Baxter Springs News from Baxter Springs, Kansas • Page 4

WAS IT MURDER? JURY JOHN ESSLEY MEETS WHEELS OF A FRISCO PASSENGER TRAIN SUNDAY MORNING. We, the jury, empaneled to inquire into the death of John Ess-ley, do find that he came to his death on Sunday morninjr, July 23, 1906, and that the injuries resulting in his death were caused by him being pushed under train No. 118 of the Frisco Railway Company about 12:10 o'clock on Sunday morning. We recommend that Frank Roy be held for the crime. Chas.

L. Smith, Foreman. F. II. Bartlktt, Wm.

Earls, J. W. Kent, J. E. Chew, M.

S. Parker. Above is the finding of the coroner's jury, which was empaneled to inquire into the death of John Essley, who was run over by train No. 118, on Sunday morning at 12:10 o'clock. Mr.

Essley had been working at the mine of Merritt New-lands, south of that city, and on Saturday evening he came to Baxter Springs to take a train for Galena, from which place he intended to go to his home at Badger, Kansas, to spend Sunday with his family. Mr. Merritt had given him a check for S7.50, anil Mr F.ckIpv tind Iwsidi'S li IS check another one for $18 and also $15 in paper money, a total of $40.50. He spent only a dollar i .1... or xwo in town, aicuruing iu mr testimony of several who were examined before the coroner's jury.

One man stated that Essley had $35 in his inside coat pocket. When he was discovered on the railroad track he had a small purse in his pants pocket, and in this purse was $2.55. in ms pocjcei was aooux sixty cents. The inside pocket of his coat was torn away, and could not be found. Mr.

Essley was on the east side of the main line track leading to ward Galena, and was just about due north of the railroad lunch room. In the watch pocket of Jhis pants was found a ticket for Galena and a check for his grip. The night man at the depot, Mr. J. E.

Davis, says a short heavy man bought the ticket and had the grip checked. That man was Essley. Mr. Essley's wife said his coat was in good THE CITY COUNCIL. Franchise Given for an Electrlo Railway Which Is Intended to be Built the Mines Contract for City Building Let to Bonnet Blackburn.

Council met in regular session, with Mayor Hartley presiding and all members present except Meeds. Permission was granted S. L. Winters to build a Carpenter shop on the DeMoss Chubb property west of Military street on South street. Permission was gi-en the A.

M. E. church to build an edifice on the "corner of Sherman and Main streets. Report of city treasurer was read and accepted. It was also ordered published.

Claims were allowed as follows: J. M. Tindall, work with grader, $63. C. M.Nash, nylk for poor, $1.35.

Light Company, lights for June, $15.50. M. Clark, work on streets, 10.50. R. Wear, medical attendance poor, $15.

Geo.Black, cleaning out spring, i.ca John Dawdy, repairing grader, 1.53. -A franchise was granted to M. Cooper, W. S. King, -R.

Gilluly and others for an elec-': line which it is intended to 1 from the Frisco station to Easter Springs mining camp. promoters seem to feel sure r. al will be built, and they ork is expected to begin on surveying within the next J. ays. i to renut the fine oft THINKS SO.

DEATH UNDER THE condition, and that the coat was intact. M. W. Robertson, Charlie Button, Buford Price and W. J.

I. Norman first discovered the injured man, and they picked him up and laid him on the platform. Drs. English and Jones were summoned, and came at once, but Mr. Essley was so nearly gone that they dared not operate until the reaction set in.

The reaction did not set in, however, and the injured man sank steadily until alxmt 3 o'clock when death relieved him of his suffering. At no time was he conscious 'enough to answer questions intelligently. The train passed over both legs of the unfortunate man and his right hand was badly mangled. The coroner was notified, but he could not come, so Justice Price dieted in his stead, and empaneled a jury. The first session of the jury was held Sunday af ternoon at the depot, when the night man, Mr.

Davis, was examined. Henry Horton also gave some testimonyas did John Merritt, for whom Essley worked. The jury then adjourned until the next day, when the following witnesses gave testimony: J. I. Norman, Roy Wilson, Buford Price, Charlie Button, M.

W. Robertson, Geo. Woods, J. E. Dayis, G.

W. White, A. L. Har vey, Mary Essley, widow of the deceased. Dr.

English and Agnes White, sister of Mr. Essley. Undertaker Harvey was given charge of the remains and prepared them for burial. Deceased left a wife and three children. Mr.

Essley was about 47 years ol age. Immediately upon the finding of the jury Justice Price issued a warrant for the arrest of Frank Roy, and Constable Hemstreet and Marshal Kimball went to Badger after him. In company with Deputy Sheriff Smith ol Badger they went to Roy's home, where they found him in bed. He was told that he was under arrest, but did not seem at all surprised, and did not even ask any questions. Roy was brought to this city and placed in jail.

He will have a preliminary hearing before Judge Price on Saturday of this week. Jess Turner, $25, for whipping his mother, was lost. THE MINES. Zinc. Lead M.

K. 96,420 Nebraska M. D. 86,020 36,680 Mission Mine 46,100 Total sales 182,440 82.780 Vajues: Zinc, lead, to tal, $6,710. Queen Alice Cigar at Wanted to Buy A good fresh milk cow.

Inquire at this office. During the atorm last Saturday lightning etruck a chimney on the Cooper atore building and dam aged it some. Charlie Raina, sheriff, waa in this city Monday on buaineaa connected with hia office. He waa accompa nied by W. L.

Burke, at one time publiaher of the Galena Times. All kinda of eewing and dress making done to order. Firat class work. Pricea reaaonable. Rooms at residence.

Call at Wilson's Studio. Miss Rosa Wilson. Some fellow entered O. N. Bald win'a bouse Monday morning sbout 2 o'clock, and in groping sround he took bold of Misa Etta Baldwin'a foot She screamed and the fellow went out through the window.

Mrs. Carrie Cofer died at her home on North Main street in this city on Thursdsy night of laat week and waa buried Friday in the Baxter cemetery. Deceased bad a stormy life. She waa a good woman at heart, but has bad no peace for yeara, beiag always in trouble because of her boy who were not as dntiful as they should hare been. Mrs.

Cofer waa a hard working woman as long aa ahe was able.bnt her earnings were always spent in trying to keep ber boys out of jaiL It is to be hoped sbe has gone to a rest which she deserves. THE NEW JOANNA MILL. The Joanna Mining Company has just completed a fine 100-ton mill on the Baxter Mining Com pany's lease of the Louis Angell land. This mill is especially constructed to clean lead and sil icate, as this mine is a large pro ducer of these ores. Last fall Mr.

R. L. Foster came to this camp and decided it was good enough for him, so he interested with him the men now composing the Joanna Mining Company. They bought the Jo anna mine, at that time being operated by J. S.

Winkler. Since that time Mr. Foster, as general manager, has given the property his entire attention, and by diligent, energetic and persistent ef fort he has made it one of the most profitable properties in the camp, 1 lie lease lias been thoroughly drilled, and the ore found in a uniform bed, the lead and silicate being found at the 54- foot level and extending down to the 67-foot level. Again zinc is encountered by the dailling at the 76-foot level and extends to the -foot level, showing a 20- foot bed of jack. This is the mine in which the greatest sheet of lead has been found of any in the entire district, the sheet extending over the entire face of the south, east and north drifts.

Samples of lead weighing 500 to f00 pounds are now on exhibition at the of fice of the company at the mine. This property has been brought to its present productive state by THE NEW supply the mill. This is one of the first leases drilled by the Baxter Mining Co. in the camp, being drilled during the summer of 1W4, and on striking the ore a shaft was immediately sunk, the ore being reached November first of the same year. Since that time the Joanna has been a money maker for the parties operating it, and now that this fine mill has been completed we look for a good record of production from the mine.

The company is officered by Paul B. Johnson, president; R. L. Foster, vice president and p-eneral manacrer: C. S.

Moak, secretary; G. D. 01erschelp, treasurer. All the parties inter ested are from Leavenworth, ex ACIAINST USINO THE GRADER. In the Onaga, Republican Robert Thompson elves some rea- sons for discontinuing the preval ent notion that a road should be graded before the drag is used on He says: The idea of the King system is to give the roads a bard aurface as thick as possible.

The beating 01 the horses' hoofs and the wheels of vehicles will form a crust about 2 inchea thick, then the drag puts layer after layer on top of that. When the material lain proper con dition to tamp it ia tamped hard by the animala and vehicles until your road ia raised to a proper height and ahape. Then instead of having hard crust of 2 inches you have a bard crust 0 or 8 inches thick. If you want to tamp a poet In ao that it will be firm ypu do not fill the hole and tamp on top: but pat little dirt in atatlmeand tamp 1 you fill, ao the whole mass is nmed. The same principle holds rood in road making.

If a wet spell cornea it will take the seme amount travel three timea as long to cut throacn 6 inches of hard ahell aa it would 2t As the the water will not lay. on a road which is dragged iter every rain there will be little anger of it ever cuttingjnto ruts. Robert Fleminsr of "Carnahan Creek is making a piece of road the drag. It waa low ia lrc( 1 the untiring efforts and undivided attention of Mr. Foster, who took it from its infancy and made it one of the best paying properties in the camp.

The development underground is sufficient to egable the company to keep its mill in constant operation. The construction was installed by Foust Co. and consists of the following: One Sampson geared hoister, which -delivers the dirt from the mine; a 14-inch breaker crushes the ore; three sets of rolls grind it, while it is separated by a rougher, cleaner Jt. t. FOSTER.

and sand jigs. The steam is fur nished by a 100 horse power Au rora tubular boiler, and the mill is driven bv a 62 horse power Brownell automatic engine. A 2-inch pipe line furnishes water from Rock creek, the water from the mine not being sufficient to '4 LSI JOANNA MILL. cept Mr. Foster, who is from Win field, Kansas.

The cuts herewith show the mill as it is today, and the pic ture of that most important of them all, Mr. Foster, who looks to it that the ore is gotten out of the ground and that the mill does the rest. In addition to this lease the company has a ten-acre lease on the Catholic forty, just west of the McKinley shaft, on which it has struck rich lead and zinc in two drill holes, and on which it will at once proceed to sink a de velopment shaft. This is a very valuable lease, a bed of seven feet of extremely rich lead being found at 36 feet, with a heavy bed of zinc ore under it. middle and would cut badly before he began with the drag.

Now he haa it nicely rounded and a thick hard aurface that will not cut through in any ordinary wet spell If the townahip allows him good wages for bis work, which they should, it will not cost one-third what it would under the old ayatem and will laat three times ss long. That the King system will give us good roada more days in the year for less money aeems to me to be beyond dispute. Then why should township boarda hesitate? FEW IMPROVED HIGHWAYS. The official report of Iowa atatea that at the bsginnlng of laat year there were 102,488 milea of public roada in Iowa, all dirt road except 1,778 milea. Less than 2 per cent of Iowa highways axe aurfaced with any material whatever.

Whst is true of Iowa ia equally true of Missouri and Illinois. True many milea of road ia these ststea are hard and smooth, made so by the use of the King drag, but such roada are not aa yet legally termed Improved highways. We gstbered the impression somewhere Jhe council was going to order some sidewalks built out in the residence districts, but up to date we have not heard of the order being tna5e. And liow about OTY TREASURER'S QUARTERLY REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and Council of the City of Baxter Hprlnjra, Kaa. 1 harvwtlh rehWcU ulw aubinlt report of moneya received and dUburaed by me for the quarter brglnnlog April 13, lW)o, and ending July 13.

1WM: GENERAL FUND April 13, Itul Ami. for'd Amu roralved from Ooiiaty MB) AmL rocelved rnim eit clerk MOM Total IW4S4 Total July li, Amtoaaaad KUSI WATER WORKS REDEMPTION FUND April U.ltul Amount forward 43X74) Balaaee tSMU AaiuuDt rorlvd I row Co, Treasurer II Si Toul WM July IS, lUiH, Amouutoabaod UOND INTEREST FUND April 13. 1 OA Amount forward KO BS Total amount of Internal and rommU- Aiikounl rlvtd rumCu. Treaaurar SO aloa paid Woo Balance SH4I Toul S731 July 13. liW.

Amonnl on hand t3Vtil tXTSO RAILROAD BOND FUND April l. Itokl Amouut forwarJ IISWSS Bond paid Doooo IStt lalanmlpald IWU OSS Total JISoVBT 1 July It, Itml. Amount oa band SSttS Total I3U7 ELECTRIC LIOHr FUND April I I0UL Amount forward liMlT Paid on city warranu 45 Balance Total MS IT July 12, KM. Amount on band SI067 Total IMS IT LIBRARY FUND Aprlllltm Amount JM Paid on city warrant IStoo Balance 84o 1X1 4o July 1 1, IttoJ, Amount on bond to Total 311 4b 5 Water works bonds Funding Railroad UaineH bonda. Totul amount city 38,500 School bonda 30,000 Total indebtedness 9 58,500 Uat at Lettars Remaining in the postoffice at Baxter Spriugs, Kansas, for the week ending with July 29, 1900.

which if not called for within two weeks will be eent to the dead letter office at Washington, D. Arnold Charlie Arnold Baxter Springa Milla Coleman Mrs Lucy Coweli John Griff en Alfred Uaile MiasFrankieMcMurry Mrs Emiline Sparks Amos Smith Workman Nra Yonuff Mrs Adaline Wallace Persona calling for any of the above lettera will please ssy" Ad ver Used," giving date list W. S. Baxter, P. w.

M. W. A. ATTENTION! You are requested to attend the next regular meeting, Tuesday eveninir. July 31.

without fail. Business of importance. By order of Camp. Ed. J.

Stein, J. W. Cook, Consul. Clerk. FRUIT TREES.

Buv your fruit trees from S. J. Armstrong, representing the ia mous Lawrence Nursery. Every thing guaranteed true to name, Save your orders for Armstrong, Fall delivery orders being taken now. Madstone at S.

A. Craig's, Eaat Seventh street, Galena, Kanaaa. Leaping the chaam of flames on a bicycle will be one of the free at traction at the big Baxter Reunion August 27 to September 1. The early corn ia made, and. if two or three more rains come at the right time the late corn will alao make good.

The heavy rains of lasi Thnrsdsy night', and Fridsy and Saturday put the early corn beyond any possibility of danger. Why, think of it? We've not even a reputable alphabet; the lettera are all tended ud. Us when it isn't and more than half the time is doing duty for I. la some times is end is always or K. We've rot four distinct wsys to express the sound gn, pa, kn, and four waya to writs tbs term- Inal syllable.

"eT-e-r, a-r, and i-r and five ways to sound lbs let-ters eu off, awf, ow. oo, and jo. And there are no roles! Each of the myriad cases must be separately hammered, Into And this is' work for bsbeaTflary Brooson Ilartt ia.tbe Womaa'a Home Companion for Jcty. PaMoa ettj wirrmnU Halaaea RECAPITULATION July 13, 1900 .120,000 AmL on hand in general fund 10,000 aa per aUtement 13813 S3 5,600 Amt on hand in water work 3,000 fund aa per 3380 03 Amt. on hand in bond interest fund as per statement 3583 41 Amt on hand In railroad bond fund as per statement CSO 33 Amt.

on hand in electric light fund as per statement 510 07 Amt on hand in library fund aa per statement 380 40 Total amt on hand in various xunus Juiy is, lww sii-wia C. L. OPPERMAX, City Treoaurer. IT'S COMING THE TIME OF YEAR FOR YOU to think aboai heating your house this winter. Buj a Capital Heating Plant either Steam or Hot Water and keep your house even temnerature.

Call on EDYMOND JOHNSON or Phone 162 The savin; habit is as easy to form as the spending habit. WHY not form the habit that will do you some food This little BANK will help you. GET ONE TODAY. DSJUOSS I HI PAY THE Best Prices at all times for the following. Hens, per pound I.

...01 Spring lbs snd over.10 Broilers, ltf to 2 Ibs per lb. Roosters, old'each 20 Roosters, young, 20 Hen Turkeys, per lb 07 Young gobblers, per lb 07 Old gobblers, per lb 07 Geese, per lb. 04 Docks, per 00 Young ducks, per lb 10 Egga, per doten ...11 Butter per Green hides, per lb 07 Prices subject to market change ALSO BUYS HIDES AND rClfS. West of Cooper's, Bsxter Springs O.W. DANIELS PUBLIC.

territory Leases, Con. tract, If "a rr.l kiais cf rn- i.