Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-06-18
THE STATE OF KANSAS

Osborne county.
Phillips county lost 300 OF It's popu-
lation during the past year.
Peoples bank, capital $4,000, of
Moran, has closed. 1t will pay out.
The city assessor succeeded in find
ing but Os9 gold watches in Topeka.
The oil companies in Kansas pay
royalties of $4,000 per month in
Kansas,
In Western Kansas it is said di-
vorced women are called alfalfa
widows.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been
sold to f. G. Raney of the Anthony
Republican,
A catfish weighing 2iO pounds was
caught in the Kaw river below the
dam Mt Lawrence.
The st, Louis cyclone was on the
same day of the year rs the Yelling
ton cyclone four years ago
The Atchison Globe says that more
men come to Atchson to lock for their
runaway wives than to any town in
the West.
A new woman" organ grinder in
Atchison had a placard on the organ
which read; please help me; | have a
husband to support"
Forty young men and two women
completed the law course at the uni
versity last week and passed the re-
quired examination,
Topeka has 209 manufacturing con-
Germs turning out annually an aggre-
gate of Si,532, 006 and employing an
average of l,79l hands.
Washington lodge, A, Il. and A. NJ,
of Atchison, and Bartlett Bros, of st,
Joseph, Mo-, purchased the Price
block at Atchison ut sheriff's sale for
So, 600,
Ex-senator Ross Of Kansas is en-
gagged in writing history of the inn
parchment of President Andrew John
son. Ross vote in the Senate saved
Johnson.
Reports from Sedgwick county in
dictate that the wheat harvest has be-
gun. Estimates as to tho probable
yield are not as satisfactory as they
might be.
The cyclists of the State are to
have an entire evening set apart for
them IN the Fall Festival at Topeka.
They will have floats Of all kinds of
decorations.
The two colored men who were
badly injured by the explosion at Cof-
feyville recently, have commenced
suits against the gas company for S20,-
$40 damages.
Five Wellington churches are with
out pastors. Wait until graduation
exercises are over Mt the divinity
schools, and they can get five pastors
for every church.
In an interview day or two ago,
ex-senator Ingalls, said he would
probably attend the st. Louis conven-
tion as correspondent for a prominent
New York newspaper
In quarrel about horse, near
Clay Center, John Mccoy was fatally
shot in the abdomen by his two sons,
August and Robert. The boys sur
rendered to the authorities.
Professor j. Il. Klock, one of tho
best known educators in Kansas, has
resigned the superin tendency of the
Leavenworth schools to accept a moro
desirable position in Helena, Mont
The Lyon Republican county con-
vention has nominated ii. G. Taylor
for Representative, by reclamation.
County will probably be divided on
Troutman and Potter for Governor.
Editor Mcdonald of the Oxford Reg
lister is back from his three months
hobnob with the French aristocracy,
and, it is said in Winfield, speaks Eng
lish with the purest Partisan accent
May 27 }. A. Wright farmer Of
FL Dorado began to harvest his wheat,
and finished the field the 2Sth. BY
the 30th the grain was in the stack.
June and he listed the same land
In corn.
Professor Hawn of Leavenworth,
who celebrated his s6th birthday last
week, says he personally recollects
the locusts' visitation to this section
at all the regular seventeen-year
periods beginning with 1870.
The committee appointed to locate
the State Masonic home has decided
upon Wichita The r. s. Lawrence
property, known as Maple hill, will
be purchased for sci 900, of which the
people of Wichita will contribute
1000.
Two train loads of cattle were ship.
ped from Central Kansas direct to
London, England, last week.
The Twenty-first senatorial district
Republican convention nominated
Ilor. John Il. IIessin of Manhattan
for State Senator by reclamation. No
resolutions or instructions were passed
and no preference indicated for United
States Senator.
A class ring is worn by each men,
Der of the graduating class of the Ag-
ricultural college. The set bears the
raised monogram Of the college ini-
tials in gold on black stone in neat de-
sign, and 1.-THE seniors are very proud
of Them" according to the Indus
trialist.
The assessors rolls show Rocks
county to have a population of 1870, q
decrease from last year of 1914. The
wheat acreage is 80, 474 and corn o.
3al There is about half the number
o. acres Of wheat planted this year as
there were in 1895, but the yield will
be almost as large
Professor SHOWS official weather
report shows the relative humidity to
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