Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-09-03

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professor.
| A Lane county family fell heir to
$12, 900 fortune.
! Eldorado consumes 5000, 900 gallons
of water each month.
There are 1900 veterans at the Sol
diers' Home at Leavenworth.
+ Kansas Bankers association will
meet at Topeka September 20.
{ Choice grapes are on the Fredonia
market for two cents pound.
The farmers of Bourbon county
have decided to hold county fair.
The railroad men of Sterling use a
clock one hundred and thirty years of
age.
The Standard Oil company has es-
tabished distributing station at
Herlngton.
Ten meetings have been ARRANGED
for joint debate between Jerry Simp-
son and Chester Long.
There are only one-half as many
peach trees bearing in Barber county
as there were last year,
The Populists in the Atchison-J jack
son district have nominated A. }. Rice
of Atchison for Senator.
! The cattlemen of Western Kansas
have orga nized Stockmen's associa-
ton to fight the thieves.
! The Summerfeld Sun refuses to
PRINT politics, and finds that ordinary
news items are very scarce.
Judge ]. f. Myers has been nomlu-
ated for district judge by the Populists
in the Leavenworth district.
Attorney George Fl. Mogle of Che
ney, while attempting to ford Walnut
river on his horse, was drowned.
The chief of police at Fort Scott has
decided that sweaters and boomers
are not proper attire for women,
Topeka has joined the procession of
! Kansas cities in which the curfew is
recognized municipal institution,
Shawnee county permits its con.
victed jointists to go at large and pay
their fines in SIS monthly installments.
A ghost in Arkansas City appears in
the form of woman leaning on a
fence with her hair flying in the air.
/ The Republicans of the Thirty-third
Senatorial district have renominated
Walter Scott of Jewell county for
Senator.
The men who have the hay contract
at Fort Riley have over leo men and
about fifty teams at work. They put
up rs tons day.
Eight members of the faculty of
Washburn college, of Topeka, are talk
ing special courses in the Chicago uni
versity during vacation.
According to the returns made by
the township trustees, Secretary Coz
burn says the population of Kansas is
1886, G59, a gain OF /, 925.
An Emporia man has placed on ex-
hibition corn stalk measuring sew
on his farm north of town.
Brown county has adopted list OF
school books to stand for the next five
years Hills readers, for which
fight was made, was rejected.
Mcpherson county ranks first as the
banner wheat producing county, with
I1,726, 740 bushels, while Usage comes
last, with only Is, 325 bushels.
Lawrence Journal: The man who IS
causing so much comment and Great
ing some sensation with new kind of
flying machine up in Northern Indiana
is man we'll known in Kansas. He
is Octave Chanute, formerly president
of the American Society of Engineers.
He built the Missouri river bridge at
Kansas City, was superintendent OF
the Southern Kansas road, and was
prominent in railroad circles in the
West for many years. The town of
Chanute, Kan, Is named for him.
Twenty-Five years ago Chanute told
John Speer that he thought the navi-
cation of the air was perfectly feasi-
BILE, and that if no one else made
machine for it he was going to do it
himself when he got time. The for
,merly of Kansas man is still deter
mined to be seen and heard, even if
he has to go up among the clouds to
secure the opportunity.
Under the new system of smelling
by natural gas, soon to be in vogue at
lola, the force of employees will be re-
duced to about one-tbird the usual
number.
DR.. H. A. Dykes, who was formerly
secretary of the state board of health,
was recently elected city physician at
Chattanooga, Tenn, at which place
ne located about year ago.
The suit against the estate of the
late Senator Plumb for $4,000,
brought by Bateman & Co., of Wash
ington, resulting from business con-
nections with the Richmond & Dan.
vile Railway Company has been dis
missed.