Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-07-22

j. JuclSs, Kansas City man, will
pasture 10000 sheep in Marshall coun-
" and advertises for 10000 bushels of
corn, 10000 bushels of oats and 900
tons of hay to winter them. Jucks
represents n company which has $4,000
sheep on the Western ranges and will
be wintered in Kansas He says 1t
takes two bushels of corn, one bushel
of oats and siX-tenths of ton Of hay
to futten sheep,
Bertha Scheibel, nurse employed
in an Atchison boarding house, nursed
Andrew McKeever, an invalid, for
seventeen years Finally, when death
was Mt hand McKeever summoned
priest and married the girl, that his
property, worth So, 900 might be hers.
In few days he died, and the widow
succeeds to a nice estate,
The Kansas wheat crop thisyear at
a fair valuation, is worth as much as
all the gold taken from mines in the
United States last year; and the oat
crop of this country in 1896 was worth
as much as all the gold mined in the
world the same year, Topeka Advo-
cate.
Stockholders have joined in a SIS, 900
damage suit against the directors of
the Fort Scott State bank for negli-
gence, which allowed the bank to be
wrecked by the embezzlement of S4S,-
600 by the cashier.
George Ray, barber of Lawrence,
Kun, who gave information which led
to the raiding Of lodge organized for
the violation of the prohibitory law,
fears he will have to leave town. His
etiigy was hanged after the raid.
Norman Barrett, cashier of the
Atchison, Kan, bank, was arrested for
erecting n large bill board In princi-
pal street. Barrett claims the land
belongs to him and asks the city TO
pay him $4,000 If 1t is to be continued
as street
Missouri has 10000 more pensioners
than Kansas, and receives nearly a
million dollars more money. Still,
you often hear Kansas referred to as
"the soldier state" and Missouri Is
quite generally called the rebel
state"
1t is said that the Santa Te contem.
plates building branch from Bazaar,
IN Chase county, to Eldorado, Butler
county, and thus connect Emporia
with Arkansas City and all points in
Oklahoma
Ancil Hatten, editor OF the West
phalia Times, has been married lust
ten days but he has the experience of
every other benedict, He says; PAY
up your subscription now; we never
needed money so badly"
Willis Lord Moore has resigned his
position as manager of the Hutchin-
son salt works and has gone to New
Mexico to live. His wife is we'll
known Kansas clubwoman
The 4-year-old child of Il. A. Dodson
OF South Haven, Sumner county, was
shot and killed by the 7-year-old child
of Frank Smith. lie didn't know 1t
was loaded
n Prof Dyche has been heard from.
Instead of being on the trail of Alas
kan bears, he is quietly studying in
the Leland Stanford UNIVERSITY of Cal
ifornia.
G. s. Jobes had building burn
down at Attica which was worth $500.
And his insurance had expired.
Sam Gilbert of Wichita claims to be
the first white child born in Iowa. He
moved to Kansas City in 1857, but
moved to Kansas and has been in the
state ever since.
Tom Moore is the name of Law
renee jointist who wants to be re-
leased from the county jail. He
claims to be a distant relative of the
Irish poet OF that name.
Ex-Governor dwellings churning
station at Wichita ships barre, OF
buttermilk every day in the year to
New York for the purpose of remov-
ng freckles.
Southwest Kansas papers want Rev
,nue Collector Sutton to move his office
10 Wichita or some other western
,oint Mr.. Sutton announces that he
will make no change.
Judge Isaac G. Reed, who killed
saac Hopper at Wellington about six
'ears ago, and was sent to the peni-
entiary, is the model prisoner of that
George Bailey of Sumner county
hreshed eighty acres of wheat last
week that measured out SO bushels to
he acre.
A Topeka newspaper correspondent
ave Major Inman So for his scrap
'ook, and is making 50 day out Of It.
There are thirty-eight old soldiers
n the potter fields of Kansas
John Rossler, scion of one of the
families in Wichita, has
,een released from the county Jail
.fter serving six months.
John Seaton of Conway Springs
hreshed his wheat the other day and
averaged forty-one bushels to the
ere.
Topeka pension Office report: Num-
er of pensioners, los, 923; deaths the
asst year, 3,Ss7; dropped, 1904; added,
,673; increase, ss9.
Sumner county's wheat crop this
ear is big enough to pay all the debts,
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