better than they used to. Who ia blacksmith at Tennessee Prairie mines? Answer the en gineer; he is the blacksmith. Arthur Peoples and Will Ham mett went fishing in Joe's lake Monday. Thee are fine fish and big ones. Fivs Mile. TAR VALLEY NEWS. John Jacob Weber, one of our highly respected citizena, received word laat Saturday that hia brother, Jacob, died June 18, in Switzerland His brother had been ill a long time. We understand John Jacob was left $7000 by his brother. David Weber viaited frienda in Columbus Sunday. fJOOD ROADS. Good intentions are the pooreat sort of road-milking material. All over the West the talk ia for better roads, and it's not all talk either. A dragged road being harder does not get nearly so dusty aa an un- dragged one. In towns the business streets are polled out of the mud first. In the country it will be the rural routee. Since the drag hue come in it's a question whether the well kept turl road ia'nt the best road for all pur poses. It's a fact that bad roads really cause more and expense in the long run than making and keeping up good ones. Tbe Romans were the greatest road buildera of ancient times aud they conquered the world. A broad highway led to every Roman pos session. Europe haa better roada than America because in tbe agea before railways the people in that thickly populated part of the world had to have them to go anywhere. MOUNT HOPE NEWS. lLf . I r O f.L ricosro. jitu &mury,ucorgc omiioi and Mias Suaie Luckey spent laat Sunday with Miss Maggie Hartley Miss Mabel Harvey of Lincoln, Neb., spent Friday with Mr. Bu Chan's. Jay Livingston had very im portant businesa ia Columbus laat week. The majority of young men consider the ceounty seat the cen ter of business at some period of life? Mias Ella Buchan intenda to go to Columbus soon. Wonder why? Miss Bessie Thomas is entertain ingMiaa Ada Chambera of Col urn bus. Mrs. Ella Skinner of Columbua visited at Mr. Buchan's the latter part of laat week. MIsa Gertrude Ballard attended the Eddy-Mitchelson wedding last Wednesday evening. Mrs. S. T. Coe spent laat Friday with Mra. J. P. Hartley. Our telephone line haa been bad ly out.of repair, but T. J. Embry and R. O. Thomas gave it the proper medicine. Nearly every one wenl to Lowell to celebrate the Fourth. Mr. and Mra. Capp of Empire via ited Mr. Lindsey's part of laat week Misa Anna Webb viaited Miaa Ella Buchan laat Friday. Mr. and Mra. Orren Callia, Miaaea Nola Beltzbooveri Gertrude Bal lard, and others sttended Sunday achool convention at Neutral last Sunday. Mount Hops. The Royal Neighbors had a very interesting meeting laat Monday evening, and after the work was fin ished a big feast was served. Six new neighbors were taken in. The new members are Meadames J. W. Wstson, Ella Labadie, W.J. Bishop. R. a English, T. Meyerdlng, F.M. Perkins. Several new applications were acted upon. Tbe Royal Neljb trr loe in tMi c!?y is ro-i" THE MINES. Good Luck is dumping a lot of fine lead dirt The Lone Elm absft on the widow is pushing its Stafford land. Chlcago-Quapsw abaft ia beiog looked after by Mr. Barnhardt of Joplin. McAllister is puahing tbe devel opment rapidly and will be ready for a mill this fall. Cherryvale Mining Co. ia doing well with ita mill and haa a bin well filled thia week. Gatlin and Co'a. abaft ia progress ing very rapidly and will be into ore not later than August. Micawber has part of hia mill oo the ground and haa atarted the foundation for its erection. Tbe Joanna mill la nearlng com pletion and will be one of tbe four mills to turn-in during July. Tbe Aftoo ia coming to the front in good shape with the drifting to the south, showing heavy lead. At least four mills will make their firat turn-in during July, and poa sibly six, if tbe laat two hurry. The Strong-Bow has its mine well developed and should have no trouble keeping ita new mill going. Tbe Old Abe has atarted to pump tbe water out preparatory to start ing up aince the coal strike is over. F. F. F. M. Co. is running full each day and making lota of ore. It haa two bins full now and will make another thia week. Twonewahafta have been atart ed, one to tbe eaat of the Cramer- Morae mill and one to the north- eaat on the Crawfiah land. The Mission is producing its usu al quantity of lead and tine thia week. Two bina of. jack and one of lead will be loaded thia week. Quivera Lead and Zioc Co. is milling every day now on dirt taken from both the mill and tbe south shaft It baa a bin of ore ready for abipment Ward Mining Co. haa rejected the plana for ita mill and baa asked for new bids on a larger mill, which will be built as soon as details cao be arranged. 4 2. I 1L - f siSf .mxU," THE INDEPENDENCE JUST GETTING INTO ORE. The M. K. A T. sold 138,000 pounds of tine ore last week. Tbe McKinley mine is shut down until a new.boiler can be installed. The ore body haa been reached, but the water ia too atrong to han dle with machinery at hand, and a 125-horse boiler will be installed at once. McKinley Mining; Co. haa joat struck into the caprock of the ore. Several samples "shown Isst even ing by Mr. Oliver, who ia doing the sinking looked mighty good. This shaft is down 116 feet and is show. ing tbe ore at the aame level as the drill struck it If yon want to see a model shaft go and aee the McKin ley ahaft, which is 6x9 in the clear, and as square cut as a straight edge is straight E. L. Wright, manager of the Cra mer-Morae Mining Co., is pushing the new mill and expects to get it going by August 1st at latest He is also pushing shaft No. 2 to tbe northwest of the mill. United Iron Works Co. of Springfield, Mo, has the contract for tbe mill, having jnat completed tbe Omaha mill, and it has turned all hands onto this work and is making excellent progress. This ia the third mill this company has built ia the dis trict The first mill yon meet in the camp now la the new ISO-ton mill of the Strong-Bow Mining Company, which la nearing completion. It ia a coincident, but ft la a duplicate in ppearance of the Mission mill, tbe first one built ia the district The construction ia being done by Mr. Karcnra of Joplia, who is Monon mill ia kept busy milling Ita own dirt in connection with tli Diamond C ore. Tbe bina at thi property are full of ore and will be sold this week. Common Law Mining Co. tins in stalled a aix-lnch Gardner pump and ia now taking care of the ter in good shape. Sinking Iih been continued and ia being pushed. Firat Chance prospect, east of tli Omaha, haa been doing a lot of drilling with aplendid resulte, find ing the aame bed of lead and sili catethat the Omaha ia mining on to the southeast of this ground. Work haa been atarted attain in the Laat Chance, just east of th troug-Dow. Sunny-side ia milking .hi exteuded development in sbafl No. 3 to the west of the mill, and i putting the mill in ahape to mill tbe dirt from the west shaft. Dr. Winkler has laid by hia auto mobile for the present and haa ta ken off hia coat and gone after the Pasture ahaft again, putting in an additioual boiler and other necea aary machinery. Now look out for big tbinga from that property. J. C. L. Mining Company develop. ment, under supertendence of Mr. Wood, is progressing nicely. Shaft No. 2 ia into fine ore and proving even richer than No. 1. The new 8-drill Norwalk compressor is in stalled and the drilling ia being done now by air- M. K. AT. mill is grinding away steadily and haa three bina of ore well filled for thia weeka ahipment The development at thia property ia done well and the face of ore ia getting much larger aa it goes to aouth aod aouthwest, where the present drifting ia being done. Mr. Scott, working tbe Rock Creek Mining Co. lease on the Norton Haskett land, ia making a bumper record on lead and silicate. Chunks of ailicate tbe size of a wash tub are not uncommon in tbiadigginga then the lead ia big too. At least four cars of lead and ailicate ia in the bina. Thia property ia making more money for the amount invest ed than any other in the camp. Thia kind of mining makea quick money and aurely ia a "poor mans camp. ' '" Company, at the White Eagle mine juat to the south of the Strong-Bow and directly west of the Sunnyside mill. The Common Law abaft ia now into its ore body, and we are truly glad of it Mr. Timothy haa had bard struggle in sinking the shaft. and at times he has been rsther die coursged. The water haa been very atrong and be has been compelled to put in more pumps. But now he baa something in sight. The ore body has been reached, and if it holds out as good as in the start it ia going to be simply immense. The ore is found in green selvage ground, and it ia moat all free pea cock jack. Here's hoping that the troublea of the Common Law Com pany are over. The output of the Southwestern Lead and Zinc Diatrict, which in- cludea Baxter Springs fend twenty seven other campa, covering aouth- weatern Miaaouri, southeaat Kan aaa, nortbweat Arkanaaa and northweatern Arkanaaa, for the aix monlba ending Saturday nigbt, June 30, shows an increaae over the aame period laat year, notwith standing the fact that tbe past aix montha had to condend with a coal atrike, at a time when tbe minea ahould have been at their beat from an output atandpolnt With the fignrea of the firat half year aa a basis, tbe total output of both lead aod tine will ahow an increaae la value of at leaat4wo million dol lars as compared with laat year, bich waa tbe largest tbe sooth- west district ever produced. While tbe output ia tons of concentrates """ored shows such a fiverUe MM if I -Vji"! ..v. .... , I Vi.- -' CAOMT Bald nig Powder The only, high grade Balling Powder sold at a moderate price. Com plies with the pure food laws of all states. EDYMOND will average not lees than $45 per ton; for tiuc ore as '.against $44.40 laat year. Lead has made a 'record breaker for tbia year,' so far'going aa high aa $90; the average for the year will not be leas tban $73, while laat year'a average waa $02.12 a ton. With these records before it, capi tal has. 'been investigating thia class of mining, with '.the result that many new companiea have taken up tbe lead and zinc businei a as one of tbe) most lucrative in vestments it can make. The Baxter Springs camp haa received ita ebare of the new blood and energy and the year 1900 will be a banner year for it. The increaae has been much ahead ofJanyHother camp tn the southwest district, with six new mills to its credit for the first six months of the year Baxter Springs' camp may well feel that it is getting its share of the prosper ity which is so general in thia dis trict. $13,502,800 being the output of tbe aouthweat lead and zinc dia trict for 1003 and in addition to this record add $2,000,000 more for the year 1000, making the remarkable production of $13,000,000 for a small area of twenty milea square for the preaent year. Compare thia with many gold mining districts which we bear ao much about, and you ill begin to realize that we are producing more wealth in a smaller area of countrv than all but a tew of tbe well known gold mining die tricte in the world. Following are fi cures taken from "Mineral Re sources ol ine i nuea oiaea the U. S. Geological Survey, showing the gold output not only from one diatrict.but trom an entire etate: Colorado 4,403a California 18,033,070 Alaeka 0,100,438 South Dakota 7,303,977 Nevada.- 5,000,494 Montana 4,207,002 Utah 4.189,292 Arizona 3,b,o Compare the above figurea with th 11S lead and Zinc output Ol $.13.302 800 and vou will see that only two atatea outrank the small southwest district in money value for the year juat passed. We ven ture the aeeertion tnai me net profit la greater from the south west district tban from any of tbe above states. The capital inveated is not over one quarter aa great and while tbe bulk of the gold ia produced from a few large minea, tbe bulk of lead and zinc produced is from tbe many email minea, the small mines being owned in most caaes by tbe operatora. UlttlUttwt Remaining in the poatoffice at Baxter Springe, Kanaaa. for the week ending with July 4, 1900. which if not called for within two weeks will be sent to the dead letter office at Washington, D. C: Mrs M Avory Mr S A Brown a Mrs Sadie Brace Mrs Sni. Claybrook oha T Cooper Miss Minnie Fsrris Mias Nora Fairett Mr T Gatrell Rnfoi Johnsoa Mr Max Rinsca Mias Effi B Stites Mr lames Wait MrWJHT Mrs Birdie Govern Mr J A Jobason I M Smith Mrs May Winfrey Misa Mabla Walker Persons calling for any of the above lettera will pleaeeaaywAdver tlaedgivingdate liat W.S.BAXTKR,I.H. A treat many Baiteritea apent be Fourth at Lowel and the Prora- Tnitt Baklnf Powdeni ted for 45 or SO cocti per pound and mar b. iden tified by this asorbltant prtca, They art a m enact to public health, as (ood prepared from them con tain Una quantltloi ol Roc he 11. salts, a dangerous cathartic drug. Always in the Lead. The iErmotor wind mills, because they are the best. I handle the improved rmotor; also deal in pumps of all kinds, tanks and towers. Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engines and scales. Do all kinds of plumbing and steam fitting. See me for prices. JOHNSON. Phone 1C.2 The savin; habit is as easy to form as th e spending habit. WHY not form the habit that will do you some good . This little BANK will help you. GET ONE TODAY. I 4 4 1 PAY THE Rest Trices at all times for the following. HeuH, per pound i 07 c Spring chicken, 2 lbs and over. 12 c Broilers, 13 to 2 lbs., per Ib 12 c Roosters, old, each 20 c Roosters, young, each 20 c Hen Turkey a, per lb 07 c Voung gobblera, per lb 07 c Old gobblers, per lb 07 c Ducks, per lb 00 c Geese, per lb 04 c Eggs, per dozen ......10 c Butter per Ib 11 c Green hides, per lb 07 c Prices subject to market change ALSO BUYS HIDES AND FURS. West of Cooper's, Baxter Springs WHAT A GREAT CONVEN IENCE IS A FOUN TAIN PEN1 Anv person who will secure six new subscribers for THE KANSAS CITY WEEKLY JOURNAL at the rate of 35 cents per year each, making a total of 1.50, and send trie amount to us, together with the names, will be mailed, as a present, a beautiful Fountain Pen: fine rubber handle, 14-karat, gold point, fully war ranted. Address THE KANSAS CITY JOUNAL, Kansas City, Mo. This offer expires Oct 1, 1906. . . 0. W. DANIELS NOTARY PUBLIC inns Erases, urns, Territory Mortpup-es.Leasrs, Con rnct, rwds an t p!l :r ' rf - - I Bat l!. ' I rrr n o ib & inn b