Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-12-24
kANsAs sTATE news.

yellow ochre has been discovered on
Dave Closes farm south of the city, and
there is talk of it being worked
Lyons Eagle: The widows of the
miners who were killed at the salt shaft
some months ago have brought suit
against the company for damages.
The Atchison County Horticultural
society has been organized, with Luther
Dickerson as president and Mrs. NJ.
Greenlee as treasurer. The society
will meet monthly.
Peabody Gazette: John Burgert
caught a wagon load Of fine fish in the
Cottonwood the other morning. The
principal part of the catch was buffalo
fish, some of which weighed thirty
pounds and upward.
Lyndon Graphic: County Clerk
Buchanan killed a mountain lion in the
timber near ]. W. Jessee's farm in
Olivet township. 1t measured over four
feet in length and stood up to a height
OF at least two feet, and is a ferocious-
looking beast.
Stockton Record: The silk worm
'ggs sent to Stockton last spring were
not mustard seeds, for they produced
lots of hungry worms; but they might
| Just as well have been seeds for all the
profit there was in them. They did not
pay their keeping.
Hoxie, Sheridan county, proposes adj
vertising that county by sending a
special train loaded with broom corn,
wheat, corn, oats, rye. etc, through to
Philadelphia. The entire train will be
handsomely decorated with banners,
inscriptions and cereals of that county.
A new interstate collegiate oratorical
association is being formed. It will
include in its membership the minor
colleges of Kansas, the Dakotas, Colo
RADIO and Montana. The original state
contest of the Kansas Oratorical asso-
citation will be held in Topeka in JAN
uarY.
The Concordis grain dealers were
flooded with corn last week on account
of the price climbing up to 80 cents.
A local paper says this was occasioned
by the buyers getting to "bucking."
The farmers of that vicinity hope they
may go to bruising one another if it
will raise the price of grain.
Kansas will elect eight district judges
next year to succeed Crozier, of Leaven-
worth; Eaton, of Atchison; Guthrie, of
Topeka; Benson, of Ottawa; Graves, of
Emporia; Sturgis, of Concordia; Troup,
of Winfield, and Eastland, of Russell
The above-named are all republicans,
excepting Judge Eaton.
Ness City News: There have been
III carloads of wheat and rye shipped
from Brownell this fall, and if cars could
be had we conld easily load fifty more
before Christmas. Fourteen cars of
lumber, twenty three cars of coal, four
of machinery, and one each of salt, ap-
Piles, potatoes and -four have been un-
loaded here since June.
Emporia-A call was issued for a
mass meeting of citizens for the pur-
pose OF organizing a fair organization,
q preliminary meeting being held this
evening and committee appointed. It
is intended to embrace Lyon, WRbaun-
see, Green wood and Butler counties,
neither of which have county fare. The
convention is called for December 10 at
2 P. m
Independence Tribune: Truman &
/ Broderick have q rather novel display
in front of their implement house, it
being breastwOrk of about forty bales
of cotton, and they intend stacking up
in all about 100. Mr.. Broderick and
Councilman Q. Dudley, had a large
acreage of cotton this year, and this
winter they are running a cotton gin
and press by steam power, and are also
buying cotton.
Wau;-r-+o,. No.. TIL. -
treasurer received last Friday a check
for S6,068.58 IN payment of the full
amount of the Rock Islands taxes in
Sumner county for the current year.
The % per cent rebate on the last
half amounts to quite q handsome
saving to the company. The total
receipts Of the Office for the four days
commencing last Friday were SI0,752.-
81, and the rush has hardly commenced
yet
Medicine Lodge Cresset: George
Hodge, living near Aetna, started out
to round up a drove of his mothers
turkeys which had become wild. A gun
which he carried was jolted out of the
buggy and discharged, the entire load
"a heavy one-of turkey shot entering
the right arm and cutting the muscle
all to pieces. He was compelled to drive
quite a distance before the arm could
be attended to, and the doctor, who was
called from Coldwater, says the cauter-
izing received from the burning powder
was all that saved his life.
Emporia.-The grippe, which has
been very prevalent in this city for sew
eral weeks past, has taken on a very
virulent form, and several fatal cases
have occurred here within the past few
days. The cold snap is thought to be
the cause, as the fatalities generally
occur in cases Of relapse, when the pa
tient is taken almost without warning
with congestion of the lungs, and in
several cases have died within an hour
of the time when the dangerous symp-
toms were first observed. Nearly every
person in the city seems to have the
| grippe in one stage or another.
Concordia.-Some ten years ago a
stranger came to Concordia having sew
eral horses and some other property in
his possession, which he left at one of
| the livery stables. He never called for
his property, and his disappearance was
always a mystery. 1t was generally
thought that he had been foully dealt
with, but not the slightest clue was
kept at the livery stable for some time
keeping it. Recently a st. Joseph, No,
detective has been working on a fire
bug suspect, and by cumming with
his victim and Dragging of his own bad
! deeds, has opened the mouth of the
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