Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-12-14
STATE NEWS.

Hanover Democrat: Tt is reported
/ that the St. Joe s. Grand Island folks
think OF putting in small repair shops
Rt Hanover.
Monument Obelisk: Elkader has a
chartered irrigation company and they
viii endeavOr TO irHgate about 200 acres
Of ground the coming season.
Ailtonvale News: The last @ooon"
departed from cur city on last Tuesday.
Clay Center viii keep her citizens at
home. They are not needed up this
way.
Alton Empire: Our neighboring
town Of Osborne is very much eiated
just now at the prospect Of securing the
Omaha, Dodge City and Southwestern
railroad.
Minneapolis Democrat: Miss Kate
Lynch, daughter Of Humphrey Lynch,
was struck BY the whsel Of a runaway
team, severely bruising her on the hip
and back.
Terry Eye: The Friend, Scott county,
postmaster turned his Office over to the
Scott City officials, hence that Office is
defunct, and VIII likely be discontinued
IN the near future.
Ingals Union: jack Station, who was
thrown from a horse at Geo. E. Morgan's
ranch on Wednesday OF last week, is not
expected to live for more than a day or
two, his condition being so critical.
Industrialist: The library OF the
Kansas State Agricultural college has
over 5000 bound volumes AID Rbout
$500 pamphlets. The accession Of
/ bound volumes during the year ending
June 80, 1888, we're 1856.
Coolidge Timss: An extra force Of
zen are watching the railroad company's
sOal piles. If the approaching winter
is the least severe, considerable trouble
viii be experienced in preventing poor
people from stealing coal.
Santa Fe Monitor: The school has
opened up In the new school building.
The entire building viii be completed
next week, we are informed, It is very
creditable edifice and viii make q good
ward school building by-and-bye, when
the city becomes a metropolis. The
schools, by the way, are making q fine
start and doing good work.
Usage City Free Press: I. d. Leh-~
man purchased barrel Of select apples,
(three bushels, or 453 appIes), Of Chae.
j. Rapp, and shipped them by freight
TO New York City from which place
they will be sent to Europe. Mr.. Leh-
mans object in shipping so far is to find
out whether it can be made profitable
to ship A No. apples to Europe from
Kansas.
EmpOria Democrat: isaac Hess, an
old resident of Emporis, fell from the
root OF his sons new house, upon which
ne was working, and sustained some
/ serious injuries about the head and
shoulders. He was taken 20 his home
and his wounds were dressed. It was
found that no bones were broken, but
that his left shoulder and the side of hiRE
head were very severely bruised.
Wichita Eagle: A prominent contraes~
tor Of this city who has submitted a bid
for the construction Of the government
building, has received 8 message from
the supervising architect at Washington
asking if he could give bond and when
be could have the building completed.
He answered the message in a way that
no exceptions could be taken. It is
thought that looked favorable for a
Wichita CONTRACTOR to get the contract.
Garden City Sentinel: jack Station
died yesterday on the Morgan ranch, in
Gray county and will be buried In the
Pierceville cemetery. It viii be remem-
bered that Stations horse fell with him
while rounding up cattle. In falling he
sustained q conclusion Of the brain, and
never regained consciousness again. The
deceased was about 80 years old, He
vas native Of Boston, and one OF
party Of six who came here in 1879, and
/ the only one of them who remained. 1t
is said that he had accumulated con
siderable property. The only relative
where in the eRst.
a. G. Stacy in Kansas City Journal:
The fEst sight that greeta a stranger on
entering Hutchinson is the smoke rolling
out Of forty to fifty smoke stacks, ali
towering above the various salt works.
These, with the three switch engines con
sbantly at work, the new belt road,
owned by all the lines entering that city,
the work now being done on the build
inRs for the boiler works, the new pack
ing houses, the oil refinery. the lard re-
fnery, the sorghum sugar works and the
new sugar refinery, show q live, pos
porous city. Fifty car loads OF freight
daily, originating at Hutchinson, bring
money to that happy people. There
may be 'hies'' there, but no grass grows
on the streets.
The Wichita Eagle gives the text Of
two bills which the next legislature viii
be asked to pass. One of these author
ICES the deduction Of SO the first year
I'D Sc 70. erIsarnanE zaara "a TO-