Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-21

The Santa Fe pay roll In Kansas
amounts to about $500, 900 per month.
Kansas Million club will send out
three missionary" trains loaded with
the products Of Kansas to advertise
the State.
Cherokee has let the contract for Its
waterworks to q Kansas City firm.
The contract binds the firm to employ
only Cherokee labor,
The city assessors census Of the pop
ulation OF Leavenworth shows an In
crease since last years returns Of V9l.
The total now Is 81 ,G02.
Contract for the new Atchison
court house, to cost SIC, 600, was given
to Latlmer & Benning, Atchison. II
will be built Of Carthage, Mo-, stone.
Alonzo Cunningham has sued the
Santa Fe for damages-Sl5, 000-in the
Cowley county district court. lie was
hurt at Shoemaker, N. NJ, last Christ
mas day.
Representative Kirkpatrick has In
troduced bill TO remove the statute
OF limitations against all claims of old
soldiers for bounties and arrearages
OF pensions.
Colonel Il. Bierer Of Hiawatha was
delegate to the recent State conven-
ton at Hutchinson. He was was q
presidential clcctor In Pennsylvania in
1864, being elected on an Abraham
Lincoln ticket.
Returns from moro than half of
Dickinson county show that it has
lost over 1900 population in the past
year. Some townships lost 100 to $50
each. Only one yet heard from has
gained. Abilene loses only 100. Coun-
ty officers salaries will not be affected.
Emporia has settled its "oficial
newspaper" war by awarding the con-
tract jointly to the Republican and
the Gazette. Each is to be official for
six months at time, the Republican
having the first inning. The consid-
Grafton Is half legal rates.
A story and half hotel in Empire,
owned by Harvey Kelso and conducted
by Messrs. Henry &c Spencer, with
contents, was burned. The fire orig
mated from one Of the girls lighting
a lamp in preparing her toilette. The
loss is about 81, 00O with no insurance.
The commercial club of Coffeyville
has completed negotiations with j. G.
McGrew Of Lexington, Mo-, for the
erection of q large Touring mill and
elevator at that place. Work will
begin at once. When completed it
will be one Of the largest mills in the
State.
The Congregational Association
which recently met in Lawrence, Is
the oldest ecclesiastical body in Kan
sas 1t was organized in August 1855,
in Lawrence. The Lawrence church
was then the only one In tho territory
and preaching stations. On account
of the troubles which then disturbed
the country the body did not meet
again until 1857 There are now 1877
churches, with a membership Of about
1900, and about 10, 900 in the Sunday
schools.
Wichita Eagle: The condition Of
passes anything in the record Not a
word of complaint has been heard
from spot in Kansas. The govern
ment report last heard from put the
condition at about So per cent of a
full crop, but 1t is now considerably
over 100 per cent. There never was a
first of May when wheat showed as
fair promise as it does to-day where
ever seed has been put in the ground.
Owing to the favora BILE season, the area
was no doubt considerably increased
after the reports were in last winter,
and it may now approximate 4,00O,-
900 acres. On this acreage, If crop
reaches the average Of 1889, twenty
two bushels per acre, we will harvest
this summer sS.000,0OO bushels Of
wheat, exceeding the greatest crop
ever produced either in or out of Kan
sas. In 1892 Kansas produced 1880,
600 bushels Of wheat, the largest crop
ever made by any State.