Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-01-30
THE STATE OF KANSAS


Topeka drug store sales numbered
5,640 In December,
There was but one person lynched
In Kansas last year
The Kansas City, Kans., policemen
are paid S65 month.
An ex-Atchison barber has become
Cripple Creek capitalist
Council Grove is shipping hay at the
rate Of fifty cars week.
A fine Masonic temple is among this
years possibilities in Topeka.
Geary county farmers are going to
build some more creameriea
Fred w. Badger has disposed of his
interest in the Topeka Press.
Nathan Brown, aged 80, is under ar
Lest at Lawrence for bigamy.
1t cost $4,000 to run Wyandotte
during the last quarter of 1895.
j. N. Hamman cashier of the Bur-
lington National bank, Is dead.
Wilson county pays $14 each for
tombstones for deceased veterans.
This is the time of year when county
printing contracts are usually let,
Grainfleld is candidate for the Re-
publican convention in the Sixth dis
trict,
The grand lodge of the A. o. u w.
will be held ut Leavenworth Febru-
airy 49,
The State Normal Monthly is a
creditable publication published at
Emporia.
The Langtry estate will feed 1000
Texas cattle on tho ranch near Strong
City this winter.
Abe Steinberger has bought tho
Girard Herald and will consolidate
it with the World.
Ex-Attorney General John T, Little
Is chairman of the johnson county
Populist committee.
A large percentage of the people
now leaving Northwest Kansas are
going to Cripple Creek.
Frank Hartman has retired from
the Centralia journal in order to serve
the public us county clerk Of Nemaha
county.
w. w. Hamilton, who has made tho
worlds record of mile in 2 minutes
and 5.s seconds ON bicycle, is Ness
county boy.
Judge N. b. Hopewell, one Of the
earliest settlers OF Jefferson county,
died there recently at the advanced
age Of 70 years.
lola is community Of diversified in
dustres. A man down there has
worked up n big trade in ST. Bernard
pups at SIS q head
District Judge Dave Dale, at Wichl-
tn, passed on twenty-one divorce cases
the first day OF the term. All were
denied except two.
A man named Wood, who Is patient
in the Topeka asylum, has been made
very rich by u decision in HIS favor In
Colorado mining case.
The pension committee in Congress
: makes each member n subcommittee
and assigns to him the bills from u
certain territory. Mr.. Baker, the
Populist member from the Sixth, has
the First, Fifth and Sixth districts in
Kansas 0nd the entire State of Iowa
. | NluhOu NulltTSi VI w llbOu Guilty, u
staunch old veteran, who was wounded
at the battle OF Lexington, and af-
! terward Mt Shiloh, was rejoiced
ut the notification the other day that
back pension Of So, 076, and an allow
ance OF SIC u month had been secured
for him.
An Arkansas City man, writing from
Cripple Creek to the Traveller, writes
that women are scarce there and soon
and work, but there is n surplus OF
men. He says: "Board, without
: room, costs from SIS to $40 per week;
rooms, 81 to $40 per week; short order
prices, plain steak without side dishes
of any kind, 25 cents; porterhouse, so
cents; potatoes, per dish, 20 cents;
eggs, 60 cents; cakes with syrup, rs
cents, and only two cakes ut that; cot
fee and tea, per cup 20 cents. A per-
son cannot buy enough to eat for 81,
unless his appetite is moderate. A
business room of tho smallest and
poorest description brings from $75 to
500 a month rent. Ground leases
cannot be secured Mt all. Restaurants,
no good; common help is worth from
$40 to SIS per week with board and
room included. Women are scarce
and can get plenty of work at hotels
and restaurants at from SIS to S35 per
month, board and lodging included"
Atchson Globe: Kansas can't be
downed. A cable dispatch from Be-
lin to New York speaks in the highest
praise of the action of the Americans
!. in the Transvaal: "0ne American min
ing director, Brown, also Interested IN
the United States, stood up alone in
meeting gotten up by the English in
! Johannesburg, and made a speech
carrying the whole assemblage over to
the Beers" This Brown is william
Harvey Brown, who attended the Kan
6as university several years ago, and
went direct from Lawrence to South
Africa.
Frank L. Smith, foreman OF the Mo-
line Republican, has made himself so
useful about the Office that the boss
has given to him his daughter, Lena
Armstrong, in marriage.
Miss Leota Shields is now running
the jennings Echo, having transferred
it from the Republican to the Populist
camp. Miss Shields was formerly as
, ISOLATED with her father in the publ
cation of the 0berlin Times
A Clahin dealer Is shipping eggs in
! l00-case lots by express to New York
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