Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-01-27
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sUNFLOwER NEWS.

The heavy snow iHu about Clay
Center last week delayed trains consider
ably.
There viii be more railroad building
in southwest Kansas this year. than
/ last.
Grant county claims that within i've
years it will have a perfect system Of ir-
rigation.
E ". Vermillia, one Of the oldest
settlers in Douglas county, died at his
/ home near Lawrence.
A young man is doing up Kansas
1 towns by pretending to establish public
Libraries and collecting money.
The reduction on grain rates Of 8 cents
per hundred from Kapsas points to the
Mississippi river, has taken effect.
The autographs OF Savannah Sslter,
mayor Of Argo1ia. met with a resdy sale
/ at the woman suffrage bazaar IN Boston.
The Amazon and susz canals will be
completed through KaarneY county
during the coming spring and summer.
No merchandise can be sold on the
streets OF Springfield without a license,
and business men pay an occupation tax
too.
The stock of the Baxter Springs can
ming factory is held at S1.60 above par,
at Parsons, where a small block OF it is
owned.
A company If. being organized at Par
SONS to build a canning factory. 1t is
intended that the plant will cost about
$4,000.
a big pile of silver money in the
AtchisOn depot fire was melted into
solid mass, but gold coins were only tar
nished.
The Paola glass company has BEEN
reorganized and will again commence
work as soon as some changes are made
in the furnace, etc, at the works.
The grand jury at Atchison has re-
turned five indictments against liquor
sellers. It is reported that the special
objects OF the investigation are the drug
stores.
The city marshal of Wichita recently
knocked down a CONTEST, one Broadweli,
for abusing the police officers. Broad
we'll has brought civil action against
him for $4,000
Ottawa Journal: James Parkinson, a
brother of W. L., died at his home on
Railroad street a few days ago. He hsd
been i'll for several weeks, and his death
was not unexpected.
Ed Wilson, a Lawrence coRfecti0ner,
has been fined So end costs, in all Sl5
for violating the Sunday law. The
/ offense he was convicted on was the sale
OF 5 cents worth OF candy.
Newton Republican: Mr.. Benny
worth thinks that for seven or eight
thousand dollars he could transform his
old sugar mil. at Larnsd into a sugar
factory as effective as that at Fort Scott.
The grand jury in Cowley county has
reported to the board of county commits
sioners that the county jail is insecure
and too small to afford health or proper
cOmfortt or prisoners.
The Atchison Patriot notes a singular
association Of illiieracy and bad health in
that city. Nearly all the applications
for LIQUOR at the drug stores are made
by men who cannot sign their name5.
Burglars broke into the house OF the
Methodist minister at Larned a few
days ago and robbed it OF a large
quantity Of silverware and n sum Of
money, the whole amounting to $40.
Sterling Bulletin: A nine-year old
daughter Of Dell Town, who started ont
on horseback o bring home some cattle
the other evening, has not been
heard from since, though searching
! NJ IA HarT
1t is feared she has persisted in the
storm.
Mcpherson Republican: The county
commissioners have leased the CLARK
building for the term Of five years for
county purposes. They have tins
privilege TO cancel the lease at any time
/ before the expiration OF the time If the
county should builds court house. They
airs. RastaI end Mrs. Thurston, Presi-
dent and secretary OF the Kansas
Woman's Temperance union, acting for
the union, have located the State Indus
trial school for g rls, in Beloit. The
city gives forty acres Of ground and SO
OOO The schools aye to be opened in
temporary quarters about February Let,
1888.
Sterling Bulletin: The costs, amount
ing to 1.70O, in the libel suit against
". E. Carr have not IS yet been settled.
| Sheriff Stoddard visited Great Bend
& few days ago and escorted the former
editor OF the Ellinwood Express back TO
Rice county. The costs must either be
paid by Carr or this county.
Newton Republican: The Cbssrva-
tions taken by the government observer
at Fort Dodge, differ materially from
those taken by Prof Snow at Lawrence
The former makes the rainfall for 1887.
B.. 25 below the average for thirteen years.
while the latter makes only O.66 inches
below the average for twenty years.
The condition OF the people about
Garden City and IN southwestern Kansas
Is thus described by Rev. o. W. Jones
of Wichita, who has been holding revival
services IN that section OF the state:
''Whils The people are close run and
money scarce yet they gre doing re-
markedly well, and with few exceptions
they viii get through the winterin good
shape
Pratt County Republican: In any
spring term Of the State Agricultural
college, a class Of from twenty to thirty
farmers daughters may be seen each
day doing all the work Of a dairy, eZ-
cspt Eailking, with such appliances "a
or msy use il they viii. This lie
ATTENDED with lectures upon the art and
its applications OF science in botany ard
chemistry.
] Garden City Sentinel: Prof Snow,
at Lawrence, made the total rainfall for
I 1887 but little less than an average but