Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-09-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Joseph swan, the whitewater
prophet, says not to sow wheat this
year,
There was not trade for two hotels
at Anthony, and the MOntezuma has
closed
Hiawatha sent delegation of thirty
five to the G. A. r. encampment at
St. Paul.
Topeka has a colored woman who
can talk currency with any statesman
IN Kansas,
The State Normal school at EN-
poria opened with larger attendance
than usual.
The Hutchinson News claims to use
10000 pounds Of blank paper every
five months.
The total membership of the Sol
diers' home at Leavenworth August
30, was a,201.
Jewell county will have 100000
bushels of corn this year, and Cloud
county 100000.
The Democrat convention in the
Fifth district will be held at Concor-
dla September 80.
Secretary of State Coburn says the
creamery industry of Kansas is in a
flourishing condition.
1t is said Harrison, Reed and Sher-
man will make speeches in Kansas
during the campaign
Mabel Corn, the first white child
born in Smith county, was married
the other day in Illinois.
A reunion of the old Sixth Kansas
regiment will be held at Bartlesville,
September 21-23, inclusive
A Kansas woman has found protec-
tion against tramps by keeping
patch of weeds and scythe.
Wednesday was the twenty-first an
niversary of the opening Of the Atchi-
son bridge over the Missouri.
An Atchison man has mortgaged his
homestead every July for seven years,
and paid it off during the winter.
Stevens county people complain of
more clouds and less rain this year
than any season of the last ten years.
The Missouri Pacific now runs two
of its trains to Kansas CITY from
Atchison in an hour aud twenty-five
minutes.
Kansas City Star: "Whislky over the
bar at Topeka has advanced to two
drinks for quarter since the cam
paign opened"
Crawford county Populists have
nominated w. II. Ryan for senator,
and E. Loomis and James Carson for
representatives..
Give the farm a beautiful name, and
then clean up and repair until the
farm is as beautiful as the name
Strong City Derrick.
Toladori, an Italian cook for the
Bartell hotel at Junction City, recent
ly fell heir to fortune of $250,0G0
and will cook no more.
c. v. Topping, secretary of the Kan
sas State Millers' association, esti-
mates the Dickinson county wheat
crop at ,&29, $50 bushels
The Fort Scott police have found it
necessary on several occasions to dis
perse the crowds that blockade the
streets while discussing politics.
The State reformatory at Hutchin-
| Sui HIS u new bJChl WHlobAC anu
every farmer within a radius of IF
teen miles sets his time piece by it
The Topeka council, having COM
pleSed arrangements for chasing the
kids off the streets at the tap of the
bell at night, is now at work on an
ordinance which provides for punish
ing merchants who permit their side
walks to be swept later than z o'clock
in the morning.
John R. Rogers, who established the
Wichita Commoner out at Burton in
1887, has been nominated by the Pop
ulists, Democrats and silver Republic
cans of Washington for governor,
Will Jenkins, formerly of the Smith
Center Pioneer, is on the same ticket
for secretary of state.
The nomination of Hugh Farrelly
for State Senator in the Thirteenth
district by the Democratic and Popu-
list conventions at Thayer, takes him
out of the race for Congress as the
Democratic nominee in the Third dis
trict and leaves the race between
kirkpatrick and Ridgely.
Ex-Mayor Gardner and wife of
Girard returned from an extended
European trip and the town turned
out en- masse to welcome them home.
Veteran A. G. Patterson, at the
Leavenworth Soldiers home, was the
drummer boy in the Eighth Wiscon-
sin during the war, the regiment that
carried the celebrated eagle, "Old
Abe" Mr.. Patterson is now the home
drummer
The Republicans of Atchison county
nominated the following ticket: Dis
trict Judge w. B. Webb; county attor-
new, Frank e. Crowell; probate judge,
B. f. Snyder; clerk of the district
court, J. n Cox; county superintend-
ent, J. S. Reynolds.
Strange things happen in this
world. John Wilkerson hunted DR..
Fraker to earth when that gentleman
was trying to defraud the insurance
companies and now Wilkersen's
daughter is being treated for con-
sumption by the doctor Lawrence
World.
Chancellor Snow, since his return
from his Western tour, has been fair
ly swamped with correspondence rela-
tive to university matters, and all in
dications point to the probability that
the fall term will open with the great
est attendance in the history of the
institution.