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The Southern Argus.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
BY E. M. WOODS.
Subscription one year, - - 75 cents.
Subscription six months, - 50 cents.
Address all communications to The
Southern Argus, E. M. Woods, pub
lisher, Baxter Springs, Kans.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1891.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We want 1500 subscribers by Sep
tember 18, ’9l.
All matter for publication rnu&l
reach this office by Monday noon.
No one charges the alliance part)
With not wanting class legislation.
Rev. Frank W. Otto would pensioi
every needy union soldier, but not:
single confed.
Let us see to it that we patronize th<
business men who patronize coloret
enterprises before we do those who d<
not. - ~
The Argus realizes the fact that fo
one to be understood he must be heart
and if it is not convenient to hear bin
he must be read.
The treasurer of Shawnee count)
Kan., reports that he has receive'
County Clerk J. M. Brown’s books am
tinds them O. K. Give Brown anotb
er term.
The principles of the people's part
have a large per cent of democrati
flavor. Is it a democratic annex ?-
The Freeman.
Yes ; and the people’s and the demo
cratic party will wed in ’92.
There is a little town in Kansas call
ed Baxter. The people there have oi
their literary fighting clothes. The
sent the Columbian literary a chai
lenge which has been referred to th
people of Quindaro. It certainly wa
not meant for Kansas City, Kansas.-
American Citizen.
The challenge, without doubt, wa
meant for the Columbian Literary So
ciety of Kansas City, Kan.
The National Educational Associa
tion meets at Toronto, July, 1891
'tickets will be put on sale about Jul;
8. and it.is understood that they wil
be good until September 30. For fur
ther information address Prof. J. N
Wilkinson, state manager, Emporia
Kam, or Mr. 11. J. Hill, Toronto, Cai
JLs there not ojo» Kanuatt teach
er who expects to go?
WHAT THEY SAY OF US.
E. M. Woods, an enterprising color
ed gentieman who will in a short tim
begin the publication of a new pape
at Baxter Springs, called on us Frida)
The paper will be called “The South
ern Argus,” devoted to the interest
of (he county, but more particular!;
to the colored race. Mr. Woods seem
like a capable gentleman and we hav
no doubt but his new venture wil
prove a success. It has our best wishes
—Short Creek Republican.
Galena Cullings.
Bonds voted for the smeller.—
Quite a number of buildings are be
ing erected. We wish the South
ern Argus a long and happy life. I
you wish it a long life subscribe tor i
and send in your advertisements.
Call to see W. I*. Greene for confee
tionery, lunch and tine fruits; Sout
Main street. We think when Galt
na pays Joplin a visit she will hav
electric lights also. Hope she wil
visit soon. Of course we couldn'
stand street cars. That would be to
much of the good thing. Just th
same )ie are going to have two larg
smelters, which will give employmen
to quite a number of hands and con
same the surplus mineral, therel)
creating a greater demand for it
They have begun work. How is that
The Galena fire company turtle*
out for Joplin in great style on the 9tl
The streets of Joplin were beauti
fully decorated ami seemingly th
Joplinites were well prepared to re
eeive and entertain their guests.
Most of the merchants took advantag
of the “cut tales" and went toJopli
to purchase goods. The Moder
Light stated that Mr. Greene o
Columbus failed to make the require'
per cent in the examination of teach
ers for the Columbus city schools. I
such was her information we wouh
say it is false. Mr. Greene passed th
examination all tight and receive!
his certificate as the other leakers did
We will not say more unless we ar
compelled to defend him. be cai
write any number of volumes on thi
♦no thing. People w ill lie, it it is onl;
in bed. Our town is said to hav
between 4000 and 5000 inhabitants
What more? Good lea<l deposits, mos
mines yielding an abundance of lea<
and jack. Active citizens, kind am
generous.—What more ? We are build
ing ami improving all the time, tryiiq
to keep pave with the time- and otbe
progressive cities.—Wha? more, then
Ue need electric lights tor fear sorn<
one may stumble and fall in the darl
and no one would know what bee atm
of him.
W. C. Martin and Misses Netti
Doty, Cynthia M. Poynter, Mary Me
Claine, Susie Carter ami Ora Neff. an
getting ready to attend the Uheroke
county Normal Institute which eon
veties at Columbus, July fl. "91.
Ex-Congressman B. W. Perkins am
Hon. Geo. B. Abrams of Washington
D. C, visited the new townsite o
Miami and other pointe in Indian ter
ritory a few days ago.
CORRESPONDENCE,
‘FEARLESS” AT HOME IN POLITICS.
Senator-elect W. A. Peffer’s Disbursement
Scheme.—Eastern Capital Gives It
Away.—Alliance Warfare.
Topeka, Kan., June 15, 1891.
Just now the busiest man in the
great state of Kansas is the politician.
The great rainfall that we have been
blessed with during the present season
has tended much to retard the work of
the farmer. But, today, the sun shines
out bright and the clear, cool atmos
phere sets all nature at work in earnest.
In Shawnee county the wheat crop
and the small fruits promise a tremen
dous yield, while the corn looks bad
because of so much rain. But, to that
busy little insect—a word about that
peculiar creature whose time seems
employed in making plans, concocting
gigantic schemes for the overthrow
of the present system of administer
ing the affairs of our government.
The very aggressive warfare being
carried on by the alliance or people's
party, seems to dazzle the two old par
ties. The beautiful vision of cheap
money etn bodied in the sub z trea»ury
plan and the disbursement Scheme pt
Senator-elect Peffer has a pecidar
charm for the bucolic financier. The
sub-treasury idea is gaining ground
rapidly among the alliance people.
Already a plan has been suggested
that proposes an immediate inaugura
tion of this scheme. J. C. Hopkins,
delegate from the ecomonic club ol
New York to the Cincinnati conven
tion, is the originator. The plan is tc
establish banks in each county of the
state under the direction of the local
alliance exchange. Warehouses will
be erected where the poor debt-ridden
farmers will have the privilege of de
positing their imperishable produce
and receiving thereon eighty per cent
of its market value. Enough per
chance to conduct their business on a
cash basis until their corner on the
market brings the price of products tc
suit their fastidious tastes. The
checks they receive from the alliance
banks are to pass current among the
people and of course will add largely
to tiie volume of the circulating medi
um. The source from which the
money is to come is private contribu
tions and eastern capital. This ol
itself gives the scheme away. It is
hardly a magnificent piece of financial
jugglery, and could not be from the
fact that the scheme is the work of a
few crack-brained political monte
banks who have about as much knowl
edge of a monetary system as a jump
ing-jack. The next scheme will be a
petition asking the government to be
gin loaning money on real estate at
two per cent.
Shawnee county politics are rapidly
beginning to ferment. Every man will]
a political bee buzzing in his hat if
out trying his strength. The colored
people seem solidly united for Col
Brown for county clerk. Two years
ago Mr. Brown made a gallant fight
and won despite the desertion of many
of his party. The fiuht this year
promises to be more fierce than two
years ago. The young republicans
have their eyes on one or two of the
present county officers and will no
doubt make it very interesting for
them. All right, boys ;go in and light.
Topeka has a young negro paper
called The Cail. It is a live-column
folio tinder the editorial guidance ot
William Pope. About the most
amusing feature of this journal is its
lack of a decided policy. A first class
paper can succeed here.
The board of education have reap
pointed all the old teachers with the
exception of G. W. Coble and Miss
Ella Phelps.
The A. M. E. Sunday school con
vention will meet at Topeka next year.
Prof. W. J. Johnson of Madison
school paid a fine of five dollars in the
police court last Tuesday, to complete
settlement of an altercation with
Harkness, one of his patrons.
Topeka has a new society known a>
the “Black Mafia. ’ So says the local
correspondent of the American Cit i-
Fearless.
THE NORMAL.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Cherokee County Normal Institute
will be held at the usual place, Colum
bus, beginning July 6, 1891, and con
tinuing four weeks. Judging from
the preparations which are being
made for it, it will certainly be one ol
the most successful that ha- been con
ducted at that place for more than a
halfdecade of summers. It behooves
every teacher in the county, and es
pecially every young teacher, and
those who expect to become teachers,
to avail themselvt - of th- 1 advanta.;. -
of this special summer drill in the dif
ferent branches ot their school room
work which may be had for the com
ing, pins one dollar.
('ondnetor. W. C. Lansdou : inMmet
ers. Geo. E. Hose. Fred I teem, Mrs. C.
F. Men ni liger. Anna Widman, su
perintendent.
The conductor and the instructors
a 1 omc highly rvc< mnim b LB o
ing terms are easy. Call at the office
of the stipei iutt ndent for a list of
boarding places.
It is the intention to carry out the
three years graded course adopt* d last
year by the state board. Evervone
who can make it convenient to attend
the normal should make an effort to
complete that course.
Mhy she failed : She scorned such
things as teachers' meetings, ami
“never wasted her time at them."—
The Fountain.
OBITI A RY.
Ker. N. 11. Corper, the former pas
tor of the A. ME church at Marshall.
Mo., diet! on the 18th of May la-4.
Rev. Corper was a zealous Christian
worker for his creed and bis race.
His many friends bemoan bis taking
off.
S. S. Steel's little child died last
Saturday.
Subscribe for The Southern Argus.
RACE MOVES.
Washington, D. C., Juue 1,1891.
A company of colored soldiers is
now guarding the national capital.
The boys in blue came last Tuesday
and they are being made much of by
everybody here, both colored and
white. The company is troop K ninth
calvary, United States army, and its
being stationed here is a great mark of
honor. Fort Myer is only a few miles
from the capital and it is there troop K
is quartered with a white troop which
came in here from the west the same
time troop K came. Every soldier in
the army looks hopefully to the time
when he shall be sent for to come to
Washington as a guard of honor at the
nation's capital, but he is never sent
for unless he greatly distinguishes
himself in some line ot his duty, and
sometimes, even, not then. There has
never been a colored soldier stationed
here since the war until now’; not that
colored hoys had not made good sol
diers and done brave deeds, but on ac
count of a mean narrow prejudice the}
have always been kept away—out ol
sight ot the ‘-kunnels, by gad, sah,'
and others of their kind, who could
not bear to have a colored trooper near
them. Troop K would not be here to
day but for a little incident which
happened last winter. It was during
the time of the Indian troubles out
west. A white n giment had attack
ed the Indians, but the wily savage;
were too quick. They surrounded tin
white troops whom they were exter
minating at a very lively rate. Tin
last man of them would’ have beet
slaughtered in a few short hours
Word reached the ninth cavalry whicl
was many miles away. A fearfu
blizzard was sweeping across th<
plains at the time, freezing cattle t(
death and hundreds of human beings
But this did not keep the ninth cavalrt
in their tents. They mounted horse;
and away they rode—through sued
wind and sleet and drifting snow a;
it used to be said colored men couk
not face and live. But they lived, am
after a terrible ride of many mile;
they reached the point of conflict
Then they stopped. “Steady,” caller
the colonel. “Charge!’’ and the In
dians were routed, while the whit*
regiment was saved from total des
truction. It was a great deed and th<
secretary of war said the regimen
should be honored. The whole regi
nient could not be brought on, and a
troop K had led the charge it was se
lected. The white snobs her e object er
to having the colored boys here am
they protested to Secretary Proctor
but without avail. They are here.
The war department is now giviiq
its attention to the conduct of Capt
A. C. Markley, company I, twenty
fourth inffintry, now at San Carlo’s
Ariz. From time to time reports have
been coming in to the elicet that thi.
officer was having trouble with hi
command ami court-martial aftei
court-martial has been ordmcdupoi
his instance to try enlisted num. Fin
ally it was openly charged by the met
that their officer was persecuting then
and in proof of this it isshown that hr
had caused half of his company to br
placed under arrest at one time.' Thit
company is composed of colored sol
diers and as a class they are peculiar
ly tractable and docile, but it was rec
ognized at the department fl at the\
plight have some cause tor resentmen
if, as they allege, they were stood ii
line, lectured, cursed and called blacl
monkeys.
It was suspected that the captail
might have an unreasonable and un
military prejudice against colored
troops, and finally Assistant Adjutan
General McArthur was sent frotr
W ashington to San Carlos to invest!
gate the matter. He fell ill with tin
grip on route, and meanwhile new:
came that the captain had thirty o
his men under arrest. Secretary
Proctor him-elf took cognizance ol
this extraordinary state of a flairs am
ordered the release of the soldier
without court-martials. Now it i
probable that a court of inquiry wil
be ordered and it thev so recommem
a court-martial will follow.
Corcoran art gallery in this city ha
refused admission to a colored artis
who held a ticket of admission to tin
art class. The tight is still going oi
and the managers of the gallerv arc
reticent in regard to the matter.’
Some of the Galena Presbvteriai
people will give a concert in this city
Thursday evening, the 18th inst., th<
proceeds of which.are to be used in se
curing the foundation of their edifln
which is now threatend with a can
in. Give them a good lmu*e.
C. H. ( lark, recently of Kansa
< ity. has accepted a position with tin
Baxter Springs Mauufactm ing Co
You rememb. r that Mr. Clark wa
’ adder in the Bixler bank M'ine year
ago ami we cam ot truthfully boast o
a more active and thorough goim
budne-s man.
Oh! Mother!
IWi Hen Sas Laid an Ear
Hear Her Cackle!
Cut, cat, cut, cut and run.
Cut, cut, cut. cut and run.
She can t talk or she would say:
“Cut and run,
tor greatest bargains
Under the sun, to
POLSTER'S 151.
H. S. DAVIS,
DEALKK IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Hardware and Queensware.
MINERS’ STTT’T’r.IES.
Galena, Kansas.
THE
RACKET
STORE!
We do nor charge yon one
price one day and raise it
the next. We have one price
for all our customers and we
defy any one to duplicate onr
prices on the same line of
goods. We invite von to
call and inspect our stock
and get our prices and you.
will be convinced of the
that we can save yon money.
BRUNER & REDDIN’.
Merker,
The Tailor.
INVESTMENT COMPANY
BUILDING,
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
BLACKSMITHS
COLE & DAWDY
Make Horse Shoeing, Repairing
Plows, Cutting and Fitting
Wagon Tires, Etc.,
Al SPECIALTY.
Cor. Main and Sherman Sts.
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
W. R. COWLEY,
Attorney at Law,
columbus, Kansas.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts.
Baxter Springs
Carriage Works.
I have first class machinists
and do all kinds of repair work
on Fai ' Implements and Ma
chinery, as well as build and
repair Buggies, Wagons, Etc.
K. K. EDWAKDS, Pron’r.
THE
Miami House
BAXTER SPRINGS, KAN,
Serves Meals on Short Notice.
One Dollar a Day Hotel.
R. I>. THAYER. Proprietor.
Mrs. 8. E. McClsllau's
LUITCH ROOM
North Military street,
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS, j
Meals at All Hours
and
Ice Cream Saturday an 1 Sunday
, EVENINCUB.
Chicago : Laundry I 1
Does First Class Work !
Shirts. Collars ail Ms Dime to Order
on short notice.
East side Main street near Occidental
Hotel building.
MACK KINNEY, Prop’r.
Fireworks!
Flags, Holiday Decorations,
and Cigars at Wholesale!
SPECTACLES AT COST!
AT THE
Postoffice Book Store.
The Baxter Springs Mfg. Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Hardwood Interior House Finishing
o
Hardwood Doors, Stair Work. Wood Mantles, Church,
Bank and Office Furniture, Etc.
t •
■~r ' fi n if
Hi Red Oak, i. Sassafras, ji Cherry, i! Red Gum, jj Walnut, jj;
• H e ;i _ Imf* 74;.
; Sycamore, jj Cypress, ii White Oak, i| Butternut, || Ash. |;i
::: 41. 1' —-—d— . _
ALL WORK MADE OF THOROUGHLY KILN DRIED LUMBER.
F. S. CAPLES,
“OUR DRUGGIST”
South End, Galena, Kan.
Full Stock. Lowest Prices.
CALL ANU SEE VS.
F. S. CAPLES. ••Our Druggist."
J. J. FRIBLEY,
Ha rd wa re, Stoves, Ti n ware,
Wagon Wood, Carriage Wood, Fence
and Baling Wire, Bale Ties, McCor
mick Harvesters and Binders, Hay
Rakes, Field and Garden Seeds, &c.
Large Stock and Low Prices.
MOORE & ALLEN,
DEALERS IN
Groceries,: Provisions,: Hardware,
Stoves, Cutlery, Tinware, Nails, Etc.
MINERS’ SUP FLIES A
GALENA, KANSAS.
Cash Paid for C oun Iry Preduce.
R. P. McGREGOR,
DEALER IN
Wall Paper, Decorations,
Painters’ Supplies, Etc.
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
J. R. TUCKER,
dealer in
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Etc.
Corner Military and Neo-ho Street-
BAXTER SPRING--. : : ; KAV<AS .
S. C. WESTCOTT.
Attorney at Law
in
WILLIAMS A LOWDERMtLK BEU K,
GALENA, KA NS A S.
F. B. FULLER,
General Blacksmith
Makes a Specialty of
Hoise Shoeing and Repairing
Plows and all Kimis O f
Machinery.
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Cor. Military and River St».,
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
w. P, GREENE,
DEALER in
CONFECTIONERIES
and Lunch Counter.
Firn- ; Fruit. ; a : Sperialty.
•South Main -treet,
C A LENA. - KANSAS.
w. u. mathexy a
Attorneys at Law,
Baxter rings,
< heeoeee coinm, kankaa.