Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-06-11
THE STATE OF KANSAS

A Kansas City politician has become
a preacher.
The present "haven of rest" seems
to be the cyclone cellar
The Atchison coal mines give en-
ployment to about 100 men.
CoffeyvilIe has closed her contract,
for 1000 barrel Touring mill.
Sheridan has 49, 637 acres and only
cighty-one acres under irrigation.
A railroad assessment reduces the
valuation in Philips county S9,019.
The Eldorado skimmng station han
dies 81 900 worth Of milk per month.
A factory for the manufacture Of
sealing wax has been started in
Wichita.
The Populist papers of the state are
accepting the Bredeuthal scrip on
subscription,
A new daily evening paper, to be
known as tbs Journal has been start
ed at Leavepworth.
Ex-Governor st, John led the free
silver fight in the Prohibition national
convention at PIttsburg,
Governor Mowill has donated forty
acres near Wakeeney, on which to es-.
tablish an irrigation plant,
The Populists of the Third Con-
gressiona district nominated T. X.
Ridgely of Pittsburg for Congress,
Populists of the Thirty-ninth SEN
atorial district nominated Levi Pritch-
ard of Graham county for Senator.
The Santa Fe now has gang OF
200 men at work laying the new Steel
rails between Strong City and Evans,
on the main line.
Morris L. Richie, a Kansas man, a.
past member of the Kansas leglsla-
ture, has been appointed judge of the
Salt Lake district
Crop prospects are very encouraging
in Cheyenne county. There has been
considerable ram and the outlook is
the best since 1891.
In Greenwood county an association
has completed arrangements and will
make trial shipment of 400 head Of
cattle to Liverpool, England.
j, E. NARROW had the scalps of six
teen rattlers hanging to his belt Mon
day evening, as IL result of his work
this spring, -Santa Fe Monitor.
John S. Simmons of Lane county
was nominated by reclamation for
state senator from the Thirty-eight
district by the Republican convention.
There are but seventy-eight high
schools in Kansas from which diplo.
mas entitle holders to admission to
the state university without eXamina-
tion.
Senator Baker has secured the pas.
sage through the Senate of bill
granting a condemned cannon and
balls to McLouth post G. A. r., at
McLouth, Kan.
The Hutchinson News says Butler
county newspapers claim that l,0O0,.
0O0 bushels of corn are yet cribbed in
that county out of last years crop OF
100000 bushels.
A South Africa business house writes
Secretary Coburn of the board of agri-
culture for information in regard to
merchants of whom Katiir corn seed
can be purchased.
The assessors returns show shrink.
age of 400 in population and 20 per
cent in the appraised value Of real es-
tate in Winfield this spring. There
are now ,G1O people there.
Engineer McAllister of the Rock
Island was recently elected mayor OF
Harrington. The company has a rule
forbidding employees from accepting
Office. McAllister was relieved, but
resigned his Office and is now on duty
again.
Kirwin Independents: Several edi-
tors in Kansas would like the motto
on the silver dollar changed from I'm
God We Trust" to "God Be With You
Till We Meet Again" We would
have it, Come, Thou Fount of Every
Blessing"
The Martin family has been very
successful in Kansas. A Martin has
been governor Martin United States
Senator, Martin is district judge,
another Martin is chief justice, and
modeSty forbids saying more-Kansas
City, Kan, Gazette
Sam Barnes of Wolfey creek has a
den of bull snakes. On sunny days
they may be seen drawing themselves
along over the sod He allows no one
to kill or modest them, as he claims
they are valuable for destroying
ground squirrels, field mice and
gophers.
A recount of the vote cast for ]. W.
F. Hughes and Il. G. Larimer for the
Republican nomination for represen-
tative from Shawnee county showed
Larimer to have four majority.
Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland,
Ohio, owner of Maud q, 2:lOA, and
many others, including the sensa-
tional yearling of 1895, Fanny Foley,
has ranch in Kansas of $4,000 acres.
The mortgage redempti on act,
about which there has been so much
talk since the Federal Supreme court
reversed Judge Martin, was the creao
ton of conference committee of the
Senate and House in 1893. The first
bill on the subject was introduced by
]. F. Greenlee in the House, which
was Republican. Soon after similar
bill was introduced and passed IN the
Senate, which was Populist. The lat
ter bill was Senate Bill 2S5, and when
it reached the House John w. Davis,
a Republican, moved to substitute the
Greenlee bill, House Bill 143. This
was agreed to-yeas 70, nays s-the
yeas being forty Republicans and
thirty-nine Populists. The Senate re-
fused to concur, and conference was
ordered, which resulted in the bill
which is now on the statute book. The