Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-29
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

| 10 Clarence Iaylorss, one mile apart,
was the first line, the wire being plain
barbed fence wire stapled to posts. AS
soon as success was assured two more
instruments were ordered-one for the
railroad station at Pearl and one for
the residence o. I. q. Taylor, one mile
from Pearl. High poles carried the
line over roads and the few spaces
where there are no wire
fences Glass insulators were put
on the high poles SO that
in case it was found necessary to in
sulate all the way through, that much
would have been done. The bringing
of the two houses into communication
with the railroad station was of great
benefit to Clarence Taylor, who was
thereby able to conduct his business
quickly and conveniently. To the
women on the farm it is great boon.
BY means of it they feel as close as II
they were together in one room, and
when their clocks stop all they have
to do is to call up the depot and get
the correct time. Important news
from the outside world is also tele-
phoned to the people on the farms
Colonel Tom jackson, member of the
house from Harvey county, visited EN-
poria for the purpose of delivering IA
lecture before the G.. A. r. last week.
Colonel Tom was commander of col
ored troop at Fort Pillow at the time
of the massacre. AS he walked along
the street in Emporia an old eolored
man by the name of Reuben McClel-
land rushed out and seized him in his
arms The two wept over each others
shoulders for ten minutes. McClel-
land was ONE of the survivors of the
massacre and belonged to Jaelssons
troop They had mot met since the
WAR.
BY the way the Union Paeiftc rail
road boys are disputing the claim OF
the Santa Fe for the championship in
fast running. The other day Union
Pacific engineer wheeled fifteen car
loads Of cattle from Cheyenne Wells
to Ellis, distance of 100 miles, i'm ex-
actly 1885 minutes, which is about the
speed claimed by the SANTA BE for
their fast passenger rum A few days
later the Union Pacific engineer moved
a. regular passenger train forty-two
miles in thirty-nine minutes. The
Santa Be is boasting that it recently
moved o passenger train go miles in
200 minutes.
''He was what you might call
marrying man" said Mrs Sadie Suth-
erland, in explanation of the divorce
petition which she filed against herhus-
band at Topeka last week. And if the
petition recites the truth, Mr.. Suther-
land is not only a marrying man, but
also the most numerously married
man of which the court records, have
recently taken any account At the
time he married Sadie he already had
three wives, living and since leaving
hAr he has married fifth at Nevada,
Mo. Sadie's lawyer does not appear
to have been smart enough to tell her
that if her husband had three former
wives living, her own marriage was a
nullity and requires NO divorce.
Kansas is recovering from the boom,
as shown in the following boom echoi
The late Legislature passed a bill va
eating 100 townsites and additions, to
ambitious towns The preceding leg
islature performed the same service
for 200 towns, and the one before that
for eighty-three. In 1891, more than
fifty needed correction, and in 1885,
only twelve were changed. The fact
that this number is beginning to grow
smaller shows that conditions existing
previous to the boom will soon be re-
stored. -Atchison Globe
The G.. A. r, post of Conway Springs
has let a contract for monument
standing eleven feet above the surface
of the ground. On the face of the
base will be complete list of the de-
parted members of the G A. r. post
at Conway Springs, and just UNDER
meath will be six large cannon balls
stacked one upon another with two
large cannons surm0unting the entire
six balls
G. M. Harger says in an article on
the Kansas boom in the Chicago Times
Herald that Governor Click caught
the fever worse than was ever public
ly known; that he invested in a daily
morning paper at Abilene, with full
press report, and only sunk $4,000 in
three years.
f. d. Coburn, secretary of the State
board of agriculture, will be offered
am 81, 800 position at the state agricul-
turul college.
Mcpherson Republican: THE trigo-
nometry class of the college taught by
the president, c. E. Arnold, is distinctly
heavyweight class, The average
weight of the members is 213 pounds
The average hat is No, ~. The heav-
lest student in the class weighs 800
Four of the heaviest weigh $50. This
class is blessed with brain power as
abundantly as it is with adipois tissue"
Goodland Republic: The prairie
grass is exceedingly forward this year
and only needs few more warm days
10 push up and conceal the brown
stubs of last years crop. Grass-short,
curly buffalo grass-is the most valu-
able crop ever raised in Western Kan
sas if harvested rightly; and the only
way to properly harvest the same is
through the medium of the COW.
The II. c. Barnes who is so fire.
quently mentioned in the papers as
prosecutor of Durrant, the California
murderer, was formerly a citizen Of
Kansas. His home was in Stockton,
Rocks county, and he represented his
district in the Legislative session of
1885. A few years ago he removed to
California and almost at once became.
prominent.
At Latham, a station on the FRISCO,
north of Winfield the safe OF the Mer-
cantile comnanv was blown omen nv