Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-03-12

Fort Scott will try for the state
Masonic home.
Eldorado creamery uses $4,000
pounds of milk every week.
John Lewis OF Coffeyville was
struck by train and killed.
Eight Barton county schools have
purchased libraries this winter.
About $50 men are now coming from
the Eastern oil regions to Neodesha,
LeavenwoFth police put women
prisoners ut work on the city rock
pile,
John Martin, son OF ex-United
States Senator Martin, is running n
laundry at Emporia.
Kansas has 500 newspapers, and
forty-fouf newspapers and periodicals
are published at Topeka.
A car load of Dickinson county
horses brought an average Of S37 80
each at Huction in st. Louis.
A Western Kansas editor announces
that he will take anything on sub
scription except parsnips"
Sixteen mail carriers of Kansas City,
Kan, have presented claims for extra
time; amount of claims, SIC, 05S,72.
Charles Lands is now running the
Osborne Farmer single handed, having
bought out Scott Filton's interest
Washington county streams yielded
enough ice for home consumption, and
some to spare for the b. g. NJ. stations,
Hon. l.. w. Hostetter of Franklin
county, died from the effects Of
wounds inflicted by an Infatuated bull.
h. j. Worden, ut one time postmas-
ter Mt Lawrence, has gone insane
over worry about his political fortunes.
The Forest Oil Company (StandardD
will sink 300 wells in the oil region in
Southeastern Kansas the coming sea-
son.
A lighted lamp fell on the Swear
old son Of Mrs, Maggie Scott Of Fort
Scott, and the child was burned to
death.
William M. Wallace was reelected
grand master workman by the grand
lodge of the A. o. U. w, at Leaven-
worth.
Colonel George Washington Reed OF
Topeka belongs to forty-three different
secret orders and is ready to zine"
others.
A race war" disturbs the harmony
OF the Wellington schools. The white
children refuse to march with the
blacks.
The Standard Oil Companys well at
independence is said to give stronger
flow of oil than any other we'll in
Kansas.
G. H. Race, eX-cashier of the Bur.
l!ngton National bank, on trial at
Fort Scott for embezzlng $751; coo, was
acquitted.
Wilson county is calling for 81, 500 OF
her bonds; wants to stop interest
This will reduce her bonded indebted
ness to SO, 500.
When the present work is completed
there will be oil storage Mt Neod esha
for over 1000 barrels, and about 3d.
900 barrels at Thayer.
During 1895 Peabody shipped &c, AGO
pounds of poultry, 1904, 200 eggs and
106,033 pounds of butter, valued re-
spectfully at sos, Gs4, $l2,0s5 and SILL
600
Kansas will not be outdone even by
her sister State, Colorado. Hollen-
burg, Kan, now has a gold boom, and
II is reported the dirt assays $50 to the
ton.
Supreme court of Oregon has sus-
tanned the constitutionalty of u mort
gage redemption law, similar to the
Kansas law which Justice Martin sus-
tanned.
Ex-senator Martin believes that
there will be split in the Democratic
party at its Chicago convention, and
that the gold wing will go to the Re-
publicans
Topeka company has jumped in
and purchased or leased large
amount of land on the Neodesha field,
and will soon be going down after
both oil and gas.
Professor S. w. Wilson of the
Lawrence university will accompany
scientific expedition TO Asia and
Africa next fall under the leadership
of Professor lIite
Alonzo Wardall chairman of the
committee appointed by the Farmers
Alliance to look after the cooperative
movements in Kansas is arranging for
a cooperative congress to be held in
Topeka April o. 10 and IL. 1t will be
non-partisan.
Ira Steele, one of the best stock raisers
in Douglas county, has failed. dis
liabilities are 100000. This is the
fourth big farm failure in that county
in the last six months.
Thomas Davenport, young farmer
aged 22, has been arrested for the
murder Of J. y. Lamborn at Fall Leaf.
Davenport and the daughter of the
murdered man are lovers.
Topeka Capital readers express
themselves as follows in regard to
presidential candidates: For McKin-
ley, 3,lS8; Reed, 252; Allison, 22S; Har-
rson, 1855; scattering, 50; total, 1910.
No Democrats or Populists voted TO
speak of.
There are confined in the Kansas
penitentiary S79 convicts; white males,
637; white females, 6; colored males,
2lO; colored females, 10; Mexican
males, 3; Indian males, z. The oldest
convict is 70 years old and the young
est Is. The whole number of convicts
having served sentence in the peniten-
tiary, together with the number now
confined there, is 1853. Wyandotte
county has the largest number of con-