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Show Memorial for Baxter Dogs. At the summer home of Governor Baxter of Maine on Mackworth island. Casco hay, are buried all the dogs owned by him which have died since 1887, says .a Boston dispatcli to the New York Times. The governor is now having made a bronze tablet, giving the names and record of these animals. This will rest on the face of a big granite bowlder, around which the dogs have been buried. The dogs were all of the same family fam-ily and strain of Irish setters. The first and great grandmother was Glen-corn, Glen-corn, given to the governor in 1887 by his father, the late James P. Baxter of Portland, Me. The governor has raised about sev enty-flve of these dogs, and while he has sold a few, most of those he haunt ha-unt kept have been given to friends. |