Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-06-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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claim as result of the frosts. II ia
nippod in places, no says, but not OK
tensivoly.
The fair grounds of the Neosho VAL
10y District Fair association were sold on
May %, at sherif's sale. They we're
purchased by the leading business mon
OF Neosho Falls for 1880. 1t is UNI
derstood that the tract will be kept for
public park.
Wellington's finances seem TO DO In
good shape. All scrip is cash at once,
bonds not due for nearly three years
yet are being taken up to save interest
and work on a new $4,000 city hall, for
which cash Is to be paid, will be COM
penced shortly.
At Robinson, in Brown county, few
days ago there were fifty-one loads Of
corn waiting to be unloaded This small
town claims that the statistics of the
Grand Island road shows that there is
more grain shipped from that point
that any other on the road in the state
OF Kansas.
lola Register: Through the kind offices
Of Hon. Charles S. Gleed, Of Topeka, Col.
John j. McCook, of New York, one of the
most distinguished of the two families
OF "Fighting McCooks" in whose honor
McCook Post was named, has presented
to the post magnificent stand Of colors,
consisting Of one United States flag and
one post banner The colors were
SHIPPED from Boston.
From Solomon City; Frank O. Car
ter and Henry Bannon, prominent bust
ness men of this city, while coming home
from Abilene, were seriously hurt. Their
horse was frightened by passing train
and ran away. The men were partly
thrown out and dragged for some dis
lance over bridge and we're badly cut
up and bruised. Carter is most injured
and has n number of broken bones.
From Dodge City: The Dodge City
irrigation convention was q success in
every particular. 1t was attended by
farmers from this and adjoining coun-
ties, and by home citizens in such num-
bers as to make it the largest one of the
kind ever held in this state. The only
adverse criticism that can be offered is
that there were too many capable lee
turers and subjects for one days work.
When the high school alumni ban
quet at the Huron house, Kansas City,
Kas., closed, the young ladies went up
stairs to a room on the third floor to
put on their wraps. In some way the
key was broken off in the door, and the
young ladies had to call for help. The
chief Of the fire department, with sever
al men, went to their assistance and
took the fair prisoners down an extern
sion ladder.
BY the action Of the school board the
Wellington schools will have only sew
enteen teachers this year as against
twenty eight and the teachers have to
suffer reduction Of 10 per cent. in sal
aries. The length OF the school year,
however, is to remain the same, eight
months. The action was taken only
after very spirited, almost acrimonious,
contest in the board, and some predict
that an entirely new board of teachers
will have to be selected on account Of it.
The directors of the Lake View
Shooting and Fishing association closed
a contract for the erection of a large
irrigating pump and windmill to sup
ply the large stock Of fish in the
lake with fresh water The lake has be-
come so low during the dry weather
that all the water that remains is on the
grounds Of the association, and even
there, was fast disappearing. Work has
begun and it is hoped that enough
fresh water will be put in at once to
save the fish.
Colonel David G. Stockwell died at
his home in Atchson, May 81, OF gener-
al debility at the age of so years. He
was born in Massachusetts and moved
Ray county, Mo-, in 1858. He
shipped the first carload of stock that
was sent over the Hannibal road and for
twelve years was the general live stock
agent of that road. He afterwards held
like position on the Santa Fe road for
eight years. He was promoter Of the
live stock industry throughout the west,
where he was we'll known.
The Wellington city council has adj
vertised for bids for the construction of
a new city building to stand on the site
of the old one, which was destroyed by
the cyclone Of May 27, 1892. The orig
inal building was the old Sumner county
court house, erected in 1872 as a town
ship hall and acquired by the city after
long and expensive litigation. 1t was
of native limestone, two stories high and
was the first stone building erected
south and west of the Arkansas river,
and naturally was a notable structure
in its day. The plans adopted for the
new one contemplate two-story build
ing, 50x60 feet, tho east and south
fronts Of quarry faced Augusta lime
stone, the other walls of material from
the old structure. On the lower floor
will be rooms for the fire department and
its apparatus, cell room or calaboose
and the office of the city clerk. Up
stairs quarters are provided for the city
council and police court, and large
hall for public assemblies.