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

twenty barns are demolished. The Ger
man Lutheran church was DESTROYED
and much other damage done in the
city.
From Newton: Captain John @.
Johnston, treasurer of Harvey county,
has been selected by the executive COM
mittee OF the state association of county
treasurers as a member of a committee
consisting of three county treasurers to
''draft a new code OF laws petaining to
the assessment and collection of taxes,
the keeping of the records and general
books of the county treasurer's office and
examinations thereof by competent ez-
aminers,'' with a view of having it
adopted by the next session of the Kan
sas legislature and engrafted in the state
statutes.
Lawrence letter: Considerable dam
age was done in the city. The roof of
the old Unitarian parsonage was blown
on. The roof of the new A. o. q. w.
hall in North Lawrence was demolished,
and the adjoining building, belonging
to A. J. Dicker, was completely wrecked,
and the large awning Of the Union Pa
cifc was badly damaged, as was the roof
of the Lawrence house. The hospital
at Haskell institute was quite badly
damaged. Chimneys and sign boards
were blown down all over the city. Tel
ephone and telegraph wires suffered
badly.
A young lady who was in the Oaeond
story of hotel in Towanda, Butler
county, when the storm struck, was
lifted through the top of the building,
the top having Just previously blown
| OF, and carried distance Of 300 feet
through the air and dropped down into
livery stable upon a horse, and
seriously, though not fatally, injured
In her flight through the air she came
in contact with a pillow, which she
caught, and which was still in her GRASP
when she struck the morse in the livery
stable, the top of which was carried
away at the same instant as that of tbs
hotel.
Medicine Lodge Index: We went
through the sugar mill and found about
$4,000 pounds of second sugar on hand
and that of a better quality than has
ever been produced heretofore. The
strip after being clarified, runs through
the centrifugals much easier than il
did, and one centrifugal can now swing
out as much sugar in a day as all o
them could do before. There is a steam
jet in each centrifugal, which also helps
the swinging process. The facto
ry has shipped ten carloads OF siru;
and has y steady demand for all it car
produce. A large evaporation, a new
SHREDDER, new filter process, and Othe
necessary machinery will be added (,
the plant this spring, but the alcoho
process will not be put in. A new roo
viii also be put on the engine room
Mr.. Best is ready to make contracts 70
raising cane for the coming season.
The house committee on public land
has presented favorable report on tn
senate bill granting the Fort Hays mill
tary reservation and about thirty build
ings thereon to the state of Kansas OF
condition that the state shall, within TIVE
years, establish and maintain soldiers
home thereon. The state is also Il
maintain public park on the reserva
ton. The government reserves the RICH
to resume possession and dispose of tn,
lands whenever it shall appear that tn
state of Kansas has ceased to use TIN
same for the purposes specified in tn
act. The bill provides that the stat
shall cause two and one-half section
adjoining the quarter section on whicl
the buildings are now located to b
properly laid out in avenues and twl
acre lots on each of which may be con
structed cottage for an old soldier ant
his family. The state is also to main
tain the soldiers cemetery now on tn
reservation which is made a nat;ona
cemetery by this bill There is littl
doubt about the passage of the bill.