Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-12-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ting q paper factory and an electric
light plant in the near future.
Ex-Congressman Sid Clarke, of Kan
sas, was the orator at the democratic
Publication in Guthrie. Mr. Clarke ex-
poets to handle the patronage of Okla
homa under Cleveland.
Arkansas City Traveller: The boomer
outfits presented disagreeabie plight
this morning. Cooking breakfast with
vet fuel and bothered by wind and rain
was anything but romantic.
Kingan & Co., pork packers OF Kan
sas City, Kan, have completed arrange
ments for a large addition to the beef
plant they erected year ago, and will
double their capacity when the new
building is completed.
Wichita special: E. D. Miles, one of
the old timers here, fell dead this evening
In an epileptic fit. He had Just walked
across the street from his shoe store to
a restaurant for supper, and had hardly
seated himself when he fell over. De
ceased was over 80 years old.
James Harvey lived more than go
miles from the Missouri river, which
proves that the kids on Kansas CITY
papers are not worthy to be so generally
copied from by the Kansas press. The
story started down there that in the
election of 1892 the first governor of
Kansas had been elected, who liked sixty
miles from the river.
EDNA Independent: While Mr.. Thorn
bRo, coal hauler, was leaving town he
met two men driving in cart. 1t was
s1orbr ov,1 V,affhar
anything in front of them until the
shaft OF the cart struck one of Thorn
bros horses in the breast, killing it in
stantly. Thornbro is a poor man, and
to help him out a collection was
taken up.
The Hope Dispatch says that Hope
has two citizens who are probably the
oldest voters in the United States
Samuel Yarham, who claims to have
been 109 years old on the 18th of last
August, and Alex Gum, who is 107
years of age. Both are able to get
around, and Mr.. Gum claims to have
walked twenty miles at one time this
summer.
d. W. Eastman, the representative
elect from the Emporia district in Lyon
county, will push bill making an APP
preparation for charging the state nor
NAL school He says that the school
has outgrOwn its present quarters and
cannot possibly get along without new
wing. The school now has a larger
attendance than any normal college in
the United States, and ranks as the fore
most of American normal colleges.
Wa-Keeney World: About the time
Of the Campfire and Harvest Home in
Wa-Keeney, a man claiming to repre-
sent Chicago firm took orders for pic
lures in the county, aggregating, we
are informed, several hundred dollars.
Half of the amount was required in adj
vance, and in some instances the entire
amount was paid. After waiting long
time some of our citizens wrote to
friends in Chicago making inquiries,
and were informed that there was no
such firm in existence.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Kansas Equal Suffrage association will
be held in Enterprise December 6, z and
s.. Important business will come before
the convention. The Rock Island, Santa
Fe and q. P. lines reach Enterprise.
A fair will be held at same time and
place for the benefit of the State Suf-
+ fra0e association. Mrs. Minnie Topping
is chairman of the committee on enter
tainment and should be informed by
letter of the desire of delegates and
friends for entertainment.
Enterprise letter: A party of about
seventy persons, men, women and chill
dren, took the Santa Fe for that Utopia
IN Mexico known as Topolobampo. The
party will travel in special car without
change to Guaymas, where boat will
be taken for the colony, the journey by
rail requiring about one week. A num-
Der of carloads of freight preceded the
party about ten days. Provisions, ma
chinery, household goods, trees, and 6
number of stock pigs were among the
thousand and one things to be found in
the freight shipment.
The twenty-sixth annual meeting o.
the Kansas State horticultural society
viii be held at Winfield, Cowley county
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
December 6, 7 and s. The COwley
County Horticultural society has kindly
offered free entertainment, and com
mittee appointed by that society vii
assign all attendants to quarters upor
their arrival in Winfield. The usual re
duction in railroad fare has been asked
and there is no doubt it will be granted
if not, sufficient notice will be given tt
avoid any misunderstanding
Parkersburg, W. Vain 1885 Franz
Is Mckee, prominent and wealthy young
man Of Preston county, left his HON
and went to Kansas. Three years late
the report came that he had committe
s4ieide His relatives and friends wer
astonished at the report, and many sal
It could not be true. His body wa
brought home and buried, however an
the matter in part forgotten. A day @