Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-03

AN"'NhNt 80 NOh WhlNh
meets next year at Phoenix, Ariz.
The chief OF police of Topeka says
that an organized gang of thieves are
making that city it's headquarters
Hiawatha people who subscribed
are being called upon to pay for the
Pullman shops that they didn't get.
Dickinson. Atchison and Labette
counties have county high schools, and
Greeley is ambitious to be fourth on
the list.
The next log.rolling of the Modern
Woodmen of Kansas will be held at
Parsons. e. l.. Jones of Parsons was
elected president.
Munger, the laundryman, is beng
talked of for the next Populist nomin-
alton for governor. He has big farm
in Greenwood county.
w. Ii. Russell of Rush Center, was
elected commander-in-chief of the
Sons of Veterans in national conven-
ton at Knoxville, Tenn,
Julian Foval, married and about %
years old, was instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of shotgun in
his hands at Independen
b. f. Smith of Douglas county,
cleared 81, 500 on his strawberry crop
alone this year, and has just finished
harvesting 1000 bushels of pears
Congressman Chester |. Long has
taken his family to Washington. lie
will return to Kansas in October to
remain until after the election.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
last year paid the Santa Fe $l, 1886, 600
for the use of express cars and the
privileges of doing business on that
line.
According to the statement of Gov
ernor Morrill, 233 of the Ais male APP
pointees of the present administration
are either old soldiers or sons of vet
Grams.
The Mastins of Kansas City will this
year make net profit of $75, 900 out
of piece of lead and zinc land south
west of Galena, for which they paid
800.
Richard c. Meade, the Atchison alb
sconder, has arrived from New York,
He has long since spent the money he
took and is very poor. He refuses TO
make statement.
Guy A. White, who ran away from
his home in Arkansas City, was killed
by a train at Wichita. The boy left
home because he disliked to enter
school. He was IA years old.
The fame of the great Kansas
crop yield has reached Baltimore,
where the American announces that
the farm products of the Sunhower
state this year will fill 60O,0 900 cars.
Never before in her history has Fort
Scott entertained so many ''neighbors'
as upon the occasion of the big log
rolling there the other day, when
nearly 5000 visiting Modern Woodmen
were present.
Isaac Haskell the Omaha A. P. A.
leader, is Kansas man. He located
at Atchison in 1856 He carried the
hod for while and then became a
contractor. The Omaha Bee, which is
fighting Haskell, had man in Atchi-
son the other day looking up his rec
ord.
The Russell Record advocates pen'
sion for Mother Bickerdyke, the ia"
nous war nurse. 1t thinks women
like Mother Bickerdyke, who did
much during the war, ought to be re-
membered before women like Mrs.
John A. Logan, whose only claim on
the government is in being widows of
distinguished soldiers. Congressman
Calderhead will present the Records
views to congress-
Senator PETER has declined to ac-
cept the position as vice president of
the Kansas Million club for the reason
that sit is his purpose to not engage
in any business enterprise outside Of
his own private affairs during the
time that he shall hold public office. ,"
But he assures the club that "he
would be glad to see not only one
million but ten times that number of
good people come to make their
homes in Kansas"
A company was chartered by the
secretary of state under the name of
Rock Creek Natural Asphalt company,
which proposes to do business in the
Indian territory, where mine of as
phalt has been discovered The com
pany is capitalized at 100000, and
the following are it's directors: John
Bradley, Charles Wilbur and l. N.
Wheatley of Topeka; j. D. Kerby of
Wakefield, and w. A. Dennis of Mar
inette, Wisconsin.
In quarrel over the trespass of a
colt on a field of corn near Norwich,
twenty miles south of Wichita, Jim
Hazen drove knife into the heart of
Zeno Mulvane, instantly killing him.
Both were well-to-do farmers, but
there was a grudge between them for
some time. Mulvane had refused to
give his daughter to Hazen in mar
rage, four years ago, Hazen has fled.
The dead man was preparing to cele
brate the fftieth anniversary OF his
marriage, and the tragedy has cast a
gloom over the entire community.
At Wichita Charles w. johnson was
acquitted of the charge of counterfeit
ing. 1t was clearly proved that a man
named Smith, who claimed to be de-
tective and who wanted to secure $50
reward, had given to Johnson pack
age of counterfeiting molds and had
put counterfeits in Johnson's buggy.
Some of the lottery men who did
business on a large scale in Kansas
City, Kan, before the passage OF the
law which drove them out of Kansas.
are still conducting their swindling
operations and are sending out their
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