Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-12-24
Kansas Notes.

mastership at Montana.
Pry tell us how Mr.. Lose of Usage
county, who is playing for place at
the Topeka pie counter, can expect
to win?
A Payne county woman got divorce
from Brick Pomeroy Liogenfelter the
other day without alleging any other
cause.
At its last session the supreme court
fixed the value of lost mess OF toes at
1000, that being the amount awarded
against the Santa Fe to Frank Slattery.
who got his foot under a car wheel at
Wichita
Ewing Herbert wants the Hiawatha
postoffice.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Improved Stock Breeders association
will occur in Topeka, January 10
and 10.
Ship your Butter, Eggs, Poultry and
Game direct to Frank Hyde s. Co., ia
East Fourth street Kansas City, Mo.
Prompt returns guaranteed. Write
for regular weekly quotations and
tags.
Hays City Free Press Another new
mining deal has struck Ellis county.
Prospectors for coal and zinc are now
making mineral leases of many of the
Saline farmers, from Fairport to the
Barnes ranch, which gives them the
right to prospect for minerals and they
give certain per cent as rent of ali
minerals found, if any is found worth
digging for. They claim that within
sixty days they will be in there with
machinery filing that section with
holes to see what's under the surface,
1t is remembered sulphur water and
coal. indications were found out there
by Pennsylvania prospeetors years ago.
Garden City Herald: Captain Balm
gers suit against D. M. Ferry e. Co.,
the Detroit seedsmen, was decided in
favor of the plaintiff this week. This
is one of several suits brought against
Ferry g. Co. by seed growers in West
ern Kansas to recover the value of seed
sold to that company last year. Ferry
G. Co. made contract with a number
of our farmers to take all the seed they
raised, but when 1t was shipped the
company claimed it was worthless and
refused to pay the contract price. At
tachments were Immediately levied on
all the company's property in the state.
Afterwards the company gave bond
to pay all judgments and costs, and the
attachments were released. This suit
is important, for it means whole sea-
sons work to half dozen farmers in
this and Kearney counties, and be-
,f 4bo Nf IN lvyaA
in the suit it is not likely the matter
will be left to rest in the district court.
The court and jury Immediately en-
tered upon the hearing of another one
of the same kind Of cases.
Burr Oak has citizen named Myers
who claims to be the champion corn
husl1er of the wide world, and the in
habitants of that town are willing ia
wager all kinds of money on him. His
record the other day, when he WASN'T
pushed, was ITO bushels Of corn in ten
hours and tw enty-fve minutes.
Governor Morrill, has pardoned
James L. Dick, dCfaulting treasurer Of
Ellsworth county, who was sent to the
penitentiary in 1895 for twelve years.
His friends have been trying to get
pardon for him ever since his convic-
ton, but protest was fled and tho
governor hesitated. Last week John
Dick, only son of the prisoner and the
support of Mrs. Dick, was killed in e
railroad accident, and the governor
was again asked to grant the pardon,
which he did at once, 80 Dick would be-
able to attend the funeral of his SON.
Mr.. Dick is badly broken in health
James L. Dick was for many years one
of the most prominent men in Ellis
worth county.
The twenty-fifth annual session OF
the Kansas State Grange has elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: Henry Rhodes, Gardner, worthy
master; E. w. Westgate, Manhattan,
overseer; Mrs. Bina A. Otis, Topeka,
lecturer; Joseph Ratcliff, Overlook,
steward; A. B. Lovett, Bucyrus, as
sistant steward; G. M. Dickson, Edger-
ton, chaplain; William Henry, Olathe
secretary. Resolutions endorsing j.
Il. Brigham, of Ohio, master National
Grange, for Secretary Of Agriculture
under Mckinley, and demanding that
only practical farmers be appointed
regents of the Agricultural University
college, were passed.
j. M. French Of Topeka has lately
bought 100 mules for shipment to the
insui gents in Cuba. 1t is supposed
that he represents the Cuban agent at
Kansas City, although he declines to
talk. 1t is also reported that French
Is recruiting company for service in
Cuba, but the report cannot be verified.
The local papers say that unemployed
men talk about nothing but the Cuban
revolution and express a desire to go
to the island and fight the Spaniards-
If Cuban movement starts in Kansas
it is likely to develop great strength
among those out of work.
A Larned boy has gone to Cuba to
seek his fortune, and also with vague
idea of joining the Cuban insurgents.