Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-08-21

/ West Atehlson school building, WL4ch
VII give three additional school rooms
The ordinance compelling BARRIERS to
close their shops on Sunday at Salina,
was defeated at q meeting Of the city
council.
Mr.. William Penn Walters, of Newton
has received a patent on his fue thimble
ard stopper, which has been pending for
two years.
The citizens Of AIacksvilie, Stafford
county, are trying to organize an opera
house company. The capital stock viii
be $500.
The SedgWick county library has Just
/ placed on their shelves forty or more vol
unes Of fresh fiction, religious, historical
and juvenile literature.
The Southern Kansas Academy at
Eureka, will be dedicated on Sept. 18th
and the next day the school be opened
for the reception Of students.
The proposed amendment to the state
/ constitution provides for five judges Of
the supreme court instead Of three-this
number now forming that body.
". II. Hiles, the postmaster at Nor
ton, Norton county, has been arrested
upon the charge OF Icing short in his
accounts to the amount OF $500.
Gypsum, Saline county, reioices over
the fact that she now has a daily mail.
Heretofore the mail has been carried by
hack three times a week from Salina.
Two hundred volunteers for a cowboy
battalion have organized at KioWa, and
VIII offer their services to the secretary
Of war, awaiting marching orders to
Mexico.
The officers Of the Kansas lair Asso-
citation are getting up an attractive list
OF special premiums for the coming fair
to be held IN Topeka, commencing Sep
TENDER %.
Coheyville Journal; The total value
Of all taxable property within the cor
POrate limits Of the city of COffeyvills, is
SI47, 1868. The aggregate value of the
real estate is S96,3O7.
Oberlin Herald; A farmer living
seven miles south Of McCOok was struck
and killed, by lightning, one night last
week, as was also a span Of mules he was
embarrassing at the time.
Five miles north of Evansville, Com
anche county, one morning last week
lightning struck the home Of a Mr.. Bond
and hlled,One child, and the entire fam
ily were more or less injured.
Alma Nel5s: Score another tally for
Alma. A vein Of coal three feet thick
has been discovered three miles northeast
Of town, on the farm Of Mr.. Graves. The
coal lies fifteen feet under ground.
Caldwell Journal: The water-works
VIII be completed some time in the near
future. The stand-pipe is up about 10
feet high now, and as soon as it is file
with water the remaining fifty feet viii
be put on.
Rain on Thursday, a -soaker on Friday, |
a drencher on Saturday, a torrent on
Sunday, a gully washer on Tuesday,
and fine growing weather at present is
the way the Southern Kansas Gazette |
puts it.
Saline County Journal: 1t is stated
that a proposition was made to the Union /
Pacific by the Missouri Pacific that the
roads should unite in building a unioI
depot, and that the proposition was re-
jected by the o. P.
The total valuation Of Chautauqua |
county as returned by the assessors is |
81, SOP, $4,000 The state board of I
Equalization has raised this sum II per
cent, making the total taxable valuation
for 1886 Sits, 958.15.
Usage City Free Press: Frank Bry-
ant took forty-nine head of cattle TO
Kansas City market last week that
averaged 1,190 ponds and brought
$685.. They lacked about IS per head
Of paying for their feed.
The little son Of Mr.. and Mrs. a. j.
Bates Of Sterling, Rice county, was struck |
by an engine as he went to cross the
railroad track and was thrown into the
air by the blow and when picked up life
was extinct. The entire left side of his
head was crushed.
Garnett Eagle: Quite a seriozs wreck
occurred on the Missouri Pacific near the |
Lane marble works, Saturday night. Ow-
ing to a defective rail, the engine and six
cars Of merchandise were thrown from
the track and more or less torn to pieces. |
No one was injured.
William Scott, who resides at No. 81 /
Washington street, Topeka, was brought /
home last week from out on the Santa Fe (
road, where he had been engaged in |
bridge building. Mr.. Scott was stricken /
down with paralysis, and his case Is Of
such a nature as to compel his removal |
home.
Clyde Herald: Beioit City and town /
ship are asked to vote S67, 900 in bonds
to aid in the construction of Kansas
Midland railroad to that city. Other
townships In the county through which
the road runs are asked for S54, 600 more, |
making a grand total Of $4,000.
Ellsworth Reporter: The city council
VIII erect a two story building on the
school house grounds. The first story
viii be divided into two rooms and used
by the two fire companies for the hose, |
carriages and other city property. The
upper story viii be used for a council /
chamber.
At the state meeting Of the Y. NJ. @. /
A. IN Topeka, F. @. futile, of Leaven- /
worth, was selected as president, and A. F.
W. Coates, Of Atkinson, as secretary F..
of the district, composed Of Marshall, /
NemEha, Brown, DOniphaD, POttawato- !
ME, Jefferson, LeavenWorth, Wyandotte, /
Douglass, johnson, Atkinson, jackson I
and Miami counties.
Wamego Reporter: No freight trains |
on the Kansas Division of the u. P. road /
are allowed to carry passengers. This |