Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-08-08
Kansas Notes.


The state census gives Parsons pop
ulation of 1851.
G. M, McIntire has sold the Arkansas
City Democrat to Il. M. Hartley.
Ex-Governor Humphrey denies the
report that he is to remove from Kan
sas.
The reduced assessment Of railroad
property in Saline county was fully
$73, 200.
Justus Assmann, prominent Mason,
died suddenly at his home in Law
renee, aged 20.
The closing of the saloons ut Atch-
ison has left that town without money
to pay policemen.
Representative citizens of Douglas
county held n meeting and decided to
hold fair this fall.
The new NJ, X. 81 Il. general Office
building at Parsons will contain sixty
five cars Of lumber.
Thirty-three counties, in the Eastern
part of Kansas, pay nearly one-half OF
the total state taxes.
The state Xlevy has been increased
by the state board of equalization from
300 mills to AIS mills,
james w. French Of Indiana has
been selected as warden Of the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth,
II is estimated that 400 carloads of
apples, 10000 barrels, will be shipped
from Leavenworth this season.
l.. w. Duncan of Paola is candidate
for docket clerk Of the house of repre-
sentatives of the next congress.
The Populists of Shawnee county
will hold u convention September 2
and nominate straight ticket.
The increase in the valuation Of the
real estate in the Parsons school dis.
trict last year is nearly 100000
Forty bicycle riders were arrested al
Emporia and fined 81 and costs each
for not ringing bells at crossings
The corn crop is regarded as so sure
in Barber county that men stand ready
to buy 1t in the field at 81 an acre.
A man named Quick is chief dis
patcher for the Santa Fe at Nickerson.
lie ought to be rapid transmitter.
Arrangements are being rapidly
completed for the &. A. II. state en-
campment at Salina, September 20 to 2S.
G. G. Guthrey of Oklahoma, has sue
ceeded d. r. Neville as editor and pro.
prietor of the Cherryvale Republican.
The Alliance Cooperative Insurance
company of Topeka has been denied
the privilege of doing business in Kan
sas.
Henry Huffman of Wichita, United
States internal revenue collector,
makes his trips over the country ON .
"bike."
Cadet Irving Lands, who saved q
fellow cadet from drowning at Annap-
oils, is son of Senator Lands Of Bar
Der county.
The Santa Fe has a large force of
men at work at Topeka, getting cara
ready for the anticipated big move
ment of grain this fall.
Heavy rains at Garden City caused
the Arkansas to overflow its banks
and traffic for time was seriously in
terfered with by washouts.
N. b. Perry of Leavenworth, for
more than twenty years reporter for
local papers, has been adjudged insane
by jury in the probate court.
L. A. Sharp, vice president of the
Larned state bank, under indictment
for misappropriation of funds, has
been released by habeas corpus.
The estimated cost of the improve
ments at the Soldiers Orphans home
at Atchison was about $55, 5000. The
contracts were let for q trihe over
$40, 900.
Leavenworth business men emphat-
ically deny that they threatened to
boycott Governor Morrill's bank in case
he should enforce the prohihitore law
in that city.
Mr.. McFaddcn, of Argentine, more
or less known among Santa Fe en-
ployes in connection with the Debs
troubles last year, has been given q
position as guard at the penitentiary.
Professor L. l. Blake of the state
at Lawrence has left for
where he will complete
for equipping govern
ment light ships with his invention for
telephone communities
lions with the shore.