Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-30
CAPITAL NOTES.

It is announced that the Topeka fam
beau club viii reorganize for the coming
campaign.
1t is currently reported in Topeka
that W. p. TOmlinson, the editor of the
Topeka Democrat, has been offered the
position of associate editor on the New.
York Sun at a salary OF $3.50 per week.
TOmlinsOn has been booming Governor
Hill Of New York as a presidential
candidate. It is not known whether
he will accept or not, but as his salary
IN Topeka in not quite so large, it is
presumed that he Will.
Not long ago one Calm, 8 drummer
for a Kansas City whisky firm, was ar
re-ted In Howard for selling whisky con
trary to the Kansas prohibition law. He
was tried and convicted to thirty DAYS in
the county Jail and fine OF 800. Ell
forts we're made with the governor by
prominent Kansas City men to have him
pardoned, but to no avail. This case of
Cahn's is only a beginning it is believed
that attorneys over the state in the
future will arrest these whisky sellers
whenever they can get a case agsinst
them, and that the trade Of Kansas City
and other towns in this line will be com
Pletely broken up.
The Rush county seat case was again
brought before the supreme court a few
days ago. The representatives of Rush
Center, the plaintiff, ''prey the honorable
court to make a rule on defendants and
each Of them requiring them to show
cause at a time and at a place to be
named by the court, why they should
nO5 be proceeded against as for contempt
in refusing to obey the said writ of
mandamus and said order of this court,
and for such other relief as to the court
may seem Just and proper" The case
will have an immediate hearing. It will
be remembered that on March 10 the
La Crosse people went over to Rush
back to that town. 1t is thought that
this case will be in the courts on Judge
ment day.
Some days ago, Govern Martin issued
requisItiOn on the governor of Colora-
do for the arrest and return to Kansas of
A. @. Myers and Frank West, charged
with the murder of Archibald Douglas,
and Alden, in Rice county, Kansas. NY
ers and West are now very wealthy and
prominent citizens Of Durango, Colo,
and this fact caused the governor OF Col
OradO to hesitate about hOnorIng Govern
or Martins papers, and he telegraphed
to ascertain if there was not some error
about the natter. The circumstances of
the alleged murder are these: In 1876,
one E. T. Patten had worked for Myers
In the Pen Handle OF Texas, and, as Pat
ten claimed, was indebted to him which
he would not pay. Patten, TO make
himself good, took some OF Myers
horses and drove them to Kansas. Myers
followed, had him arrested, and with
Douglas, the murdered man, was put in
all at Wichita, Kan. It is claimed that
a requisitiOn was obtained for Patten and
Douglas, and West and Myers were dep
utized to take PRtten and Douglas from
Wichita TO Great Bend, Barton county.
Myers and West started from Wichita
to Great Bend with Pattan and Douglas
heavily manacled, in a lumber wagon.
The next or second day thereafter Doug
las WIS found killed, about seven miles
from Sterling. Patten says that Myers
and West shot Douglas three or four
times. Then he Patten) was shot twice
but not seriously injured. and, feigninR
death, was dragged away from the road
and left. Governor Martin has written
to the governor Of Colorado at length,
giving him the facts In the case. The
Denver dispatches say that Myers is
about forty years Of age, and is a mem
Der OF the Durango city council. He is
Engaged In the livery business and seems
to have entered It soon after his arrival
in Durango, taking West with him as
partner, which partnership existed until
1884, when West drew out of the hrm.
Myers is said to be worth 500, 600. and
is understood TO have q family and is
prominently identified with the church.
West IS at present extensively engaged
in mining, and is also quite wealthy.