Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-15
THE.SFAIrElOEfKANSAS.

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natural philosophy, 80 cents; civil
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cents; bookkeeping 40 cents;s writing
books, cents each. 1t Isl, estimated
that it will cost,every pupil $l.25 to
equip himself with new books, He
win receive half price for his old ones,
so that it will mean a cash outlay Of
siXty-two and one-half cents.
In Kansas there are exactly 81, 81S
square miles of land. These figures
read the same backwards as forwards,
which may in measure account for
the ability Of Kansas to catch 'em
a-comin and a-goin'. There are 52,9
043, $50 acres in Kansas, and If. the en-.
tire population of the United States
we're equally distributed over them
the people would hardly be within
speaking distance of each otheEr Kanr
sas conld furnish every man, woman
and child in the United States with
tive-siXths of an acre for u garden-spot.
Allowing two square feet for each in-
habitant, the entire population of the
state might be assembled on SiXty-nine
acres of ground. The entire popula-
ton of Kansas could have stood in one
Of the worlds fair buildings, Butler
the largest county in Kansas, has more
square miles in it than the entire state
of Rhode Island. --Kansas City Jour-
nal,
After the panic of 1878, therailroads
of the United States started domestic
emigration schemes that inn all prob.
ability will never be tried again. 1t
was at this period that Kansas re-
ceived 50 many people, some, of whom
have stayed, and many of, whom,went
back by the white wagon route. In
four years over ITO, 900 people came to
this state, the majority settling in the
Arkansas valley, There was no fur
Their emigration of any Importance
until 1889, when $4,000 Mennonites,
expelled from Russia, came to- this
country, and Kansas received $4,000 as
her share. There will never be an
other rush to the West,-Atchison
Globe
A material cut has beenmade im,the
expenses of the Santa Fe during the
presents fiscal yean Taxes and rentals
during eight months, $s7, 500, making
the total income from operation$1,-
015,l1S The earnings for Febrnary
were $44s, 500, aadecrease of $127, s7s
from aFebrnary,y 1896. Forr the. eight
months, >of, the fiscal year, TO March /,
the net earnings of the system
amounted to IS, 913, 1862, showing an in
crease of 1887, 52S over the, correspond
ing period of,ldst year.
State Printer Hudson, has made a
good turnn with State, PrinteErelect
, Johnny Parks, The latter buys out
right the, printing plant which Hudson
put i'm two years ago. Hudson loses
! only about $4,000 fromi the Original
purchase prices and PHrkssgetS>a ele-
CANT office, in, every, way adapted to
the wonk which it must perform The
value of THE state printing, plant is
about $25,00Oo
A co1oredman at Hutchinson wrote
to Standardization about tho bill the
senatoB hadtintroduoea forthe pension
ing of ex,slayes. Wish almost brutal
frankness, Senator Thurstpn wrote
back that he had introduced the bill
by reqnesttand that no freedman need
deceive himself by believing for a
momenttthaA it woald eVar become o
law.
The program of the state meeting Of
the Kansas Social federation has Just
beenni$Suaa The,meetingwill be held
in Hutchinson Maya to, z, and will bs
attended 10y at least,5, O00,of the bright'
est women in Kansas. This organizRs
tion,isD made up of representatives of
various, clubs of women in Kansas.
The. confession, of Z. N. Websters
now serving a shorttarm in the Hutch
ihson heformatOry, clears away the
mystery of the IRurdsr of w. Fl. 0Eyis,
a,wealthy EngAshman. who was Sandt
hagge8 and robbed at the SaverT
dRpob. in Greenwood county, in Avn
gust, 1895.
Franklin Head, the Chicago mean
who wants to, be governor OF Okla
Iona, formerly worked in bank i'm
Washington, Kan
Correspondents OF the Kansas City
J0arnal throughout Kansas show that
the wheat in Kansas is generally
promisingj. the only damage being
limited to,a small area in the north
east portion of the state. Oklahoma
promises, am excellent crop, biat the
crop in Missouri will be light.
At the age of "a Elisha, Graham OF
Atchison county, was sentenced to
twelve years in the peniteRtiary for
murder He is strong and robust and
has naade plans for tho future just as
though he was on the threshold of life
instead of at its jumping off place.
A man recently called at the office
Of the Burns Citizen and complained
to, the editor that his paper was full
otmistakes. The editor, who was set
ting type, looked up quickly and said;
"How do you spell ghat?" "K-n-a-t,
Of course, answered the man.
Waverly POST Waverly merchants
received from the farmers sixty-one
cases Q,s3O do1en) of eggs on Saturday
last Administrations may change,
Cubans may fight and pugilists may
talk, but the Kansas hen goes on for.
ever, steadily standing up for Kansas.