Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-08-29
KANSAS NOTES.


on Sl,0oO,OoO higher valuation than
heretofore.
The Quenemo cob pipe factory pays
out $3.50 day for cobs and employs
thirteen men.
The next annual meeting Of the
state dairymen will occur at Newton,
November 20 and 81.
There are sixty counties in Kansas
with feed enough for $4,000 head Of
cattle in each county.
BlaclSleg is causing considerable loss
among cattle in Rush county. One
man lost thirteen head recently.
Curley Harrison says that fully 5000
Kansans will visit Louisville during
the Grand Army encampment there in
September
The Topeka city council is making
q heroic effort to have some of the old
rails in the streets of that town either
used or removed.
Already there have been thirty
three applications for the chair of
Latin language in the state university,
made vacant by the death of Professor
Robinson.
The Leavenworth police collections
for the month of July we're $3,0S0. SO,
while those of Kansas City, Kan, with
more than double thepopulation, were
only $3,3ls.O5,
Usage Mission claims to be the old
est town In Kansas. 1t was settled by
Jesuit fathers fifty years ago. Before
that IL had been an Indian village for
many generations,
johnson county farm lands are in
active demand. Among recent sales
was one of ninety acres the other day
for 50, 100, and another of eighty acres
for $B, 800, all cash in both cases,
o. s. Hiatt of Leavenworth has been
awarded the contract for the surplus
output of coal at the penitentiary
mines, at Sl.25 u ton for screened
lump, and inferior grades at proper
tionately lower prices.
Mcpherson Republican; The EN-
poria Republican has letter from
Ohio which says hay Is selling at $50
per ton. There will be a big shipping
demand for Kansas hay. 1t is clean
and free from dirt and will command
good market prices
The Topeka branch of the Silver
knights has arranged for series of
weekly meetings, at which addresses
will be delivered by men Of such prom
inence as John r. Mulvane, General
Caldwell, eX-Governors Crawford and
Osborn, ex-senator Martin, David
0vermeyer and Others.
Fort Scott Tribune; Garrison Bros.
the big hay merchants, have 1000
acres Of hay near Hepler to get up.
The prairie hay is rapidly stemming,
much of it now being higher than u
horses back. This does not iniure the
feeding quality of the hay so much,
but Injuries the market qualities con-
siderably.
A donation OF 300 manuscripts re-
lating to Kansas territorial affairs, the
famine of 1860 and the anti-slavery
struggle, has recently been received
by Judge Adams of the historical So
ciety, from Thaddeus Hiatt of New
York. Some interesting John Rrown
manuscripts have also been received
from Colonel r. j. Hinton.
hN lhlHlNIo uIG UHb Clllcl WtulbI
producers and the manufacturers come
in close second. 1t is estimated that
the agricultural earnings Of the United
States are S3 400, 000, 900; from manu-
features, SIS, 1890, 100000; from mines,
$lS0,000, 900; from transportation ST.
555, 000,0 00 from commerce, $3.50, 000,-
900; from shipping, SlG0,00O,0OO, and
from banking, $500, 0OO000,
Ex-Governor John M. Thayer OF Ne
braska, writes to the committee In
charge Of the arrangements for the
Western States conference ut Topeka,
October that he will be unable to at
tend. 81 am, however," he says,
''heart and soul in favor of the pro-
posed Inter American exposition at
Galveston, Texas. The completion of
the jetties and securing deep water
most certainly should be appropriately
celebrated, forSit will be q matter of
national Importance"
The Rev. Mr.. Chew, Congrega
tional clergyman who formerly
preached at Ottawa and Atchison, is
visiting at the former place. Origi-
nally he came from England to KAN
sas, and after staying here few years
went to New Zealand. He is now
stationed in England again, having
journeyed around the world. After
he went to New Zealand, his daughter
came back to the United States, malS-
ing the journey of 10000 miles alone,
to marry young man whom she had
met in Atchison.
A case involving the constitutional
ity of one section of the Kansas pro-
hibitory law was filed in the supreme
court the other day. IL has been the
custom Of Kansas officers to enter any
place which they suspected of being a
joint and arrest the keeper without
warrant This was done in the case
of suspected Topeka jointkeeper,
and his attorneys have taken the mat
ter to the higher courts for constitu-
tional Interpretation of the law under
which the officers do this thing, alleg-
ing that it is violation of the per-
sonal liberty clause.
The officers Of the Masonic Mu-
tual Benefit association of Kansas
will meet in Topeka October IL
10 devise means for effectng a re-
organization of the concern. The
reserve fund, which now amounts
to 5000, is steadily becoming de-
pleted by drafts upon 1t to pay death
benefits. 1t is said that this condition
is caused from the fact that there are
so few young men enrolled as MEM