Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10
in Kansas ever experienced such
boom as we are having this Spring.

township, planted his potatoes on Tues |
day of this week. March 18th, is early |
to plant potatoes but Kansas is an early |
State and beats the world for raising i
crops.
The Union Telephone Company is
about to submit proposition to build a
telephone line from Winfield to Belle |
PIaine via Oxford and Wellington, with
a view of extending the Belle Plaine line
to Wichita.
While four boys from Mcpherson were
cunning west of town, gun in the hands |
of a boy named FreZel was accidentally |
discharged, the load of buckshot entering |
| the breast of Pearl Wright, aged Is, caus-
ing instant death.
Scandia Journal: About one hundred
feet of mill dam at this place washed out
Wednesday evening. Mr.. Ericsson will
repair it at once and expects to have his
mill running again in 80 days. The loss
is estimated at $1,000.
Russell Record: Seventeen thousand
six hundred and forty acres of Union Pa
cifie Railway land have been certified to
the County Clerk for taxation. This will
add between $35, 900 and $4,000 to the
taxable wealth of Russell county.
An arteslan well is being sunk to a
depth of 1000 feet at Circleville, Jackson
county and is already down 700 feet, the
| contractors working day and night. The
purpose is to strike the IleaVenWorth
vein of coal, if possible, and the prospect
is good.
Clay Center Dispatch: More than
hundred persons intending to settle in
Clay county, have arrived by rail this
week, at this point A number have al
so come in wagons, though that manner
Of immigration is getting decidedly I'M
popular.
Leroy Reporter: Mr.. c. Hammond, who
;, lives on Long creek, sent down quite
curiosity on last Monday morning. It is
a newborn, well developed pig with
4 two heads, two sets of jaws, four eyes,
but only two ears which set well back on
the head.
Oskaloosa Independent: Parties have
been experimenting with the soft maple
trees lately, and made some very nice
syrup from the water. They say the
water Is about as sweet and flows as free
Z ly here in Kansas as the hard or sugar
Maple in Ohio.
Clay Center Times: 1t is proposed by
the Managers of the Clay County Fair
Association to get up a series of county
trots for the purpose of improving the
, ground and track. The day has not yet
!, been decided upon, but it will probably
be about April 18th.
Clay Center Dispatch: A serious acct
= dent occurred near Mayday. A team be-
longing to a German, named Braenden-
burg, ran away, throwing him out of the
l wagon, his head striking on a stone caus-
r ing almost instant death. He leaves a
wife and two small children.
8 It is gratifying to the people of the
t West that a western insurance company
should rank first, over all others, as to
prOmptness in paying losses. Official
= statistics show, conclusively, that this
honor belongs to the Burlington Insur.
ance Company, of Burlington, Iowa.
: Wichita Beacon: Major Adams, of the
! United States engineer corps, is here with
a party of surveyors building two boats
12x24 to descend the Arkansas river. The
0 party, when full, will number eighteen
s men. There is an appropriation for g
b survey of the river from Wichita to it,
mouth.
r Hamilton county elected delegates IA
IS vOrabIe to Judge Peters for Congress
d Judge Frost for State Senator, and to A
j. Hoisington and J. w. Ady for dele
gates to the Chicago Convention. Stat
II 4O4O OOOLGy LcSc CblOO CIOCOCO OC4CSdGOO Id
- vOrable to Peters HOisingtOn and Ady.
The tornado season is nigh at hanC
% and all property owners should insur
. against these terrible destructive storms
- The Burlington Insurance Company, O
Burlington, Iowa, is the pioneer compan,
of the west in this branch of insurance
y and one of the most reliable companie
'e in the country.
- Mcpherson Freeman: Mcpherson CO
has one hundred and seven organized
2, school districts, one hundred and ST.
|; school houses, six thousand and ninety
le seven school population and one hun
dred and thirty nine teachers. The av
of erage length of the school term is TWEEN
q ty-two weeks.
in There will be competitive examine
Us ton of applicants for appointment a
cadets to the United States Militar
l. Academy, from the old Second Con
T. gressional District of the State Of Kan
h sas, held at lola, Allen county, com
ID mencing on the eighth day of May, a
nine O'Clock, a. M.
Abilene Gazette: The barn of Rev. "
+ L. Phillips, on the Enterprise road, wa
~ consumed by fire last Friday evening
VI while the family were away from home
le Two mules cow and calf, 900 bushel
of wheat and so of oats were burned VI
at The loss is about 81 800, partly covere
r by insurance. The origin of the fire is
De mystery,
y On Tuesday, March 25th, the wome
of Canton, Mcpherson county, went t
" the place of Herald, the wounded would
n be saloon keeper, and raided him, pou
20 ing his liquors into the street. Frida
10 Herald opened a saloon in defiance {
~ low Tho 1fS 10 Oh ~ \
the Constable for endeavoring to plaC
III one of his drunken customers out O
ne Monday, and his liquors were poured OF
n Tuesday while lying with a bullet in b
ry body.
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