Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-11-23

PPSS0oy, which will have acapital Of $780,
At first force OF ton or twelve men
will DO employed, but by next spring the
force will DO increased TO 100 or moro
men. Most OF the work will DO done by
machinery under the Schwahn chemical
processes, which are SIX in number and
which are patented.
The aluminium will be manufactured
from clay that will DO obtained near Ar
gentino and ut Pittsburg, Kas.
Hope is considering ways and means
70 establish fouring mill.
North Topeka item; Aaron Roe, five
miles in the country, has just finished
the deepest bore we'll in this part OF the
country. 1t goes down ll6 feet before
good water comes.
st. Francis letter: Cheyenne county
Is in very fair shape. We have threshed
about $4,000 bushels OF wheat, and have
good crop of broom corn, which make
things look ratt er comfortable.
Jack Henthorne, one OF the oldest
newspaper men in Kansas, who has
lately been connected with the Winfield
Courier, died at his homo at Winfield Of
typhoid fever, after an lines Of only
three days.
From Holton: Campbell university
music school has given it's first students
concert of the season which was great
success, and gives evidence Of the good
work being accomplished by the music
school Of Campbell university.
The entire plant OF the Galena gmelter
works is burned to the ground wiping
out an investment Of 100000. The
works had just been remodeled and
started up last week with two blocks Of
furnaces. About forty men were employed
at the works.
Medicine Lodge Cresset; The Medi-
inc Lodge sugar mill has manufactured
30 far this season 110,800 pounds Of first
sugar and 10000 pounds Of second
sugar. Two carloads OF syrup was ro-
,eived from Sterling, which is to be
worked into sugar.
The fifteen attachment suits in the
district court of Linn county against the
banking company Of Hood & Kincaid, Of
Pleasanton, have been brought to the
supreme court on error, and Attorney j.
D. Snoddy is endeavoring to have them
consolidated into one case involving
construction of the state banking law.
Wichita special; Fire Of incendiary
origin, which threatened at one time to
spread over a large area, broke out on
the west side about 3 a. IN. and before
it was subdued destroyed two hand
some residences and four barns and par
TALLY burned two more houses. The
loss is fully $4,000, about half insured.
The Kansas Irrigation Association will
hold its next meeting at Wichita,
Wednesday, November %, and the COM
mittees are preparing the most attractive
and important programme ever arranged
for meeting Of this kind, consisting Of
able papers and discussions by those best
informed on the various phases Of the
irrigation question.
From Wellsville: Two gentlemen are
here from Pittsburg, Penn, negotiating
for the lease of $4,000 acres of land for
two years. The object is to prospect for
oil and gas. If successful the owner OF
the land to get e-tenth of gross receipts
of the output. They have secured about
5000 acres and there is not much doubt
but they will secure the required amount.
Manhattan Nationalist: Everything
is business like on college hill. The new
buildings are progressing finely. The
walls of Science hall are to the top
Of the high basement. while those Of the
heating plant are some eight feet above
the ground. These two buildings will
improve the looks of the grounds great
ly, making the hill look like young
city.
Almost the entire business part Of the
town Of Latham, in Butler county, is
destroyed by fire. The flames, which
we're evidently of incendiary origin,
started in the hay loft of Jackson's liv-
cry stable and quickly spread to the adj
joining buildings, which were one after
another reduced to ashes until Main
street was cleared. Nearly all the horses
in Jackson's stable were roasted alive
The bank commissioner is having
hard time with the Angel Matthewson
bank at Parsons, which assigned a short
time ago. Mr.. Breidenthal sent Mr.. o.
born, one Of his deputies, to Parsons
to make an examination, and has received
telegram from him stating that the as
signee refused to allow him to enter the
bank. Mr.. Breidenthal has not decided
what means to employ to gain an en-
trance.
Forty-one thousand bushels Of seed
wheat have been forwarded to the i'm
poverished settlers Of western counties
by the secretary of the state board Of
railroad commissioners How much has
been forwarded by the railroads inde-
pendent Of the board, or by the various
secret societies Secretary Henderson has
no means of knowing, but he estimates
that the total amount will seed an acre
age equal to the fall Of 1891, but not SO
large as that Of last fall. The trans
portation has been furnished by the rail-