Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-10-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| pnerlllun county Wuue up car
seed wheat to send to southwest farmers
The faculty Of Kansas university late
ly put up 5000 for purchasing instru
ments for the X. S. U. band.
Thirty Brown county school teacher
have attended the worlds fair, and Don
iphan county has sent twenty-seven.
Tho natural gas plant at Ipdepend
ence is claimed to be the finest one west
of the Mississippi. 1t has thirteen miles
OF mains.
Members OF the Eleventh Kansas reg.
iment will meet in Emporia October 81
at o'clock to make arrangements for q
reunion to be held December Z.
Carney Binford, a graduate Of the
State normal, is on the eve Of departure
for five years. missionary service in
Toxic, Japan, with Joseph Casand.
Many families returning from the
Cherokee strip in covered wagons are
destitute and are stealing great deal
Of corn from fields along their routes Of
travel.
Contracts for material aggregating
$4,000 have already been let by the
Atchison electrical street railway com
pany. The first car load of material
has arrived in Atchison.
Holton ladies who had charge Of
Floral hall at the Holton fair, have given
notice that they will do nothing next
year if gamblers and booksellers are al
lowed on the grounds.
At Salina the music house of Vernon
Bros, was burglarized Of several hun
bred dollars worth of guitars, violins
and other musical merchandise taken.
The clothing store of Peter Brown was
also entered and several suits of clothes
taken.
Wellington Monitor Press: A quar-
ter section of land in Avon township be-
longing to the estate of the late Joseph
Gregson was sold this week by the
administrator, under order Of the pro.
bate court, for $4,000. The purchaser
was M. Il. Vineyard, Of Illinois.
Courts of Kansas City, Kansas, have
been trying policy gamblers and have
them. The decisions run on
the theory that, although these men
crimes which were proven,
there is no statute of Kansas which pro-
vides a penalty for this particular
offense.
Newton j. Lancaster, the mail agent
who lost his life in the Rock Island
wreck at Keats, was the only son of Mr..
and Mrs. Taylor Lancaster, OF Atchison.
He was % years Of age and had only
been in the railway mail service two
months. He worked in the Atchison
postoflice for two or three years prior to
July last.
Stockton Signal: We saw a gentle
man in town by the name of Kincaid
who is the father of twenty seven child
rem. The youngest was with him, babe
about year old. There are eleven pairs
Of twins in the family. These people
are residents of Rocks county, and we
any other county in the state
to beat the record. 500. .u5ua 4
From Wichita: August Noltemeier,
a German just arrived in this country,
reached here en- route to the strip, minus
his carpet bag and 5000 it contained.
He did not discover his loss until his ar
rival here, and says the last time he
handled his bag was at Mcfarland
where he put it under his seat. Six hun
lred dollars of the cash was in German
coin and the balance greenbacks.
From Seneca; Gottfried Gruetze, q
wealthy German living near COTS, was
driving a scary team. Hepassed lady
IN horseback two miles this side Of COTS.
Her cloak blew out and frightened the
horses. They ran away throwing him
1nto a barb wire fence severing his head
rom his body. The lady was so fright
ened at the horrible sight that she tainted
away but later come to and walked to
COTS and reported the account.
From Mound City: Judge J. 8. West
endered decision in a matter relating
% a crippled bank at Pleasanton. The
tate bank examiner closed the bank and
procured the appointment Of receiver.
certain creditors commenced attachment
proceedings and tho question got before
Judge West as to whether attachment |
would hold against property Of pri-
ate, not a corporation, bank. The de-
ision sustained the authority of the |
tate bank department.
Robert Whisner, who was arrested at |
IA Cygne, by the sheriff Of Linn county,
harged with uttering forgery in con-
ection with the crime of e. r. Westfall,
he absconding Topeka agency pension
Jerk, plead guilty at Leavenworth be-
ore Judge Foster of the United States
istrict court, and was sentenced to one |
ear and three days in the pentitentiary. |
Vhisner had no defense whatever and |
ecided that he would begin to serve out |
is sentence at once and not await the
clay of trial,
At Goodland the Kenmore Coursing
Tub is making extensive preparations
or their first meet on October 18th
o the Goth. 1t is said that there are
low more than five hundred Jack rab-
tits within two and half miles of