Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-13

in the county clerks Office of Keith
county 1t is said, also, that steps are
being taken by the B. & NJ. company
to construct a line through that county.
Such a line has been IN contemplation
and several surveys were made last
year.
Otis Koontz, fourteen years old, was
brought before Judge Bates at York,
Monday, charged with stealing 81 in
cash from Miss Eliza A. Hagee at the
| Waverly house last Saturday. He
confessed his crime and plead guilty
The court sentenced him to be COM
mitted to the reform school at Kearney.
Mrs. Miles Galland, living in Stock
vile, attempted suicide by taking a
pint of camphor and mixing some soap
with it, She had sent her boy for
laudanum and falling to get that she
took the dose above. She has lately
had trouble with her husband, who
refuses to live with her and was at one
time an inmate of the asylum.
James Vaughn, residing eight miles
north of Curtis, while on the way to
town in company with his wife and
child, carelessly allowed his foot to get
caught in the wheel and was violently
thrown to the ground. The team was
on a run and Mrs. Vaughn and child
were thrown out and the vehicle torn
to pieces. All escaped without injury.
The Beatrice board of trade commit
tee has concluded arrangements with
Hatfield of San Francisco for the early
opening of a tow factory, an establish
ment to utilize the product of fax
staw. In a short time a large brick
building will be erected, and this viii
be the beginning of what Will soon
prove an important manufacturing en-
terprise.
A party OF young men and boys went
to the house of Frank Perrin, a recent
ly married man, living in Wayne
county, to celebrate the event with a
| charavari. Perrin had loaded a shot
gun with salt and fired into the crowd,
the entire charge lodging in the face
of Hi Oman. The physician says he viii
lose the sight of both eyes. Perrin
has been arrested.
J. W. Boolzwalter, of Springfield, o,
is the owner Of 9,52O acres of fine land
in Greeley county, and II, 200 acres in
Valley county, all in the vicinity of
! Scotia. His agent Is making arrange
ments to put all of the land on the
market, to be sold to actual settlers
and at such prices and terms as viii Sc
cure its immediate occupation and cul-
| tivatiOn.
Messrs. Henry Pahde, George Bad
ding, o. Briggs, Diedrich NIisegadis.
! W. G. Lowry and John Lowry, we'll
| known farmers living in the vicinity of
/ Delta, are the incOrpOrators of an or
! ganiZatiOn to be known as the Planters
! Stock company. The capital stock is
| $50, 600, divided into shares of $25 each,
! and no member is allowed to hold more
than ten shares. Only farmers can be
members.
State Journal: The idea of an Indian
marrying a white girl seems to be more
appalling to some people than that of a
! Chinaman doing the same thing. As
! between the wild son of the forest and
! the saffron cOlOred MOngOlian the for
mer should seem the more desirable to
a person of sound Judgment. Neither
! the Indians or Cinnamon should be en-
! cOuraged to marry American girls,
! however.
Articles of incorporation of the Ne
braska City Bridge company have been
signed by J. @. Watson, F. T. Ransom,
! Paul Schminke, James Reed, @. W.
! Seymour, Adolph Heller, B. Steven
| son, O. ii. Van Wyck, William Nc
Lehman, E. S. Hawlery and S. n. Stew
art, and a pOntOOn bridge is an assured
/ fact. Work is to begin in April and
be completed by the middle of June if
present plans are carried out.
Omaha Bee: Streets that have cost
property owners thousands of dollars
| for paving, sewerage, and the like are
now being undermined and destroyed
| by rains and melting snow. There is
! one street In particular where the sur
face water has worked its way under
| the guttering and has now undermined
! the street for several blocks. What is
! worse, it appears to be nobody's bust
ness to investigate, not to say anything
of repairing the damage.
The secretary of the interior Thurs
/ day rendered some decisions in Nebras-
/ ka land cases. In the case of Thomas
/ Coone VS.. Dexter Leet, involving a
/ homestead entry IN the northeast quar-
| ter of section l. township north,
range 10 west, IN the Grand Island dis
/ trict, the decision OF the land commits
| siOner holding the entry for cancella-
] ton is affirmed. In the presumption
/ entry case of John E. Franklin, where
In the commissioner rejected his final
/ proof, the case involving the northwest
/ quarter of section 81, township 81.
range 4 west, NiObrara land district,
/ the decision of the commissioner is re
| versed and the secretary orders that
officer to direct the local land officer to