Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-09
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CAPITAL NOTES.

Bill Nye, the funny man, was ban
quoted by the Topeka press club q few
days ago.
The East Side railway will be built this
spring and summer. The contract has
! been signed for the immediate ccnatruc-
! ton Of some seven miles OF road.
It is reported that 12-ineh vein Of
/ coal has been passed through by the
! borers Of the Topeka coal hole. 1t is
! expected within the next go days to
make the 1000 feet contracted for.
The board Of railroad commissioners
has ordered the immediate construction
/ Of proper connections at Ottawa, between
/ the Missouri Pacific and Southern Kan
sas railroad companies.
The contract for the construction
the Topeka cotton factory was let 4 few
days ago. The cost of the building
alone viii be S27, 600. The cost Of the
machinery will aHount to $4,000.
The following changes were an
nOunced recently On the Chicago, Kan
sas & Nebraska railroad, by authority Of
r. R. Cable. president or the Rock Island
route at Chicago. Mr. @. W. Fisher hay
ing resigned the position of general man
! ager Of this company, the following ap-
| pOintments are announced: Mr.. ii. A.
Parker, lin addition to his other duties)
general manageri headquarters, Topeka,
Kan.
The Topeka Commonwealth says:
! The Topeka too and implement factory
is turning out work by the carload. The
windmill factory is in active operation.
/ We have the largest cracker and candy
| factory west Of st. Louis. The Topeka
wheel factory is rolling bravely along,
with nearly 100000 stock subscribed.
/ The Topeka starch works tarn out an
article that is known in all the MAJ Aets
Of the civilized Worl6. The canning COM
pany is preparing to do five times the
business they did LAST year.
A concerted effort is being made by
/ the bankers union Of Topeka and her
business men To make this city the clear
/ ing house for Kansas business. Kansas
/ City has long enjoyed the monopoly Of
clipping of h quarter or a dime from Kan
sas banks and for g lOPg time the inter
change Of banks drawn in even the larger
cities of Kansas has been attended with
more or less shaving. By an agreement
now is effect. good checks drawn on
/ Topeka banks are honoFed in the larger
Kansas cries aud the establishment Of a
clearing house at Topeka for Kansas
business may be accomplished.
Topeka Commonwealth: A letter has
been received Mrs. DR. Flint, nee Eva
Black, by her father, DR.. 81. ii. Black.
She saws she is with her husband at the
home of his parents in Minneapolis.
Her parents are requested not TO WC-ry
about her; that she was perfectly happy,
etc. The father has received a
communication from the Justice OF the
peace at Kansas City who performed the
marriage ceremony for the runaway
couple, stating that the marriage was
lagal IN evsry particular. Thud ends
the lively F1nsatiOn that turned the
state capital topsy turvey for twenty
/ four hours and pgrLlyzed all the police
officers and cOnstables within a radius Of
forty miles.
The doll sent by Governor Martin and
/ other state house officials to Mrs. ingalls,
! for the g. A. r. fair to be held in WGsh-
/ ingtOn, is described by Miss ingalls,, who
! is doing a good deal OF writing for the
| New York papers, as "A typical belle OF
the central preiFies, looking as if she had
been fed on Oscar Wilde's dainty dish Of
stewed sunAowsrs and fricasseed violets.
She is a genuine strawberry blonde.
nearly three feet high, and, as the gov
ernor quotes II his letter OF transmission,
she has caught in the meshes OF her hair
the light of the Kansas EuD, and IN her
ewes the violet shadows that girt the
Kansas sky at evening"" a cynical
Kansas man says, that as straw berry
blondes are as rare as one to 10000
among Kansas girls, he don't see why it
is called typical"