Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

excitement one day last week over the
announceme nt that poor Engllsn glI4'
IA wears of age, had fallen heir to PO,ULO5-
GOO. by the death of a wealthy aunt IN
England. The girl is the only daughter
of a poor farmer living near COncordla-
| The girl also received a draft Of PI4, OOO'
! to come to England on, and we are N
/ formed that the father of the girl feels
so good over the matter that he Will take
/ q trip East himself
Oberlin Herald: A son of Christopher
| Young, while hunting cattle, fell into an
abandoned well fOrty-tWO feet deep. he
| had a gun in his hand, which, when ne
/ struck the bottom, was driven into the
soft earth about two feet and the boy
went in knee deep. He cut steps INTO
| the side walls with a butcher knife and
! had climbed up about twenty feet IN
this manner when he was rescued. lie
would have made his way safe out alone
but the well Widened so much that fur
ther progress by that method was I'M
| possible.
An accident occurred at Mulvane tins
State, few days ago, by which Geo.
| Williams of Wichita lost his life. lie
was coming up from Wellington on a
| freight train which did not pull quite up
/ to the platform, and when it started OH
again, Williams, who had got of, IN at
/ tempting to climb on a freight car about
| the middle of the train, missed his hold
and fell under the Wheels-abOut ten
/ cars passing over him. His right leg is
! almost completely severed just below hls
/ hip, and his left leg is terribly mangled
about the knee, being broken In three
! places. Fearful cuts are on his back, and
one in his right side in which a hand
could be laid, and his scalp was almost
= l. n of
Hope Herald: Mr.. Henquenet says he
turned over the first sod in Hope
township, Dickinson county, on the
Goth of February, 1871, plant
ed the first trees the same Spring
first named the town Liberty, built the
first house in the town Of Hope after the
same was laid off into town lots, built
the first church, was the only real estate
taxpayer in the township in 1882, when
school house bonds to the amount OfS5OC
were voted upon him, but which he paid
off not long after with SO in cash, was
the first subscriber to the first paper
printed in Dickinson county, and printed
and took from the press the first copy OF
the Hope Herald.
Burlingame CHc0njcJe: Hon. Max Buck
of Dragon township, was recently the
unfortunate victim of cattle thieves, hay
ing had fourteen head of fine steers
stolen from his pasture, three miles
southwest of Eskridge, in Wabaunsee
county. The pasture contains five hun
dred and sixty acres, and is enclosed
with a wire fence. The herd, prior to
the theft, numbered two hundred head
and was in charge of Mr.. A. Schwarting,
who has looked after Mr.. Bucks cattle
interests in Wabaunsee county for the
past seven years. The steers stolen were
the choice of the herd. They were three
year-Old natives, and several of them
high grades. They were all branded
with half circle on left hip, and two were
marked with dew lap" cut from above.
The lot would average in value seventy
five dollars each, making the fourteen
head worth 1850. Mr.. Buck offers a
reward Of 5000 for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of the thief
or thieves and 800 for the recovery of
the cattle.