Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


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Forty-two Wichita men enlisted in
the regular army in one week y
The monthly pay roll of the NJ, K. &
I. shops at Parsons is S125,0OO-
Chancellor Snow is printing a 200
page report about the chinch bug.
Oskaloosa will do more building this
season than half dozen years past. =
The suits against the Plumb estate
viii come up at Washington, D. O., on
the 18th of April.
Ninety per cent of the people of Kan
sas are Of American blood. 1t is the
purest blooded state in the Union.
Milton E. Bryant, the founder of the
town of Wathena, died few days ago,
aged Sc He located in the Missouri val
ley in 1926.
The Topeka food inspector collected
S2s5.s9 for cattle, hogs, sheep and
calves inspected during March. Only
one steer was condemned.
The Missouri Pacific is using about
100 carloads OF stone along the tracks
between Atchison and Kansas City to
protect the banks Of the Missouri river
from damage by high water.
Salina people have engaged the dem
ocratic hambeau club of Topeka to give
a display at Salina on the evening of
April 20, the occasion being the demo-
cratic state convention there.
The Saline County Plaster company,
at Gypsum City, shipped in 1890 and
1891 1,460 cars of stuceo or plaster.
The plant is running night and day.
And still Gypsum City is not stuck up.
The Osborne papers say there are
more Osborne county lands being sold
to actual settlers this spring than has
been known in the last half dozen years.
The lands in that county are gradually
increasing in price.
From Norton: A very destructive
prairie fire swept over Noble and High
land townships of Norton county,
destroying an immense amount OF
property. Hundreds of families lost
their all. William Dunn, in an attempt
to save his property, lost his life
At Emporia the restaurant OF o. NJ.
White has burned again. This makes
twice within seven weeks that the place
has been burned, and in both instances
| the fire was caused by incendiaries, as
the kindling and coal oil, only partially
burned, were found under the building.
Salina letter: The little village OF
/ Vine Greek suffered as total loss as
/ Smolan. Every house is demolished
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a small inland village, is blown away,
not house being left standing. Sew
eral were injured there, but not seriously.
In Saline county the total loss from
the storm is probably not less than S4O,-
900 on buildings, grain, fences and i'm
plements, to say nothing of the suffer
/ ing sustained by the stock, and the
damage done to the orchards. Three
school houses in the county were also
destroyed.
The Greenleaf Mercantile company
has during the past season shipped large
quantities of fruit and vegetables to the
western markets, and have now com
menced the shipment of eggs and butter
for the season. Their first shipment o
a full carload of eggs was made last
week to Denver.
CoffeyviIle special: A terrible storm
visited this locality Sunday night. The
wind was accompanied by hail and rain
Lightning struck the tall tower of thS
Episcopal church and tore the steeple t.
pieces. No one was in the church at tho
time. The windows were broken by hal
and barns and houses overturned by
wind.
Fort Scott special: The record of the
register of deeds of Bourbon county, fol-
March, 1892, shows the value Of
mortgages releasedtobe $4,000; farm
mortgages recorded, S34, 1852; city mort.
gyges recorded, $4,000. Eighteen
thousand dollars Of the amount recorded
is for purchase money. Releases in ez.
cess OF the amount recorded. $4,000
Washington, D. C.-The contract
for making the excavation for the new
public building at Kansas City, Kan.
was awarded to Fulford Brothers RnC
Bowers, of Topeka, for SS,954. Their,
were twelve bidders, eleven of whom
were Kansas City contractors, but they
were unable to make as low figures a
the Topeka firm, which was 81 900 lowe
than any other bidder.
Wichita special: A committee ap
pointed by the board of trade to expen'
the funds subscribed for the Toward
, sufferers visited the stricken village. A
, the request Of the people there, tb
amount subscribed here, about 81 500
will be expended on food and lumber
The injured people are improving, an,
it is hoped no more names will be adde,
; to the list of fatalities.
! Manhattan special: The storm her
was accompanied by heavy hail, doin
much damage. There is hardly hous
but is minus window glass on the sout
and west. 1t is said that the glass c
the agricultural college and experimen
station greenhouses is all shivered-
that about 1920 Panes are wanted ther
at once. This would make it seem like
ly that many of the valuable plant
contained it these greenhouses are in
jured.
: From Wichita. Twenty thousan
dollars is the amount Of damages aske
by DIR. E. h. Creditor, of this city, 70
conspiracy alleged to have been entere
) into against him by five other dentist
. OF Wichita, and the consequent damag
5 TO his practice. The members of th
- State Dental association have been pros
D eeuting DR.. Creditor every few month
1 Tor two years past, on the ground tha
ne has no right to practice IN the stat'
/ he having no Kansas diploma.
Dodge City special: There was
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