Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-01-02
KANSAS NOTES.
Mr.. Beer lives at GoodlaAd.

be required to wear uniforms. n
Mrs. Belle Ball is the Topeka Can
itals Washington correspondent.
Wolves are gobbling up sheep and
chickens in the vicinity of Morrill,
Tully Scott predicts thai the Demo
Gratis and Populists will fuse next year.
Morrill, has raised the bonds for a
big Touring mill, and it is an assured
fact
Work has been begun on the power
house for the Abilene electric light
plant.
Cy Leland has been placed on the
Republican National Executive Com
mittee.
State Board of Irrigation has ex-.
pended only $14, 600 of the $3O,OOO ap.
propriaied.
The treasurer, register and clerk of
Kearney county have their offices all
In one room.
There are thirteen patients in the
insane ward al the Leavenworth Sol
diers' Home.
A Beloit farmer has beard that
will drag on the ground II inches
when unfurled.
Cotfey county has begun to agitate
the necessity for building new court
house next year.
w. II. Cramer, formerly superintend-
ent of waterworls at Winfield, died at
Portland, Oregon.
Old Katy passenger depot, which
was built before Parsons was town,
will soon be removed.
Employees of the Topeka Capital pre-.
sented Major j. X. Hudson with
handson gold watch.
Menno bites near Moundridge sent a
carload d. provisions to their mission
station a Darlington, Ok.
Eighty cents was the upset" price
for II horde sold on the streets of In
dependenhe the other day.
They sAy Ex-Governor Humphrey
wants to ~ back to the state senate
from Mon gomery county.
X, g. w lcockson, state senator from
the Twenty ninth district, will not be
a candidate for reelection.
Kansas Field club has decided to pay
the per cent state tax for the sup
port Of the fire departments,
Over twenty tons of hay belonging
to John Cass of st. Marys, went up in
smoke through boys and matches.
e. G. Sattley, the bank wrecker, who
is now doing time in Missouri, used to
be Il heart Wrecker in Cawker City.
John p. st. John and M. V. b. Ben
nett are Tho members of the Prohibi-
ton National Committee from Kansas.
The wife of Myron A. Waterman,
deputy State bank commissioner at
Topeka, has been stricken with paral-
ysis.
Five or six of the handsomest young
ladies in the city will hereafter act As
ushers in Tie opera house at Arkansas
City. ="
A pension has beeR granted to
Derrick Updgratf, the founder Of Med
icine Lodge, who, is|now ia his Goth
year. ~
Report of il e robbery of the grave
OF Edgar Pratt, the ossified man who
died and was buried at Douglas, was
fake.
Kansas State university glee and
banjo club will not star" the State
this season. At least that is what the
faculty says.
A car load Of beer consigned to Hen
ry Schnitzler was seized at Wichita by
the police order of the assistant attor-
ney general.
Thomas NJ, Potter of Peabody, pres
ident of the State board of agriculture,
Is the latest candidate for guberna-
torial honors
The Atchison Globe announces the
candidacy of w. Il. Guthrie for Con-
gress in the First district to succeed
Case BrodericlI.
Wichita people are opposed to the
creation of new Federal court dis
trict to be composed of the southern
half of Kansas.
Bob Hatch, who shot and killed an
other negro at Hutchinson recently,
killed a white man in Pratt county
about twelve years ago.
Alva j. Smith of Emporia has in
vented q machine called clinometer.
With it one can tell the height of any
object, the incline of a mountain or
the dip of rock or mineral bed, and
can locate himself by taking the de-
gree Of the sun.
The NATIONALIST says that Manhat-
tan bank has d note for collection
which shows hdW rapidly interest ac-
cumulates wheH you allow it to get
fifteen or twepty years start. The
note was originally for $500, given in
October, 1876, at 10 per cent interest.
The man who owes it has paid upon it
just S765, and still owes $l,O10.
Here is an agricultural item from
the Hays City Republican which shows
that the farmers out there are doing
business at the did stand: Amos Mer-
mis- and his sons raised 5,597 bushels
of wheat, 22O bushels of oats, 45O
bushels of barley, fifty bushels of
sorghum, forty bushels of Kaffir corn,
IT'S bushels of potatoes; total, 6,462
bushels. Last y ear they sowed ST
acres of wheat, but this year they
reached the climax by sowing 1000
acres. Of this ground they plowed
no acres, running nine plows, and
the other $50 aches they worked with
the disc harrow, Now Mermis Broth 4
ers are blowing for spring crops, foraI
they intend to add to their 900 acreF'
of wheat few hundred acres of other