Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
KANSAS NEWS.
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additions"
Arkansas City is sadly in need Of a
fire company.
The Salina University has sixty stu
dents this year.
Fifteen tramps were arrested at
Wichita in one day.
swindling "cloth peddlers" are devas-
tating Sumner county
Sumner county peaches viii be exhib-
tied at New Orleans.
A convict died at the penitentiary re-
Gently, of typhoid fever.
Rossville is to have a new brick school
house with four rooms.
Eight hundred students at the Agricul-
tural college this year.
The Empire wants Bulls City to incor-
porate and change its name.
The hotel Coolidge at Emporia will
be enlarged to three stories throughout.
The Anthony public schools viii en-
ploy five instructors during the coming
year.
a number of improvements have been
made on the State University at Law
renee.
Kinsley has been visited by burglars,
according to the Mercury, who made sew
eral hauls.
A newspaper man counted farm wag-
ons Of nineteen makes on the streets Of
Harper the other day.
The public schools of Atchison viii
have a nine months school session this
year, instead of seven as last year.
One hundred and fifty students ar
rived at st. Marys, one day recently,
from towns in Missouri and Kansas.
ThOs Elemental, an 10 months old
child, was run over and killed by the
street cars in LeavenWorth, few days
ago.
There are already a number Of young
Indians in attendance at HaskelPs In
stitute at Lawrence and more are report
ed to be coming.
The Ottawa Sugar Works are now IN
operation. They are making very nice
quality of syrup and will 90 into the
manufacture Of sugar as soon as the cane
is ripe.
On the Central Branch road near
Frankfort recently, train was thrown
from the track. No serious injury was
done. The accident was caused by a
broken rail.
Scandal Journal: The recent action of
authorities granting licences to sell intOx-
icating liquors at Hardy, has resulted in
an indignation in Jackson township,
Jewell county.
Republic City Ne1gs: The cut on our
fOIeman's nose was not made by fighting,
but unfortunately, the composing room
towel fell Offits hook and striking him
in the face, cut him up fearfully.
A man named w. J. Sayhart was
caught in the act of committing arson at
Kingman. But for the vigilance of the
Waterman thousands of dollars worth OF
property would have been destroyed.
Mr.. Constant Poirier, proprietor of the
large vineyard at Wathena, shipped in
one day ten tons Of grapes to Herman,
Mo-, the great vine growing section in
Missouri. Mr.. Poirier's crop is about
300 tons.
The ribbon beds" of foliage plants on
the Kansas Agricultural College grounds
are really finer than the display at Phila-
delphia in '76, where the taste of the
best landscape gardeners in the country
was displayed.
El Dorado is goingto have a Sunhower
Day during the Butler county fair. The
town is to be decorated with sunfowers. !
the streets arched and the stores arts
tically trimmed with the gay emblems of
Kansas greatness.
Sterling Gazette: The two crushers at
the sugar works perform splendidly. and |
get out about twenty per cent. more of /
the Juice than was obtained with one. |
Their appetite IS healthy, requiring ten /
to twelve tons Of cane per hour.
A flowing well of fine sulpher water
has been discovered at Fl. Scott. 1t was /
found in the gas well. The Monitor saws
the people of TT. Scott would rather /.
have discovered a gas vein, but that a
me suIpher water well may come handy.
Delphos Carrier: Milo Basnett came
near losing his life, recently, being at
tackled by an Infatuated bull. He went
into a pasture armed only with a buggy
whip, to bring out heifer and in at
tempting to drive her aroused the ANGER
Of large bull.
Topeka Mail Since the electric lights
have been hung, the people living in the
vicinity complain that myriads of "bugs"
come into their rooms at night. Wire
screens seem to be no obstacle, and bee
ties an inch square seem to find no diff
Guilty IN getting into the room.
At an old settlers reunion at AIulvane,
Mr.. e. F. Osborne said that he came to
in 1870, drove the first wagon
South from thafplace, through grass four
to five feet high, and brought the first
pair of kittens to that part Of the country.
He sold one of them for $3.50.
Emporia Mars: The barn of L. G.. Tai
bolt, Of Plymouth, was struck by light
ming few days ago, and was burned to
the ground with the contents, including
sour horses, a thoroughbred short-horn
bull, all his farming Implements, a spring
wagon and some grain and hay. No in
5urance.