Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-26
CAPITOL TOPICS.

The Hiawatha Water, Gas & Mining
Company, of HiaWatha, them E. Church
of Greenwich, SedgWick county; and the
Republic County Mutual Fire Insurance
Company have filed charters with the
Secretary of State.
The TT. Scott Prospecting Company,
organized for the purpose of sinking a
deep well after mineral water; the Ma
sonic Building Association, of Dexter,
Cowen county; the Lebanon M. E.
Church Society, and the independence
Street Railway Company of Independ-
ence have filed charters with Secretary of
State.
G. w. Wilson was appointed by the
Governor as Probate Judge of Edwards
county to fill vacancy.
There are at present in the State
Treasury $4,000 to be applied in pur-
chasing school bonds. When a district
votes bonds In accordance with the pro-
visions of the law, they will be taken by
the State at par, bearing six per cent.
interest.
In reply to that letter, sent him one
day last week by the Board Of Railroad
Commissioners, Mr.. w. w. Pagan, Su-
perintendent of the Central Branch,
says: Relative to the amount of repairs
made on the Central Branch road from
Jan. 1, 1884, to date, have expended for
ballast the sum of 81 58043; we have
placed so, Ala cross ties in the track, at a
cost of $44,260.70 mot including the
labor also used thirty sets of switch
ties at cost of 81, 29032; have also laid
1,416 tons of steel rail Cor 179 miles of
track at cost of $50, 000.39 for the rail.
The cost of spikes, spices and bolts re-
CURED for the steel named above, cost
$5,722.88. Have also expended 1916
for switch fixtures, making the
total cost for track material used this
year, SOB, 820.72. We have expended
for track labor during the period named
above the sum of SIC, 500, Is, making the
total expenditure on repairs Of the track
STA, 1857. In addition to this, liberal ex-
penditures have also been applied to the
removal and repairs of bridges and water
ways. The Directors have ordered be-
tween $500 and 900 tons of steel rails,
also to be used in repairing"
June 80 closes the fiscal year 1884 as
far as the business of the State is con-
cerned. No claims on the State for that
year will be paid after that date, as the
appropriation expires at that time and
the books of the Auditor and Treasurer
are closed.
The Superintendent of Insurance is
sued fifty licenses to agents, permitting
them to do business in the State, in one
day recently.
The Cyuse Commandery, No. %,
Knights Templar, of Beloit; the Thomas
Drug company, of Madison, Greenwood
county, and the Ellsworth County Fair
Association, of Ellsworth, have filed
their charters with the Secretary OF
State.
The Independence Water Works Com
pany, of Independence, have filed q
charter with the Secretary of State.
The Bord of Railroad Commissioners
have prepared schedule of freight rates
on all roads in the State. This adjust
ment is based on the schedule of rates
given below, that are made as a final set
Element and disposal of the Newton anG
Great Bend cases. They apply to al
points between the Missouri river and
Newton and the Missouri river and
Great Bend. All the roads have agreed
to issue new tariffs at once, and the
Board orders that they go into effect or
the 25th of this month: