Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-08


Cherryvale GLobe=NelUs There are so
many new houses in process of erection
in and around the city, that it is impos-
sible to mention them separately. Still
new corners find it very difficult to get
houses to live in.
A Bohemian in Randolph applied to
Justice of the Peace with marriage Ii
cense and wanted to be married to lady,
whom, he said, he would send down
next week, but he wanted the ceremony,
so far as he was concerned, performed at
ence.
Emporia Republican,: A prairie fire
was raging about ten miles from the
city, along Dow creek, Thursday after
noon. About 250 bushels of corn and q
large quantity of hay, belonging 70 MIR.
HenshaW, were burned. The fire ran
fully four miles before being stopped.
Valley Falls Nev Era: VIM. Mcclure
was in the city Tuesday and brought the
news of a serious fracas over at the Fair
field school-house, where two boys got
into a quarrel, when one whipped out 8
pistol and shot the other in the breast,
inflicting a serious, if not fatal wound.
Sedan Journal: Wesley Best, of Center
township, had a COW which gave birth
last week to male calf that had three
eyes, three tongues, three lower jaws, six
nostrils, and the epiglottis in the roof OF
its mouth. Otherwise the calf was per-
tectly natural, and it lived fifty-tive
hours.
Cheney Journal: Several blades of
prairie grass, which grew last year and
had survived the Winter, were shown us.
They were about twelve inches long, and
1,I III II,
This shows what letting the previous
years growth remain on the ground will
do.
Leavenworth Standard: A troop of
cavalrymen exercising their horses on
the reservation, drove number of COWS
grazing there pell-nell down Seventh
sabre cuts from the swords of the war
riors. The citizens in the north end of
town are very indignant
Mcpherson Freeman: The four town
ships of Hayes, jackson, Lone Tree and
South Sharps Creek, report to the coun-
ty clerk this year, &c, 400 acres of Winter
wheat, while last year the same town
ships had but Is, 933, being an increase
of one hundred per cent. The same
townships report an increase in popula-
tionof sos.
Louisville Republican: We have made
a pretty thorough canvass of this county
on the wheat question, and find the gen
eral sentiment to be that they never saw
the prospects better for a large crop. It
is little late but that is owing to the
lateness of the season. But it is said to
be well rooted and looking exceedingly
healthy.
Usage County had an election the other
day for court house bonds, the building
to be erected at Lyndon, which is the
present county seat. The proposition
was beaten by 1,270 majority. Usage City
now proposes to deposit $4,000 and do
nate site if the people will locate the
county scat there.
Dodge City Times: Judge R. E. Burns
has entered piece of land in the south
east part of the &C unity, on the Arkansas
river, about % miles from Dodge City.
A number of settlers have taken claims
IN that vicinity, and a prospective town
site will be laid out. An irrigation ditch
has been started, and will run through
the southeast part of the county.
Oswego Independent: B. C. Miller'sstore
at HalloWell was broken into by burglars.
The safe was blown open and two hun
dred dollars IN money taken, also some
cheap jeWelry cost value of about $37.
Township money to the amount OF $500
had been taken out the day before,
which luckily escaped falling into the
hands of thieves.
A race was recently run at the fair
grounds at Mcpherson between a horse
and man, stakes 800 side, the man
to run ten miles before the horse could
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distance in eighty-one and half min
utes. The horse made fourteen and
a half miles in just seventy five min
utes.
Nearly all insurance companies doing
business in the West write promiscuous-
ly on hazardous risks such as hotels, liv-
cry stables, mills, factories, stores, ETC.
Of the Iowa companies, the old Burling-
ton stands distinguished as the only one
which confines its business exclusively
to detached buildings, farm property,
churches and school houses. 1t rejects
all special hazards and has not one mer-
camille risk on it's bOoks-hence the alb
solute character of the indemnify it fur
nishes. The Burlington policies cover
against fire and lightning and against
tornadoes, cyclones and windstorms.
Fort Scott Monitor: The car contain
ing 500 bushels of choice Kansas corn do
mated by VIM. II. LytIe Post, No. 80, G.
A. R., to Robert E. Lee Camp, Confede-
rate Veterans, Richmond, Va, left for
the historic capital April 25th. The in
scription on the car reads, "From VIM.
II. Lytle Post, No. 80, g. A. R., Fort
Scott, Kas.. to Robert E. Lee Camp No
l, Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Va"
The four letters in the word corn are dis
played on sixteen feet of muslin, across
one-half the car. It goes on its mission
of love to the boys in gray. Its arrival
will be duly announced inthe Richmond
papers.
Garnett Journal: Thursday of last
week, while VIM. Gibson was blowing
for corn on his farm in the south Potta-