Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Winfield city council is discuss
ing proposition to put a special $500
tax on all drug stores which dispense in
toxicating liquors.
During the civil war General Nelson
A. Miles, in charge Of the troops at Chi
cago, served on the staff of General j..
@. Caldwell, Of Topeka.
A party OF Leavenworth teachers on
the way TO tho National association
meeting at Asbury Park we're strike
bound for time in Chicago.
Mrs. Sternberg, the wife OF the wealth.
lest contractor in Wichita, ran thorn
into her foot a week ago and this caused
lockjaw from which she died in convul-
sions.
The authorities at Fort Leavenworth
have discovered valuable deposit OF
brick clay on the reservation, which is
being tested. II found to be as expected
they will build number OF permanent
ovens and manufacture vitrified brick
extensively.
It Is stated at Atchison on good au-
thority, that John j. ingalls, has finally
declined the offer made him by the
New York Commercial Advertiser. Mr..
ingalls, says he has been his own mas
ter SO long, that he dislikes to give up
his freedom.
From Cawker City: The mail car
rier between Cawker City and Upton,
Mitchell county, lost $500 in cash that
he was carrying to the bank for a Tip
ton firm. He was compelled to cross a
swollen stream and when across the
money was not to be found.
The street railway companies of Kan
sas City, Kan, have refused to carry
mail carriers longer free of charge and
as a consequence the delivery service in
that city has fallen off. The postmaster
has asked for an appropriation of $3.50
to pay car fare
Topeka Capital: The city will before
the fifteenth of this month, pay some
thing like $151,0OO in interest and
principal on the city's debts. OF this
amount, $4,000 is interest and prin-
cipal on street paving and $26,50O for
interest on the sewer bonds.
Governor Lewelling and the Atchison
board Of police commissioners have re-
tanned attorneys to defend the damage
suit brought against them by Mrs. H.
B. Phelps because they failed to do their
duty in closing places where intoxicat-
ing liquors are sold, thereby making a
drunkard of her husband.
Senator Martin secured a favorable re-
port on the joint claim OF Ely Moore, of
Lawrence, and Ex-Governor Woodson,
of Coffeyville, which amounts to $1,000.
The claim arises from work done by
Moore and Woodson for the government
forty years ago as agents among the
Delaware Indians in Kansas.
The senate committee has reported ia
vorably the bill to appropriate $4,000
to be applied to the government build
ing at Topeka by way of constructing
elevator and making other improve
ments. A similar amount was also ia
vorably recommended to be applied to
making repairs on the government
building at Leavenworth.
From Pittsburg: One by one the
coal industries in this district are sue
cumbing to the influence of the Pull
man boycott. Shafts No. 2 and 3 Of
the Wear Coal company shut down in
definitely on account of the utter i'm
possibility to get cars of any descrip-
ton to transport their produce. Hun
dreds of miners are idle and many more
will be in the same condition unless
matters are adjusted soon,
Hogan's brigade Of Coxeyites, which
is floating down the Missouri from Oma-
ha will not meet with as warm a recep-
ton at Kansas City, Kan, as have for
mer contingents Mayor Barnes has adj
dressed the following letter to Chief OF
Police Quarles: 1T is reported that a
large body Of men known as common
wealers, are on their way to this city
from up the river. In my Judgment the
presence Of the assemblage in this city
is not desirable at this time and re-
quest that such action be taken as is
necessary to prevent their stopping of
here. Our last experience with this class
was costly to US and we do not care to
repeat it,"
From Thayer. Well No 2 on the Nc.
Donald farm one mile northwest of town
was shot with twelve quarters OF nitro
glycerine. Before the charge was put
in the gas threw column of oil about
sixty feet high and as soon as it sub
sided another column was thrown above
the derrick which is seventy-two feet
high. A charge of glycerine was then
lowered into the well and exploded by
means Of a goodwill" Immediately q
column of oil was thrown about eighty
feet into the air and after flowing mo-
ment subsidized. This was followed by
another strong flow which went thirty
feet above the derrick. This is the
fourth good we'll that has been finished
here and each one has proved little
better than the other. All of these
wells, eight in number, are within tive
miles of Thayer.