Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-06
THE STATE OF KANSAS


Greeley county people are discussing
the free range question.
Wilson county voted down propo-
sition for new $1,000 jail.
A Jefferson county farm, comprising
800 acres, was sold for $4,000.
oln Lamar of Ness City has par
rot which sings Sunday school songs.
Judge Smith Of the Rocks county dis
trict, has appointed his wife as court
reporter
Only $50 of the 10000 people who
lived in Leavenworth in 1857 now re-
side there,
A Wilson county man rented farm
for $50 and his wife paid 1924 of it by
selling eggs.
Arthur Capper has bought the Lance
and consolidated it with the Topeka
Mail and Breeze.
The Marion county poor farm paid
expenses last year and yielded profit
of 1857 to the county
A ST, Louis company of capitalists
have leased the cement plaster beds at
Dillon and will erect mill.
An Adrian, Mich, bank was recently
robbed and among the securities stolen
was 49, 900 in Kansas bonds
Topeka has newly organized Com
mercial club which it costs Sl9 to join
and 81 month to stay in on.
Coffeyville has a natural gas we'll.
1t was recently discovered, is 800 feet
| dam an1 10 ONUan1 htt tha nitYy
Cy Leland has been member of tho
Republican national committee since
1884, when he succeeded John A, Mar
tin.
The Hilmon case Is due for another
trial in Topeka, in March. Judge
Williams of Little Rock will be the
presiding Judge.
The state grain inspector inspected,
during s05, 1887 cars at Kansas City,
on at Argentine, l,O34 at Coffeyville
and lOl ut Winfield,
Hays City has passed an ordinance
prohibiting persons between 7 and 20
years of age loafng on the streets be-
tween Up. m. and 8 q, m,
The militia companies at Howard
and Eureka are to be mustered out by
order of the military board because
they refused to attend inspection.
That pass agreement you've heard
so much about applies only to
little politicians The big ones are
flashing pasteboards this year as usual.
The Populist State committee will
meet in Topeka, February ID, for the
purpose of naming the date when the
delegates to the national convention
will be chosen.
Riley county, which has no court
house, has just rented the upper story
Of building now being erected, for
that purpose, on basis of $500 year
for ten year term.
Oswego's city council deserves n
premium, perhaps BOBBY prize would
better suit the case. 1t has levied u
| $40 occupation tax on each paper
printed in that town,
Some OF the convicts in the peni-
Tertiary have rendered their services
10 Warden Lynch for Uncle Sans ben
Gift in the war with England, when
ever hostilities begin,
The Union Pacific claims that under
It's grant il owns every other section in
the Fort Hayes military reservation,
and it opposes its transfer by the gov
eminent TO the State of Kansas.
1t seems to be generally understood
that the convention for the election of
delegates to the Republican national
convention will be held at Topeka and
the one for the nomination of State
officers at Wichita.
Atchison Globe; Jewell county, sup
posed to DO in the middle of the
drought belt paid out $50 900 for the
support OF public schools in 1895. We
are never as hard up in Kansas us our
howls would indicate.
Until recently the county offices Of
Kcarncy county we're in building
leased from private owner While
so occupied the building burned. Now
the owner has brought suit against the
county for the value Of the building.
1t having been discovered that the
proposed trip to Old Mexico would re-
quirc cash outlay Of something over
500 per capter" the Kansas Editor
ial Association has decided to abandon
that feature Of It's annual gathering.
Ex-Governor Click refuses to talk
about the rumor concerning his name
with probable fusion nomination for
Governor, but w. r. Bland. an Atchi-
son Democrat friend of his, says Click
VIII take the nomination if IL Is offered
to HIM
The New York Life company last
week sold under mortgage Judgment
] ,2Sj acres of land in Wilson county
belonging TO one Eli Neh, the same
company buying it in Mt $50, 79G, or
less than $3.50 an acre. 1t was the
biggest land sale that ever has taken
place in the county,
There are now confined in Kansas
State institutions Ire insane people.
Counting the population OF Kansas
at 100000, this shows u per cent
of insanity OF 2.2 to each 1000 of in
habitants. There are more Swedes in
the asylums than any other national
ity, not excepting Americans.
superintendent Faulkner of the Sol
dicrs' Orphans home, at Atchisou,
wants u law passed by the ,cXt lcgis-
lature providing for the r turn of
children sent to Kansas y Eastern
aid societies, who prove to 20 intract-
able and incorrigible, ana provision
also requiring such societies sending
children To Kansas 10 take out char.