Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Topeka Mail; The city library now has
a debt Of about $4,000. The rents from
library hall pay the interest en- this debt
The treasurer of the Parsons board Of
education will have $4,000 surplus on
hand at the end OF the present term OF
school.
Forty-three veterans have been dis
charged from the Soldiers home at
Leavenworth, being now able to sup
port themselves,
The total expenses Of the Topeka
schools for the last month was about
$4,000, and Of this amount S7,400 was
for teachers salaries
Emporia Republican, The humps are
playing havoc with the normal studentR
A good many young people and few
old ones about town are also suffering
from the epidemic.
Manhattans water works cost in 1898
$2,12Z12, and $2,S96.4O was received
for water, leaving a balance over ex-
penses OF $729.34. The works are owned
and operated by the city.
The Pittsburg Vitrifed Brick works,
owned by Robert Nesch, took fire and
the building was destroyed. The works
were erected at cost Of $4,000. The
loss will be somewhere between $1,000
and $4,000, and is covered by insurance.
The expenses of the Parkinson Sugar
Co., Of Fort Scott, last year exceeded
the value Of the product by over 81 900,
but the deficit was made up by federal
bounty Of $14,607 and state bounty OF
$5,477, giving the company a net profit
of $S,861.
From Dodge City; The Kansas con-
gressmen confidently expect that the
Fort Dodge military reservation will be
opened to settlement this year. The bill
originally introduced for that purpose
was absorbed in the omnibus bill intro
duced by McRae, restoring to the pub
lie domain all the ahandonded military
reservations. 1t is practically certain
that il will pass.
A course of lectures on the Bible is
begun at Kansas university. The course
is new ono for the school and will
hereafter be made feature. The lee
lures will be delivered by several differ
ents members of the faculty and are
open to all students in the school as
we'll as others interested The members
Of the faculty who will give the lectures
are: Professors F. w. Blackmar, E. M. |
Hopkins, A. M. Wilcox, Olln Templin,
9. G. Dunlap.
In the last bulletin of the United |
States bureau Of statistics, giving the
exports from the United States and their |
value, is an item of 114,9S6,162 pounds
of oleo oil, valued at 81, 3S9,964. Sec
rotary Coburn, of the Kansas depart
ment OF agriculture, calls the attention
of cattle growers to the fact that oleo
oil is largely Kansas product. It is
made from the selected fat of cattle, is
the chief constituent of artificial butter,
and is exported in great quantities to
Hamburg, and other Euro
pean markets. One house alone in Kan
sas City, Kas., during the year 1898,
exported 1914, 073 pounds, worth $685.
600. Several other Kansas houses also
make and export large quantities Of this
oil
Topeka Capital; During the past few
days M. p. Gould, the business manager
Of the Washburn MIDI Continent, has
visited the eight colleges, universities
and normal schools represented in the
state oratorical association and has So
cured the oratIons and cuts Of each Of
jhe orators which he will use in getting
put contest number of the Mid Cont
1ent This magazine will also contain
| short sketch and cut of each school
in the association Mr.
Gould is meeting with good success in
lis new enterprise as each Of the man.
lgers of various school papers through
out the state has engaged large num-
oer OF these magazines which will be
distributed in the various schools on the
OF February %, the day of the
contest.
Topeka Mail: The annual meetings OF
he stockholders of all the banks of this
,ity we're held within the last week or
wo Thus far no changes have been
made in the management of any of the
banks, and so far as known none will be
made this year. The reports of the
,fflcers showed that the banking bust
less Of Topeka is in very satisfactory
taking into consideration the
depressed condition of business gener-
lily. AS everybody knows the banks
ls a rule have been little more than pay
ng expenses and there is little or
nothing left for dividends or surplus.
The Bank OF Topeka declared a small
dividend last November, but it is not
likely any of the banks will declare div
dends very soon. Banks make money
when business is active and money is
n demand, which is not the condition
If things now. Every bank in the city
s in good shape and there are better
prospects for 1894.
KANSAS RAILROADS.
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