Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-12-12
KANSAS NOTES.
A Topeka man deals in cat hides.

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head of sheep in Harper county.
Goodland will substitute wind for
steam at the city water works plant.
Saline county farmers are shipping
baled alfalfa to the st. Louis market.
Stafford county farmers have dis
covered that profitable crop for them
is celery.
The proprietor of new billiard hall
at Mcpherson has put up S., 600 bond
for good behavior
Bailey Waggener will run for the
Legislature against John Seaton In
Atehison next year.
The Medicine Lodge sugar mill has
been appraised at ST., 900 and Deem
Der II it will be sold,
An Iowa Association is to be formed
among the veterans Mt the homo who
enlisted from that state.
The cattlemen of Chautauqua coun-
ty are dehorning their Texas stock
One firm has dehorned 400 head.
Mrs, M. w, Dunaway, formerly of
HoXie, has been elected county super
intendent of Lincoln county, Colo.
Western Kansas farmersare said be
sowing an immense acreage of wheat,
and the prospects for good crop arc
tlattering
Jefferson county's corn average this
year is thirty-eie hit bushels an acre,
fourteen more than that Of the state
as whole.
Frank Warner of Stafford county,
produced forty bushels Of beans ON
three acres of ground, and sold the
crop for $780,
There is such a demand in KingmRn
county for corn to crib on speculation
that ear corn brings two cents
bushel more than shelled corn.
lola's latest strike is q salt water
well and surf bathing will probably
be enumerated among the attractive
features Of life in Gasville next SUM
mer.
Leavenworth bakers are engaged in
bread war, and the public Is now
privileged to buy the staff of life at
the rate Of forty-four loaves Of bread
for 81.
A melancholy sign at the Leavon-
worth Soldiers home is the cemetery
containing over LOO graves. The
home has not been in existence ten
years.
The Kansas City, Kan, Gazette says
there arc $50 liquor cases on the
docket of the Wyandotte District
court that have been appealed from
the police court.
Letters from people with ailments,
from every portion of the United
States, are pouring in upon Went
worth, the Atchison HEALER" by the
hundreds in every mail.
Usage City Free Press: The Usage
Carbon Company's pay roll in this city
on Saturday was SEQ, 1920. They
also paid $3.50 to the Scandinavian
Company. At Scranton their pay roll
was So, S7073
A federal statute makes it fine OF
$500 to kill game in an Indian reserva-
tion and the Osages have ordered
their police to make arrests Kansas
men who hunt in the territory should
make n note OF this.
In game of foot ball at Eureka be-
tween lewis Academy, Wichita, and
the Southern Kansas Academy Of
Eureka, Robert Jeene of the Eureka
team received spinal injuries that are
thought to be fatal.
An evidence of the improved condi-
ton Of the people of the state is af-
forded in the fact reported from nearly
all the different counties that the pro.
portion of taxes paid during the first
two weeks OF November is greatly in
excess Of the '03 and '0l payments.
A pack of dogs belonging to Ira
Johnson OF near Atchison freed
'possum. johnson climbed the tree
to shake down the 'possum, but miss
ing his hold, fell among the dogs, and
they, MISLEADING him for the game,
jumped upon him and terribly LAGER
ated him before he could free hims elf.
@. w. Mitchell, receiver for the
wrecked Fort Scott State bank, which
closed its doors October ID, owing to
the heavy defalcation of Its cashier,
j. II. Colean, has just given out q
statement to the effect that the collec.
tions are coming in in good shape and
that he will pay rs per cent dividend
about December 10. To make a rs per
cent payment will require about $780,
600, which amount has already been
collected.
Santa Fe freight engineers on the
division between Hoisington and Hor-
ace make $500 month. The rush of
business is almost unprecedented.
John II. Back, farmer in the north
part of the State, cut several $40 bills,
in halves and sent them to the treas
ury department in Washington to be.
redeemed. The first batch were re-
DENIED nil right, but when Back sent
in the second lot the officials got onto
his game. He was arrested and taken
to Leavenworth, where he pleaded
guilty and was released on bond until
sentence would be passed. November
rs Back sent 81, 900 draft to the clerk
of the United States court at Topeka
to pay his fine, thus anticipating the
action of the court.
The people OF Topeka voted them
selves into a pretty pickle at the re-
cent election, when by large major
ity they decided to expend Sl5O,000 on
a Melan bridge across the Kaw river.
The presumption was that anyone had
a right to build bridge Of that type,
but it appears that the Melan people
hav a patent on their bridge, and they
now demand $ll 900 for the plans and
specifications required in building the
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