Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-07-29
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

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more men in number, were captured,
bound and stood up in row and shot
down. Hall was standing in that rank
and he was the only man who escaped
instant death. Instead of being IA
tally shot, as the murderers supposed,
he was slightly injured and played
postum" by which he escaped.
The Chicago Times-Herald prints a
favorable advertisement for Kansas in
! d picture showing map of Ave states
that have paid off $3.50, 600 900 in mort
Kansas and South Dakota lead with
$50, 900, 900 indebtedness wiped out in
each state; Nebraska follows with
$40, 900, 900, and North Dakota and Iowa
follow with Ss5, 900, 600 Minnesota is
also blue ribbon state, having re-
duced her debts 20 per cent In the last
eighteen months,
Rev. William Long of Wellington is
over g. years old and still breaches.
He has lived in Sumner county seven
teen years and has been ''circuit
rider" all that time. In the seventeen
years he has preached / 100 sermons
and ridden $4,000 miles in the county
Rev. Mr.. Long has been o preacher 90
years, and is said to have preached
more sermons than any other living
man.
A. d. Clewell is the first settler in
Sumner county. He went there thirty
two years ago, but did not take up Il
farm until 1870, which was the year
before Sumner county was surveyed.
He killed buffalo in the big herd
that pastured on the valley Of Slate
creek. He still lives on his original
farm and is prosperous.
A. D. Fogle, !. II. Horn, S. E, Bos.
ton and j. w, Boston, young men from
well-to-do families In Franklin coun-
ty, have started for KlondilSc. Be
sides his ticket or money to buy
ticket clear through, each had Sl60 in
cash, which had been furnished by
their parents, together with great
outfit of warm clothing
1.-TWO men, says the Atchison
Globe, Giving near the corner OF
Atchison and Fourteenth streets, had
u big row over a boy yesterday, One
Of the men sings in the Methodist
choir, and the other sings in the Chris
tian choir, but both swore like pir-
ates.
w. w. Padgett Fort Scott attor-
ney, has applied to the supreme court
for the release of 0ren Wray of that
city, who was sent to Jail by the po-
lice court for refusing to pay his poll
tax He alleges that city of the first
class has no power to pass such an
ordinance.
Farmers in northern Doniphan and
Brown counties, who plowed up their
winter wheat on account of the poor
stand, are now lamenting, as the
fields that we're left are turning out
about 80 per cent better than were
expected, and will make, on an aver
age, about twenty bushels per acre.
Seventeen years ago, Mrs. s f.
Bailey of Atchison county ran the
point OF pen into her elbow, where
, it was broken off and could not be re-
, moved. A few days ago boil APP
, peared at the end of her thumb, and,
upon opening 1t the pen point was dis
charged.
Sixty teachers failed in the recent
, state teachers examination at Topeka.
AS only 1886 tried the examination, the
percentage is startling. Many first
grade teachers dropped TO second
! grade, and those who passed got
through by the skin of their teeth.
An Atchison man has been given the
, contract to furnish 100000 worth. Of
lumber for the building of grain ele-
vator on the American plan In Man
chester, England. The contract will
be filed by the lumber mills of Louis
lana.
The secretary Of state has granted q
charter to the Kansas City and Leav-
enworth Traction company for the
: building and operation of an electric
: road between the two cities The
capatal stock is S250,00O.
: July there were gOl prisoners in
! the Kansas penitentiary, the largest
number since the Federal prisoners
were removed three years ago. The
large number is due to the heavy in
crease from Oklahoma.
The marriage OF Miss Effie Scott q
sister of ex-senator Charles II. Scott,
to Professor Ed Franklin occurred last
week at Denver Both are teachers at
the State university
The Citizens Bank of Kansas City,
Kan, has been in the hands of o re-
ceiver for some time. The report to
/ the bank commissioner shows that the
receiver was paid 81 1903 as salary and
that 80, 154 was paid to the lawyers.
Edith Fennell of Sedgwick county
asks for divorce from her husband,
Thomas, on the ground that when he
: asked for her hand and married her
he concealed the fact that he was
subject to fits
Judge Foster of the United States
court ia now the fifth Oldest presiding
district Judge in the United States, in
point of length Of service. He is
serving his twenty-third year on the
bench.
Charlie OConnell, grandson of the
great Irish liberator, Daniel O'Connell,
Is living in Kansas and has ranch
near Leon in Butler county. He met
man there the other day whose
mother nursed his grandfather.
Matt O'Connor of Arkansas City has
started to make a tour Of Oklahoma
with mouth organ, upon the mel
odies of which he depends to make his
living for him during the trip.
1t is like message from the boom