Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

man.at-large.
The Quinter Republican was chosen
official paper for Cove county upon tho
nineteenth ballot.
The citizens of Horton have shipped
carload of provisions and clothing to
Sherman county, A large amount was
also raised for tho poor Of Horton.
Capital: The workmen on the Asso-
ciated Charities rock pile receive 60
cents day for six hours work. They
begin work at o'clock and quit at five
The Farmers and Merchants bank OF
Goodland has gone into voluntary llqui-
dation and paid off all the depositors
The amount of deposits amounted to
about $1,000 and all the dispositions
were paid in full.
Topeka Journal: Postmaster Arnold
has received two brand new flags from
Uncle Sam, and one of them is flying
now. 1t is only five by eight feet in di-
meusions, and will be used every day.
The other is ten by nineteen feet, and
will be used only on holidays and gala
occasions.
The colored Masons Of Atchison, who
compose one OF the largest organizations
in the state have purchased a building
at the corner OF Second and Commercial
streets, and will convert it into hand
some structure for lodge purposes. The
lower floor will be rented as a store
room. Thoy paid $4,000 for the building
and ground.
From Colby; During the distribu-
ton of food, one of the applicants was
asked what his family needed, food or
clothes. He replied that they needed
clothes and -four as they had plenty Of
meat as he had killed a horse for food.
Several of the families in the neighbour
hood received portion and pronounced
is equal to beef.
Wichita special: Charles A. Watkins,
AZ years old, at one time a prominent
real estate operator here, was found
dead in a cottage in the sonth part Of
town where he lived alone. The body
Law on the floor attired in night clothes.
Severe bruises on the head and hands
indicate that Watkins was sand-bagged
into Inconsistencies and left to freeze
to death.
Mrs Jane Martin, mother Of the late
Governor John A. Martin, Of Kansas,
has been critically ill at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. F. d. Mills, in
Atchison. Mrs. Martin is now almost
81 pears old. Mrs. Martin and an
elder sister, Miss Belle Crawford, who is
in her 95th year, have boon living here
in the family Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mills
since 1890.
Atchison forwarded four cars of pro-
visions on Feb. r, to the destitute of
CHEYENNE and Rawlins counties, in
western Kansas. Ira Harrison, Of St..
Francis, was in Atchison, and upon his
representation Of the condition Of the
people in that section the contributions
and $500 in cash was raised. The mill
ers and jobbers OF Atchison loaded one
car. The Burlington & Missouri River
road transported the goods FREQ of
charge.
The Argentine Wator Works and
Electric Light plant will soon be sold
under foreclosure proceedings The de-
cree Of foreclosure was obtained in To-
peka, before Judge Foster, of the feder-
al court, by Wollman & New, who rep
resent the Farmers Loan & Trust COM
pany of New York. This company, as
trustee, represented me Maine and
New York bondholders of the Argentine
works to the amount of $150,000 I'M
paid interest.
What is thought will do more to i'm
prove conditions in the regular army
than any measure adopted in years past
is the introduction of the Kelley euro for
alcoholism and the opium habit upon
such plan as TO give both officers and
private soldiers an opportunity of re-
ceivng its benefits, an institute having
been opened and the first treatment
given with DR.. Leslie E. Keeley's noted
cloride of gold cure remedy, by DR..
Brown, Kelley physician, to class Of
twelve soldiers, at Fort Leavenworth.
The fax tow factory, which was re-
Gently established in Fort Scott as an
experiment, has developed the fact that
Kansas fax straw is peculiarly adapted
to the manufacture OF tow, and the COM
pany is preparing to equip the industry
with weaving facilities 1t is the first OF
tho kind in the west, and it's success has
opened market for fax straw for fifty
miles arourd The farmer gets SO per
ton for his straw, which heretofore has
largely gone to waste Two other fac
tories may soon be started in this state.
Soldiers Orphans home items There
are children in the home from almost
every county in the state. The largest
number from any one county comes
from Atchison county, the number be-
ing twenty-five. -. The ages of the
children at the home range from to
II years. Some OF the children are study
ing geography, higher arithmetic and
physiology. One hundred and fifty four
have been discharged from the home,
having reached II years of age, and 134