Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-03-26
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local telephone service viii be
established at Wensville and the lines
extended into the country.
s. a. Flennor, of Abilene, and Hen
ry Glade, of Grand Island, viii erect
a 3O0-barrel flour mill at Abilene.
The war department has awarded
the contract for the erection of cav
airy and artillery barracks at Fort
Riley, to cost $4,000.
Phillipsburg having decided to build
waterworks plant, many improve
ments are under way. Rock Island
division headquarters viii be re-
tanned, a new turntable will be erect
ed and the roundhOuse enlarged.
1t is claimed there are quite num-
Der of dentists in the state who are
practicing without a license from the
state board of dentistry. The law
is so strictly drawn that it even pre-
vents students in dental colleges from
doing work for a remuneration.
Wichita feels that she has the shops
and terminals of the Kansas City,
MEXICO & Orient "cinched." The mas
ter mechanic of the road was there
selling bonds for their construction,
and exhibiting the detailed plans for
the work. In view of this fact the
Wichita people were quite ready to
take hold of the bonds.
The Epworth Chautauqua assembly,
which for some years has been meet
ing in Lincoln park, near Caw1er City,
will for the next ten years hold its
meetings in Be1oit, contract to that
effect having been entered into be-
tween the assembly directors and the
Commercial club. Beioit will improve
her park and erect a large audito-
rum.
Anthony Wynne, of Wichita county,
was found dead in a ravine near
Healy, Lane county. Wynne was of
unsound mind and left his Wichita
county home Sunday night, taking a
horse which he rode IL miles and then
killed by clubbing it over the head. He
proceeded the rest of the way, ~
miles, on foot, finally sinking ex-
hausted by the way.
S. o. Spencer, state oil inspector,
turned into the state treasury 1,447.-
II in fees collected during February.
The expenses for the same period
aggregated $575.65. Warden E. B.
Jewett turned in the cash receipts
of the penitentiary for February
amounting to $1,742.3s. The expenses
of the institution for the month were
$13, $3.50, while the earnings were
SIS, 433. 20.
Henry j. Allen and John Harmon,
members of the state board of char
tiles, were at Parsons laying out the
ground for new $15O,OOO state in
sane asylum there. At present six
10 ha tod
for after the style of the New York
state colony of epileptics which Mr..
Allen visited last summer. About 4e
acres of the section owned by the
state will be taken up by these first
| cottages of the colony.
There are now seven independent
telephone plants in operation in Ne
maha county, including the towns
and rural districts of Sabetha, Sen
eca, Wetmore, COTS, Centralia, Bern
and Corning, and the total number
of telephones in use is 5S5. A meet
ing will be held soon with a view
to effecting county telephone asso-
citation, the object being to improve
the telephone service in the county.
Edward Keegan and David Castle
man are in a row over the office of
state mine inspector. This official is
named by the state association OF
miners. At the recent annual meet
ing of the society Keegan was turned
down for reelection and Castleman
selected to succeed him. Keegan now
claims his term does not expire until
July 1, while Castleman asserts it
expired when he qualified two weeks
ago.
While digging a cave on their farm
near Lansing Joseph and NJ. Con-
cannon found what appears to be the
skeleton of a prehistoric man. The
find was made in the red clay of the
river bank, IS feet below the surface
of the ground. Practically all the
bones were found, and by comparing
them with a man of average stature
it would seem that the owner of the
skeleton stood about eight feet tall.
The bones of the arm at the wrist
measure 21a inches in diameter and
one of them is as long as the average
arm.
Albert Griffin, one of the best
known of Kansans, who is now nearly
70 years old, is now setting type in
the state printing Office in Topeka.
There is something pathetic in the
| poverty which after 81 years has sent
Griffin back to the ranks of the type
settlers In Mobile, Ala, shortly aft
er the war, he published the first pa
per in the south, edited by a white
man, to advocate negro suffrage. He
| came to Kansas in the early 7os and
for II years edited the Nationalist
at Manhattan. He was delegate to
the republican national convention in
1888 and about that time organized
the anti-saIoon republican movement
In 1896 he went over to the fusionists
on the money question. Two years
later he changed front on the tenn
perance question and advocated re-
submission.
| The famous Wetmore mineral
springs are to be developed by a
stock company lately organized for
the, purpose. The springs are stu
ated in a park containing about 2s
acres and joins the city of Wetmore,
and when developed viii be one of