Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS. ).

tendance Exhibits in all the departments
were fine, particularly in the live stock and
agricultural, and the horticultural display
7was large and complete. The different sam.
| pies Of wheat. oats. barley, rye, corn, vege-
tables, fruit, etc, were tastefulty arranged
| stalks of corn eighteen feet high aud six
! large we'll developed ears appended, broom
corn of an equal height, and sorghum fully
twenty feet tall. About fifteen varieties of
wheat Were on exhibition, some, of which
| yielded as high as sixty-one bushels to the
acre. pleasing feature of the exhibit was
samples Of sixty five different grasses native
to Kansas. The fruit exhibit consisted OF
thirty different varieties Of apples, ten OF
| peaches. .fpexof pears, and thirteen OF
grapes.1 The display ot,vegetables Included
everything knOWnin that line. and all the
specimens shown were Of unusually large
size.
Nineteen 81 900 bonds of the Leaven-
worth City and Fort Leayenworth Water
Company were stolen while in transit, in
| charge OF the Adams Express Company,
from New York to Springfield, Mass, some
time ago.. The Express Company posted a
notice captioning the public against nego-
tiating any bonds bearing date of February
1. 1882. and made payable to the American
Loan and Trust Company, of Boston, Mass,
or bearer, February /, 1912, containing
same general coupons, including that
dated February I, 1882. The bonds
| were numbered l52 to, III, inclusive.
D. III. Swan, Secretary of the Water-works
Company, says the bonds had been sold,
paid for aud delivered to the Adams Ex-
press Company, and had been receiptei for.
The fact that they have been stolen, proba-
I.
future sales, as the numbers are known and
purchasers forewaFned. zz=z-=ss
Lloyd B. Terrell, Manager for the
Western Union Telegraph Company at
Wichita, was brought before o. H. BentlY,
a Notary Public, the other day, to give his
deposition in the case of j. f. Donald & Co.
against Alexander IHniss. Plaintiffs coun-
sci sought to draw out of Mr.. Terrell the
contents of certain dispatch sent, through
the Office Of the Western Union Company,
to Morris Kohn, of New York City, serious
ly rejecting upon the credit of Donald
Brothers, of Atc.ison, and j. f. Donald &
Co., OF Wichita Mr.. Terrell declined to
answer the questions. on the ground that he
was forbidden to do so by the rules of the
company. Upon his continued refusal to
answer, Mr.. Terrell was committed to Jail
for contempt.
Topeka S new Opera-house is not only
creditable to the capital city, but is also a
monument of honor and pride to the gentle
men VINO were instrumental in its con-
struction. The building is 7)x140 feet in
size, with an elegant front elevation, built
of pressed brick, with dressed stone trim
mings, and rising to a height of seventy
eight feet from the foundation walls. In the
erection of the structure every modern i'm
proYement, for convenience, elegance and
comfort has been employed, regardless of
expense.
w. II. Colgate was arrested in Win
field the other day, charged with setting fire
to Bliss s. Woods Touring mill some weeks
ago. Colgate was a book-keeper at the mill,
and his books were said to be in a bad shape.
Another man was put in his place. Colgate,
IN fit of rage and frenzy at being discharged,
it is charged, set fire to the mill and books.
The prisoner is an only son of j. b. Col
gate, banker and millionaire of New York,
and founder of Colgate Academy at Utica.
Messrs. Bliss e. Wood lost heavily by his
operation.
A gentleman who recently lived in
Kansas, and who is an outspOken and I'M
compromising prohibitionist, but who now
does business in Falls City, Nebr., says that
town receives a heavy trade from Brown
County, extending within two miles OF Hia-
watha, and that the reason given by most of
the persons so trading is that they are not
prohibited from buying glass OF beer or
whisky in Falls City when they feel like
drinking it, as they are in Kansas.
The Lawrence box and basket factory
will turn out this season 1,45O,0O0 baskets
and 2, 100, 600 fruit boxes.
Sorghum grows ten feet high in the
Arkansas Valley, the drought not injuring
it in the least.
The Chicago and Atchison Bridge
Company have begun suit in the United
States courts against the Anglo American
Packing Company to recover $2,627.3 due
for bridge bills which were contracted some
two or three years ago, while the company
was doing business in Atchison. The FOw-
lers claim an offset of s.. 600 on account of
wheat shipped west, and another suit for
81 900 will also soon be commenced.
Cheyenne is the highest point in Kan
sas-4, 900 feet above the level of the sea.
There will be an immense crop of po-
tatoes in Elk County this year.
Quite number of soldiers have been
deserving from Fort LeaVenworth OF late.
Achilles Lodge, no. 81, Knights Of
Pythias, was inaugurated at Rosedale few
nights ago.
Dottis Pierce, of North Topeka, took
fat al dose of poison on train between
Lawrence and Topeka, the other night, and
died while being taken home. a disap-
pointment in love is mentioned as the cause.
Buffalo are to be found in Scott and
Wichita Counties in considerable num-
bers.-
Mr.. Anthony Broderick, of Lane Conn
ty, came home from the range few days
ago with seventeen wild horses.
Two car loads of tramps and thugs
passed through Lawrence on afreight train
the other evening, en- route for Topeka.
The police were telegraphed for, but they
| could not make them leave the cars, as they
said they had chartered as far as Topeka
Leavenworth has been doing an enor-
nous business in fruit.
Chicken cholera in Wyandotte.
John Reynolds, who was arrested
and held to bail in the sum Of S. 900 for his
appearance at the October term of the Dis
| trict Court, and committed for want of bail,
charged with obstructing the railroad track
| east of Hays City, on the 4th of July last. is
/ a raving maniac in Ellis County Jail, for the
| T1ast month bainp locked IN one Of the cages