Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

son IN the last year.
Conway Springs is experiencing
building boom, many new residences
having been erected this spring.
Wichita. Sheriff Hays two-year-
old baby was probably fatally burned.
The tot was playing with matches and
set its clothes on fire
Salina. dry goods store of the
E W. ODER Mercantile company was
burglarized. One thousand dollars
worth of silks were stolen.
John f. Lindsay, OF Garnett, a son
of Captain John G.. Lindsay, has been
appointed to position in the census
Office at salary of $500 year.
The Turner'S societies OF Kansas will
have a grand funniest at Bismarck grove
June 4th to 9th. The railroads have
granted one and one-third rate.
Salina Republican: The first paper
has been made by the mill and it is sue
cessful and satisfactory. The mill Will
commence to run steadily in a short
time.
Fort Scott has the prize small baby.
1t is about three weeks old and it weighs
two and one-half pounds. When born
it weighed just a fraction over one
pound.
Five hundred farmers testimonials in
regard TO Chancellor Shows chinch bug
experiments, have been collected. They
say that 100000 worth OF crops have
been saved by using tho infection.
The Winfield Courier says that that
city has not been so free from joints for
ten years as now, and thanks Assistant
Attorney General Ben Henderson, a
peoples party man, for the condition.
The daughter of Justice Brewer, who
was married in Washington with consid-
cradle pomp and circumstance, was
clerk in the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Office at Parsons three years ago. This
Is in her favor.
George w. Bradshaw has been award
ed $4,000 damages against the city of
Topeka. In October last he fell into a
cellar on the west side of Branner and
Fourth streets. He sued for $4,000 in
the circuit court.
Salina Republican: Alex johnson,
who was induced to sign a S160 note
for the lightning rod swindle, secured
the services of Constable Peel, and Mr..
Peel found the rod man and induced
him to return the note.
In Sheridan county the people are
law abiding, as court dockets for the
last two years will show. In that time
there has only been one criminal case,
and that was for bOotlegging whisky.
Is there another county that can say as
much?
Topeka Journal: The following sala-
ries are paid in the police department
each month: Chief of police, 800;
captain of police, S75; sergeants, SOC;
Patrolmen, S55; jailor, $50; patrol wag-
on driver, $50; police Judge, S75. There
are two sergeants and sixteen policemen
On the prairies of western Kansas
the buffalo grass is being crowded out
by the blue stem, which cultivates the
soil, and the rains soak into the ground.
The buffalo grass sheds rain like ducks
back Streams that formerly ran bank
full after every rain, are now unaffected;
the water soaks into the ground.
John K. Rankin, of Lawrence, who
represented Douglass county in the leg
! islature a number of years, has been ap-
| pointed agent for the allotment of In
dian lands in the state of Washington.
He is paid SO day and expenses, and
will enter upon his duties at once. 1t
is believed the work assigned him will
last year or more.
Topeka Journal: The county COM
missioners appropriated 81, 900 to build
bridge across the Wakarusa, at what
is known as McKinney's crossing, in
Monmouth township. Another bridge
is building across the same stream in
Auburn township, and when these two
are finished the Wakarusa will have a
bridge for every two miles in the county.
From Beloit: The news has reached
this city of the suicide of Miss Kate
Hutchinson, daughter of William Hutch
ison, living four miles north of town.
The cause is unknown, but is supposed
to be family trouble, on account of a
young man with whom she was keeping
company. She left a note saying she
had determined to get married or kill
herself; and the fatal dose Of strychnine
decided her fate.
Mound Valley Herald: Mound Val
ley can boast of having the smallest
mayor lin stature) that there is in the
state. His name is Frank West, age 26
years, height 98 inches, weight so
pounds. While he is diminutive in size,
he has the necessary qualifications in
business way to make a good and sensi-
BILE mayor. The councilmen with one
exception are heavy weights, the five
averaging 2O6 pounds each.
Eugene Ware believes he has discov-
cred in a homeless child at Santa Cata-
rina, Mexico, the orphan of Mr.. and
Mrs. Judge McCOmas, who were massa-
cred in the Apache raid near Silver City,
Mexico, in 1884. On that occasion
Charles McComas, 3 years old, was kid
mapped by the savages, and has never
been heard of since. The homeless
child at Catarina answers the boys
description, and Mr.. Ware, his uncle,
will attempt to identify him.
Ell Dorado Republican: There are
twenty or more set nets or traps at this
moment in the streams of Butler coun-
/ v. anu Inc hOL6l VI II ID bOu1p Vi
| these nets reach from shore to shore so
that fish cannot go either up or down.
| Now this would not be so bad if the
fish caught were for home use only.
But the fact is they are caught by the
wagon load and are being peddled out
on the streets of Wichita at five cents
per pound and this is where it hurts.
a Harper Boy. A special from
Washington, D. c., sayE: L. l. Alex
arder, of Harper, Kan, was introduced