Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

About KirWin farms are being sold TO
more Iowans All through northern
Kansas there are many Iowa people.
Lawrence.-There are now 800 stu
dents enrolled in the Kansas university
and in the whole number there il not
preparatory student
At Glen Elder the Solomon river got
ont of its banks recently, OVERLOOKING
much country and quite a stretch Of
the Central Branch railroad.
The rains Of the first October week
were general IN all Kansas and sufficient
in amount to put the soil in fine condi-
ton Pasturage Is generally revived.
Charles q. Krebs has held the Office
of county clerk of Atchison county for
eighteen years successfully, and has
been nominated again by the repub-
hcanz.
Ness City Sentinel: 1t rained here
four days and nights last week. We
believe that more water fell than at any
one time before since the settling of the
county.
North Topeka item: Jonathan Will
Jams and wife, who live northwest of
town, have had boy baby born which
has nine fingers on his right hand. The
child is alive and we'll
Topeka Journal: The physicians at
the Santa Fe dispensary report an
enormous and alarming increase in
sickness among the men, the cases be-
ing nearly all malarial and typhoid
feyers-
Argentine.-The work on the city
hall is resumed. The slate for the roof
arrived, and the contractors expect to
have it completed soon. The carpenters
and plasterers have resumed their re-
spective labors and. everything points
to speedy completion.
The I. o. o. F. grand lodge of Kan
sas had splendid weather for its meeting
at Hutchinson. Six hundred delegates
are reported present. A grand parade
was had with more than 1000 Odd Eel
lows in line, followed by Rebecca de-
gree members in carriages.
Atwood Citizen: Probate Judge
Leeper is making a display of his ap-
pies at the Cheyenne county fair. Mr..
Leeper has raised apples for the last
four years, bringing his trees from
jackson county in 1882. He is one of
the Lest aPple-raisera in Rawlins
county.
Wellington Mail: J. Il. Potter. the
owner of a threshing outfit, and E.
York, n farmer whose wheat Potter was
threshing, sustained serious losses. In
some manner the separator caught fire
and was totally destroyed. The flames
spread to York's wheat and burned mp
800 bushels of it before they could be
| subdued.
Topeka Capital: The three Robbins
boys, who live out on North Harrison
street, were arrested on the charge of
stealing wheat from Rock Island car.
A hole had been bored In the bottom of
the car and the wheat caught in sacks
and carted away. When the car reached
its destination it was found to be short
fifty-five bushels.
Topeka journal: Twenty-Five car
loads of troops and baggage Of the 11th
United States infantry passed through
Topeka on the Santa Fe on their way
to Arizona points. These troops are
from Sackett's Harbor, New York, they
have just been relieved by the members
of the 9th infantry, who passed through
here on their way east about two weeks
ago.
Jewell City Republican: Billy Ed
wards has LOO acres of land in this
county. Seven hundred acres of 1t lies
in body near this city, for which Mr..
/ Edwards Gays he would not touch S75
per acre. He does not see how any
man can ask for better country than
] IL
thing, good health, fine weather, hard
roads and average crops, there is no
better country under heavens than jew
ell county Kansas.
Leavenworth.-Ano old veteran named
/ John Williams, stationed at the Soldiers
| home, was run over and instantly killed
| by an engine on the Kansas City, Wy
andotts & Northwestern railroad. He
| is supposed to have been under the in
huence Of liquor and said to have been
| lying across the track asleep. He was
literally ground to pieces. Williams
was a member of Company D, 10th
Kansas infantry during the war and has
been an inmate of the home here for
several years.
LeavenWorth.-The boiler room and
| engine house OF the Brighton coal mine.
four miles south Of this city, took fire
and burned completely down. 1t is not
| known how the fire started, which could
not be put ont on account of ITS being
| too far from the Leavenworth water
works. The engines and boilers of the
mine were totally destroyed. making a
loss OF over $4,000 on property alone.
| Over 100 men were thrown out OF en-
| ployment right in the busy mining sea-
son, as a result of the fire.
Louisburg.-T stores of this town
were robbed Sunday night. The rob-
bers broke in by Prying up windows.
They got the most booty at the Louis
burg Mercantile and Manufacturing
cOmpany's store, where they got over
800 worth of goods in revOlvers, shot
/ guns, scissors, knives, razors and a lit
tie cash. Nieman's boot and shoe store
was broken into and the robbers got
two pairs OF shoes, Nos. 8 and 9. Some
of the other stores were entered. but
the hardware lost the most. Cassbeer's
grocery lost about 81 or So from the
money drawer
| Goodlaud.-Since Melbourne's exper-
imenting began northwest Kansas has
received more rain than ever fell before
| during the fall season in this section
| of the state. Whether or not the mys-
terious machine has brought the rain,
the people in this section of the country
have every confidence in him. Yester-
day a mass meeting of citizens was held
and Melbourne was asked to submit a
| proposition for watering the forty coun-
ties in western Kansas. His PROPOSE
/ ton was to water them at 10 cents for