Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-08
KANSAS NEWS.

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Jetmore ReUs5Js: The settlers are com
ing. Every week at first. every day now,
brings land-seekers into Hodgeman
county.
Specification have been prepared by
the Chief Quartermaster at Fort LeaYen-
worth, for the construction of bridge
across the Republican river at Fort
Riley.
Kinsley Graphic: The lumber con-
tinues to roll south in astonishing guam
titles. Land buyers and home seekers
I'll our hotels and run down all Of the
lively teams.
Neseatunga Chieftain: W. S. Tory, re-
siding on Cave creek. killed arattlesnake
that measured five feet and two inches
IN length, and so old that it had worn all
the rattles of its tail.
Nescatuuea CHiettain: Geo. E. Wake
man killed a wild cat q few miles south
Of town which measured three feet and
six inches from tip TO tip and weighed
tWenty-four pounds.
Washburn College, at Topeka, by the
death of a wealthy gentleman in the
East, has received SIS, 900 toward its En-
dOWment Fund, and will, on the death
Of the daughter of the said gentleman,
receive 100000 more.
The notorious Clutch Charley" or
Chas Hudson, was convicted in the
United States District Court, at Leaven-
worth. upon the charge of rObbing the
Meriden POstOfhce, on the night Of
the Goth Of last December.
A team ran away, near Mcpherson,
with John Erickson, who recently came
from Illinois, throwing him from the
wagon, breaking his skull. He lived but
a few moments afterWard. His body
was shipped to Alton, Ill, for interment.
Lawrence Herald: S. H. Hamilton, of
straw and lumber fame, who has had
considerable nOtOriety of late on account
Of his talking about some of the ladies
Of Lawrence, left in haste recently, IN
accordance with the urgent request Of a
committee of citizens.
Harlan Chief. Charley Ostrander left
at our Office, and it is now on exhibition,
q hens egg that is a curiosity. In shape
it resembles a crooked neck squash,
being about two inches long and about
one-half inch in diameter at the largest
place.
Manhattan has High School lecture
course, which opens November 18th,
with a lecture by Rev. DR.. II. w.
Thomas, OF Chicago on Social Forces"
Prof David Swing follows in December
and Hon. William Parsons and Bob Bur
dette succeed him.
Wichita Eagle: People ought to exer-
else great caution in setting out poison
for rats. Several very valuable dogs have
been poisoned in the city lately from
that cause, and children may fall victims
to the deadly drug if great caution is
not taken to set it where they can not
reach it.
At the Palace Hotel at Emporia two
men were nearly suffocated as a cOnse-
quence of blowing out the gas when they
retired. Their names are James Rhodes.
of Wellington, and John Hamilton, of
Madison. The employees of the house
smelt the gas and thus saved their
lives.
Larned Eagle: We have never seen
the passenger and emigrant westward
bound traing so packed with travel as
they are this year. Just as certain as
s the constant flow Of a stream will fill up
low grounds, creating a large lake, inst
so Will such q constant stream of emigra-
ton soon fill up the Great West.
Wichita Eagle: At present the city is
OVerrun with mendiCants-blind men
and women, cripples and all manner of
people soliciting aims. There are blind
hddlers, organ grinders, and peddlers of
every description. The most helpless
and pitifHl excite a good deal of sym
pathy, and they gather in a good many
dimes.
Coldwater (Comanche Coz Star: Green's
burg, a new town recently started north
Of this city, and named after that man.
ID. r. Green, of Kingman, who had
cheek and gall enough to wear a two
story hat to Cold water his last trips
D. IL =
GAINESVILLE and is now after the county
seat.
Dodge City TTnl5s: West Plains, the
proposed county seat of Seward county,
is blooming Xix e a rose. Last week six
car loads of lumber were re-
eeived for the proposed city. Four cars
were received here and two cars were
unloaded at CimarrOn. The lumber was
consigned to the West Plains Town
Company Building Association.
Manhattan IadustriaIist: We received
recently from q thoughtful friend in
Japan, a package of seed and samples of
the fruit of a little apple which grows in
the mountainous districts Of Japan. This
peculiar fruit grows on a tree scarcely ten
inches high, having a stem no larger
than a pencil. The fruit received was
about one and One-half inches in diam
eter and highly aromatic.
Coneordia Empire: Some of our young
men are making terrible drunken wrecks
of themselves. We hear Of one being
taken home by the boys too full to walk
alone, and again of one wife taking her
husband home IN a maudlin condition.
No use to try to disguise the fact that
the present reign of free whisky is ruin
ing lots of young men who, without il,
would be ornaments to society.
Washington Register: Mrs. Anna Tat
man, who resides near Bull City, Os-
borne county. has been visiting her