Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-08
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

Is little country in Northern Europe,
about $4,000 square RlilSs In extent, or
but little more than one-siXth the size
of the state of Kansas, with popula-
ton of 100000 This little country
has, during the laat dozen years, be-
come noted the world over as o dairy
country. 1t produces about 40, 900, 900
pounds Of butter yearly, of which
amount nearly one-half is consumed
at home, and the balance, for the
most part exported to England.
England pays Danish farmers, on
an average, 100000 month for
butter. The area of Denmark is APP
proXimately equal to that represented
by the three eastern tiers of counties
in Kansas. Suppose this portion of
che state to be populated with @,000,-
900 people, more than half of whom
were farmers, then you could form
some idea of the conditions under
which the Danish dairy industry has
developed, with this exception, that
Z the Kansas soil in this region is of a
very much better average quality than
the soil the Danish farmers cultivate"
Reports from all parts of Kansas in
dictate better condition of winter
wheat than a year ago, and year ago
ut this time the condition promised a
crop of rs, 900, 900 bushels, The rumors
of poor prospects for wheat in this
state are therefore without any foun-
dalton, except in some of the eastern
counties that do not properly belong in
the wheat belt. 1t is the history of
wheat raising in Kansas, however,
that the last half of May and the early
part of June is the most dangerous
period of the year. Up to the first of
May OF last year prophets were pre-
dieting all the way from 10000, 900 to
100, 100000 bushels for Kansas. The
crop was about 2s,0OO,00O bushels.
Returns which Bank Commissioners
Breidenthal is receiving from over the
state, prove the condition of Kansas
banks is better than it has been at any
time in the past. For 1875 banks which
have responded to the call recently is
sued from the banking department,
the average reserve is 40 per cent
This is per cent higher than the
showing made by any previous report
and as the requirement Of law is 25
per cent, the showing is exceptionally
good. Only three of the l25 have re-
serves lower than is required by the
statute.
A special train ON any railroad is an
expensive luxury. The usual charge
for an engine and one car is $1.50
mile, though this is reduced for long
distances. The train which recently
carried Millionaire Mayhem from Chi
cago to Denver cost him an even 81 200.
Ordinarily the same train could be EN-.
ployed for $3.50, but Mayhem wanted
it to run at nearly a mile a minute,
which it did. In Kansas the cost Of
special train is figured at the rate of
full fare for each passenger the car
can comfortably carry.
Those who believe in the doctrine Of
rewards and punishments may find
something of interest in a singular af-
fair reported from Dodge City. Some
time ago the Episcopal church there
gave an entertainment at which three
young men reproduced some of the
features of the Midway Plaisance. A
great many of the church people were
shocked Since then two of the young
men have been killed in railroad acct
lents and the third has been manned
for life in the same way.
Over $4,000, 900 worth of cattle has
been marketed in Emporia since the
corn crop was ripe last September.
That money has been dumped right
here in Lyon county, and most of it is
here now. The profit on that money
represent debts paid, improvements
inv 40 nd nY,it
There is not bushel of corn for sale
m Lyon county to-day for II cents,
There is not very much at Is cents
Emporia Gazette.
The query in Puck as to the distinc-
non between a newspaper man and
journalist has set the Kansas papers
10 discussing the matter One defini-
ZION given is that the newspaper man
wears two white shirts one week, while
the journalist wears one white shirt
two weeks. We have noticed surer
test than this The newspaper man
nearly always has a job, while the
journalist has not.
A locomotive fireman has one of the
hardest jobs it would be possible to
imagine. In tine 200 mile run from
Dodge City to La Junta recently, the
fireman of freight engine shoveled in
thirteen tons of coal, besides raking
out the ashes and performing the other
duties which fell to his position.
When the Walnut Valley road was
constructed from Florence to Eldorado
in 1877 its right of way was surveyed
through graveyard near the home of
Wilson Quinn in Butler county. Two
headstones were taken out by the
graders and set up against stone
fence, and they have been setting
there all these twenty years.
A Eureka man has applied for pat
ent for railway roll joint that he has
invented. He claims for it that it will
hold the rails up firmly and give the
effect, of a continuous rail. Like every
other inventor he expects to live the
remainder of his natural life without
work, on the royalty.
e r. Moses, Great Bends irrigation
boomer, offers 500 for the best paper
or essay on the subject of irrigation;
$75 for the second best, and $40 for
the third best, the decision to be rem
dered at the National Irrigation con-
gress, at Lincoln, in July.
Charley Lobdell will move his family
to Leavenworth at once. However, he
will not dispose of his property in Lane
county. IF can't make a living in