Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-12-19
Kansas Notes.


Atchison talks of holding baby
show.
Mcpherson is troubled with dog
poisoner.
Caney ships draft horses to Roches.
ter, N Y.
Diphtheria has made its appearance
at Fort Scott,
The Fulton creamery now handles a
ton of milk day.
j. w, Elder of Medicine Lodge draws
pension OF $50 month.
Coffeyville Is planting trees In ita
cemetery at u cost OF ten cents apiece.
The net earnings OF the Santa Fe
system from July to October 81, were
So, 093,7l3.
Topeka's electric lights cost less
than SO a month each. The plant IL
owned by the city.
Suit has been begun to foreclose q
mortgage of $4,000 against the Fort
Scott Normal college.
The Union Pacific pays taxes to the
amount Of $s,slO, and the Santa Fe
80, l34 in Ottawa county.
Hiawatha World: We will give $40
to the new woman who writes us the
best proposal Of marriage.
Kansas newspapers are unit against
sending any National Office holders to
the Republican National convention.
Congressman Miller's bill for a pub
lie building for Kansas City, Kan,
asks for an appropriation Of so, 900, 900.
Mrs. John Schilling Of Topeka is
splendid wing shot, and ON days
hunt will get as many birds ms her nus
band.
Il. P. Ripley, the new president of
the Santa Fe, Is so years old. First
Vice President d. B. Robinson is two
years younger.
Two horses formerly owned in Law
renee, Emolita and Meteor, won prizes
at the New York horse show. Both
are owned by New Workers.
The defeat OF II. D. Fisher for chap
lain of the National house Of repre-
sentatives is the first reverse to over
take the present Kansas delegation In
Congress.
A Franklin county widow wants the
Santa Fe Railway Company to pay
her go, 900 for the loss OF her husband,
who was killed by interfering with
passing train.
According to Senator Pefrer's COM
pilation of congressional funeral sta
tistics, the cost Of the obsequies on
the occasion of the dea.h of Senator
Plumb in 1891 was $3,0S2.75,
Topeka's police collections only
amounted to s235 last month, but the
probate judges record shows that the
twenty-five drug stores made 6,376
sales Of bulge during that time.
1t is stated that Major Calvin Hood
has placed his palatial home in En-
poria in the hands OF q real estate
dealer for sale and that he contem-
plates removing to Kansas City.
A Topeka dealer has shipped out
several hundred head Of horses and
mules from Usage county during the
past season, sending them to Atlanta,
Ga. He says the prices for stock will
be much better within the next year,
as he IS only one OF hundred dealers
who are gathering up the best of Kan
sas horses and mules.
Senator Baker is at the head of a
new law firm in Leavenw orth, the
other members of which are w. C.
Hook and J. H. Atwood, the style OF
the firm being Baker, Hook g. Atwood.
Among the bills to be introduced by
Senator PETER is one which prohibits
the collection by the national govern
ment of liquor taxes from those not
authorized by the state to deal In
liquors.
John Hoenscheidt, German news
paper man of Wichita, is organizer
Tor the Mystic Brotherhood, the new
resubmission orga nizatiou. II was
Hoenscheidt who organized the Click
boom in 1882.