Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-01-10
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
The endowment fund of the State
Agricultural College is now $444, 4O0.8S,
bringing an average of more than "a per
cent. interest.
Fugitive writings Of Senator ingalls,.
Noble Prentis, Web Wilder, Henry King,
and perhaps other Kansas writers of the
early days, are to be collected and soon
published in book form.
Marshal Prentice of Lawrence arrest
ed James R. Jones a few days ago for the
robbery of the Perryville Post-ofice.
When arrested he was hauling logs for a
sawmill. The morning previous to his ar
rest he tagged east bound train and
boarded it for Kansas City. In payment
for hi fare he gave a 500 bill to the con-
ductor. He is considered to be a hard char
acter, having been arrested, tried and &C.
quilted for the murder of James Cotton
about five years ago. He at one time lived
| near PerrYville and was wei acquainted
with the surroundings. He was taken to
| Lawrence and lodged in Jail.
A writer in the LeaVenworth Times
says: "The two mostures-the lower and
| the upper-have not been together for eight
! years, but it is discovered they are joining
now. Last spring those who dug into the
| earth three or four feet found a stratum of
| dry earth, or dust, from two to four feet
| deep, and beyond this was moisture again.
This is the result of the dry weather during
| five. or six years, and of the drouths in
1891, but it is generally believed by men
of experience and investigation that the
! ''two moistures'' will be together by the
spring of 1884, when crops may be raised
again with very little surface moisture"
Willie Wheatley, the " Chicago Kid, -
| was arrested at Lawrence a few days since
| for stealing $1,000, worth of drafts from
/ trunk. He says he was sentenced in Kan
sas City some time ago to twenty-five years
in the Penitentiary, but his mother swear
ing that he was under sixteen years of age,
he sent to the ounty Jail for eighteen
months, from which he escaped a short
| time ago.
Bethany College, Topeka, has eight
| teachers and 121 pupils in the musical de-
partment; forty-seven pupils in the art de-
partment, and twenty-eight in eIocution.
| Total number of officers and teachers in
| the institution twenty-six.
The salOOn-keepers of Lawrence have
given up their fight on the prohibitory law
| and have all closed back as we'll as front
| doors.
!
| Wool Growers Association, issues the fol
| lowing circular: 1.-The annual meeting of
the Kansas Wool Growers and Sheep
| Breeders Association will be held at Tope.
| ka, Kansas, on Tuesday, January 10Th,
1884, at two o'clock p. NJ, for the purpos-
| of electing officers for the ensuing year, and
| the transaction of such other business as
may be brought before the meeting. Mem
! bers of all local organizations will please
| bear in mind that their organizations may
| he represented at this annual meeting, by
| delegate members bearing proper creden-
| tials, and will be entitled to cast many
votes in the meeting as there are members
| in the organization who are also members
of the State Association. 1t is very import
| ant that all wool growers of Kansas should
be represented, as much has been lost to
! them for want of thorough organization.
| By the inclOsed circular you. will see a
| proposition made by reliable parties to the
wool growers of Kansas. Its adoption or
rejection depends largely upon the action
of this meeting. Other topics of interest
will also be discussed. Your hearty coop
GRAFTON is most earnestly solicited
Edward Lee, who recently killed his
uncle at Trinidad, Col, was arrested few
| days ago at Wannetta, this State. Some
| GQrSS years ago Lee I0IG MS nome IN Kan
sas to escape punishment for demonstrating
| and fed to Texas, where, it is said, he kill
| ed man and escaped to Colorado, where
| his latest crime was committed. Knowing
him to be a desperate man, the officers ex-
! pected trouble in arresting him, but they
! found him in country store and one of
! them went up to him and saying, 81 want
! you," handcuffed him before he could re-
sist lie was then put in a wagon and hur-
/ ried away. His mother rallied a number
of his friends, followed and overlook the
| officers, but Lee prevented them from at
tempting his rescue, saying it was all right
/ and he would return home soon. He will
| be tried shortly.
Topeka has thirty-four churches.
A few nights ago fire broke out in
the elegant new residence of Charles E.
| Styles, agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road at Atchison, and in brief time it was
! totally destroyed. The wife and child of
! Sir. Styles persisted in the flames, and he
| himself was quite seriously burned. The
| origin of the fire was the explosion of a
| gasoline machine in the cellar.
w. B. Mcclellan has been appointed
as Commissioner of Deeds for Kansas in
! California, and Y. III. Addiman as Com
missioner of Deeds for Kansas in Rhode
Island.
Bradford Miller was chosen Mayor of
Topeka at the recent election.