Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-07
KANSAS NEWS.

Co. K, State Militia, of Abilene, have
received their arms.
The first directory of the city Of New
ton Is being compiled.
The first circus which ever exhibited
in NickersOn showed there recently.
The Osborne City Cheese factory is
making $500 pounds Of that staple
monthly.
The School Board census of Burton,
says the Monitor, gives that town PoPu-
lation of zO9.
Valentine Stafer, a cowboy, was
killed at Garden City by the accidental
discharge of a gun
Col. E. G. Culp, of Salina, has been APP
pointed Inspector of U. S. Land Offices
on the Pacific coast.
It is said that Gen. Logan viii attend
the Old Settlers meeting at Bismarck
Grove, September %.
Yates Center, according to the Argus,
has been cleaned, the first Kansas town
to undergo the operation.
In repairing a threshing machine, o.
borne county, two men had melted Bah
bitt metal thrown in their eyes.
The Sumner County Agricultural So
ciety announces a bull fight as one of the
attractions of their county fair to be held
there this Fall.
A sixteen-year-old son of J. II. Letting
we'll accidentally shot and killed him
self at Corning, a short time ago. The
funeral was largely attended.
The Sentinel says, Kenneth has less
number OF dogs and cats than any other
county seatin the State, there beingonly
one canine and one feline IN the town.
Hon. Nelson Adams was shot by the
Marshal of Larned. He struck the Mar
shall twice with heavy cane before the
liter fired. Local politics caused the
disturbance.
Nortonville, Jefferson county has Be-
cured articles of incorporation as city
of the second class. The first city cleo
ton was held recently, and a mayor
elected.
A. W. Ruoff, a German, established
himself in a garden on an island in the
Arkansas, twelve miles west of Dodge,
and the high water kept him a prisoner
there for two months.
Girard Press: The McCune postofice
has also been declared a money order
Office. This makes eight money order
offices in Crawford county. What other
county in the State has more?
In one issue of the Oberlin Herald
there are advertised one hundred and
siXty-eight tracts of school land of forty
acres each, Tor sale. This is a a total of
6,720 acres brought into the market at
one time.
A severe hail and wind storm is re-
ported as having visited the northern
part of AtchisOn and the southern part
of Douglas counties few days ago. The
dana Crne tn houses and cTOn9 W.
siderable.
Hon. S. II. Fullenwider, of Butler
county, has been appointed an agent of
the Government, under the pleurO-pneu-
monia law passed at the last session of
Congress, at a salary of s., 400 per year
and expenses. His duties are connected
with the safely and healthy transporta-
ton Of cattle, etc.
Wyandotte Herald: The case of Lead
better againgt the AtchisOn, Topeka q
Santa Fe Railway Company for the re-
cOvery of $4,000 damages alleged to
have been received by the plaintiff while
in the employ of and through the negli-
gence of defendants agents, occupied
the attention of the court for four days.
The jury gave plaintiff $1,000.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Lakin,
Finney county, a short time ago,
between James Green and one of his
men by Clay Cooper, an employee of the
HarwOod Cattle Company, which occur
red at WagOnbed Springs, on the CHM
aron, four miles south of Lakin about
noon to-day. Green was shot twice
through the breast and is not expected
to recover. Cooper was unhurt.
The Oklahoma CHIEF. published at
Rock Falls, Just over the Territory line
near Caldwell, says: Their is a vein of
h = al,
ping out IN several places on our town
site. A company Is being organized and
will soon commence to put down a shaft
for thicker vein. Old coal men think
that it can be reached from eighty to one
hundred feet, from four to six feet in
thickness"
EmpOria Republican: A box of fossil
specimens was received the other day
by Mr. Harry E. Norton from the Off
Gals of the State penitentiary.' They
were taken from a coal shalt go feet be-
low the surface of the ground, and show
plainly petTifactions of wood and beauti-
fully preserved traces of moss, leaves,
fish, etc. As geological specimens they
are very valuable. The stones were
accompanied by several very fine
photos of the penitentiary building and
officials.
Mr. w. c. Hindeman, of two famous
Arctic expeditions. is visiting friends in
Madison, Lyon county. Mr.. Nindeman
sailed with obout twenty Others in 1871
in the "POlaris," under the command of
Capt. Hall. He reached that Whit the
latitude of So So north latitude The
next Winter he spent around the east
side of Greenland, at a latitude Of 800
49, the highest point reached during the
expedition. In 1879 he started from
San Francisco on the Bennett expedition
vrfDforaT ~, tho leo drifts g