Baxter Springs news. [volume], January 02, 1908, Image 4

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What voutf make a nicer Holiday Present for
: mother, father, sister or brother than a
Victor Talking Machine,
especially when you can buy them so cheap,
and on the easy payment plan, too.
and all similar interests are to
be assessed in the township.
school district or citj in which
the owner resides if they do not
pertain to a business located, then
they are to be assessed at , the
olace where the business is lo-
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cated.
10. Animals and farming lm
elements are to be assessed in the
township, school district or citj
where usually kept The ques
tion of location for purposes of
assessment; is one of fact to be
determined bj evidence, if there
is doubt. A temporary absence
from the place where usually
THE mtfES.
Many inquiries have come to
this office, as to the extent of the
kept, even if such absence a" and improvements installed, and
cover ioc jaivu, . Mjn this article we will ffive a re
make the property assessable at sameof the work that has been
. The Victors sell from $10 up. Come in and see them yourself.
Campbell's Drug Store,
; t (Successor to J. G. Polster.)
Prescriptions filled. Night Phone 273. Goods' delivered to any
V part of city.
D8V09 Paints. Security Stoek Food. Looso-Wllos Candles
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Best Line to Colorado, California.
Washington, .' Montana, City of
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Mexico, also to an points east
J?rr turtVifr nartirulars call on
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any agent of this company, or
address
C L. STONE C. H.ROHRER
Passenger. District
Traffic " Passenger
Manager, Agent,
Stf Louis; Mo. Joplin. Mo.
EXPLANATION OF TAXES
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issued ay tag ziaiv viu
mission to Explain the
In order, to answer many w-
that are beincr made at
iti office of the State Tax Com
mission both by letter and in per
son. Commissioner S. T. Howe
has issued a statement throwing
more light on the workings of
.the new tax law.1 It appears that
the county officials generally and
private citizens and tax , payers
also are having a difficult time in
'getting at the real workings of
the new -law. The commission
lias sent out thousands of letters
explaining the law, but the in
quiries still reach the omce.
JThe commission desires to start
in the new year with the knowl
edge that everyone who is inter
ested in the new law understands
it? In order to help the matter
along Mr. Howe has issued, the
foiinwincr statement: .
'1. . The' law provides ior the
Interesting Items of News From
the Best Lead and Zinc Min-
ing Camp in the World.
the temporary place. For exam
pie: If a person should own a
section of land near Auburn
which section of land is used as a
home ranch where cattle are kept
during the summer season and to
which the cattle are returned
done since its start, with a sketch
of the different companies and in
dividuals who have contributed to
its success and upbuilding of this
splendid camp.
To A. W. Abrams is due the
records made by the Iowa ana
Oklahoma Mining and Develop
ing Comoanr and the Baxter Roy
alty Company, both of wmcn
paid dividends the first year of
their existence to the parties so
fortunate as to be interested in ,
them.
We are always pleased to see
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tverv industrv prosper, as ine
more prosperous institutions we
have with us the better it is for
Baxter Serines and her citixent
and each and every citizen should
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. . -t.i.Jbe glad to see this progress go-
This company, together with the . mmunit
Sorincr River, are lessees of the I ... . .. ,0,
Baxter Royalty Co.
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Next in sue ana importance i. . lead last weev No
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pany, which Has tnree ma s on fof
its lands and a great deal of de-1 .
velooment work swing on. TbeK
Newlands has a good mill on FROM ROUTE J.
this company's property. The I . . Joe Bowers and Walter Little
Omaha and Hobo are on this I of Joplin camped on the creek
taxation of real estate at its actu
al value in money without any
deduction on account of mortgage
indebtedness.
2. Mortgages and all other de
mands secured by lien upon real
estate are to be assessed and tax
ed at their actual value in money
without any deductions whatever.
3. Moneys on hand or deposit
are to be taxed on the full
amount. No deductions whatever
are allowed.
4. All credits are taxable at
their actual value in money; cred
its include 4 every demand for
money, labor or other valuable
thing, whether due or to become
due, but not secured by lien on
real estate.1'
5. The actual value n money
of debts may be deducted from
the aeereirate actual value in
money of credits; but debits can
not be deducted from moneys or
mortgages, nor in fact fc-any
of piopcTty-othwlii L
its. J
6. While mortgages are to be
taxed to the owner and may not
be offset by debits, yet a nofe se
cured by mortgage is a debt
which the maker thereof may de
duct from any credits which he is
required to lisWor assessment
7. Property that the law re
quires to be listed by the repre
sentatives of any owner instead
of by the owner himself, must be
listed in the township, school dis
trict or city in which the proper
ty is located; but such property
must be listed in the name of the
owner and entirely separate from
any property owned by the rep
resentative. -
8. All personal property is to
be listed and taxed in the town
ship, school district or city in
which the property was located
on the 1st of March, except as
may be otherwise specified.
9. Moneys, credits, mortgages,
judgments, tax -sale certificates
when wintered away, such cattle wh&t is now known as the West
would be properly assessable at crn Mining Company's mill shaft.
the home ranch, although tney It . to h. faith and enerc:y the
might not have been returned
from their winter qurters to the
home ranch until after the 1st of
March. However, if for any
company's land also, and the big I Thursday night
credit of discovering tine ore on new mill just put ntocommis-l Man Murry bought Tom Co-
sion by the Lancaster, wmcn mer s young cattle.
Master George Peake and his
energy
first drilling' was done, as the
first shaft sinking, which is
what is now known as shaft No.
l on the Sunburst lease. Not
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reason such animals were tempor-1 8atisfied with thjs he made a
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amy ouisiuc oi we bwic u ""Mease to Gerke & Sons ol Joonn
1st of March, then they would be I nf t-n.acr- tract: thev drilled
assessed in the township, school it and sold jt to the iate Frank
district or city where the owner Diiiaway, who formed the Sunny
resiaea on inc asi ujr wi iiiaiwii.ig:de Mjninfir company, wmcn
The foregoing rules of assess- th. first comDanv to proceed
ment and taxation are clearly int0 deveiop a lease in the north
accordance with the requirements I - nd bu:ld - miii. , The suc-
of the law. I rpsa which this company made is
There is no law in Kansas pro-i , tn g11 tu nnecT'i.
vtding for a tax on mortgages in
the nature of a recording charge.
It is impossible to state the
amount at which a $1,000 mort
gage would be taxed, as that
would deoend entirely upon the
Following closely on the trend
of events was the leasing by E.
C. Gaines and others of the Fe
lix Dardenne land. They in turn
leased a portion of the land to J.
O. Goodwin and A. M. Wagner,
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the latter ow one of the lead
true as to what would be the taxhg operators of the Webb City
on a farm worth $3,000. Icnmo. and they in turn secured
In general, it may be said, that Ford & Troup of Kansas City to
the new tax law makes no mater I develop the forty acres of what
ialchanee in the law of assess- is now the Mission Mining Co's
ment and taxation which was en- property. The development of
mrA in 1R7. The new law is this oroDerty was being pusnea,
nted almost solv to providing! when a few local men, John M.
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machinery for enforcing the old I Rice, Ike Bmgnam, Joe umgnam
ThA rosnlt nf such enforce-1 nd others, took a lease on nve
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ment should be to reduce the bur-. acres . north of the Sunnyside,
dens upon present tax payew. as and developed the property so
it will undoubtedly get upon the quickly that it enaoiea mem to
m,,rii nrnwrtv which has I mate the first turn-in from the
tiirp.r home its share of the bur Baxter Springs camp, and earn
den of ' taxation. No one" can' I for their lease the name of Dark
nneation the iustness of the lawi Horse. Then came quickly tne
which is. that all property, of many other developments, Isley,
whatever kind or character with- Quivira, M. K. & T., Ward, H.
out regard to ownership, shall jc. H.f Old Abe, 3F, Joanna,
hpr it iust oortion of the ex Kramer-Morse, Umanav no do,
attendant "uoon an econo-1 Sunburst McAllister, J. C. L.,
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mieal administration of the at- Mason. Myrtle, MicawDer, wm
fairs of government. : mon Law, Newlands, Ayers-
.Qinan. Kastman. Lancaster ana
esmmLUatrtmw Ufa mi I n n I Virfi:inia.
I Th Mission and M. K. & T.
.SWlh S'onhold the record for production to
Tiie Bter state nana 01 naxicr op""-1 da te but many of tne later Ge-
KanM,wlllbebel(tat the room of aWQalci oul w .
tank, la Baxter Spriaoa. Kannan, on I velooments are fast CrOWCUng
ueay. the MU. day January. for foremost
immiooTiflCi . mi iu i q uuta u ki iv luv wv4 .
the purpo of eleeUng Aw director, or I ... the Thecom-
MldbanK. f . . .
v T rrTWVTVRItAm. Caahlen line TrPAT has more in SlOrC IOI
December 10, 1S0T.
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AratFou Correct?
- Not alone in dress and habits
dove display our. taste. .and re
finement, but just as muwu ov iu
t. election of our stationery.
Your LETTS represents toxt in
yotir absence ... .'.
TTr.-warc Tou feorescnted? Does
your letter suggest carelessness
and disrespect or is your person
ality carried . into it with style
and refinement?
this camp than many of tne
older ones, as the development
staere has been passed, and now
all of the above mentioned prop
erties will be regular producers,
Many of the properties now un
w shaft develooment will be
producers thiryear.
'.The- large leasing companies,
among which is the Baxter Roy
alty Company, which leads in
the number of mills on its lands,
as well as being the largest lease
holder in the camp, is encourag
ing many new companies to en
ter the field by adopting a lib
eral policy toward its lessees and
assisting them in every way pos
sible to make a success of their
complete in every detail.' Soliciting Morse is on this company's una
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your wants for any or everything in pu'iie i, T1'f0
our line, wc I' assure you good goodshys-jstsfs
acre lease from tne liaxter roy
alty company and is makings
success under good management
making such a success, is like
wise on this company's land. I mother spent Christmas with Mrs.
E. C Matthews of Joplin is I C. P. Hedges of Spring Grove.
the next largest lease holder, I Frances Goodeagle and wife
with the Mason and Mvrtle mills, I and little son weut to Baxter
together with the new mill just I Spring Thursday.
bein e completed bv the Virginia.! Pedd Shapp has a very sick
which will be put into commis-1 little boy.
sion soon. I One man in our country drove
. F. Sweeney & Sons are also to Galena Monday and on return
holders of large leases, and are I ing his wife asked him why he
operating the McAllister mill I drank so much; his answer was
and lease. I Galena has lots of booze. We
E. C Gaines and R. O. Thorn-1 only have ten days more to drink
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as Qwn tne lease on wmcn tneiit an in or it win oe wastea. iac
Common Law and Micawberl judge at Columbus told the druf
mills are operating. I man so.
The extent of the camp has not I ; Saturday Chauncy Sumner and
been definitely determined, as I Dock Gardner of Galena ! spent
the drillincr has covered all that! with friends on the creek.
mi Mwen Rartr SorinffV on I Tom Whalin of Western Kan-'
north and the PeOria reservation! gas is visiting friends on Five
line on the southland from &imMile and Tennessee Jfraine.
creek on the west to the Missouri I Mr. Ha vans gave the younf
state line on the east and yet the! folks a dance Saturday night
mineralization is known to extendi Tne folks wno live on uoot
over these boundries for some I eagle land gave a dance Chri4-
distance, and when the present! mas eve.
developing area is well taken up I Mrs Maude Card entertain;
the spreading of the field wiu I her uncle and cousin from Chetof
carry tne boundary lines to mucn i pa tne last ot tne wee '
greater distances. At the pres-l Mrs. Laura Howsour of Sweet
ent time, this makes the known! Water, Tex., is visiting her parr
area of the Baxter Springs dis-1 ents on Five Mile.
trict ten miles north and south I Mrs. Turner and family spent
by sixteen miles east and west I Sunday with relatives at Peegfp
which is as large as all the ter-J Tuesday Mrs. G. Ewers and
ritory covered by all the older! son and daughter visited with
districts in Missouri and the Ga- lMrs. Walter Sullivan of Baxter.
lena and Badger district. This
no doubt will be news to many,
but a look at the maps covering
the above will soon convince the
most skeptical. With ten years
of progress in this camp it will
outstrip all of the other districts
combined. This looks big, but
who can say it is not right or
that this district cannot attain
these -dimensions. The ore has
been found in unlimited quanti
ties and it is of a high quality
and easily mined and milled.
The ideal conditions which pre
vail in this camp will attract the
operators when they become
known to them.
The earnest effort of the roy
alty companies to locate good
Our Own Cough Syrup
, will cure that cough.
Our Own Cold Tablets
will break up your; cold.
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We have just completed our in
yehtory and find that our. stock is
at honest prices.
How To Ran Tbem Oat,
Bill White of the Emporia Ga
zette, tells in the following how
the Emporia merchants ran the v
mail order houses out of town:
The mail order house has
4iui iuia tiijr uiu icu iuc uauc
to the local merchants. The de
crease in the number of ship
ments was first noted by the rail- .
road men, who were at a loss to
know the reason for it. The lo
cal merchant had won the fight
by quoting prices. The local
merchant let farmers, who were -the
best customers of the, mail or "
der houses, know by advertising
prices that they could get as good -
or better goods at home for the
same
i in a most substantial wayabout tt. maji order business as
production increases. AMT mAna Emporia, because his
'i business is one that has suffered
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. 9 same muucjr ur icaa iw-t
substantial operating companies without tbe trouble and risk of
in the camp is a most worthy wniing awtr from, home and
and effective wav to add to the i
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district's value and increase the! The merchants showed the fax-
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proaucuou in lais cxtcucai vui. imer that it would be to tneirotr
The operators who hare been tual advantage to trade at home,
fortunate enough to have gotten ud that Wa8 that waa n'eces
in early, and have their proper- gary for the Kansas farmer is a
tiesto theprcuang stage, wmjo-ett-g-inyiai
reap the benefits now, of their J man wh0 iniOW9 M; much
labors
as the
few years of earnest work has
seen much improvement in our" the w and he there fc?
mmm . a I
camp, likewise an increase in tne to gtndy ft aystemof the t '
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vaiue oi iocix icascs, wmm vj emy to be able to cope wim i ,
a short time tfo were meadows".... rv,r cir mnnth
or cornfields, but which are now the mau ordeT houses were shtp
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uouea wiu ikc nuw uu ut ping nundreas oi pacxagci w
mine developments. -.1 Emporia by freight 'they are
iMLIlCl opiiSK umuu.1 tuaj gnipping less tuta uvu "t
well feel proud of progress made j $i REWARD l-
during the past few years, when por evidence which wUicoar is
she can point to the successes party or parties who hart ,
which have been made in the damaging tbe property of u'
ahort time ihe has been' in the ter Telephone Com pa oy, by
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producing list All of the oper-. b.w.eqw.? :
ating' companies have done well ' : ;
and the leasicgcocpacicsalirzys C. - a
n rr -' ' " . ' ' ' . - m7 1: jTH I w The Joanna has mined from it
iviorroTY-uarney Bnig mJw.
The Joanna has mined from its
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car?.