Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-08-01
KANSAS NOTES.

Every joint in Brown county is said
to be closed,
The big elevator at Harrington
burned to the ground. Loss $4,000.
State Treasurer Anterior had S7I3,-
544,29 cash on hand at the close of
June,
Ground has been broken for new
$4,000 Presbyterian church in EN-
poria.
The city council of Parsons has
passed stringent prohibitory ordi-
nance,
The Santa Fe has ordered the build
ing Of depot at Hilltop, Greenwood
county,
The Peoples bank OF Cehrryvale has
been chartered with u capital stock Of
$4,000.
j. ID. and win Welch have secured u
three'years' lease of the Great Bend
Democrat
The Hill City council unanimously
voted against license for billiard OF
pool tables.
Harvey county creameries pay the
farmers in that locality S25O000 an
nually for milk.
The yield of wheat from the prison
farm at Leavenworth was thirty-one
bushels per acre.
Populsts of Butler county nomi-
mated middle Of the road" ticket at
their convention.
Ground has been broken ut Fort
Scott for one of the largest packing
houses in the West.
Sixty United States convicts have
been transferred from Columbus, Ohio,
to Fort Leavenworth.
A carload of horses was shipped
from u ranch near Caldwell, consigned
to parties in Scotland.
Grapes were ripe at Geary county's
poor farm July 8 This beats previous
records by nearly u month
Governor Morrill, has ordered full
investigation of the death of Gustave
Mauer at theinsane asylum.
The colleges of Kansas had an at
tendance of over 5000 students and
ten foot ball teams last year,
An exchange says 1.-THE joint keepers
in Kansas City have substitutes to go
to Jail for them at 81 per day."
The Missouri Pacific shops at Atchi-
son are now running full time, ten
hours per day and six days week.
Contracts have been made to feed
$4,000 cattle in Sumner county this
winter If the corn crop pans out all
o. H."
The session of the Kansas grand
lodge of colored Odd Fellows at I'm
poria was the largest ever held in the
state.
Albert llerreman, member of Com
pany C. Twentieth regiment infantry,
committed suicide at Fort Leaven-
worth.
Oakley expects to have fair this
fall at the same time that the state ir-
rigation station located there is
dedicated
The Kansas and Missouri electric
railway company of Pittsburg, Craw-
ford county, has been Incorporated.
Capital $25, 900.
A yield Of at least 5000, 600 bushels
OF corn Is prophesied for Osborne
county, with probability that 1t may
reach 100000.
Frederick Bavermeister, veteran at
the Leavenworth Soldiers home, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head
DR.. j. H. Walker married Miss Sarah
Mead Of Greenwich, Conn.,, took her
to Kansas City, Kan, secured SO, loo
from her and skipped.
Postmaster General Wilson says that
Kansas is entitled TO two or three clerk
ships in his department, but he does
not know whom to appoint.
Burglars robbed Mrs. William Outh-
waite of Eldorado Of 1925. The money
was the savings of five years and was
to be used to lift mortgage.
Joseph Gettys, founder of the town
of Gettysburg, in Graham county, died
last week. He was the father-ln-law
of ex-senator Frank Lockard
An Alliance cooperative insurance
company has been formed at Topeka,
With j. +. Willetts of McLouth, presi-
lent and j. B. French secretary.
Henry Robinson of Topeka was
iound dead on cattle train near
Mounds, Ill. lie was heir to $2O,UOO
from his fathers estate, which is nearly
settled UP.
Miss Anne Pugh, who graduated as
the state university several years ago,
is visiting friends in Lawrence. Miss
Pugh is now professor of French at
Wellesley.
Oil has been struck in Chautauqua
county ut "a depth of 057 feet Oil men
estimate that without shooting the
well will produce from twenty to forty
barrels day.
Jack Jewett of Wellington, is the
owner of Tom Ogden, the Sumner
county horse that made two straight
heats in 2;1l the other day, and landed
a 81 900 purse.
The Kansas City, Kan, Federation
of Labor is trying to introduce new
scheme OF electing aldermen. 1t wants
them all TO be elected at large instead
of by wards as now.
Kansas men, no matter where they
go, generally get their share Of the
worlds plumber A. A. Harris, who
went from Fort Scott to Duluth, has
just won a judgment of 5000, 0Oagainst
the Rockefellers for client, and his
fee was 500, 900 cash.