Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-07-08

The Santa Fe Railroad company
never destroys any of It's waste paper.
On n certain day each month the ac-
cumulations are shipped from everv
station on the system to Chicago,
where they are sold to be worked over
again by the paper mills. The rail
road men always speak Of this occa-
sion as paper day"
State superintendent Stryker says
that the insurance policies on all
school buildings in Kansas are worded
in such u manner as to make them
void. They provide that in case. the
building insured is unoccupied for q
period of thirty days, the policy can
not be held for loss in case one
should occur
The Kansas City Star has at last a
fight on its hands that will keep it
busy. 1t has begun a morning edition,
to take advantage of the new fast mail
train into Kansas, and has no tele-
graph franchise. The Topeka Capital
and two morning papers In Kansas
City are fighting it with teeth and toe
nails.
AG H. ID lNCNuln AGluANnblOn az lNC~
serve, Kan, will reach $40, 900, accord
ing to the latest estimates. According
to the Hamilton, Ohio, papers, Eckam
was defaulter to tho amount Of
$1,000 before coming to Kansas, and
his real name Is H. Il. MaclSe, which
he changed to Eckam by spelling back
ward.
From 1850 to 1907 the county now
known as Cloud bore the name Of
Shirley. All Of tho Kansas histories
recount as delicately as possible that
the name first borne was given In
honor Of Jane Shirley, beautiful but
dissolute woman, who was we'll known
to the army officers at Fort Leaven-
worth, and later ut Fort Riley
Il. II. Balm and DR.. A. NJ Edison Of
Topeka and j. H. Day Of Kansas City,
Kan, were sentenced to 800 fine and
thirty days In jail by United States
Judge Foster for sending fraudulent
matter through the mails. They will
carry the matter to q higher court
The Missouri Pacific road will re-
duce its corn rate from 1 to cents
from Kansas and Nebraska points to
Mississippi river points and Chicago.
II will maintain u differential Of
cents between the Mississippi river and
Chicago.
The employees Of the Missouri Pacific
at Fort Scott have organized to fight
the poll tax. The Legislature Of 1894
abolished the poll tax In all cities of
the hrst-class in Kansas, excepting
Fort Scott and Atchison.
Albert Brown, aged II, is in jail for
burglary at Winfield and there is
squabble between the probate judge
who wants the boy sent to the reform
school and the sheriff who refuses to
give UP the prisoner
Pawnee county will harvest over
3,0OO 600 bushels OF as fine wheat as
ever grew out doors The crop at so
cents bushel will sell for enough to
pay the entire indebtedness of the
county,
The State Temperance union printed
over half toni, 400 pounds -of sta
tistical literature last week, which it
intends to have thoroughly distrib-
uted over the state by the first of Sep
TENDER.
Clara Biddlc, daughter Of ex-MayOr
Biddle, of Emporia, while visiting in
Indianapolis eloped with Seymour
Davis, of Philadelphia, state architect
under Governor Lewelling.
An irrigation ditch which It is hoped
will be sufficient to water 100000
acres has been opened In Barton
county, The work Ia being done by
Denver parties
Judge Wellhouse, the most extern
sive grower Of apples in the world,
says that he does not expect large
crop this year, All other fruits are
doing well, he thinks.
State Fish Commissioner Shuts OF
Wichita has sued Samuel Hoover Ct
the same town for $4,000 damages to
his character for naming him as CO.
in divorce suit.
Miss Time Is the name Of theswellest
up-to-date girl in Gueda Springs, and
the boys down there say that old
Father Time himself is quite o clever
fellow.
The Great Bend Beacon suggests
that special day of thanksgiving
and prayer for the big wheat crop be
set apart. Hot winds may shut out
The corn.
Harvest hands are wanted in Central
Kansas, and the Santa Fe is making
to carry Topeka men
here who are looking for work.
The defunct First National Bank of
Earned has repaid to Pawnee county
,he $4,000 on deposit in that bank
when it failed.
The Citizens bank at Abilene has
100000 of individual deposits.
Professor Blake of the State univer-
ity located, by the use Of the X rays,
/ bullet in the neck Of Bradley Gordon
If Winfield.
The board Of trustees of the South
vest Kansas College at Winfield has
dopted rule prohibiting the organ
zation Of college societies
Section men on the SAINTS Fe at
learly every station in Kansas have
Iuit work and gone to the harvest
leld.
j. w. Starr, the new superintendent
i terminals for the Santa Re at Kan
as City, rsed to be station agent at
florence.