Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-11-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

! Auo Olu bOluloLb Oh OOuBlhbb COUNT
will hold o reunion on October 1927.
Hoisington claims tho best bushes
buildings for town Of its size Of Al,
city In central Kansas.
The total school population Of Butlel
county Is 8,486, OF the number l,2ll
are residents OF Eldorado.
Osborn county spent $3.50 the las
quarter to support the poor and thu
Farmer thinks it is time TO have q poo
farm.
The Fort Scott paper mill has been for
mally opened. 1t makes an excellent
paper from the refuse from the sugar
mills.
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders and directors of the Santa Fe
will be held in Topeka, Thursday, 0cto-
Der Goth.
The value of the public school proper.
ty in the state is $10,703, 708, and 49,.
06O, 475.45 was paid for teachers sala-
ries In 1892.
There are thirty-fve UNCONVENTIONAL
schools in Kansas, and the value Of their
property is $2,5S3,769. The average
salary paid to teachers in these institu-
tions is $69.80 per month, and the aver
age yearly attendance 1891.
The Manhattan Nationalist, and Prof.
j. II. Lee, in its columns, are agitating
water power 1t is aruged that Rocky
Ford, properly m lnipulated, would give
water power which would draw wheels
and machinery to turn, employ many
people and add to the size and i'm
portance of that city.
Cedar Vale Commercial; The diamond
core drill at Peru is at work this week.
On Wednesday the last thing gone
through was a strata of slate about three
feet thick. This was at depth of about
$40 feet. Coal is what the boys are
after and they propose going down at
least a thousand feet before abandoning
the project.
Sedan Times Journal: A considerable
proportion Of the men who thought they
had claims in the strip conclude, when
they go back and look the ground over,
that they we're mistaken. They find so
many rival claimants, who have plenty
Of witnesses to prove everything, that
they do not consider it will pay them
to make contests.
Chanute Vidette- Times: The great
oil-feld of this country is beginning to
attract the attention of eastern men and
several capitalists from Pennsylvania
ore now going over the field with the
view Of going into active operations.
Chanute is the center Of this great oil de-
post and the headquarters Of this COM
pany will be located here
From Atchison: A German farmer
named Frank Demel, deposited $1,O65
in the safety deposit vaults in July. To-
day, when he went to get his money, he
found the box empty. The manager OF
the safety deposit company says the on
ly way in which the money could be OBJ
tanned was through the use of skeleton
key. The police are Investigating
At the last meeting OF the Emporis
city council resolutions were passed
looking to the purchasing of an electric
plant, and the committee on gas and
electric lights was instructed to take
such steps as were necessary. The COM
pany furnishing the city with light
charges what is thought to be an exor-
bitant amount and puts out their lights
at midnight, leaving the city in darkness
thereafter.
Topeka Capital: The trustees Of the
Kansas Medical college met in the col
lege building, at 619 Jackson street, and
among other business transacted, it was
decided that the rapid growth Of the in
titution justified the erection Of a col
lege building, and the executive commit
tee were instructed to proceed at once to
prepare plans and specifications for
building to be completed and ready for
occupancy next fall.
Four college students, Messrs, Car
son, Castor, Nickerson and Kaho, met
with serious accident at Ottawa. ALI
Of them are good sprinters, and two Of
them started to run q race along the
course on the campus, and the other
two few moments later, thinking that
the first two were off from the track,
started to run race from the same
point. The night was quite dark, and
midway Of the course they met the 9th
or two running return race. The four
struck at the same instant and were
thrown into heap together, three Of
them being rendered senseless. All were
seriously injured, Mr.. Nickerson receiv-
ing fracture OF the skull and Mr.. Car
son being injured internally.
Topeka journal: County Superin.
tendent Wright has completed his annu-
al report which shows that there are 80
schools in Shawnee county, of which 20
are in the city of Topeka. An addition
al school district has recently been or
ganized north of Silver Lake, but it is
not included in the report. The school
population of the county, including all
persons between the ages of B and 81, is
is 16,509. OF this number 1902 attend