Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-03
NORTHWEST KANSAS

NORTHWEST KANSAS
Stockton has some prospect Of an
1 50. COO brick hotel
e. p. dorchester and A. Casey have
+ purchased The Thomas County Cat
Norton has taken the preliminary
steps 10 incorporate and held their frs5
election this week.
The Stoc kton public school opened
last week with an enrolment OF 30
pupils.
A little daughter os Hon. Laf. C..
Smith, died at stockton Sept. 18th, OF
/ typhoid pheumonias aged SIX years.
The name Of the new Postmaster ct
/ Norton is So. H Hiles. Postmaster
Graves declined 10 serve longer.
Mrs D. S. Gardiner, OF Downs,
while skating at the rEllls Tell and broke
her arm last Monday 81 week.
Hulaniski's Alton Western Empire:
stockton has a Chiue,e laundryman.
+ His name Is Wee Hee. The next mau
/ that says our name IS outlandish will be
terribly dealt with.
Stockton is to have another railroad;
possibly two more The Mo Pacific
I Co has bought the Sa2ina and North
/ western and VIII take steps TO comp !ete
! II to Stockton as soon as possible. Then
hnCk out for a north and south road -
" estern News.
The Republicans of Rocks County
placed the colo wing tickeE IN the field /.
For treasurer, ( hester G. Nickel !;
Sheriff. /. N Gray; Register of Deeds,
81. a. kenwOrthy7 County Clerk, John
T. Smiths Surveyor, q. L. Locke.
We attended the fair at PhIlipsburg
! last week, IN coT3DaBy with about a
dozen others from this place. ] he fair
was not very q eat, success, but we
managed TO loaf around in the sun till
we gOC our face al suuburned and orr
1 pants iUll OF '@tiGkle grass. Smith
County Pioneer
The Pioneer Representative and his
dozen friends, with their games &c,
met with pOOrs Gccsss here. This prObab-
I Is accounts Tor them IOafing around where
( they hadn't ought To. Of course they
( got their pants fun Of ''tickle grass. -
Ulyssus EOrabsugh, q young man
/ who works for Isaac Mullen, got caught
under n harrow last Saturday, and one
| Of the teeth caught on the breast. or
rather under the arm tealing it badly.
! lie also received some bad scratches on
/ the back, but that under the arm Is
/ much the worst. lie is getting along
( finely, though, and win be all right
soon.-Smith County Pioneer.
Monday last George T, Davis, his
I wife aud little child and Mrs. w. T.
/ Shoemaker made trip into the cOun-
/ Ury- For q lunch they had, among 9th
I er things, some Gorned beef. Shortly
/ after reaching home the little child was
( taken seriously Ill and only by the
! most carefnl docioring WAS she kept
/ aliYe. During the evening and night
/ the others OF the company were similar
! ~ affected. Il was thought they were
/ poisoned, possibly by the cOrned beef.
/ Morton Courier
{ Report was brought to town LAST
! Satu day evening that a man travelling
/ through the country westward bOund
had accidentally shot and killed himself
at his camping place near John kessel' 8
residence o few miles cast OF town.
( The report proved true, the victim. Of
the accident being one Samuel OFT, 3
young man about % years OF age from
{ Axten, biarshell county, who in com
pany with a small party was enr0ute to
/ Rocks county The theory of the cause
/ of the accident is that in attempting to
get out at The front Of the wagon over
the dUubIe-trees. gun in hand, he slip
/ ped, the hammer OF the gun striking on
/ the duubIe-trees causing its discharge.
the load taking effect on one side of the
/ head under the jaw and literally blow
ing the top Of his head Of.-Osborne
News.
The disappearance of VIM. Harbour,
a well-tO-dO farmer located about five
miles northeast of Jewell, is a matter
of much interest in this vicinity. He
left home last Saturday, telling ms wife
be was going 20 Robbins sale. He
came TO Jewell and drew out of the
Jewell City Bank SEQ. which he had
there on deposit, stating that he intend
ed to invest in young stock. = his is
about the last THAI is known Of him.
Mrs. Harbour found a note left by her
husband, stating that he had made up
his mind to go away. Mr.. Harbour IS
Of a very reserved and brcOding dispo-
sitiOn, and il IS generally believed that
h e is suffering from q temporary de-
rangemenC. His farm is clear from all
membranes and he leaves no debts If
any description. Mrs BOI bour is a
daughter Of Mr. Valentine Fance.-Ke-
publican,
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