Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-09-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The Colby Tribune says every avail
able acre of ground in Thomas county
will be utilized next year
A squad of regulars from Fort Riley
were sent to exPel trespassers on the
PottaWatOmie reservation
The newspaper organ of the colored
people of LeavenWorth denOunces the
practice OF carrying razors.
Many and many a woman in Kansas
is doing mp jellies to send back east TO
her relatives where fruit is not SO plen-
tifuL
At Hope the old soldiers of the dis
trict will hold reunion on September
SO. A sham battle is one of the fea-
lures advertised.
At Beloit it is estimated that 5000
bushels of wheat are being marketed
daily. This viii be largely increased in
the next few weeks.
Seneca Sheriff Dennis started P.
Assenmeahr with ]. ]. Keohler for the
asylum, and at Valley Falls Keohler
leaped from the train and made for the
woods.
Wyandotte county peoples purity
met in convention and nominated a full
county ticket. Fusion with any other
party was denounced and the Cincinnati
platform endorsed.
Kansas City, Kan. offers the Electric
Light and Power company operating
there $4,000 for its plant This is
refused by the company, who still hold
open their offer to sell to the city for
$375.OOO.
Santa Fe Land Commissioners Frost
says that land in the south, central and
southwestern parts of the state has,
within the last ninety days, seen a good
advance in price, and a great many
Gales are being made.
Wichita Eagle: Although Kansas
towns are intermediate between New
Orleans and Nebraska, the freight rates
on sugars to towns in Nebraska are 20
to 80 cents per hundred weight less
than TO Kansas points
Glen Elder Sentinel: There is a full
gang of men at work on the alliance
elevator now. 1t will be complete in
about two weeks and one of the finest
elevators along the road. The capacity
will be about $4,000 bushels.
Jewell City Republican: J. G. Pos
tlethWaite has made 1,400 real estate
loans in Jewell county and out of these
he has fOreclOsed but six, and in four OF
these six cases foreclosure was made
necessary by the death of the borrowing
parties.
Kansas City, Kan.-The conductors
and grip men OF the cable strest-car
line have had their pay cut from 20 10
IT cents an hour. None of them quit,
but they are asking for 49, cents an
hour, so that they may be able to earn
81 day.
Eudora News: Mike Kasberger, near
BslleVisw, lest three stacks of timothy,
all his wheat and oats by fire Tuesday
night. Strenuous efforts saved his house
and barn. Loss over $1,000; no insur-
ance. 1t is supposed children play I'M
with matches caused the fire.
Topeka Journal: Mrs. Florence
Thacher, one of the best known Topeka
soloIsts, who mas been a student under
Prof. Cravens for two years past and is
now teaching class in music at Pitts
burg, Kansas, has received the appoint
ment of director of music in the State
Normal school at River Falls, Wiscon-
sin.
Farmers are charged by a number oil
Kansas exchanges with letting theiI
fruit go to waste rather than market it
at prices fixed by fruit shippers. One
locality holds it's supply above the local
market and ships elsewhere, which keeps
down prices where it goes, while that
place ships out and sells, at other points
lower than is offered at home.
Kansas City, Kansas, is to have {
cotton mill with an investment of 3d.
| 100000. 1t is to be planted by the
Anglo-American Cotton Milling compa
ny, of London, England. All the pre-
liminary papers have been signed, in
Guiding title to 10 acres in the nortI
bottom. The plant will give employ
ment to 1000 people.
st. Francis Rustler-Reyiew: Tha
Cheyenne county, when irrigated, il
going to become one of the creates
ruit-producing portions of the globe
does not admit of doubt. The sol
and climate are adapted to all varieties
of fruit to a remarkable degree, and thu
supply of the needed moisture is thu
only thing needful to bring forth tn,
choicest fruits in great profusion.
Atchison.-An agent of the Lombard
Investment company is quoted as say.
ing: 'In the last sixty days 60 per cent
of the Kansas farmers whose mortgages
are held by the above company and who
have defaulted in their interest, have
paid up. Many farmers who last winter
we're willing TO make deeds to the mort
gagees, refusing to pay any more or
their debts, are now Offering to redeem
from their forfeitures."
avenworth.-During the passag.
of heavy thunder storm, a government
stable at Fort LeaYenWorth was strucI
by lightning, and two horses, belong
ing to Troop F, Second cavalry, were
killed. The heavy rainfall prevented
the destruction of the stable. Guards
discharged their firearms upon discoy
ering the flames, the alarm cannon wa
fired, and the entire garrison was NJ
and under arms in a very few minutes
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: Breve
Colonel E. B. WillistOn, major OF TIA
Third United States artillery, now sta
toned at Fort Riley, will leave his pos
August 81 with two batteries Of hi
command for twenty-five days field ex
ercise. He will march across the coun
try, his objective point being st. Joseph
and will camp out on the march. TIL
command will visit Topeka, Leaven
worth, Kansas City, and other points OIL
the way.