Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-20
KANSAS NEWS.


RE Tuesday abont eight miles south o.
Scot City. His head was crushed and
his body badly naangled. He had gone
out to picket some ponies and In some
manner became entangIed In the ropes,
and the ponies becoming Unmanage-
able, ran away with him and dragged
the life ont of him.
The Kansas Farmer presents reports
from special correspondents in seventy
counties of the state, showing a very
good condition of things generally
among the farmers. Wheat is the best
we have had since 1884; it is about all
harvested and saved. Heavy yields are
reported in many cases. The average
will be fully equal to that of our best
year-twenty-tw bushels to the acre.
The corn acreage Is the largest ever re.
ported in a,.y one year of our history,
and the stand and condition are re-
ported good in every part of the state.
With favorable weather we Will have
200, 900, 600 bushels to show for the
work of 1888. In the new counties
farmers are in happy mood; corn, mil
let, grasses of all kinds growing vigor-
ously and garden vegetables in luxuri-
ant growth Alfalfa, sorghum, rice
corn and kaftir are in the best possible
condition. Rye is good everywhere. A
few localities suffered from dry weather
and chinch bugs in early June, and an
occasional field of corn has been at
tackled along the edges by bugs, but
these exceptions are really very few.
The truth is that Kansas, as a whole,
is in excellent condition, with encOurag-
ing prospects all along the line. There
is plenty of time yet to make up for
all shortages in the earlier part of the
season.
A special from G euda Springs says {:
While the Fourth was being celebrated
1t was ascertained that Ike David, Jim
Cherry and one named Silmans, all
colored, from Arkansas City, had
opened a whisky stand in a corn field
near by. Mayor l.. G. Kenyon and
Justice of the peace Furry went out to
put an end to the proceedings, when
Cherry shot the former through the
bowels, wounding him fatally, and the
latter through the leg. After which
the two swan the Arkansas river and
escaped to the Indian Territory. A
posse was organized and started in hot
pursuit.
Wednesday morning at s o'clock at
the junction southwest of Wellington
north bound Rock Island engine
struck the tender of an east bound
Santa Fa freight, throwing it and the
engine off the track and damaging them
considerably. No one was seriously
injured. Charley Hedgen, conductor
of the freight, was cut about the head ;
Sherman Lupher, engineer of the
freight, IN trying to save his engine,
was caught and went down with 1t, but
crawled out from under the wrecked
engine with but few scratches.
The third regiment of Kansas State
militia held special encampment in
Burlingame, with the following compa-
MES present. Co. f, Emporia; Co. O..
Usage City; Co. b, HoltOn; Co. F,
Howard Co. D, Burlingame and bat
terry b. with two field pieces, of Topeka,
In all about 300 men, with the third
regimental band were in attendance
The encampment was under the con
troll of Lieutenant Colonel L. Z. Finch
and Auiutant Harry Frost.
Atchison Champion: c. J. Jones, of
Garden City, known in Kansas as
Buffalo Jones, from the fact of his
buffalo hunters in the days when buf-
falo We're numerous in this state. has
organized a stock company, with cap
ital of 500, 600, for the purpose OF
PrOpagating the rapidly disappearing
American bison. His buffalo ranch is
located in Finney county,
Commonwealth: The executive Office
has been considerably disturbed fer a
couple Of days over n couple Of commu-
nications from S. LAM, French consul
lar agent at Kansas City, who, on July
4, telegraphed Governor Martin that
David Murdie had dispatched from To-
Peka to President Carnot, in Paris,
asking protection for his life. NJ LAM
was directed to make inquiries and
asked his excellency to wire such in
formation as he possessed.
The governor replied, July ,, as fol-
lows: Il cannot obtain any information
concerning David Murdie, or one
else In danger. If such a dispatch as
you refer to was sent from Topeka to
the French president it must have been
sent by crazy man.. A letter was
yesterday received from LAM. The
telegram sent to CarnOt read: Protect
our lives. Get US to France. VIII be
citizens. Send escort.
Commonwealth The State Histor-
ical society has Just come into posses
sion of a copy of The Boston Gazette
and County Journal, " not an original,
but a reprint which is in itself very
rare. 1t was Obtain6d through W. W.
Cohn, who found it while going through
some old papers. The Gazette-J our
nal, as it would he called nowadays,
announces that it contains "the fresh
est advices, foreign and domestic. -
This particular number bares date OF
March 10 11IO at which time the