Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The state deaf and dumb institute at
Olathe now has over 200 pupils
Fort Scott IS to have a paper mill to
work up the bagasse from the sugar
works.
Surgeons in Washington have sue
csssfully performed an operation on the
horribly enlarged tongue of James A.
Brooks, son of a prominent citizen of
st. John, Kan.
A census bulletin says: In Kansas
the total area devoted to cotton was 731
acres, producing 212 bales. No report
was made of cotton In Kansas in the
census OF 1880.
Word comes from Australia that Prot
E. NJ. Shelton, formerly of the Kansas
Agricultural college. has been re-
engaged for a term OF three years as ag-
riculturist at Brisbane.
The Topeka Fanciers' association
shipped forty coops of chickens and ten
coops of pigeons to Kansas City to the
Interstate exposition. They have about
100 feet of space there.
G. Wood Davis, the eminent Kansas
statistician, contributed a two column
editorial article on "The Probable Prod
net of Corn and Oats, to last Sundays
New York Sun, on which.paper he is a
special editorial writer.
Topeka Capital: The county is now
taking care Of about thirty five INDECENT
persons, about twenty of whom are on
the poor farm north of the city, and the
remainder at the North Topeka insane
asvlum and Christ hnsnital-
Delphos Republican: Our lumber
yards are doing splendid business this
fall, on account of the farmers being so
extensively engaged in building. They
are putting up new residences, add
tions, granaries, barns and stock sheds.
Dodge City Globe-Republican: A
very destructive prairie fire started near
West Plains and swept across the coun-
ty to Montezuma. Several stacks of
wheat, some farm machinery and houses
were consumed in the flames. A Rock
Island engine is supposed to be the
originator of the confagration.
Ellis Observation-Disclosures A couple of
tramps started prairie fire few miles
west of town and went off and left it.
Owing to the high wind the fire spread
rapidly, and but for hard work by
about seventy-fve men and teams, great
damage would have been done. AS it
was, about six sections were burned over
and Hall, Houston and Eppler lost their
hay stacks and narrowly escaped losing
their homes.
Dodge City Globe-R Republican: Over
ert is quite apparent at Montezuma.
Failing to get cars in which to ship, and
every room in town being full of wheat
already, the farmers waiting to unload
unloaded a carload of new wagons
Just arrived, set them up and filed them
with sixty bushels to the wagon, 1850
bushels of the golden grain being thus
temporarily disposed of.
From Olathe: The seventeenth an
nual meeting of the Central Protective
association of Kansas and Missouri be-
gan with President w. S. Conner, of
East Atchison, Mo-, in the chair and
200 delegates present. Addresses of
welcome were delivered by Prof B. S..
Mcfarland and County Attorney Scott
and Sheriff Easdale and President Con-
nor responded. In the afternoon six
hundred members from this county
paraded through the principal streets.
James A. Hyden, a plucky young
newspaper man, who still claims Kansas
as his home, is again heard from. Some
years ago young Hyden became bust
ness manager of the Knoxville (Tenn. J
Journal. From there he went to the
business department of the New York
World. Recently he has accepted the
position of business manager of the
Chicago Mail. Mr.. Hyden possesses
talent in his line and has a successful
future before him. The Kansas boys
are being favOrably heard from in all
| directions.
Sharon Springs Times: The young
girls who served ice cream, cake and
lemonade to the weary, thirsty people
last Saturday, cleared about SO. They
intend buying singing books for the
Sunday school with the money. They
cannot be praised too highly for their
management of the whole affair. When
the people who attended the convention
left the school house the girls were not
discouraged; they simply packed their
''kits," followed the crowd, set Their
tables in the middle of the sidewalk,
and went on selling ice cream in undis-
turbed possession. But the cake was
gone by the time the real hungry peo-
pie got to the tables.
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