Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-15
KANSAS NEWS.

The closing October days were de-
lightful.
A large number Of prairie cnlckens are
being marketed.
The merchants are getting in their
holiday goods.
Nine marriage licenses were issued IN
F. Labette county last month, and not one
of the licenses were returned.
Rush county has been visited by terri
BILE prairie fires, which destroyed nifty or
more grain stacks, and many stacks OF
hay and feed.
Nash Bros, of Salt Creek township,
Reno county, shipped 1900 pounds Of
watermelon muskmelon, and cucumber
seeds to New York recently.
Fldorado Republican: Our wooden mill
is in full blast 1t will use up thousands
Of dollars In wool each year, anu De
worth thousands of dollars to the town.
A county correspondent to the Green
wood .ReDjt5Ijcdn tells Of a meeting OF a
base ball club when eleven men drank
eight gallons of "nOse paint IN one
evening.
A tramp named Fuqua, who stole
horse, mule and saddle in Emporia, ana
got away, was surprised recently at Car
them shot him fatally in making the ar
rest
Junction City Republican: Two com
panieg of cavalry have returned from
the Indian Territory. They were under
the command of Capt. Loud, and had
been down in the Nation to route OkIO-
hOma boomers.
Junction City Republican: Over sixty
old mortgages have been cancelled IN
this county within the past four months.
This is a good showing for our farmers
and is q fair illustration of the prosperity
of our farming community.
FL Dorado Republican: A firm at Au-
gusta had their safe blown open and rob
bed, but, Notwithstanding, the whole
town heard the explosion, every body
was afraid to 60 out for fear it was some
desperadO's devilment
Work on the new public school build
ings at BelOit, is progressing rapidly and
they are being hurried TO completion by
the contractors as fast as consistent with
good work. They will be ready for occu-
pancy about the holidays.
Advices from Burr Oak are to the
effect that A. w. Mann, who was danger
Ously shot at the time Of the orion cir
Gus row at that place, is rapidly imprOv
short time until he will have entirely re-
covered from the effects of his wound.
lola Register: An eleven-year-old son
of Geo. MastOn, near Moran, caught a
young gray eagle in HE hands last Sat
urday. The bird was sitting on a fence
post and he caught it by the wings. The
bird measured about four feet from one
tip Of it's wing to the other, and was
thought to be a little over half grown.
Jetmore ReUeiUe: There will be a
strong lobby at Washington this Winter
asking Congress to set apart a strip OF
land twelve miles wide across the State
of Kansas, for the exclusive and perpet-
ual use of Texas cattle men. Our Con-
gressmen and Senators should be in
structed against such measure.
According to the old Indian hornet
sign, we may look for an extraordinarily
hard Winter. All the nests we have
found this year in the woods were built
on the ground. When they are suspend
ed from trees and high up, it is a sign of
mild Winter. Our old Representations
say they have never known this sign to
fail.
Ellsworth Nslys: Some evil-minded
person or some bad boy threw a stone
through one of the windows Ofthe opera
house one Sunday evening during the
Methodist service, while Rev. DR.. Saville
was preaching. The stone was large
enough to knock a person down and
passed very near to Mrs. Pencils head
as it fell to the floor.
Captain Philip Rockefeller died on the
Doth ult., at his late home in Rawlins
county. He was a Representative from
Newton county in the Legislature of
1868, and removing to Washington
county he represented that and Marshall
county, in the State Senate in the ses-
siOns Of 1871 and 1872. He was for a long
time Postmaster at Washington.
Mr.. VIM. Shepherd, an old and re-
spected resident, of Mitchell county,
died at his residence, one and a half
miles northeast of BelOit, on Saturday,
after a painful illness of about nine
weeks. Mr.. Shepherd located on the
farm which he occupied at the time of
his death, fourteen years ago, having
moved to Kansas, from Iowa, in the Fall
of 1870.
Maj. L. C. WATSON, the defaulting
United States Paymaster, was released
from confinement at the Penitentiary,
having served his sentence of eighteen
months. During his stay there he drew
the plan for the water works and super
intended the building of the same. be
also had charge of the matchmaking OF
, the State road from the Penitentiary to
>LeavenWOrth. He has gone to Des
MOines, Iowa.
Beloit Gazetts: Mr.. VIM. Balch, Omio,
Jewell county, was in the city Monday,
and while here made US a very pleasant
call. mr.. Balch reports the coal shaft at
that place down to the black diamonds,
a tWenty-four inch vein having been
found at a. depth Of one hundred and
fifty feet. The prOprietors are now in
the east procuring improved pumping
and hosting machinery and expect to
be taking onL-enal of an axcallant nualit,z