Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-29

NIisceIlaneons Items.

miscellaneous Items.
About $50 shop men and other en-
ployes Of the Atchl>on, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway at Topeka have recently been dis
charged on account of lack of work to keep
the large force employed, AMI a further
reduction along the line of the road and its
branches was contemplated.
Ex-Governor Crawford, resident
Washington agent of the State of Kansas,
filed at the Interior Department the other
day brief in support OF the position taken
by the State authorities in sundry long
pending questions with regard to the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad land grant,
and the case would probably come before
the Secretary for oral argument ut an early
day.
An Osborne County farmer has re-
Gently had great success with walnut trees.
He cultivates no others.
A Phillips County farmer raised nine
pigs which weighed 279 pounds each at nine
months old.
a recent dispatch from Clinton, Iowa,
to The officers at Topeka announced the ar
rest in the former place Of Frank Foster,
VINO YictimiZed q farmer at Topeka out of
1884 by means of a fraudulent draft. Gov
ernor Click issued the necessary papers and
an officer at once star. ed for Clinton after
the prisoner.
T. r. Leohoir, at one time clerk in
the Santa Fe Auditors office, was taken to
Topeka the other day, having been arrested
on charge Of forgery. He had an exam
ination before a justice. and was placed in
Jail in default of bail.
Trego County will fund its indebted
ness under the new law.
At the late meeting of the Executive
Committee OF the Kansas State Temperance
Union, held at Topeka, arrangements were
made for continuing the campaign in favor
of prohibition. and NJ. V. Bennett and Rev.
A. B. Campbell were engaged as lecturers
for six months longer. The President re-
ported cash subscription of 1900 for the
month ending March IA.
A dispatch from Leavenworth an
nounces that the Governor has offered a re-
ward of $500 for the arrest of the murderers
of John Heigle, making a total reward of
5000.
Four hundred pupils attend the Sen
eca schools.
In a quarrel between Sam Murphy
and another negro named Britain, at Lee
compton, Douglas County, recently, Muir
ply shot Britain twice, from the effects of
which he would probably die. Jealousy
was said to be the cause OF the tragedy.
In a difficulty, said to have been
caused by John oloney taking up q cow be-
longing to John Branilette, four miles south
of jamestown, Cloud County, the other day,
ColOney was shot and probably fatally
wounded by Branilette.
A man lives at Hiawatha who was
with Rr. Kane on his Arctic exploration,
and DR.. Hayes, of Seneca, spent two years
within an Arctic circle.
The other day thief entered the resi-
dence of Hub Nealy, at Topeka, and carried
away valuable pair of pants and vest. He
was seen by some of the neighbors, who gave
Officer Stork description OF him, and that
officer arrested a man at the depot on sus-
picion.
Recent reports to the State Board of
Agriculture from local correspondents in the
various counties in the State indicated that
both winter wheat and rye were in very good
condition and promised well. The acreage
had been reduced about twenty per cent.
from 1882, owing to the dry weather last
fall. A much smaller per cent. of wheat
area was winter killed than was supposed
one month ago. Fair wheat weather would
secure an abundant harvest. Farm animals
came out of the winter in good condition,
no epidemic disease among live stock being
reported. Indications pointed to an unusu-
ally large acreage of corn this year. The
loss in the wheat area would be made up by
increased acreage of corn.
Depot Master Brockbery of the Santa
Fe Road, arrested two desperate characters
in Lawrence, recently, while they were in
vestigatinS the spoils of a late robbery.
They had two gold watches, sealskin dol
man, and numerous other small articles.
They were thought to be desperate charac-
tiers, and were confined in the Jail until ad.
vices could be received from Kansas City.
Farms to rent are scarce.
A teamster named Barnes, of To-
peka, who delivers coal, recently had one OF
his horses mired down while crossing an
alley and it took several hours of hard work
to extTicate it.
Mrs. Mary A. Peoria, the widow of
Baptfste Peoria, the well-knOwn Chief of
the Wea Kaskaskia and Plankeshau con-
federated tribes, died at Paola recently in
her SD year. Before her marriage with Peo-
ria she was the widow OF Christmas Dag.
nett, Chief Of the Weas. Her second hus.
band, Peoria, died in 1880, in Indian Ter
ritory.
Walton, Harvey County, will soon
have q steam grist mill.