Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Rock Island is stocking ponds
with bass.
White Cloud suffered $4,000 fire
yeceptly
The Leavenworth city treasury is
empty.
The price OF potatoes is advancing at
Lawrence
There are said to be 100 lawyers in
Wyandotte county.
Captain Birkett OF Eureka got S79 a
head for cattle he took to England.
Potatoes down In Franklin and Cof-
fey counties are 60 cents bushel.
The editorial page Of the Oberlin
Times Is now managed by Mrs. n. s.
Miner.
Messrs Busenbarlk, Langvardt, Van
Gaasbeck and Horst are all worthy
citizens OF Wabaunsee county.
There are 5,OO7 pupils out of school
population of 1904, who are attending
school in Coffey county,
A joint debate on this burning silver
question ought to be arranged between
Mr., Pro OF Caldwell and Mr.. Con of
Atchison.
John G. Hall OF Lawrence has been
appointed assistant professor in bot
any at Harvard college, which is addi-
tional proof that Harvard knows
good thing when she sees it,
The Pttsburg schools are over
crowded, and 1t is found necessary to
build new room. The total enroll
ment is about 1900.
There have been 1,4es marriage IL
censcs issued In Mcpherson county up
to date The first license was issued
by Nathan Bean, probate Judge, on
November 4, 1870, to Nels Anderson,
aged 81, and Christina Johnson, aged
30, both Of Saline county.
Democrat
Joseph Smith, OF Minneapolis, who
is member of the senior class mt the
State university, has been chosen TO
represent Kansas Alpha Chapter Of the
Phi Delta Theta in the National con-
vention of that fraternity which Is to
meet in Philadelphia next month
What's in name? Miss Nettie Wedd
lives life of single blessedness in Clay
county; Miss Lizzie Sunburn, decided
blonde, resides in Geary county; Mr..
Shutters, who does nothing Of the kind,
often visits Junction City; and Mr.,
Newman is an old fellow and pioneer
resident Of Junction City.
A burning gas we'll on the Mrs. Alf
Hayes farm, mile north of Larimer,
continues to attract hundreds Of visit
ors. The well has been sealed twice,
but from some cause it has broken its
bands and someone set II on fire. The
water and flames are constant, the
water OVERLOOKING and running into
Sycamore creek. The flame hlckers
and flares several yards in diameter,
and ten to thirty feet high. 1t is
pretty sigh md great crowds so to
see II. T. well Is about 1900 feet
deep. Sou &c Kansas Tribune.
w. G. Souther, an old-time news
paper man, died in Topeka last week.
| At the time OF his death Mr.. Souther
was probably the only living vii Aess OF
the famous duel between Abraham
Lincoln and General Shields. He was
a reporter on the Sangamon Journal
and Struggled himself across to the
dueling ground as driver Of the horse
which worked the sweeps on the ferry
boat lie was much sought after by
Lincoln historians and possessed n mar
velous wealth Of anccdote about "0ld
Abe, as he ALWAYS called him.
Professor Scufie could not get
through the term as principal Of the
Nashville schools without one. His
wife assists him.
We bet that IL the angels knew what
fine weather we arc having in Kansas,
they would play hooltcy.-Atchison
Globe,
An incxhaustible supply of zinc ore
has been discovered near Ellis which Is
said to be % per cent pure,
In Kansas the insignificant sand bur
stands in the way of the Kneippist
scheme like n burned culvcrt on down
grade before fast express.
Ono hundred and fifty men are en-
/ ploycd on the new bridge across the
Kaw at Topeka, and the job will last o
year
Mrs. Margaret Carleton of Atchison
will shortly come into possession Of o
fortune Of 100000, left by her great
great grandfather, Thomas Gurnell
Carter, who died in England in 1882.
She has a daughter, unmarried, but
smart enough TO keep her head.
The old time bread and molasses bill
of fare for supper at the prison, has
been changed, Baked potatoes have
been added, and the change is very
perccptiblc in the health and physical
condition of the prisoners. Lansing
News.
Whenever corn sells for ten or twelve
cents bushcl, it Is good time to buy
and hold for raise. II is rule held
by grain mon and spectators that
when an articles selling price is below
the price Of production, there is sure to
be reaction before the next crop II
this rule holds true and it looks as If it
would be the case, corn growers Of
Doniphan county will do well to hold
this years crop. White Cloud Globe.
It will take 100000 per month for
the twelve months of this year to pay
this years taxes on the Atchison, To
pella & Santa Fc road proper. This
amount has been set aside monthly ON
the estimate Of the tax commissioner,
his statement placing the years taxes
Mt 81 200 900. In Kansas the taxes this