Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-03-20
KANSAS STATE MEMS
Eureka is bor5ne for coal


A board Of trade Is soon to be organ
lied at Council Grove.
Astreet railroad from Junction City TO
Ft Riley is talked Of
The public school library Of Marys-
vile has ZIG Volumes.
Anthony. Harper county, is soon to
have a system Of water works.
A new creamery has been established
at Yates Center, WoOdson county.
The body of an unknown Hfelass IN
FAINT was found the other day near Fort
Scott.
j. q. Jenkins, a leading grocer of Otta-
wa, Franklin county, made an assign
ment.
The voting population of Cherokee
county, according to the returns Of 1885,
is 6,417.
An assembly of the knights of Labor
is soon to be organized at Marysvlle,
Marshall county.
But six DRINKS were disposed of in
the Emporia police court during the
month Of February.
Dodge City has an electric light com
Pany, street railway company and a
water works company.
In one year a Chautauqua county
loan agent made loans on farm mortgages
to the extent of $4,000.
There is now in the county treasury
of Cherokee county about $4,000 in
cash. OF this $1,000 belongs to the
poOrfund.
There are 9,782 persons of school age
in Cherokee county, of which 1919 are
males and 1903 are females, which is
very nearly an equal division.
The state board Of education has
granted a certificate to Prof. Lewis Scott.
of MaFysville, authorizing him to con-
duct normal institutes throughout the
state.
Cherokee county has SIP persons
between the ages of is and A years, or
subject to bear arms In the state militia
Five full regiments of able-bodied men
could be organized in this county.
Beatie citizens are excited over the
discovery Of silver in paying quantities
in a well near that city. Aspecimen was
sent to the government assay Office at
Omaha, and showed twelve ounces to the
ton.
Hanover township, Washington coun-
ty, is paying of $4,000 of railroad
bonds this year, leaving $4,000 to be
r paid next year; there is now $4,000 in
/ the county treasury for the above pur-
pose.
Kenneth Sentinel: Deeds covering six
| ty-four sections OF railroad land, about
/ Al, 900 acres, were fled for record last
week. Estimating this land at 81 per
acre, it viii add SI64,OOO to the list of
taxable property in Sheridan county.
A crusade is being instituted by the
officers of the law against the gamblers
of Burlington, Coffey county. The other
day ten of them were arrested charged
with violating the law and all gave bail
for their appearance for trial.
Columbus Times: OF the population
of Columbus, 2,265 are native born,
eightv-nine foreigners and 252 are col
ored persons. OF the foreign born,
twenty-nine are Germans, eleven Irish,
twenty-four English, one Scotch, four
French and nineteen Canadians.
The Baxter Springs Ne1rs says: 'In
case of the State VS. G. 2. Walker, charg-
ed with cruelty treating two of his pu-
pills by denying them entrance to the
/ school house because they were tardy on
la very cold morning, the jury found a
verdict Of guilty, and the court imposed
a fine Of $40 and costs
A dispatch from Columbus Cherokee
county, says: In the fraudulent mortgage
cases from Columbus before Judge Harper
of the district court, @. u. Woodruff, Bar
|ney and Baer were discharged. r. ii.
Lawton, III. V. GaUgan and j. S. and
Mary Copeland gave bonds for their ap-
Y pearance at the April term of the district
/ court.
The charter Of the the Kansas State
Line Railway company has been fled
with the secretary of state. Place of
business, Arkansas City Route, from
the east line of Crawford county in a
southwesterly direction to Arkansas City,
Kan; thence to the east line of the state of
Colorado. Estimated length of main
line and branches, 700 miles. Capital
stock, S8,OO0,OOO.
Deputy United States Marshal Herwicz
and United States Commissioner +. IL.
Clark, both of Eureka, were brought to
Topeka the other day on a charge of at
tempting to extOrt money from William
Mckee, of the Indian territory. They
were taken before Judge Foster and
gave bonds in the sum Of $1,000 each
for their appearance at the April term of
the United States district court.
Columbus Times: The population of
Cherokee county In 1860 was 1901 and
was then the tWenty-second in popula-
5 ton IN the state; in 1870 was II, OBS and
, tenth county; In 1875 was 1929 and
j the thirteenth county; in 1880 was d.
800 and the fifth county; in 1885 (last
census, was 25,003 and the fourteenth
county. At present there are, including
, the towns, a persons to the square mile,
or 30 persons to the square mile of rural
population.
Cimarron Sod House: A stranger
coming here VIII be told that al the
government land has been taken up,
while the facts are that there is a large
number of scattering tracts all over the
r county which have been overlooked OF
: are being Struggled by persons who
have located here for their friends who
are to follow. ANY person can ascertain
these facts by paying the register Of
lands S1.O0 for a township plat show
ing all the vacant land