Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Eastern Kansas Poultry assoca-
ton has been organized at Lawrence,


ton has been organized at Lawrence.
It is proposed to build telephone
line from Leon, Butler county, TO Ell
Dorado.
A Salina book social resulted in the
addition OF seventy volumes to the IL
brary and free reading rooms.
The Salina paper mill has shut down
until its present stock on hand shall
have been materially reduced.
Mrs. McCasey, wife Of the supe rim
tendent OF the Topeka insane asylum ID
a regular student ct Bethany college.
From Osborne: It cost man in Val
ley township $59 to find out that his
children could be punished in school for
disobedience.
Leonardville shipped nearly $50 car
loads OF farm produce during 1898.
More than half Of this number Of car
loads was OF stock.
1t developed during recent trial at
Atchison that the telephone system in
that city earns more each year than the
original cost OF the plant.
There were more fires in Leavenworth
during January than during any previ-
GUS month in the history of the city.
Many OF the blazes were incendiary.
Manhattan people have raised nearly
enough by subscription to send an old
colored man to Mississippi to see his
mother and his old home of slavery days.
The Shawnee county board made an
appropriation Of 5000 for the year 1894
for the Topeka Orphans home payable
on monthly vouchers approved by the
auditor
A farmer engaged in digging well
near Parsons encountered a stratum
largely composed of lead ore. A com
pany may be formed to develop the
strike.
Having accepted the pastorate of the
Armour mission, in Chicago, Rev. d. @.
Miner has rendered his resignation as
president Of the Kansas State Temper
ance Union.
Since last week, when it was reported
that theirs we're 1902 academies and high
schools which prepare for Kansas uni
versity, six new schools have been added
making total OF 1903.
There are now thirty three drug stores
in Topeka holding permits to sell liquors
for medicinal, mechanical and scientific
purposes, this is one more than there
has ever been heretofore at one time.
The forthcoming catalogue Of Kansas
university will show an enrolment Of
1928 in the school Of arts; rs in the law
school: 101 in engineering; 81 in phar-
macy; and 1913 in the school OF music.
The Enterprise mills Of @. Hoffman
& Son will be doubled in capacity dur
ing the summer. Seventy-five men will
commence work on the addition in a
short time and be occupied for six
months or more.
Topeka Capital: D. B. Owen, assis-
tant engineer, fell down the state house
steps leading to the basement of the
building and suffered serious injuries
Three ribs were broken and his spine
was injured. He is in very critical
condition.
At Beloit, during four weeks term
If court, several important cases were
card, and among them case involving
heapplication of the new redemption law.
Judge Heren held that the law does not
apply to mortgages executed prior to
jhe passage Of the new law.
The University Review, the Kansas
university monthly, wants change in
the rules Of the oratorical contests, the
leading feature Of which change shall be
to let thought and composition count
but a fourth instead of half in passing
upon the relative merits OF orations,
D. s. Ruse, prominent young farmer
Of Midland, flag station on the Union
Pacific, stepped off of the rapidly NOV
ing "plug" and was severely injured
about the head and shoulders. He had
been to Kansas City with car Of stock
and was being carried by his home on
his return.
Rev. H. A. Cowan, of st. Joseph, tele-
graphed to Kansas university his &C.
ceptance Of the chair Of physical culture,
recently created. Mr.. Cowan will arrive
in Lawrence about March /. He will
have charge Of all the athletic interests
in the school and in addition will direct
the religious services
Stockton News: County Treasurer
Fesler says the December taxes we're
paid up very well, much better than he
had even dared to hope for. The county
has promptly paid every piece of scrip
presented, dollar for dollar, notwith-
standing an expenditure of nearly 1000
in building and repairing at the court
house, and he yet has money on hand.
The county's financial affairs are GER
tainly in excellent shape.
Atchison Globe There Is an increas-
ing demand for Atchison and Atchison
county property. Drop around at the
court house upon the occasion of sher-
IFS sale and You will find an unusually
large number Of bidders. They are not