Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-11-28
STATE NEWS.

There are 23O0 veterans NJ rthe
Leavenworth Soldiers Home,
Charley Corbett, a Dodge City rail-
road man, is cousin to the pugilist,
The smallest wheat patch seeded in
Rush county This fall contains 200
acres.
There Is sufficient water in the Cot
tonwood for the mills on that stream
to run by water power.
A remarkable feature of the case Is
that the father of the child was born
with only four toes on each foot
Colonel j, d. Bowcrsock has bought
Judge Thacher's law library for his
son Jus, who is in Harvard law school
A boy baby with six toes on each
foot was born to Mr. and Mrs Abe
Botts near Goodland, sherman county.
A franchise has been granted to j.
0. Patterson, Chicago capitalist, to
build an electric street cur line at
Emporia.
Governor Morrill, was taxed $500 to
help pay the expenses Of the Kansas
Million Club train, now on exhibition
at Chicago
The market price of corn in Norton
county is twelve to fifteen cents n
bushel. That's what it was in 1875,
when people used it as fuel.
The good rains in Western Kansas
last week encouraged the farmers to
sow wheat The acreage in some
counties will be greater than last year.
The Topeka Capital passed into the
hands of John r. and David w. Null
vane. Major Hudson will devote his
entire time to the state printing office.
Bent Murdoch says that next year
the people will raise more Katlir corn
and less Of the Indian variety in West
ern and Central Kansas 1t is u great
prairie and dry country crop.
Western branch of the National
enwcrth is crowded to its utmost ca
pacity and no new members will be
admitted.
c. M. Foulks, claim agent for the
Santa Fe, tripped while descending a
stairway in Chicago, fell aud struck
his head, receiving a fracture of the
skull which will contne him to his bed
for some time.
Walter N. Allen, the only Populist
member of the State Board OF Chart
ties, will shortly resign and look after
his fences as u candidate for nomina-
ton to Congress from the First dis
trict.
Frank Mileham son of the ex-post-
master of Topeka, who recently em-
bezzled over $3, 200 from the postofiice
there, will be prosecuted, notwith
standing the fact that his friends
made restitution of the amount stolen
Complete returns from the los couI.
ties in Kansas of the vote for CHEZ
Justice of the Supreme court give
Judge David Martin l24, $50; Charles
X. Holiday 1885, the total being
l67,230 Judge Martins majority in
the State is 51,47O.
Governor Morrill, says that Auditor
George E. Cole did right in refusing to
allow the expense account of George
IT. Anthony, superintendent of the
State insane asylum, for the tripto the
national convention of superintend-
ents held recently.
j. e. Smith, a well known young
farmer of Chase county, while attempt
ing to get off Santa Fe.train at
Strong City, was struck by the water
crane. His skull was crushed and his
back broken. The train also ran over
his legs. lie died instantly
Olathe lodge No. TO- I. o. o. f., dedi-
Gated their new 1000 building and
hall. The building is one of the best
owned by any lodge in the state. 1t 10
a beautiful two-story brick, with store
rooms below and q spacious and finely
furnished hall above.
Atchison Globe: A large number Of
Atchison people are going Galveston
crazy If they will fill their yards
with sand and cactus or two and try
to raise something in them next July,
when the sun is at its hottest, they
will have all the Galveston they want.
Wild cats have been providing
around over Atchison county appropri-
ating poulty, saddles, harness, etc,
belonging to farmers. Losses have
been attributed to burglars, but re-
Gently it was discovered that four
footed felines were the marauders and
that their rendezvous was in an almost
inaccessible point IN the river bluffs.
A wild cat hunt has been arranged by
the sufferers.
The United States supreme court
has reversed the Kansas court in the
appeal case of Daniel A. Bucllin, con-
victed of perjury with two others in
land case. Justice Harlan grants
Bucklin new trial because the court
erred in instructing the jury that they
could not agree to the verdict in the
case of two of the defendants and dis
agree as to the other, Bucklin, in the
same case and for the same crime.
Kansas creamery managers have
formed combination called the Kan
sas Creamery and Supply Company,
and about 100 creameries are pledged
to furnish to it's manager all surplus
butter and to sell none under daily
price fixed by him. A line of refriger-
ator cars will be run out of the depos-
itory at Kansas City to Texas, Louis
lana and other Southern points, in
Guiding Old Mexico thus securing bet
ter rates and condition of the product.
At present the Southern market is
monopolized by the Illinois and In
diana dealers and Kansas men have
found it difficult to get in.
Adiutant General Harrison, of the
la A. R., claims to have discovered 31S