Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-06
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

Burlington failed to find natural
gas after sinking three wells to a
depth of 1900 feet.
NJ NJ Munger, of Pratt county,
shipped 200 head of fat cattle to
Scotland last week.
The wife of United States Senator
Lucien Baker was seriously i'll at her
home in Leavenworth.
The Kaw Valley Canning company
has been chartered to erect a big cam
ming factory at Lawrence.
J. r. Burton and J. K. Cubbinson
were speakers at the opening repub-
lican rally at Sedalia, Mo-, this week.
''BilI' Pfster, of Hiawatha, declares
he can husk and throw into wagons
1S8 bushels of corn in a ten-hour day
Harper county voted $40, 500 bonds
for the new Stilwen railroad. The
proposition received a majority of 175.
John hewitt, a half-breed Indian
and splendid horseman, was killed on
the race track at the Olathe fair
grounds. His horse fell while running
at full speed, breaking Nevitt's neck.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
land north of CherryvaIe and will at
once erect a sewer pipe and tile-roof-
ing factory four stories high, 352 feet
long and 1874 feet wide The plant
will employ 200 hands. Natural gas
will be used for fuel.
Lightning struck large barn be-
longing to John Strahm, near Sa-
betha, setting fire to it and complete
ly destroying it, together with a large
amount of grain End some imple-
ments. Mr.. Strahm''s son, aged about
10, was in the barn at the time AMI
was instantly killed by the lightning.
While Kansas has III cities with
a population OF over 1000 it has but
five with $4,000, and therefore but five
which, under the law, are entitled
to be called cities of the first class.
These five, with their population, are
as follows: Kansas City, 1864; To-
pelza, 36,782; Wichita, 23,786; Leaven-
worth, 21,556; Atchison, 1857.
This frigid story was recently tele-
graphed from Yates Center: The
temperature during the storm over
this section Sunday was Sc degrees
above zero. The drop in temperature
came suddenly. A few minutes be-
fore the rain began falling the mer-
curry registered 100 degrees above
zero. Sleet and snow accompanied the
drop in temperature.
One of the interesting features of
the Sixth Kansas cavalry reunion at
Galena last week was an address by
Sergeant Sauls, 81 years old, who
claims to be the Oldest living volun-
teer of the war of the rebellion. His
home is in Webb City and he is vet
eran of three wars. 1t is also inter
esting to note that there are still
living So members of one company of
the Sixth.
In Atchison familiar figure is G.
H. Baltic, aged 50 years, who had his
head split open at the battle of Mon
terey during the Mexican war, who
had his face slashed at the battle Of
Bull Run, who had his arm shattered
at the battle of fredericksburg and
who was wounded three times more
before the civil war closed. He also
served in an Indian war and draws
a pension of $50 a month.
A good deal, notes the Kansas Farm
er, has been said and written about
the output of oil from the wells of
Kansas. Exact figures sometimes
take the enthusiasm out of the words
of boomers. In Prof. Haworth's re-
port on the mineral resources of Kan
sas, he gives the total production
since the wells were first opened at
46S, 657 barrels, having a value of
$41O,671. The production last year
was 85,215 barrels, having a value of
$50, 167.
A Kansas City paper recently con-
tanned this interesting news item: All
the grain elevators filled and buyers.
unable to get cars, piling wheat OH
the ground out in the open prairie
in condition prevailing at nearing all
of the shipping points in the wheat
belt of Kansas. d. L. Croysdale, who
has returned home from months
trip through the wheat belt, says that
never in the history of wheat grow
ing in the state has such a condition
prevailed. Every elevator in every
town is filled from top to bottom
and the railroads are absolutely I'M
able to begin to handle the grain
which is coming into market from the
country. Most of the roads are not
able to furnish a town car day.
Federal Judge Hook recently issued
a decree dismissing all the cases in
the celebrated Missouri, Kansas and
Texas land cases except those in Al
len county. which relieves about 90
per cent. of the defendants along the
line of the Katy, from junction City
southeast to the Kansas line, in Geary,
Morris, Lyon, Coffey, Cherokee, Craw-
ford and Labette counties. The case
was brought by the government to
cancel the patent granted to the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas, and interests
over 1900 people along its line, who
purchased lands from the railroad