Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-03-08
KANsAs STATE NEWS.

Atwood Citizen: The school district
OF both Achilles and Ohardon have voted
$500 in bonds 20 build frame school
houses. They viii be great convention
css 10 well settled districts Of country.
Holton Recorder: The farm house of
Michael Flynn, IN Cedar township, south
west part OF the county, was entirely
consumed by fire, presumably started by
an ineendiary. It carried $500 insur-
ance.
Junction City Union: Through trains
have been put on the Blue Valley Branch
at Manhattan, and now run direct to
Omaha. This viii be q great Conven-
fence to passengers, and a good move
for the road.
The Oskaloose Independent gets hap
Ply because a canning factory has been
decided upon there. The building is to
be 64x80 and 26x64, two-stories; with
machinery capable Of turning out 49,,
GOO cans day.
Emporia Republican: There Is an
old gentleman living in town who served
as conductor on a railroad FOR forty
years and six months and was never in a
with any other railroad accident.
Russell Springs Leader: The county
commissioners have Instructed the cOun-
ty attorney to bring suit against Trego
county to recover taxes collected from
this county after it was organized to the
amount Of some thirty-eight hundred
dollars.
Great Bend Democrat: D. @. Luse,
Of the American Coursing Kennels, Of
this city, is working some of his 'run-
ners'' and preparing for the coursing
meeting at Hutchinson, on the Ath Of
March. We predict tEet the Great
Bend dogs will carry OFF some of the
prizes.
ST. Marys Star; Laclede item: Miss
Rachael TimmOns, daughter Of our rep
ressntative in the legislature, IS a COM
poser OF music of no mean ability. Her
latest production is a wedding march,
which would do credit to one who pro
fessed having made music special
study.
Strong City Republican: There has
been discovered in the shaft being sunk
by Lansry near this city, large vein
OF ore about twenty-five feet below
the surface. This ore when heated, pro-
duces q metal resembling silver and men
who have worked in silver mines think
that possibly it is the precious metal.
Wellington Standard: Harper City's
WaterWorks a7erted a disastrous blaze
there. The oil room of the Glenn drug
store caught fire, and it looked es If q
big fire was imminent for time, but a
we'll directed stream Of water by the fire
company confined the fire to the room it
originated in, and it alone was destroyed.
Soldier City Tribune: jackson coun-
tv has 100 miles Of railroad, four ineOr-
porated cities, seven towns, Rbont so
county bridges, 80 school houses, about
80 churches, 100000 acres under fence,
| 245, 900 acres in farms. 10000 horses,
1000 mules, $4,000 cattle and last but
not least, intelligent and progressive Cit
liens.
Jetmors Sifbings: R. F. Bryant, sec
rotary Of the state board of pharmacy,
was here and closed the drug store Of j.
| P. Fry for violation Of the state phRr-
macy laws, Mr.. Fry not being regis
tered pharmacist. MIR. Bryant is wag-
ing quite a war on the Kansas drug
stores, having closed fifteen in the last
two weeks.
Troy Chief: VIM. Morshead, who
lives at Horton and works in the car
! shops, was severely hurt. He was at
work under q car, when another work
man, with blow Of a sledge hammer,
Ioosened a heavy piece of iron weighing
about six hundred pounds, which fell
upon Morehead bruising and spraining
him badly and perhaps injuring him in
ternally.
Leoti Farmer: MIR. Robt. Harris, pro-
prietor Of the mill at this place, favored
us with a sample OF his rice corn meal.
This meal. when mixed with q small
quantity Of wheat -four makes an excel
/ lent battercake 70 seems to be g COM
promise between the corn cake and the
buckwheat cake, not so rough as the
corn, and does not have the strong fla
vor that is so Objectionable to buck
wheat. We predict large sale OF this
meal
Holton Recorder: Mr.. and Mrs. T.
P. Moore entertained the members Of
the faculty of the university at an e1e-
CANT and elaborate supper at their resi-
dence. Those who enjoyed their hospi-
tality were President and Mrs. Hoen-
shell, DR.. and Mrs. Tingley, Prof. and
Mrs. John O. Brown, Prof. and Mrs. a..
L. Candy, Prof. D. F. and Miss Lena
ConrRd, Miss Eva Halstead, Miss Edith
Mccain and Prof. J. J. RippetOe.
Junction City Union: The work Of
putting on new steel rails on the Union
Pacific road from Topeka to Junction
City has been in progress and the rails
are now distributed up TO this city. The
rails are OF the best quality of 70-pound