Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-02
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
motion for Charles Fleming


Promotion for Charles Fleming.
Merit was recognized and faithful
service rewarded in the promotion of
Charles Fleming to be chief clerk to
James Donahue, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Frisco railroad
system at Kansas City. Fleming was
BORN in Fort Scott and began railroad
1nder General Passenger Agent Lock
wood, of the Memphis route. Young
Fleming's father is a well-known COM
nercial traveller out of Fort Scott.
Dear Feed and Star Routes.
W. C. Penn, of the railway mail
returned to Topeka from the
western part of the state, where he
has been advertising for bids on the
contracts for carrying mail on the
star routes, which are hereafter to be
utilized largely as rural free delivery
routes. He reports that the high price
Of horse feed This year is greatly him
1ering the work of getting satisfac-
tory bids.
New Irrigation Scheme.
W. D. Gilliland, farmer four miles
south of Atchison, has just completed
an irrigation plant by which he will
rrigate IL acres of fruit and vegeta-
Oles next season. He has fve-horse-
power gasoline engine with which he
will pump water to the top of a hill
from which place the water will be
by graYitation.
Famous Jerseys for Kansas College
Secretary F. D. Coburn has pur-
chased for the Kansas state agricul-
5ural college four pure-bred Jerseys
from II. c. Taylor, of Orfodville, Wis.
These Jerseys are full of the Combi-
nation blood, the blood that produced
the three cows that triumphed over
all competitors of all dairy breeds al
the Columbia worlds fair.
Ixansans in a New Enterprise.
C. S. Jobes, Frank L. Brown, Cyrus
Leland, Morton Albaugh and Isaac E
Lambert are associated in a new tele.
phone enterprise to operate in south.
ern Kansas and northern Oklahoma
They have obtained a franchise il
which will be the headquar.
ters for their proposed system.
He Likes Jail Life.
John Hedrick, a jointist, was sen
fenced to Jail for 80 days and fined
800 for selling liquor. The sheriff
him to go to Oklahoma after
be paid his fine. Hedrick last week
and applied for admission
into the Jail to serve his sentence.
POpuIfsts Drop into Third Place.
The secretary of state will give tht
democrats the second place on the
official ballot this fall and the popu
lists third. The total vote of the
democrats for governor last fall was
80, 1888, and of the populists, 1920
with four small counties missing.
Figuring on Municipal Ownership
The Abilene city council will inau-
yurate movement to own its own
plant at the expiration
IF the present franchise few days
hence. Sand springs, four miles west
If town, will supply pure spring water
10 a population of $4,000 people.
SpirituaIist Was Convicted.
DR.. Louis Schleisinger, a spiritual
st, was convicted in police court at
Arkansas City for carrying on the
business of fortune teller without a
license. There are several hundred
'piritualists in the city and bitter
feeling has been engendered.
To Feed COttOn-Seed Meal.
J. w. Robinson, an extensive stock
nan of Butler county, will feed his
100 cattle cotton-seed meal mixed in
equal quantities with cracked wheat
md corn meal. He bought eight car
Dads of cotton-seed meal to start
With.
Would Round Out His Name.
Rev. E. L. Bowman, A. B., LII. D.,
/ negro of Kansas City, wants to be
assistant United States district at
SO much for the salary,
1ut the title would round out his
lame so nicely.
Lnpe University's New President.
Lane university at Lecompton has
| new president, DR.. j. D. Droke, of
Tennessee. He succeeds DR.. Charles
VI. Brooke. Lane university is a
United Brethren college.
Honor for Mrs. Belle Everest.
Kansas is entitled to one member
IN the woman's board of managers
If the st. Louis worlds fair and the
lonor will go to Mrs. Belle Everest,
IF Atchison.
A Kansas Product.
Wilkerson, the talIest man in the
world, is a Kansas product. He was
porn and reared in Butler county.
lie is nine feet high and weighs $40
pounds.
The COncientiOus Taxpayer.
In Barton county the assessors
.ound only s29, 1866 in cash. The state
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