Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-04
A Bill for a Soldiers Home Ia. KANSAS.
The following is the text Of Senator
T'Iumb,s bill for a soldiers's home In Kansas ;

A Bill for a Soldiers Home In Kansas.
The following is the text Of Senator
Flumb's bill for soldiers's home IN Kansas:
SECrION1. That the Secretary of War is
hereby authorized to establish, at some suit
able point in the State of Kansas. q home Tor
the care and maintenance of Such hOnora5ly
discharged soldiers and sailors 81 the DA1ted.
States Army and Navy as are ncw or may
hereafter be in destitute or Indecent circuna-
stances and unable to earn q HYellnOQGs or
who may now or hereafter become inmates of
poor houses or eleemOSynary institutions or
in any manner dependent upon public charity
Sec , That said home shall not be located
on tract of land containing less than ,2S0
acres; and if the same shall be located on
any reservation within the said State set
apart and us ed for military pufposes, Inc
Secretary of War shall set apart ana Segre-
gate from said reservation by 1netes ana
bounds not less,than two sections of the same,
which shall thereafter be known as the SOL
diers' Home Reservation, and be released
from the control of military authority and
jul isdictiOn.
Sec 3. That the sum of $4,000 or.so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby an-
act.
There were recently happy lot of
fellows in the Topeka County Jail, or at
least they were disposed to feel rs little as
possible the misfOrtunes Of imprisonment.
They organized court in which they tried
teriaI, brought some charge against. one of
their number. The other day they SEN
fenced a man named Jones to six years and
a half in the penitentiary for horse stealing,
and placed him in the extreme lower CELL
Two men were fined for contempt Of court
and locked up. Some of the prisoners dis.
played considerable knowledge Of law and
skill in the examination Of Witnesses There
attorney, the same as in a genuine court, and
much amusement was extracted from some
Of the mock trials.
A child was killed at Newton the eth
er day by heavy gate falling OF It.
The largest private land sale ever
raade in Shawnee County occurred few
days ago. T. b. Oakley, of Oswego, n. Y,
offered Andy Wilson $3.50, OO0 for his farm
OF 1902 acres in KingsYiIie and stock, and
the farm was sold for $50, 600. Wilson re
served the stock, worth 100000, and viii
remove it to New Mexico.
Mr.. Staley, of Marshall County, had a
loaded rifle he could not discharge. aud
came to the conclusion that it coatained a
ball, but no powder. So he proeeeded to
melt out the ball the other day ~ psauIrg
the breech in the fire, the muzzle being IN
range with his daughters ear. ResnIt, the
loss of an ear.
Recent changes have been made ia
Kansas post-office as follows: Established
Kent, Reno County, Patrick Heilands
Postmaster; diego, Harner County, George
w. Clarke, Postmaster. Postmasters ap-
pOinted-John II. Hummel, Bridgeport,
Saline County; Nelson NJ. Cowan, Covings
ton, Smith County; William C. Page Grown
Point, Saline County; James Baers Carl
son, Pottawatomie County; G. p. sippie.
Peru, Chautauqua County; William Chase,
Morley, Osborne County.
A young man named John Ice oi
Liberty Township, Linn County, died re-
Gently from the effects of the accidental ex-
plosion of gun he was attempting to ere.
The burned district in La Cygne it i.
said is to be covered with brick buildings.
1t was reported that serious RIO
occurred the other night at Troy SOM
colored men were engaged in a qaarrei with
the Chappell boys, from the country when
! William Ellege, the Constable entered the
| bar-room where they were, and eonmaHdes
the peace in the name OF the State. Eiledel
had formerly been City Marshal Of Troy,
| and in consequence OF having on several &C
casiOns exercised his anthOritg q that e.
! pacity when these parties were interested
he was disliked by them already. Easepsef
and half enraged by the excessive drinking
| of whisky, they turned upon the oftesr an
administered an unmeFeiful beating. II
was struck over the hsaaNtth Billiard cue
and it was thought his skull was fractured
Anotherof tie eoiored men rushed upel
| him with a heavy har-roasz chai1, N'hie'
was broken int spiinssrs over tie pEleer
head ana shc1lde1s His lefl side was par
dyed from 1Hs e1ssts g ths bs7t.ag an
4 h5s lnsEsEle ssIs mortal
Kansas has sg nsasssone
eou21 vas recently caiia
b. shs hssa chs-zs q tie Cayenne 4attiaf
ID fnd.en fry ms epcslsscsl4
5s Diseased ~
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The eLsetfon a. s ael g9+le
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