Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-04

The secretary of treasury has plr-
chased the site for the public building
at Hutchinson.
Miss Elizabeth crocraft of sabetha
has been appointed a teacher at Fort
Yuma Indian school, California.
The Rock Island coal chutes at Hor-
ton were recently burned to the ground.
At the time there was coal valued at
$4,000 in the chutes.
The postoffice at Fullerton, Hodge
man county, has been moved two and
one-half miles northwest of the present
location, with Thornton L. Walsh as
postmaster.
Congressman Jackson of the Third
district has appointed Blouton Tandy
cadet to West Point to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Charles
Young of independence, who resigned
on account of poor health.
George Dunlap, farmer, is under ar
rest at Harrington charged with at
tempting to compel James McNaspy at
the point of a revolver to release col
lateral held by the First National bank
of Harrington. Dunlap has been placed
under bond.
John Welmer. of Hiawatha, packed
and shipped 1880 barrels of apples.
making eighty carloads, during the
season. Welmer says that apples will
keep poorly this winter, and that he
expects the wholesalers to lose at least
65 per cent of their cold storage stock
G. w. Parker, whose merry-go-round
factory at Abilene is the largest in the
nation with one exception, employing
fifty hands, has begun the building of
three special railway cars for his own
use. He could not get them made III
Chicago in time and has determined to
construct them in his own shops
A freight train was wrecked on the
Rock Island at Zyba. Two cars were
demolished and steel bridge over the
Minnesota was damaged. One of the
cars Jumped the track at the bridge and
car behind became fastened in the
upper structure of the bridge. Traffic
was blocked four hours. No one was
injured.
A site for the new $4,000 aCrnegie
library at Emporia has been finally de-
cided upon. The council has been
quarreling over the site for several
months, and the whole town was divid-
ed as to the proper location. Mrs.
Plumb's free site was rejected, and The
location decided upon will be largely
bought by popular subscription.
If the reports of the county superin-
tendentS Of schools can be relied upon,
twenty-five counties in the state have
no coiOred school children. They are:
Cheyenne, Comanche, Decatur, Elk.
Cove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton. Has
kell, Jewell Kearney, Kingman, Lane,
Meade, Ness, Rawlins, Rush, Scott,
Seward, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith,
Stanton, Thomas and Wichita.
AS a Missouri, Kansas & Texas
freight train was leaving Paola one of
the crew saw man dragging by lis
clothing by the side of the track. The
train was stopped and the man was
found to be dead. The body has not
been identified and it is supposed no
was stealing a ride. He was about II
years old and wore two suits of clothes.
A book, in which the name William
Santrom appeared, was found in one OF
his pockets.
Postmaster Naring Of Abilene has
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a mounted mail carrier to be attached
to the city delivery service. The free
delivery system has so much territory
to cover that in bad weather it is i'm
possible for the carriers on foot to get
over it. Four rural delivery and one
star route delivery line have been add
ed to the office since the present adj
ministration took charge and the husi-
ness is the largest in the city's history
The report of the regents of the Kan
sas State Normal school is about ready
for the printer. In this report the re-
gents will ask for an appropriation OF
$50, 900 for a new building to be erected
west of the normal. Another appropri-
alton is asked with which to buy the
Midway park and the Ryder lots adj
joining. The legislature will also be
asked to provide for better system OF
ventilating the main building. Auditor
George Cole recommends the new
building asked for by the regents.
The Union Electric Railway & Con-
struction company has applied to the
commissioners of Harvey county for
right of way for the electric Itne
through Harvey county, connecting
Mcpherson, Newton, Arkansas City and
intermediate points with Wichita.
Sedgwick county already has granted
franchise to the company and it is
probable that work on the proposed il
terurban line will begin soon. The road
will be for both passenger and freight
traffic and will, in all probability, be
extended to other towns. The company
backing the enterprise is composed OF
eastern capitalists.
Mrs Harriet Bartlett, widow Of Prof
lessor w. H. Bartlett, who was an IN
structor at West Point for nearly forty
years, is dead in Yonkers, N. Y, at the
age of 80 years. She was related TO