Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-12-11
STATE NEWS

A charter Of a street railroad between
Cottonwood Falls and Strong City, Kan,
sas, has been secured and work viii begin
shortly.
The Wamego AgriclItITist says a man
/ living north Of WestmOreland was re-
Gently vietimized to the tune OF 5000 by
a bogus Patent-rights agent.
Wichita has donated a $4,000 piece
Of ground to L. NJ. Crawford toward an
opera house enterprise. The house, ex-
/ elusive Of ground, viii cost $4,000.
The Globe says: The favo1i5e ganb-
ling among the negroes Of AtchlsOn is
shooting craps" and a hundred or more
can be seen playing the game at their
dives every evening.
Hanover Democrat: For q violation of
the prOhibitory law, G.. Messal, Of Marys-
vile, and Charley Weller, Of Hanover,
plead guilty, and were fined 500 and
costs each, and given thirty days in jail
Hanover Democrat: L. schenck was
arrested last week on an old charge
for violating the prohibiuOry law. taken
before Esq. Buenting, plead guilty, fined
500 and costs amounting TO S135,00
and was given go days in jail.
Anthony Republican: A lady drum
mel was buzzing the grocers the other
day, for an extract house, and she has q
pleasant but business-ike way about If,
too. This is respectfully referred to the
woman sutfragists as a step IN advance.
Downs Times: J. r. Slayman, the
contractor, left Downs very suddenly
the other day, with the evident intention
of never returning, and it has since
transpired that he has left a number Of
parties here in the lurch to the amount
of about S2,OOO.l
Wallace County Register: The name
of the men frozen to death il the biz
zard, between Gopher and Sheridan was
EndIcOtt. They were father and son
and had claims northwest of Gopher.
They hailed from Ellsworth. They
were very thinly clad or they need not
have persisted.
Fort Scott Monitor: A farmer by
the name of Morrison, living three
miles north and one-half east Of Hepler,
while digging a we'll yesterday, struck a
heavy vein Of natural gas at the depth
Of sixteen feet. The wonderful sub
stance seems to exist in untold quanti-
ties all around us.
Fort Scott Monitor: A fine vein of
coal, fOrty-five inches thick has Just been /
discovered on the Brown farm, near
Cato, at the depth of $50 feet. The
shaft is situated on the line between
Bourbon and Crawford counties, and
both counties have occasion to rejoice /
over the vein.
The trial Of Carl ALcCIintock, who, on
the 10th Of July, killed his wife and at !
tempted afterwards to take his own life, /
terminated in Wichita. The case was
given to the jury and they returned a
verdict of murder IN the second degree. /
The defense introduced by bis attorney
was insanity.
Lincoln Republican: Lincoln viii be
as a city of the second |
class III the spring. The population !
lacks but one hundred Of the necessary |
two thousand. How is that for growth? !
An increase from 800 to 1900 in one
year. Let other towns in Kansas blow |
about their little boOmlets.
Caldwell Journal: Eleven wood |
haulers were arrested at Arkansas CITY |
last week and placed under bonds to |
appear before the United States district /
court, at Wichita, and answer to the /
charge Of grand larceny. It is pretty |
rough on the boys to thus loose their |
of cutting and hauling wood |
from the Indian Territory, just as the |
harvest is ready for them.
Lawrence University Courier: A Ger /
tain young man of K. S. U. who lives
to trip the light fantastic toe (the last |
five words are not Originally recently |
wrote home for his dancing pumps to be |
sent to him, but was astOnished and per /
picked at receiving instead a bible from /
his father. He doesn't understand how /
the mistake could have been made
Abe France, a line repairer Of the
Kansas and Missouri Telephone com
pany, climbed to the top of one Of the /
poles in South LeavenWOrth for the pur- |
pose Of adjusting the wires, when the
pole broke short of at the ground, pre- !
France a distance Of thirty |
feet, fractuEing the left hand and elbow |
Joint. The wounded man is unmarried /
and a resident Of Kansas City.
Holton Signal: A Pottawatomis In
dian came to Spencer & Berridgs's shop |
last Monday and for good and valua- /
BILE consideration agreed to ind the |
horses stolen from their stables a week /
previous. The price Of the Indians ser
vices was agreed upon and Mr.. Spencer |
went to the reserve, southwest of the
city, in company with his copper cOlOred /
guide. He was taken to a point where
grew some thick brush and timber and
there found his missing horses. No sat /
isfactory clue as to how the horses came
there could be obtained.
Sumner County Standard: At al
meeting Of the stockholders Of the Vel
ingtOn stone-cOal company, held re-
Gently, they decided to pay Mr.. Cross
man $500 for the casing, cancel his con
tract and seal up the hole, for the pres
emf, at any rate. Some Of the stock
holders were in favor Of continuing the
work, but after considerable discussion.
no way was devised by which the money
could be raised for that purpose. 1t was
stated at the meeting that the sum of
S2,25O would be necessary TO pay the
expense Of going 500 feet deeper. We
hope that this decision will soon be re-
versed by the coal company, and an Of
fort made to raise the necessary funds
to continue the good work.
Larned Eagle Optic: Mr.. ". a
Camp, who returned from his ranch In
the north part of the country, reports