Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-09-26
KANSAS NOTES.

Kansas is shipping hay to Illinois
and Indiana.
October 2 is W, II. Harvey's COIN
date at Wichita
The doctors of Gllena complain Of a
scarcity Of business.
Coolidge is receiving bids for the
building Of city hall,
The Pittsburg Populist comes ont for
II. V. Debs for president.
The alfalfa farmers in Western Kan
sas are cutting their third crop.
There are forty-six convlcts in the
penitentiary who can neither read nor
write.
The Democrats of Nemaha county
nominated woman for register of
deeds.
Representative j. w. Sheafor, who
Is lawyer ut Concordia, has resigned
and moved to Oregon.
A new hotel and fifteen store build
ings are among Hiawatha's added inn
provements this season.
Laura NJ, Johns will make woman
ouhluBC bpOSCuea III MluuShOIh duN
North Dakota this fall.
Marion county's peach crop Is so
great that in many orchards the fruit
is rotting by the wagon load.
Notwithstanding the drought in that
section, Republic county will have
enough corn for feed and seed.
An Oakley congregation contributed
$3.50 to send to assist in the conversion
of certain heather residing in India.
The annual session of the Kansas
State Irrigation association will be
held at Garden City, October and 2.
The Democrats, Populists and INDIE
pendent Republicans of Wyandotte
county have nominated u fusion ticket.
The Rev. Mr.. Jolly of Kinsley pro-
poses to make it lively at Baker uni
versity, where he has entered as u stu
dent.
Kansas newspapers are busily en-
gagged in proclaiming to the world that
it was Kansas man who caught
Fraher.
Brown county claims the smallest
delinquent tax list, taking into con-
sideration its size and population, in
the state
Somebody has figured it out that
Brown county's corn crop would I'LL
cars enough to make train siXty-two
miles long.
The Santa FEES August earning at
Abilene station were $500 greater than
the earnings Of the corresponding
month in 1894.
The storm damage to the Emporia
normal building turns out to have
been only $4,000, instead of $4,000, as
was at first Seported.
Ex-Governor st. John will return TO
Kansas and reside Mt Olathe in the
near future. lie will sever his connec-
ton with the insurance company in
which he was an officer.
David overmyer's fee us master in
the Black Bob cases was $4,000 He
was in the case less than year, but
the court took into consideration that
he wound up II controversy that had
been on the docket generation or
more.
II. b. Keller, father of the Keller
boys Of Leavenworth, is 81 years old
and verv feeble lie lives on farm
and recently he visited Leavenworth
for what he said was the last time.
lie put in the day calling on his old
friends, bidding all good by.
The northwest second annual re-
union of the G. A. Il. will be held at
Concordia, October IA. Senator PEI
fer, Dick Blue, John j. Ingalls, and
others will speak. Reduced railroad
rates have been secured and all old
soldiers and friends are invited.
George Il. Anthony: AFTER travel
ing through Missouri, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Canada, Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
New York, return home convinced,
more than ever that Kansas is the one
spot on earth in which to live"
Bob Chilcott, in addition to publish
ing the Wamego Times, dabbles in
real estate, is city clerk, and owns the
louisville mineral springs. The
waters Of the latter are said to DO q
surer shot than the common drunk
ards food" one buys ut drug store.
kansas notes in Kansas City Star.
The report Of the librarian of the
Kansas penitentiary shows that Wy
andotte county has the largest NUM-
Der of prisoners in the penitentiary,
eighty-three being there from that
county. Shawnee and Cowley county
are next on the list with thirty-eight
each. The following list Of counties
have no convicts within the walls of
the institution: Anderson, Decatur,
Garfield, Cove, Grant, Greeley, Hamil.
ton, Hodgman, Kearny, Wichita, Wal
lace, Stevens, Stanton, Sheridan, Sher-
man, Smith, Seward, Scott, Morton,
Morris, Mitchell.
Mayor Waggener OF Atchison be-
lieves that one of the things most inn
peratively necessary in Kansas is a
change in the laws with reference to
taxation Of real and personal proper
ty. He says: "The valuation Ofprop-
erty throughout the state, both real
and personal, is far below twenty-five
per cent Of its intrinsic value, and the
state and the various counties and
cities of the state are placed in false
position before Eastern investors by
this false, irregular and unjustiiable
valuation. Personal property escapes
taxation too readily. There is GER
tain city in Kansas in which there has
not been found to exceed $350,000 per-
sonal property for taxation, while l