Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-04-02
THE STATE OF KANSAS

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will take place at Topeka May z.
Lucien Baker has promised to speak
Mt Fort Scott on Decoration Day.
The Freethinkers will hold State
convention mt Concordia in August.
Ex-Governor Seay of Oklahoma will
deliver the Decoration day address ut
Wichita.
Satisfactory reports as to the condi-
ton Of wheat in Western Kansas are
received
Leavenwor'h people have subscribed
Sl4, 600 to encourage the erection OF
brewery.
The Sterling Bulletin offers re-
ward to girls whose leap year pro-
posals are accepted,
The News and Gazette of Yates
Center have joined forces, and here
after will be run rs one paper.
Emporia shows disposition to ex-
tend very cordial welcome to the
man who will agree to supply dollar
gas,
Yates Center has become so good
that they have ceased painting any
thing red there except the city water
tank.
Marysville Democrat; Corn, 20
cents; apples, Sl.90. Fifty cent apples
beat so cent corn Moral: Grow more
apples
One OF the most promising of the re-
Gently developed properties in the Ca
lena district is Iamiliarly known as
the "Bunco,
The Independence Star and Kansan
says that not one Kansas newspaper
in 100 is maintained by the subscrip-
lions received,
One farmer at Monet will plant
thirty acres Of castor beans, This is
n sure crop and II profitable one in
Southern Kansas,
Kansas produced 95, IT'S tons of zinc
ore in 1895 Only one region in this
country shows greater output, and
it is in two States,
The Topeka school book war has
been carried into the school election,
and the issue is rs to what system OF
books shall be used.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
Missouri Pacific depot, three freight
cars and Smith g. Pierce's new ele-
vator at Eningham. Loss, $1,000
Hobart, of the Hoisington Dispatch,
announces the discovery that Topeka
is entirely free from all contagious
diseases at prCscnt-eXcept Office itch.
The ice supply for the soldiers home
at Leavenworth this year comes all
the way from WYoming,a contract for
! 200 tons from there having been
awarded.
The date OF June 10 has been fixed
, upon as the time for the Plumb
Thatcher wedding The young couple
will probably go to California on their
bridal tour,
Fire destroyed the Star hotel ut
, Fort Scott and u large building adj
Joining. Over thirty guests were in
the hotel but were gotten out in safety.
Loss, $4,000
Moses Harmon, the free thought
editor, will be released from the pen
= ltentiary in April. His matter was
= held to be improper for transmission
n through the mails.
a Rice county land hasn't lost all its
a value by any means A farm OF 300
acres was transferred to II Missouri
: man the other day for $4,000 in cash
and $40 acre tract in one OF the most
fertile parts Of Missouri
The most profitable Methodist pull
9 pit in Kansas is AT Topeka, salary, 81
0 500; Kansas City ranks next, $lSOO;
2 Atchson third, Sl $50 The Atchison
a church is out of debt, Topeka owes
> so, 900 and Kansas City $1,000.
!, Lieutenant l'an, w, Coe, First ar
tillcry, United States army, who was
!, college boy at Manhattan in 1878,
Q recently declined an assistant profess
0 orship in mathematics at West Point,
: prefcrring to remain with his regi-
!. ment
s David Coulter, who shot and killed
0 l5-year.old Edward Illston near To-
a pclSa last October, was sentenced by
a Judge IIazen TO twenty-one years in
= the pcnitentiary. Coulter was con-
: victed OF murder in the second degree.
= lie is but Is year sold
;. The date Of the meeting Of the In
u dian school teachers Of the South and
= West in Lawrence this summer has
t been definitely settled. They will
: meet there from July Is to 49, There
/. will be about 200 present and they
y will come from all over the country,
:, the most OF them being from schools
), in the Southwest.
|. Luther Woodford,a pioneer OF Shaw
n nee county who died recently, Is sup
i posed to have left at least $50, 600 in
k bonds and money and his administrator
e is now digging over the farm on which
= the deceased lived for the past forty
/. years in the hope of finding it,
t Pfzenmaier, Gamlowski, Van
d Laeys, Bsterfald and Richstatter are
g samples OF local nomenclature in ST..
It Marys, the mention of which makes
r It easy to understand why so general
: interest is felt in that locality in the
Il study and development OF Volapuk.
. Western School Journal: Kansas
!" has had seven capitals. In 1853 the
o Legislature met at the Shawnee Man
j. uel Labor school, Shawnee Mission;
. next in Constitution hall, Topeka;
= next, in 1857, nj Lecompton; next at
- Lawrence; then back TO Lecompton;
h then to Lawrence; finally in Topeka,
d in 1869, to stay"
Mrs. b. W. Mcclure, wife Of d