Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-06-21
KANSAS SLATE NEWS.

eles, Cal, according to letter from DIR.
Munk, who now lives there.
Thore arc still about 100000 acres of
government land in the state. 1t is near
| ly all in the western portion, and Kear-
ney count heLds tho list with 64,640
acres.
At tho competitive examination of
candidates for West Point Cadetship
recently held in Atchison tho highest
average was made by Albert Bitman, OF
Louisville, Kansas.
Atwood and Colby are going to adver-
tise their towns as pleasure resorts this
GUNNER. They arc going to erect bath
houses, the former on Lake Beaver and
the latter on Carp lake.
Colonel Thomas Moonlight, of Leav-
enworth, has been constant sufferer
from neuralgia since he arrived in La
Paz to assume his duties as United
States minister 10 Bolivia.
Topeka Capital: Joseph Rupp, trav-
cling agent OF the Maxwell land grant
in New Mexico, left Topeka with several
Mennonites from Shawnee county who
contemplate locating there.
Hon. Henry Watterson, the noted
democratic politician and editor Of the
Louisville Courier Journal, will, it is
announced, surely speak at the Winfield
Chautauqua assembly this month Two
o'clock on Saturday, June %, is the
time set.
lola Register; Guffey & Galley did
not find anything in the test well drilled
at Chanute. They drilled to the depth
of 1,400 feet and then abandoned the
we'll. The rig has been taken down and
sent to carlton, below Chanute where
the company will prospect for oil.
There was quite scene in tho camp
Of tho Sanders army of wealers at Fort
Leavenworth, when three of the men
made an attempt to pass the deputies
guarding the army. A wholesale break
away was at one time imminent, but
the deputy marshals finally succeeded
in holding the men.
Some weeks ago pledge WAS started
in circulation at Wichita binding the
signers to not vote within three years
for any candidate for any Office who
would not pledge himself to the enforce
ment of tho prohibitory law The
pledge was not to be in force until 500
signatures had been obtained. The
500th name has been secured.
Hunnewell held city election in
April in the old.fashionsd way. AS soon
as the newly elected officers began to en-
forco the city ordinances it was discov-
cred that the election was illegal, and a
now election under the Australian ballot
system was ordered. The second cleo
ton took place and Hunnewell now has
set Of officers who were legally chosen.
Mayor Smith, Of Emporia, introduced
novel proposition in the city council
which seems to meet with favor from all
classes Of citizens 1t is to do away with
charging water license and make water
free to all. A three-m tax on the 500
he claims will pay oil cost of running
the works, besides gradually paying off
all indebtedness on tho city water
works. So far as known here no other
city does this.
Atchison Globe: Fifteen men were
wanted at the riprappng above East
Atchison. Two men started out at noon,
and at o'clock had found only few
who wanted employment although the
wages offered were S1.25 a day for la
borers. A crowd Of colorcd men went
to work, but grew tired in short time
and quit. They did not complain that
the work was hard, but did not want to
work.
The Seventh congressional district in
this state contains the largest popula-
ton of any district in the United States
except one in Philadelphia, one in Pitts
burg and ono IN Chicago. There are
81 counties in the Seventh district of
Kansas, 81 counties in the Sixth, IL
counties in tho Fifth, 10 counties in the
Fourth, 8 counties in the Third, 8 coun-
ties in tho Second and 8 counties in the
First.
Burlington Republican: The fowl,
half Guinea hen, and half Plymouth
Rock chicken, that E. f. Morton keeps
in cage for ornamental purposes, has
adopted a new iad. There are four
young prairie dogs kept in the cage
with her, and she makes practice of
brooding them as hen does her chicks.
Almost any hour of the day she may be
seen squatting upon the ground with
the prairie dogs Nesting under her
feathers, and they seem to enjoy the
warmth and protection she affords.
Topeka Journal: W. I. Ham, a
farmer living two miles south of Grant
vile, came to this city with load OF
Strawberries. He was accompanied by
his little son. While crossing the Union
Pacific railroad track near Calhoun
bluffs, on his return home, the wagon
was struck by Rock Island train and
completely demolished. Mr.. Ham sus-
tanned internal injuries, which will prob
ably prove fatal. The boy had one
arm broken. The team escaped unhurt.