Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

PIE. III Will require iU,UUU leeC.
Fort Scott has a justice of the peace
who was first commissioned in 1854, and
still holds the office, His name 10 Mar
grave.
A Fort Scott business man last week
found a deposit check for 500 which he
had deposited in a bank of negbbor-
ing town in 1891 and entirely forgotten.
A $4,000 corporation has been or
ganized in Coffeyville to manufacture
and put on the market recently invented
buggy top support for which great merit
is claimed
FL Dorado high school pupils are going
to buy themselves fine new piano.
They gave an entertainment a new
nights ago, which netted them 800 for
the piano fund.
County Attorney Morris and Sheriff
Deets have been wagng war on liquor
sellers IN Pttsburg, lately. Several
have been arrested, their stock and fix
lures confscated
A Leavenworth firm has $4,000 bush
els Of wheat stored in North Topeka
elevator, enough to fill 100 cars. 1t is to
be shipped to Leavenworth, Immediate
~ for milling purposes.
So bitter is the war being waged on
the liquor sellers that Pittsburg can
now be reported as dry city" city.
The battle goes on at Girard, the county
seat, and the confscated goods are
transferred from one officer to another
as the different writs are served,
Il large number of workmen from the
Kansas City, Kas., Relief Association
have been cleaning the streets OF late.
The association has no other place to
put men to work, and as result the
condition of the business streets is
much improved, and the men have the
satisfaction of knowing that they earned
what was given them by the association.
Pursuant to orders from the Fort
Scott police commissioners every saloon
in the city closed It's doors and for the
first time in two years liquor cannot
be purchased over the bar All the
gambling houses have also been closed
on account of Cubbison's anti-gambling
law and the city is cut out of about
$1,400 a month revenue which has here
tofore been paid in advance in the shape
of monthly fines.
John Bishop died last week from
blood poisoning caused by the bite of a
rattlesnake. He was 81 years old and
had lived in Atchison more than thirty
years While IN the employ Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific in 1892, Bishop was bitten
on one of his legs by RATHER. The
usual remedies were applied, but the
poison spread through his system. AL
though a strong man at the time, he
was afterward hopeless invalid.
Topeka Mail: G. G. Gage, one Of
Topeka's beat citizens, is causing to be
erected in the Topeka cemetery, at his
own expense, an appropriate and costly
monument to the memory of the brave
soldiers Of Shawnee county, who we're
killed at the battle Of the Blue, October
% 1864. 1t will be surmounted by
statue representing soldier in uniform
standing at parade rest. The monu-
ment is to be dedicatad on next memo
rial day
The Leavenworth Commercial ex-
change has under consideration a plan
for raising 100000 in real estate; this
is to be sold and put into fund for the
purpose Of assisting small enterprises
that may locate here. The gentlemen
who are taking an active part in this
matter are the gentlemen who succeeded
in getting the present system of cleo
trio street railroad. 1t is the general
opinion that an efvft Of this kind would
succeed now.
Klngman special: Active operations
nre resumed at the Rock Island salt
plant. This is one Of the three plants
that formerly contributed so materially
to the city's prosperity, but, with the
others, has been closed for more than
two years. The company representing
a capital stock Of $25, 900 is reorganized,
and is entirely independent of any salt
trust. A force of twenty men is now
employed and the output Will be ioo
bnrrela ~ salt nor day
s. H. Coffett, a young student Of the
Kansas normal college at Fort Scott,
whose home is at Macon City, Mo-, was
arrested by Deputy United States Mar
shall Lardner, charged with sending
scurrilous letters to Miss Crabtree, a
student at the normal college at Great
Bend. Coffett formerly attended the
Great Bend school and kept company
with Miss Crabtree. He pleaded guilty
to the charge and was sent to Jail to
await sentence at the next term Of court.
The following members of the senior
class at Kansas university were elected
members of the Phi Beta Kappa fra
ternity by members Of the faculty OF the
university belonging to the society on
account Of the high scholarship record
they have made in their course in the
school: Miss Kate Anderson OF hide
pendence; Miss Margaret Mener OF
Lawrence; Miss Edith Clark OF Law
renee; Miss Matilda Henrichs OF Hum
boldt; Miss Florence Parrott OF Law
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