Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-06
STATE NEWS.

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The Hugo city council will erect two
more Windmills and tanks.
Seventeen final proofs we're flied in
Stevens county last week.
A building and loan association is b.
ing organized in Scott City.
Morton county farmers have an album
dance Of feed and some to sell.
Last week thirty three final proof re-
ceipts were fled in Scott county.
Ten infants were found in Wichita a
few days ago buried in one grave.
The total assessed value Of ali taxable
| property in Sumner county for 1887 is
S7,817,O5O
There Is d mad dog excitement at Lar
ned, and the Mayor has ordered all m
registered dogs to be shot.
Lyman Brilliant accidentally shot and
killed hiusef near Parsons.
The meat shops of Harper have
combined to close up on Sundays here
after.
The young ladies Of Garden City will
make leap year calls on the LIST Of Janu-
airy.
A young woman in Winfield but II
years old has been married and divorced
twice.
Stockton has 500 houses and 1900
population. There are forty stores and
tivs hOtels.
The Meade Center schools have an en-
rollment Of 181, with an average at
tendance OF 131.
The great state Of Kansas has over
100000 school children. The exact
figures are 52I,O
The public school at Touganoxie has
closed for two weeks on account Of the
prevalence Of diphtheria in that locality.
The Sedgwick high schools have a Ii
braEy Of over 200 volumes, and will soon
add fifty more to the list.
st. Louis and Kansas City capitalists
have organized a stock company to bore
wells and supply Baxter Springs with
natural gas.
The Great Bend Tribune is OPP osed
to the universal language on the ground
that its nams-Vo lBpuk-has a patent
medicine smell about it.
Gus Brandt committed suicide at Par
sons, by shooting himself with shot
gun. He was II years old. and killed
himself on account Of bad health.
John Harbough committed suicide at
MCPHERSON a few days ago. Despond-
ency and financial losses were the causes.
He leaves a wife and two children.
Ellis claims between ten and twelve
hundred population, and asks the county
commissioners that the town be incor-
pOrated as a city of the third class.
The Horton Headlight claims to have
fOund an onion eight inches in diameter,
and weighing four pounds and six
ounces.
Fort Scott Monitor: Hou. Allen g.
Thurman, Of Ohio, has purchased about
100 acres Of real estate in the suburbs Of
Fort Scott.
Wichita continues to be the Mecca OF
great many clipping couples and run
away wives. About three per week OF
each is the average.
Claude Nipps, a 14-year-old boy, the
son Of the county treasurer, WIS killed by
the falling down Of &. horse he was
riding, a few days ago.
Burglars broke in the door Of the
sheriff's Office at Wichita and stole sever
al hundred dollars worth OF liquors
which that official had cOnhEcated.
Harvey A. Wells, a prominent real es-
tate dealer and wealthy citizen Of Ed |
mond, Norton County, died suddenly at |
a st. Joseph sanitaEium, q few days ago. !
The aggregate deposits Of the five
National and two Ssvings' banks Of |
Atchison, as shown by their official re-
ports, published a few days ago, are ST.
159, $50 81.
RichfeId correspondence Of the Gar
den City Sentinel: Jack rabbits are
playing havoc with the fruit trees since
the snow fall. This county has several
thousand jacks to spare.
The board Of county commissioners Of
Ellis county has decided to pay a boun- i
ty Of $3.50 on the scalps Of coyotes, and /
50 On the scalps Of gray wolves between
December 18th and Nay LIST.
Eureka Republican: The Republican
has it on good authority that eleven |
families from one neighborhCOd IN the /
eastern part OF this state expect to move 4
to Greenwood county this fall.
Ida Parrot, Of Logan township, Meade
a nine year-old girl, recently 1
had her left leg shot of above the ankle, 4
by the accidental discharge Of q shot /
gun in the hands Of Louis VanhOrn.
Junction City Union: A landmark on
the line between Nebraska and Kansas,
In Beaver Valley, is q beer key with the /
faucet end turned north. The dry END /
sbuts on Kansas most appropriately.
Atchison Champion: Mr.. FAIRIES, the
AtchisOn sculptor, has executed IN
marble & fine specimen, which is now on /
exhibition at Hums's billiard hall Mr. /
FAIRIES talks Of putting it NJ or rattle.
Governor Martin, E. ". Howe and I
Fl. Clay Park VIII Ohiciate ss floor |
managers at the ball to given under the /
auspices Of the Atchison Typographical
Union, On the evening Of January 18th. |
". P. Rupert and NJ. F. McGauhey.
two farmers living near JetmOre, while
engaged in an alteration q few days
ago, come nesr killing each other. One
Wss armed with gun and the other
with a knife. Each was attempting to
commit fatal injuries upon the other,
VI hen the quarrel vas stopped BY neigh
bOrs.