Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-14
kansas STATE NEWS.

the first Of next week, when active OPP
erations viii commence.
Anthony Republican,: The Anthony
Salt company paid out in cash to the
laboring men of Anthony for the year
previous to March 1, Just passed, So
616.61, not counting salaries. The
works ran less than half the time.
Ia the federal court at Wichita, Judge
Riner sentenced j. G. Adams to seven
years in the penitentiary for the man
slaughter of the noted Oklahoma boom
or. Captain William Couch Sixty DAYS
was granted in which to file bill of ex.
ceptions.
Colby Tribune: The county treas
urer has placed in the hands Of the
sheriff the tax warrants for this year.
There are only twenty-six of them as
compared to 126 last year. Another
evidence of the increasing prosperity of
the people of Thomas county.
The Topeka Capital has tenderfoot
roaming correspondent. Listen: "Sen-
eca is situated in the rich valley of the
| Blue" 1t is thirty miles from the Blue
and on the Nemaha. Listen again:
'sMarysville is thirty-five miles north
west Of Seneca 1t is almost due west
Mankato letter: Great piles of ear
corn can be seen on every farm adjoin-
ing the Rock Island railroad, and many
cars now loading can be seen at every
station. Great shipments of cattle,
sheep and hogs are reported by the rail-
road companies and at this town the
buses make twelve trains daily, carry
ing passengers.
! Lawrence.-The national convention
of the Pi Beta Phi, ladies' college So
ciety, is in session here, with representa-
tives from nearly all the colleges in the
United States where chapters of the
society are located. The convention
will be in session all the week A recep-
ton was given on Wednesday and a
banquet on Thursday night.
Newton is one of the leading cities in
the registration of women. Out of the
! total registration of 1881 the women
numbered 404. 1t is noteworthy that
the women who registered and who take
the lead in the work are from the lead
ing families of the city. The women
are making a movement toward holding
caucusses before the election, something
the men have entirely neglected.
Independence Star and Kansan: J.
NJ. Altaffer, who has kept a weather
record in this county for over twenty
years, saws that so far this month more
rain has fallen than during any previous
March on his record. 1t is claimed by
some that wet March portends album
dant harvests. In 1875 there was the
next largest rainfall during this month,
and it was a good crop year. The rain
fall was well distributed during that
year, not too much at any time, and ex-
tended through the summer and fall.
Kansas City Gazette: Captain W. h.
Young has received an order from the
high military officials to hold company
B, Kansas National guards, in readiness
to respond for active duty at moments
notice, should such thing be necessary
for the welfare of Uncle Sam and the
state of Kansas. The order was read
to the young soldiers at their armory
last night, and it created more excite
ment among them than a lynching bee
would have occasioned in a Missouri
town. The soldiers are at loss to
know the meaning of the mysterious
order.
In the zinc district Of southeastern
Kansas there are nine zinc smelling
plants, operating fifty-eight furnaces,
which have a daily capacity for hand
ling and reducing 100000 pounds of
ore, yielding a product of $4,000
pounds of spelter. OF these smelters
six are in Pittsburg and one each in
Weir City, Scammonville and Girard,
the latter two with capacities of six and
two furnaces respectively, while the
Weir City plant is the largest zinc
smelter in the United States, operating
as it does six blocks, or twelve furnaces,
and turning out $4,000 pounds of zinc
sPelter.
Arkansas City Traveller: AT meet
ing of the directors of the Arkansas
City Milling company last evening, it
was decided 70 double the capacity of
the present plant. Now its mills turn
nut 500 barrels of -four per day and it
will be increased to :, 200 per day. The
improvement will be commenced imme-
diately and will be pushed to an early
completion. A building the size of the
present mill is to be erected and set
with all the latest improved machinery
known to the milling trade. 1t is only
a question Of time, with our superb
water power, until Arkansas City ranks
with Minneapolis and other great cities
in its -four output.
Kansas City Gazette: The Union
National bank, of Chicago, and
David Kelley have brought three
suits in the district court against S. A.
Brown & Co. and the Union Grain com
pany for amounts aggregating over
100000 due on promissory notes. The
interests of the two defendant compa-
nies in Kansas are scattered over seven
teen different counties, and by previous
arrangements in all these counties the
sheriffs yesterday morning levied on the
property to secure the debt An appli-
cation was made in the United States
circuit court at Kansas City, Mo-, for
the appointment Of a receiver for the
firm of S. A. Brown & Company.
North Topeka item: Cards are out
for the golden wedding of Rev. and Mrs.
Q. Holman, which will be celebrated at
their residence in Holman's addition.
The entire day will be devoted to the
anniversary, the north side friends,
south side friends and ministerial friends
being received at different hours of the
day and evening. Rev. Holman's min
isterial life also dates back a half cen
tury, for he has been a regularly or
dained Methodist minister for over fifty
years Invitations have been sent to all
parts Of the United States, and consid-
ering the numerous friends of the pair,
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