Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-07-16
.JAYHAWKER STATE.

900 bushels Of wheat this season.
Th!rty-sixth senatorial district Re.
publcans refused to instruct for In.
gals.
People of Cyclone Hill, Harvey
county, want the name of the town
changed.
The il-year-old son OF James A.
Stout OF Emporia was drowned in the
Cottonwood river.
George Kley, Leavenworth saloon
keeper, has disappeared, leaving many
small accounts unsettled.
Some OF the oat fields along the line
of the Central Branch are averaging
seventy bushels an acre.
Congressman Calderhead was re.
nominated by acclamation by the
Fifth district Republicans,
A Seneca man advertises TO build
cyclone caves and furnish them with
bible, fan and chunk of ice,
Great excitement exists at Atchison
over the reputed finding of gold on
the Soldiers Orphans home property.
Warren Foster, who was at one time
editor of the Hutchinson Gazette, is
running for Congress in Utah, on the
Pop ticket,
The Columbian building, Topeka,
erected in boom days at u cost OF &c.,
900, was sold under foreclosure June
30 for $47, 900.
United States Senator PETER says he
is not candidate for reelection, but
would accept If the legislature saw TT
to return him.
Congressman Grosvenor OF Ohio, the
Mckinley stNtistician, fred the first
Mckinley gun In Kansas with speech
at Manhattan.
At the reformatory in Hutchinson
there is larger number of inmates
than has been there since the institu
ton was opened.
The agitation for curfew law at
Lawrence has revealed the fact that
such law has been on the statute
books for sixteen years.
Farmers in Republic county are
complaining that considerable dam
age Is being done to crops In that
vicinity by grasshoppers.
The Eldorado Republican says the
weather over in Butler county is as
mild as girls protest to her lover
not to spend his money on her.
The marshal Of Ness county who
decided political street discussion by
putting both debaters in jail, Is the
most popular man in the Stnte
There are over sixty irrigation
plants in opera ton In Sherman county
Three years ago there were not Ave
irrigation plants in the county
The Galena mines are yielding their
usual supply OF metal A member OF
the camp says there are from twenty
to thirty drills in operation now
The Forest Oil Company has begun
test we'll at Neodesha which will be
thirteen inches In diameter and will
be drilled to depth of 1000 feet
From three to four oil wells are
bought in week about Neodesha,
and as many more mt the various
places where drilling Is going on.
The Kansas farmers are taking up
the idea OF two crops in year and
are putting In KafIir corn on wheat
stubble. The rains help the idea out
The Republican convention Of the
Twelfth judicial district nominated
Judge Il. w. Sturges Of Concordia, the
present incumbent, on the l,05Sth bal
lot.
} james A. Kimball, Of Salina, has
been elected supreme councillor OF
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session held recently in Columbus,
Ohio
The Kansas Republican state league
elected Edward Ii. Madison OF Dodge
City president aud Oscar Swayze OF
Topeka secretary Congressman Gros-
venor OF Ohio addressed the conven-
tion.
Hon Abiiah Wells Of Seneca is the
. nominee of the Republican party for
Judge Of the Court of Appeals for the
eastern division OF the northern de-
partlnent OF Kansas. The nomination
was effected on the ls4th ballot.
The two-story and basement build.
Ing cont aiming the general store OF
james Il. Smith, the First National
bank and G. A. II. hall at Russell was
burned to the ground with all its con-
: tents. The loss is S25, 1000 and the in
surance $4,000.
j. B. Fugate, editor Of the Newton
: journal, and postmaster Of his town,
. was married nL Lawrence to Miss Jes-
sic Howell, one of the most popular
teachers in the city schools. They
will reside in Newton.
The Cherokee Republican county
convention nominated DR. ID. w. King
Tor state Senator and j. w. Gray and
l.. G. Weldy for Representatives. The
convention Endorsed the administra-
ton OF Governor Morrill,, John j. In
gals for the Senate and Colonel War
ner for Lieutenan Governor.
An Atchison scientific man explains
, that the blossomlng of sweet potato
! plants in Kansas, something unheard
OF until last year, is simply due to the
unusual climatic conditions that have
prevailed. They always bloom in the
South, to which section they are ma.
tive
Sam Houston, secretary Of the Sec
ond Kansas Volunteer Association,
= has issued call for a meeting at
Forest Park, in Ottawa, September Id,
II and 1s. There are about $50 SUR
vivors of this regiment Also at the
same time and place all of the volun-
teer soldiers Of Kansas who served
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