Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-07
Kansas News Notes.


Kansas News Notes.
There are 4,5OO railroad men in
Parsons.
Cuban mass meetings are the rage
in Kansas towns just now.
Great Bends four hundred lately
had their pictures taken in group.
A stock company has been formed in
Topeka for carnival purposes in 1897.
Mr.. Earlywine is q plasterer out at
Wilsey.
A pair Of young horses were offered
for IS cash on the streets of Dighton,
one day last week, and no takers.
Hog cholera is bad in Jefferson
county, the worst ever known there.
Miami county people will furnish
$780, 900 of the round 100000 that
must be written in Treasurer Of State
Heflebower's bond.
AGarden City boy supports the family
by trapping coyotes for their pelts.
Out West alfalfa hay is in demand
for shipment. The supply is shortened
by home demand for feed.
The black leg has appeared among
the herds of the Arkansas valley, and
great many cattle have died.
w. r. Haskell set trap for coyotes
near Lankin and caught an immense
eagle, measuring six and one-hali
feet from tip to tip.
Governor Morrill, says the newspapers
have the election figures sadly mixed.
He received l,ls5 more votes. than Nc
Kinley and SEQ more than Secretary OF
State Edwards, who was next high
No one fixes up his political fence
in Kansas any more-he goes out to
inspect his trocha.
The grimmest joke which has been
perpetrated in Kansas for u year was
by that Wichita suicide who left
note in which he declared; II see
nothing to live for but death"
The first instance OF white couple
being married by colored minister
occurred in Doniphan county last week.
In series of meetings, held within a
year, Topeka has declared war against
France, England, Turkey and Spain,
but the amounts collected when the
hat was passed around wouldn't buy
ammunition enough to fire off a ships
gun once.
Mrs. Nichols is the name OF an old
lady after whom a station on the Santa
Ire between Topeka and Atchison was
named. When the road was building
she made no claim for damages because
II crossed her farm and in return she
was given life pass, which she never
uses except when her business as q
poultry raiser takes her into Atchison.
The fact that three Atchison men
have erected monuments TO their
wives first husbands leaves it open to
question whether sympathy or ven.
geance was the actuatfng motive.
Some Western irrigationists have
scheme to connect the Arkansas river
with the Cheyenne bottoms by means
of great ditch.
James Isett, Smith county farmer
received letter the other day, signed
by George Brownfeld, containing
two-cent stamp to pay for an onion
which the latter got in the formers
garden five years ago. III recently
Joined the Mennonite church," the
letter said, 'and am trying to undo
the wrongs have committed in the
past. Five years ago l got an onion
out Of your garden to eat, without ask
ing for 1t. guess two cents will pay
the damage. | send that amount
About six months ago some Denver
sharpers went to Trego and Ellis coun-
ties and remained there awhile, pre-.
tending to be prospecting. Finally
they gathered some alleged specimens
Of lead and zinc ore and obtained a
forged assayer's certificate showing
that they contained very rich min
eral. They then got Topeka and Kan
,as City parties to form company
with capital of 100000. Stock was
sold in both cities and elsewhere at
good prices. Investigations and explo-
-ations have just shown the whole
scheme to be fake, and the bubble
has burst, but the Denver sharpers
cleaned up nearly 100000.
A crank signing himself, or herself,
IS the case may be, as Goods com
nander," writes daily letters of advice
10 Governor-elect Leedy.
The state treasurer has received a
.opy of the bill introduced in congress
~ Congressman Dick Blue to reim-
purse Kansas for payments made for
he Quantrel raid claims. In 1887 the
tate assumed the responsibility Of
,aying these claims to an amount ex-
eeding 100000. The state has made
in installments of one tenth
4 the interest and principal, each year,
he last payment being due in 1899.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Blue car
les 1892, 012.46, which, If passed, will
ully reimburse The state Of Kansas.
Daddy Mead, of the Mcpherson Re-
publican, is one Of the old-fashioned