Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-10
STATEMENTS
Crawford county has thirteen newspa

Crawford county has thirteen neWEpa-
pers.
Fl. Scott is to have new $4,000
hotel.
There are now s65 prisoners confined
in the state Penitentiary.
The Usage county institute has an
enrolment Of 125.
Kingman reports three incendiary fires
within twenty-fOur hours.
Sections Of the city Of Fit. Scott, are
now lighted by natural gas.
The bonded indebtedness of BurIin-
game, Usage county, is $500.
a new opera house VIII shortly be
erected at Garden City, FInney county
The base ball craze has extended over
the state until it has become quite gen
eraL
Greensburg, Kiowa county, wishes TO
be Incorporated as a city Of the third
class.
Over $4,000 worth Of hogs were mar
keted at Augusta, Butler county, in one
month.
The population Of Meade county is g.
955. The property valuation approx
mates $4,000.
Peabody is discussing the feasibility
/ of constructing a city building which
viii cost $4,000.
The county attorney Of Usage county
/ is making it warn for all violators Of the
Prohibitory law.
A colony of Swedes located in Clay
county, the other day, where they win
settle permanently.
In 1875 there were 116 legal voters in
the city Of FredOnia, Wilson county.
/ Now there are 416.
Butler county and its people are now
talking of erecting a court house which
is to cost 100000.
A large new wholesale manufacturing
clothing house is to be erected at Larned,
Pawnee county, shortly.
The eighth annual reunion Of the old
settlers of Marshall county viii be held
at Irving on the 18th and 14th days Of
August.
Dodge City VIII soon have a system
OF water works, the contract for this
valuable Improvement having already
been let.
A number Of Indian curiosities and
fossils were found near Fort Scott, Bour-
bon county, the other day at a depth Of
lI6 feet.
Chas. Huffman, bound for Garden
. TifArr HaF7-1rTHaI Of ge1 0nn E,vr
confidence men at the Kansas City IN
ion depot, the other day.
Oswego, Labette county, has a cham
pion swimmer, "Pat" Patterson, who
swan two miles up the NeoshO river in
an hour and fifty nine minutes without
leaving the water.
Ford county has forty-six organized
school districts, representing a scholar
ship Of 1000 outside Of Dodge City.
This leaves still One-eighth Ofthe county
UnOrganized into school districts.
There are in Miami county 37O,8 3I
acres of taxable land, worth 50, 455, 273;
value Of personal property, 1867, 457;
value of railroad property, S466,2I6;
total value of all property, S4,3Ol, 99S.
j. 3. AIcQuinn, a citizen of Barber
county, has mysteriOusly disappeared
and foul play is thought to have been
the sudden cause of his leaving. The
last seen of him was on or about March
28th.
As R. a. Hall, Of Sedgwick county,
was setting in front Of the fremont house
at Wichita the other day, he recognized
a brother in a passer by whom he had
not met for fifteen years. The recOgni-
ton was mutual
The trial Of Willie Sells, who murdered
his father mother and brother at Usage
Mission some time ago, will shortly come
up in the district court of NeoshO coun-
ty. The friends Of the boy are confident
that they can prove his innocence.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Bourbon county Jail the other day. In
some way an outside party managed to
secure the iaiIor's keys to the various
doors and handing them IN to the pris-
oners they used them most successfully
by depOpulating the jail. Who the mis-
, creant was no one knows.
Last February Gov. Martin appointed
- CT. /. Sutton census taker Of Lane county.
Early in June MIR. Sutton made his re-
ported, received the proclamation
of Gov. Martin organizing the county
/ and departed for DightOn where he was
taken down with consumption and in a
few days he was dead.
: Two unknown parties attempted to sell
q forged note for $500 to the Exchanges
s National bank of Ell Dorado, but were
detected and arrested. Then a party
. sold "a note for S175 to the same bank,
p upon the back of which appeared the
, names of three good men living neal
! Augusta. The names proved to be for
geries.
t Intelligence has reached Ashland
}. Clark county, of a fatal shooting al
4 Neutral City, IN No Mans Land, IL
d which Bob MCOy lost his life and two
). other men were seriously wounded. The
shooting was IN consequence of difficult
= ties between the cowboys and the settlers
= It is thought the shooting was done by
= a vigilance committee Of the citizens who
= fired on a crowd In a saloon, with the re.
suit above stated.
Hartford Call: One Of those instances
= which occur at times, in which a family
Z is poisoned by eating canned goods, hap
. pened the other evening at the residences
Z Of W. H Fhckinger. Some canned COR
% had been prepared for supper and tOul
Of the family, David, Arthur, Lille anC
Is AIaudie, partOok of it, Mr.. and Mrs
L Flickinger being both slightly i'll at tn,
" time. did not indulge IN any. After sup