Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

boy who has not been absent or tard
for eight years.
Four hundred and forty-two carload
Of grain have been shipped from oxfor,
since last harvest.
Companies have been chartered te
manufacture agricultural implements il
both Lawrence and Atchison.
An even hundred car loads of grai,
were inspected by the official inspecto
at Kansas City, Kan, on Jan. 10.
Seven car loads OF zinc speIter were
shipped from Girard, Crawford county
to Now Orleans in one day recently.
Labette county has awarded the con.
tract for boarding, clothing and caring
for its poor, at So week for each pau.
per.
United States Marshal Medley has an.
nounced that his headquarters will be at
Leavenworth, although he will maintain
a deputy at Topeka.
The total enrolment Of pupils in the
Topeka public schools at the end Of the
last month was $685., There are 175
more girls than boys.
In some grades of the public schools
at LOavenworth the old time readers
have been dispensed with and secular
papers substituted for them.
One thousand rainbow trout were left
at Cherokee by the United States fish
commission car. The fry will be used
in stocking fine lake south Of
Cherokee.
Half of the Great Western Stove
foundry at Leavenworth resumed opera
tions after a months shut down. On
February l the entire plant will begin
operations.
The college Of Emporia will graduate
thirteen students at tho June commence
ment Each will receive the degree OF
A. B. or Ph. d., and seven Of the num-
ber will enter the ministry.
Wichita special; w, S. Hebron, post
master at Kinsley, Kan, in 1892, was
tried here in the United States circuit
court and found guilty OF embezzllng
postoifice funds amounting to nearly
$1,000.
A telegram has been received at TT.
Leavenworth from the war department
asking il any of the lieutenants stationed
there would like an appointment as pro-
fessor Of military science and tactics at
Baker university.
The United States land office at Kr-
win will cease to do business March 10,
tho Oberlin office will close two DAYS
later, and on March Is consolidation
of the two Offices will be open for
business at Colby, Thomas county.
Topeka Capital: Nobody knows lust
what convenience an elevator is until
he stops to think about it. The eleva-
torboy in theColumbian building
the number Of passengers who took
round trips in his car, and at the close of
the day they had reached the total of 584.
In addition to this number twenty seven
persons walked down stairs after going
up in the elevator.
At Salina the oratorical contest to de-
termine who shall have the honor of
representing the Kansas Wesleyan uni
versity at the intercollegiate contest at
Topeka, was held in the university
chapel. There we're three contestants
w. o. Allen, H. M. Templin, tany D. E.
Blair, Of whom Allen was he winner.
Templin got second place.
From Great Bend: D. R. Jones, the
ex-county clerk of this county, who was
arrested in Oklahoma some time ago and
escaped from the sheriff there, was
brought back to the city. Sheriff Spen-
Ger caught him in Diaz, Mexico. He
consented to go without an extraditlon
warrant when he found he would have
to lie in jail till one was procured. He
waived preliminary examination.
From Toronto: While the wife and
two children and hired girl of Jack Gill
ROY, q cattleman north Of here, we're out
riding, their team became unmanage-
able and ran into the wire fence, detach-
ing themselves and throwing all except
the little girl into the fence. Mrs. Gill
roy was badly hurt. The baby was
killed, being hung by the clothing on
the wire and its skull mashed against a |
post.
The Kansas City, Kan, Stock Yards
company put large force Of men and
teams at work grading the land on the |
west side of the Kaw river, between the
Swift Packing establishment and the
Union Pacific tracks. The land was
purchased by the stock yards company |
a year ago from the Riverside Improve
ment company, and it will be used for
the west yards in which the
Texas and Southern cattle are yarded.
The work will be pushed and soon the
land will be covered with cattle pens.
The A. P. A. excitement has reached |
Emporia. Judge J. F. Culver, who adj
mits he is president of an A. P. A.
lodge, numbering nearly 200 members,
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