Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-06-10
THE STATE FKANSAS.

Inc young men Ol FlbkbDurH nave
under way the organization Of COM
pany to prospect In Galena and Joplin
lead and zinc lands. There will be
issued fifty shares at $40 per share,
payable 81 cents per week. As fast as
the money Is paid in It will be used in
drilling and sinking shafts ON leased
lands
O. II. Pattison, county treasurer OF
Dickinson county has been received
by Bishop Millspaugh as postulant
for orders, and will enter upon a
course Of study for the ministry He
already has served as lay reader for
over q year in St Johns church at Abb
ilene.
p. II. Anderson, young Dickinson
county Swede, has gone TO Alaska as
missionary. He was accompanied hv
Miss Alice 0melejoak, IN Esquimaux
girl who has been in this country
learning the language and gaining an
education.
Cove county has over 1000 popula-
tion and does not owe dollar The
county has been organized over eleven
years and, according to the Cove City
Leader, not case Of felony has ever
been tried in the county, and It has
never had representative at Lansing.
The Santa Fe is preparing to take a
step that will be followed by other
roads: that all persons riding on passes
must occupy upper berths, II sleeper
Is so crowded that there Is q demand
for the lower berths by passengers
paying their way.
The Emery, Bird & Thayer Dry
Goods company, the Swofford Bros.
Dry Goods company, the Kansas City
Star and Ridenour g. Baker of Kansas
City have founded merchants gradu-
ate scholarship in Latin at the State
university at Lawrence.
The gladstone news that the pension
agency will not be removed from
Topeka creates no interest there, No
true Topeka man ever believed for an
instant that 1t could be moved so far
off the earth as to get away from
Topeka.
The telegraph poles which the West
ern Union is erecting in Topeka were
cut from the cedar forests OF Idaho,
and cost IS apiece on the ground. De-
livered at Topeka they cost Sbb, and
set up with the cross trees nailed on
they cost Sl25.
Charley Parker, a cattle thief from
Clark county, died in the penitentiary
last week. At the time of his capture,
and while resisting arrest, Parker had
hole shot through him by Lot Ravens
craft, the present member of the Leg
islature from Clark county.
Kansas City is to absorb another OF
the ex-district judges Of Kansas. Az
the completion Of his present term
Judge Burnett OF the Cowley county
district will go to the Kaw's mouth
and open law Office.
In Howard county, Kansas, and
throughout the surrounding country,
there are 500 members OF O rather
novel beneficiary society. When man
dies the society pays his widow $95
month SO long as she remains single.
James Gorley, q Hiawatha man, was
q soldier In the Crimean war OF ls53-56.
He was at Sebastopol during the siege,
which lasted eleven months. II was
the most memorable and destructive
siege in history. m
Twenty-Five insurance companies
have recently withdrawn their sup
port from the GARRISON system OF
rating property in Kansas. This may
mean spirited competition in the near
future.
The Santa Fe road expects TO spend
$4,000 on improvements within the
next three or four months. Topeka
firms will have charge, and Topeka
lsborers will be benefited
Ex-Secretary of State Bill Higgins
has received notice from Washington
that he has been granted o pension Of
IS d month, with back pay for two
years.
Ida Ethel Eclert, the divorced wife
OF Thomas Brewer Peacock, the Kan
sas poet, was married at the home of
her father, D. s, EclSert in Topeka,
to Frederick A. Lawrence Of Chicago.
John ). Ingalls, has written letter
to the Atchison Globe, in which he de-
clares that under no circumstances
would he accept nomination for Con-
gress.
Kansas last year ranked as the
eighth state In the Union in men em-
ployed in coal mines. The total num-
Der employed in the mines of this state
in 1896 was 1857.
The Wichita telephone system is to
be extended to Augusta and Eldorado.
The city of Goodland has bought the
state irrigation plant near that place
for $40, 1t will be moved to town and
made to run the water works. Its
original cost was 1905.
The title to 4s6 acres of land which
formerly was in Kansas, but which,
by change of the river, is now in
Missouri, was settled by lawsuit in
Holt county, Mo-, last week
Del Valentine, the editor OF the Clay
Center Times, who was badly hurt u
month ago in runaway, is much bet
ter, and will soon visit his father in
! Topeka
1--WE have been asked" says the
Newton Kanssn, ''why we were en-
larging our office. Our printers must
have more room in which to store their
| bikes"
Kansas will have twice as much
wheat this year as Nebraska. The
acreage is much larger, and the condi-
ton much better.
Times are looking up in Kansas.
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