Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-07-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Topeka has a bachelors club.
Harper, Harper county, has a debt Of
$4,000.
Clay Center is discussing the public
library question
The old settlers Of Cloud county held
a reunion on July 3.
Several cases Of small Pox are reported
in Mcpherson county.
The Concordia Empire has entered
upon its seventeenth year.
The collections Of Leavenworth coun-
ty for June amounted to over $4,000.
Salina has organized a base ball asso-
citation with a capital stock Of $4,000.
A new national bank has been organ
lied at Mcpherson with a capital Of $780,
600.
Sterling, Rice county, has decided to
vote $4,000 in bonds to construct
system OF water works.
The sheriff OF Smith county arrested
two fifteen year old boys, the other day,
charged with horse stealing.
Hutchinson has voted bonds to aid the
construction Of a Missouri Pacific ex-
tension from Wichita and the citizens are
jubilant.
The city Of Frankfort derives a small
revenue from the city park, the grass
thereon having been sold to the highest
bidder for S16.1O.
NJ Ersf1-- . ,sts.,, ~ T7,,,,,,,5,
who has been missing for some few
months, and whom 1t was supposed had
been fOully dealt with has turned up
safe and sound
Clay Center Dispatch: James A.
Henry has the best rat terrier dog in the
United States. She only weighs a
pounds yet she can az j has killed 100
rats intwO hours.
A scheme is being worked up at We
megO, POttaWatOmie county, to dam the
Kansas river at that point for the PUr-
pose Of obtaining water power. The
scheme Is very feasible.
Logan. Phillips county, Freeman
James Mckay has been shocked three
times by lightning, but it has not hurt
him yet. IT is pretty hard to hurt a
Kansas man after he has been IN the
state few years.
Attorney General Bradford is IN re-
ceipt Of letters from Doniphan county
wherein complaint is made that a num-
Der of the officials of that county neglect
or refuse to do their duty when directed
| by tire proper authorities.
A proposition has been submitted to
! the electors Of Harper county, to vote
bonds to the Chicago, st. Joe & Fort
/ Worth railroad. The road is to run from
/ Wichita to Harper, then to Anthony, and
is to be completed within twenty months.
An election was held at Brainerd
/ Butler county, last week, for the purpose
OF selecting a mayor. Two candidates
were in the field, and after counting it
was discovered that each man had "a
votes. The judges then decided the tie
by lot.
Smith Center Pioneer: Mrs. Fanny
R. Nillard, our present county suPerin-
/ tendent, is being favOrably mentioned
/ for reelection. Mrs. Willard during
her term Of Office has given almost uni
versI satisfaction and the schools Of the
county were never in a better condition
than now.
Mrs. Fred Pierce, Of Abilene, Dickin-
son county, was badly gOred by a steer
the other day, as she was walking In the
streets Of that city. Her parasOl in some
way enraged the nfuriated beast and he
made for her, catching her with his horns
threw her 20 feet. She received injuries
which while painful are not necessarily
fatal.
In order TO retain the trade Of the sci
tiers Of the southwestern counties the
enterprising citizens Of Garden City
talk OF building a plank road through
Che said hills and sinking a well at som,
convenient point where teams can b,
watered, and pure, fresh water viii b,
convenient for all purposes. The eE
pense Of this work wOuld be considerable
but the merchants seem determined t.
have It
Conductor Patterson, IN charge OF al
excursion train, attempted to climb on I
car Just before reaching Baldwin bridge
near Ottawa, and was knocked OF and g,
seriously injured that he died from tn
effects shortly afterwards. Deceased haC
been in the employ OF the Southern
Kansas railroad a number Of years a
/ freight conductor.
c. @. Clemens died very suddenly a
Sedan, Chautauqua county, the Othe
day, from some mysterious cause, whicl
Is yet to be explained. 1t was suspected
that he had taken morphine either witt
suicidal intent or else it was administered
to him by W. @. Burk, a gambler, Wit
had lately been EssOciEting with Clemen
, a great deaf. The matter viii be in
vestigated by the coroner.
ae Risks the Collections.
Sam Jones in indianapolis.
saw the biggest and meanest lie il
the indianapolis journal this morning
that was ever published on man or