Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
jewell City Republican: Apricot

OCAkJAOo hOLA I'll N--o
new high school has begun, and when
finished the Delphos high school viii
rank with the best in the state.
A rain of about twenty-four hours
occurred early last week in nearly ev-
cry portion of the state. 1t came quiz
city in quick succeeding showers.
Olatbe Patron: Sod was taken from
that portion of the public square which
will be occupied by the cOnrt house.
and used for sodding the yard around
the new Jail building.
WASHINGTON, D. CT. A. Sheldon,
of Blue Rapids, has been appointed to
take charge of securing statistics con-
corning manufacturing in Marysville,
junction City, Abilene, Salina, Clay
Confer and Blue Rapids.
Eudora News: The following car
during the week: Shelled corn, twelve
cars; cattle, five cars; corn on cObs,
three cars; wheat, two cars; -four, one
car; ali to Kansas City.
Lancaster, Atchison county, a Mis-
souri Pacific station on the Omaha ex-
tension, shipped in the month of april,
thirty car loads OF stock and grain.
During the first week in May there were
shipped from there fifteen car loads of
corn and two of stock.
The frost of Monday morning, May
| II, was general over the most part of
| the state. First reports we're confident
in tone that but little. if any damage
was done. More careful reports show
! losses in gardens and some thinning
of peaches and grapes in certain quart
ers.
IOla.-The Fisher sisters, of this
place, whose hotel here has long been
accounted one of the best in the state,
have leased the Washington hotel, Gal
weston, Texas, and will re-fit it through
out and take possession May 10. They
still retain the management of the lola
house.
WASHINGTON, d. c. Chief Inspector
Rathbon, of the post-office department,
said he had Just completed investigating
the charge against Postmaster Allen at
Oswego, and that he had paid less for
rent than he reported to the depart
ment, and that personally he would in
sist on Aliens resignation.
The contract for Mt. st. Mary's acad-
envy, at Leavenworth, of which Mr..
Joseph Marshall of Topeka, is archi-
tect, has been let to Cuthbert & Sar-
! gent of Topeka. Wallace NJ. Rynerson
of the Topeka Press Brick company,
secured the brick which will amount to
IT'S cars or 100000 Bradley and
Van Dorp do the roofing.
Olathe Patron: The Spring Hill Co.
| Operative association has let the con-
tract for the erection of a new store
building in that place to l. W. Divil-
bliss, OF Olathe. The building is to be
of brick, two stories high. fifty feet
front, and 100 feet back, and to cost
! IS, 800. Cooperation comes to the
front rapidly when properly managed.
The Wichita Eagle reports thai a
man visited % farms in Sedgwick conn
| ty, all in a row, the first ten milAs from
the city, add found three of them mort
gagged, while che other % farmers all
had money either loaned out or in a
| bank. The man who reports this to
the Eagle is q farmer on the same road
who lives six miles out and whose name
is j. j. Hughes.
Atwood Citizen: The big canal de-
signed to irrigate Cheyenne and Raw
| Inns counties is under way. The con-
tract is let and about seventy-f five teams
are at work and more wanted. The
head OF the ditch taps the underhow
and surface water in Sand creek in Col
orado, then runs into and takes the
water from the lakes about Jaqua,
thence to the Republican river about
St. Francis and out on the divide south
of Wheeler.
Leavenworth Standard: For some
time Gov. Smith and Surgeon Weaver,
Of the Soldiers Home, have been con-
sidering the advisability of employing
trained women nurses at the Home hos
pital. Application was made to the
board and the reasons for the desired
change fully set forth. It is under
stood that the application has been ap-
proved and Gov. Smith intends to in
stall women nurses into the hospital not
later than July Is.
Independence Reporter: For several
years past, great many walnut logs
have been cut in the Usage country,
hauled to Caney, and shipped east. A
deputy q. S. marshal has concluded to
set down on the business and has or
dered the railroad company not to haul
any more such logs. Quite a large
number of logs are now ready for ship
ment, some of them being on board
cars, and Mr.. Porter will endeavor tc
have the business continue as hereto
fore.
Arkansas City Travaler: The Indiar
commission will make an effort this
trip to get the Osages to take theil
land in severalty and throw the balance
open to settlement. 1t borders on
Kansas and takes in much good land
although not as good as many Othel
portions OF Oklahoma. 1t will be {
rich country, however, for the Usage
Indians are very wealthy and have ar
annual per capita of a considerable
amount, being an interest on SO, 000,00(
held in trust for them by the govern
ment- The reservation Is large enough
to make two good counties.
The committee on transportation fo
Kansas to the National Educational as
ISOLATION to be held in Toronto mex
July, met in Salina in consultation witt
the representatives of the leading
trunk lines east of Chicago. They
agreed unanimously upon the Chicago
& Grand Trund line-from Chicago t.
Toronto. They have already agreed tC
select no line west OF Chicago. This
arrangement was ratified by the county
superintendent OF Kansas The cos
of round-trip ticket from the Mis-
sour river TO Toronto will be about
S25.