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

Wheat buyers are paying seventy
cents in Logan county.
w. N. D. Bird Of Arkansas City has
been appointed Mexican cattle inspec-
tor by the secretary of agriculture.
The Republicans of the entire Third
congressional district succeeded In
electing but one member Of the legis-
lature.
The Florence Bulletin says that Miss
Debit, who teaches school down there,
Is nevertheless q credit.
Wonder If the ladies' grab up their
skirts and scream every time Mr..
Mouse OF Great Bend walks in among
them.
What a pity It ia Mr.. Gao of Marion
couldntphave found some consonants
to go with his vowels.
j. Y. Callahan, who has been elected
to Congress from Oklahoma, was at one
time register Of deeds OF Hamilton
county.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
that only six out of 3s1 mortgage COM
panies organized in boom days are now
doing business.
Annual report Of the Kansas State
Historical society shows that there arc
"a, 499 volumes now possessed by the
society. About $4,000 have been re-
ceived during the past year.
Judge G. G. Foster of the Federal
court is out in card advocating the
formation of society for the proven.
ton Of cruelty to animals.
The Citizens bank of Soldier, jack
son county, has gone into voluntary
liquidation, with view OF consolidate
ing with the State bank OF that place.
Governor Leedy will leave his chill
dren in Lawrence to get an education
while he learns o few things In the
dear school of experience at the state
capital.
The vote on treasurer, attorney gem
eral and lieutenant governor was tie
between the Populist and Republican
candidates In Clark county.
The Kansas State ofIlcers-elect will
be inaugurated January IL. The legis-
lature will convene January IL. The
time designated by law for the election
of United States senator is January
10 and Of state printer January 20.
The Fredonia Citizen says that Jo-
seph Collins, the veteran Frisco en-
gineer who was killed at Beaumont,
was worth about 100000 He made
his will in the caboose at Beaumont
after he had been informed that he
could not recover.
Wilson county Is not bad place for
newspaper men to live. George B.
Sipe of the Altoona Journal was elected
superintendent, j. M. Kennedy Of the
Fredonia Herald county attorney, and
Hugh Earrelly OF the Chanute Blade
was elected senator in that district.
win D. Jenkins, who was at one
time editor of the Smith County Pho.
neer, but who is now running the
Whatcom Champion, was the Peoples
party nominee for secretary Of state OF
Washington. He won by from $4,000
to $4,000.
George M. Munger issues card in
which he says that the announcement
of his candidacy for the Senate was
unauthorized by him.
There is talk of reviving the Atchi.
son Patriot and running it as a morn
ing paper, the Champion having
changed to an afternoon paper. The
Patriot cleared $1,000 a year in the
days Of Tom Stivers and Clay Park.
In the late years, however, every man
who has taken hold Of the paper has
gone broke.
The superintendent Of the Soldiers
Orphans home at Atchison has an
nounced that that institution will be
prepared on and after December Is to
open its new buildings for the reception
Of all classes of children who are eligl-
BILE to admission.
The death of Colonel William os-
borne, which occurred recently at
Waterville, NJ Y, removed man who
was identified with the early history
of Kansas. He was instrumental in
the extension Of the Hannibal & st.
Joseph railroad to the Missouri river,
and constructed the first 100 miles Of
the Central Branch from Atchison to
W9terville, Kun.