Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-03
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

fair to be held October Is to Is.
The army worm was doing serious
damage in the vicinity of Moline.
Rev. Bernard Kelly. chaplain in the
army, is located at Fort Bliss, Tex
1t is said that the Fort Hays military
reservation is about to be sold to set
tiers.
The W. C. T. q. at Arkansas City en-
ployed lawyers and will carry on sys-
tematic fight on the joints there.
The newley-discovered salt beds near
Marquette, Mcpherson county, prom
ises well and may prove rich find.
Rev. S. E. Pendleton, of Herington,
announces his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination for congressman
at-large.
The woman's council at the Ottawa
Chautauqua assembly passed resolu-
tions pledging themselves to keep feath-
ers out of their hats.
Shawnee county the other day paid
off $S1, 900 of bonds voted to the Santa
Fe railroad in 1869. The bonds had
drawn in all over ST., 600 interest.
Ex-senator Ingalls, sold fine lot of
walnut logs off his timber near Atchi-
son, which will be shipped to England.
He will get nearly $40, 900 for them.
Kansas City's new $3.50. 900 govern
ment building, it is now definitely
stated, will be located in Huron ceme-
terry, near Seventh and Minnesota ave
nue..
At Wichita recently boy was born
to Alexander Thompson and wife,
being the seventh son of a seventh son.
The parents believe they have
prophet.
John Edwards, postmaster at Canton,
Mcpherson county, was found 81, 600
short in his money order accounts and
his bondsmen were placed in charge of
the Office.
The war department will at once fur
nish the Kansas national guard wit h
/, 200 rifles and other equipment to take
the place of that pressed into service
by our boys at Manila.
Through the efforts of the Jewell
county board of health f. 81. Higgins
was arrested and fined $50 and costs,
amounting to $277.5O, for practicing
medicine without diploma.
z. S. Spore, a wealthy farmer near
Newton, has an apple tree in his or
chard from which 5000 apples have al
ready been taken this year and there
are still over 5000 apples on the tree.
The attorney general announced
that he would prosecute the Atchison
Underwriters association, which he al
leges was organized to effect a combine
to control insurance rates in that city.
Gov. Stanley has employed Thomas
P. Fenlon and ex-Attorney General F.
b. Dawes, of Leavenworth, to prose
cute the ''Klondilze" jOintkeepers near
Leavenworth. The soldiers home
management will assist financially in
the fight.
The Central Kansas Telephone com
pany has under consideration line be-
tween Council Grove and Salina, which
will be completed about the 18th of Au-
gust. This will connect practically all
the towns in Morris, Dickinson and
Saline counties
Rev. J. C. Ayers died at his home in
Osborne county, in his ninety-sixth
year. He was a Methodist and the
Oldest minister of that faith in the
United States. Years ago, while
preaching in eastern Ohio, Father
Ayers baptized President Mckinley.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year at the Ottawa Chau-
tauqua assembly: President. DR.. Stephen
A. Northrop, of Kansas City, Mo-; vice
president, Rev. Mr.. n. w. Chaffee, of
Fredonia, Kan; treasurer, II. F. Ellis,
of Ottawa; secretary, John u. Clark, of
Ottawa.
All employees of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis road are re-
quired to carry the same make of
watch, equal to the American move
ment, which shall be II jewell, patent
regulator, adjusted to heat and cold,
and three positions, the variation of
which must not exceed so seconds.
FV. Raynor, Rocks county farmer,
has a novel way to stop the depreda-
tions of chinchbugs He just cuts two
rows of corn and throws the stalks in
piles large enough so the stalks will
heat and sour. The juice of this sour
corn gives the bugs the cholera and
they die in a very short space of time.
Kansas delegates at the recent Ep-
worth league convention at 1ndianapo-
lis arranged for a state organization
and committee was appointed to ar
range for the first convention. Rev.
Edwin Locke, of Holton, is chairman
and Rev. c. S. Nusbaum, of Ottawa,
secretary of the temporary organiza-
ton.
The fifteenth annual reunion of the
Sixth Kansas cavalry will be held in
Kansas City September 25, 26 and 81.
They have extended an invitation to
all the survivors of the Kansas regi-
ments. Ten thousand suitable SOU
venirs will be sold and the proceeds
turned over to the state treasurer to
be applied to the Kansas Soldiers
Monument association.
F. w. Bartlett, whose death at Lon
don, as a result of ptomaine poison,
was recently reported, was the con-
ductor of party of tourists, including
Lawrence and Kansas City people,
among them Prof. A. S. Olin, of Kan
sas university. The entire party is