Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-14
CAPITOL TOPICS.


charter with the Secretary of State.
Sooy, Brinkman & Roberts, of Great
Bend, have made complaint against the
the Santa Fe for Overcharges on a car
load Of hogs and bran to Kansas City.
The M. E. church, of Americas, Lyon
county, and the First M. E. church, of
Avondale, Bourbon county, have fled
charters with the Secretary Of State.
Chas. Miller, sheriff at Hays City, tel
egraphs Governor Click that the Texas
fever has broken out among the cattle
in that locality, and calls on him for as
sistance and help to abate any further
spread OF the disease. The sheriff has
ed.
&c. Pusey, chief clerk at the peniten-
tiary, has made settlement for July with
the Auditor. He turned over as cash re-
ceipts the sum of $1O,662.O7, and drew
out for expenses $l5, 933.17. The total
amount of coal mined since the shaft
was sunk is 2, 1886, I13 bushels. At cts.
per bushel this would bring $156, 527.91.
Long & Riley, lumber merchants at
Leon, send their grievances is the Board
of Railroad Commissioners, making COM
plant against exOrbitant freight rates
imposed upon them by the st. Louis &
San Francisco road, for hauling a car load
of Colorado coal from their place to
Wichita, distance Of thirty-one miles,
and charging them nearly S2.O0per mile.
The citizens of Leon also petition the
Board to make coal rates for them on the
Frisco road from Halstead to Wichita.
) W. H. Brown, of Lincoln, Nebraka,
and W. F. Barbour, of Litchfeld, Craw-
ford county, this State, have petitioned
the Board of Railroad Commissioners for
permission to construct side track on
the southwest quarter Of section % and
the northwest quarter of section 90
township %, south of range %, east of
the 9Th P. NJ, where a bed of coal is To-
Gated, and they desire to develop it.
The coal land is said to cover 40 acres,
undeveloped, at a depth of twenty-seven
to forty feet, with a vein of coal thirty
six to forty inches thick, and of excel
lent quality. The switch they want to
construct Will be half a mile or more in
length, and connect with that branch of
the Fit. Scott q Gulf Road now operating
between Arcadia and Cherryvale via
Pittsburg. The Gulf company, they say,
refuse to build this track, because it pro
fesses to be short of rolling stock and
thinks the market insufficient to consume
additional coal.
Gov. Click has received the following
telegram:
BRooKvILLE, Aug. 8, 1884.
A. w. Holcomb, care of Gov. Click -
Cattle here are infected with some dis
ease similar to Texas fever Out of a
herd of 100, eight have died in last few
days, and several more are sick. Think
you should come yourself, or send some
one here at once. II. d. BARKER,
Under Sheriff, Saline county.
The following report was received by
Gov. Click from the Commissioner from
Kansas to the Worlds Cotton Centen-
NAL, New Orleans:
CHANUTE, Kans, July 81, 1884.
To the Executive Council Of the state Of Kansas:
GENTLEMEN: As Commissioner for the
State of Kansas to the Worlds Fair, I
have the honor of submitting to your
honorable body the following report of
the work done up to date in the collec-
ton of the products of our State for ex-
hibition at the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Exposition to be held In New
Orleans:
The State Horticultural Society at its
meeting in June instructed its Secretary,
Hon. George B. Bracket, to make a com
plete collection Of the fruits of Kansas,
for the purpose of exhibiting the same
at New Orleans, all expenses pertaining
thereto to be paid by the State Commits
the State. Mr.. Bracket at once appoint
ed Capt. G. w. Ashley as his first assist
ant, who has been actively engaged
since that time in the collection of fruits
and other horticultural products that
have matured from time to time up to
date.
In order to make our exhibits at at
tractiVe as possible, 1 have ordered from
Whithall, Turner & Co, of Philadelphia, /
over two hundred museum jars, which
we have now filed with choice lot Of
the various kinds of small fruits and
berries. We have also prepared large
lot Of evaporated fruits and vegetables. /
including all sucl as have matured up
to date, and IN order that all the Sum |
mer and early Fall varieties of apples, /
pears and other fruits Of like character, /
may be shown in competitive exhibit, ]
we have for the past four weeks been /
shipping them to New Orleans, where /
they are now in cold steEages all having /
been carefully selected, wrapped IN tissue i
paper, and packed in cork meal In boxes /
made expressly for that purpose. We
have also in various parts Of the State 8 4
complete collection of all the grains and 4
grasses grown IN each respective locality. /
was obliged 10 direct a portion OF /
the funds from the use for which they /
were originally intended to assist IN /
accomplishing the work already per
formed.
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