Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-13
KANSAS NEWS.

A new lodge of Odd Fellows with
forty members has been organized at
Garden City.
A thirty-twO inch vein of fine coal, it
is said, has been struck In the Rock
Island salt well at Hutchinson.
Dr.. Y G. Miller, a prominent physi-
clan and politician of Lawrence
dropped dead Friday afternoon while
attending patient. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause.
The Beaton ball club of Kansas CITY.
Kansas, has changed its name to that
of the kansas City, Kansas, Base Ball
Club" Dick Juvenil still retaining
his position as proprietor, and manager.
An OskoIoosa special says a city
ticket composed of women for council
and a woman for mayor was elected
there Tuesday. They are representa-
tive ladies and a reform administration
is looked for
At the session of the Kansas State
Bankers Association at Topeka last
week the following officers were elected
President, John r. AIulvane of Topeka:
secretary, L. L. Turner of Topeka;
treasurer, D. A. Moulton of Topeka.
Fernand POphart, a young Creole,
confidential clerk to the treasurer of
the Cotton Exchange at New Orleans,
embezzled $40, 500 in securities and
skipped. He was captured at Hutch
insOn and is being held at Wichita to
await the action of the New Orleans
authorities.
The people of ArmourdaIe are anxi-
Ously awaiting the decision of Judge
Miller in the district court upon the
extension of the city limits. It is a
fact that One-half of ArmOurdale lies
outside Of the Kansas City, Kas limits.
The people are anxious to secure fire and
police protection, and public schools.
An Atchison correspondent to the
Kansas City Times says: The repubH-
cans who attended the Topeka conven-
ton came home utterly Disguised with
! the proceedings of that body. With
/ possibly one exception the AtchisOn
/ delegation were radically opposed to
/ the resolutions introduced indorsing
Senator Ingalls, speech, but were re
| strained to acquiesce.
Wichita special: The city prison
has been filed with tramps without APP
parently diminishing in number, and
1t was decided to ship them. Two box
cars on the Frisco were engaged and
/ crowded full They were labelled
| "perishable" and were guarded until
/ the start for the east There were
/ about one hundred tramps crowded in
/ the two cars. Freight was paid for
fifty miles.
The regular stone cutters on the state
/ house contract, numbering about sew
enty men, struck Friday morning, be
! cause the contractors, George H. Evans
& Co., posted the rules adopted last
! Tuesday at Kansas City by the con
! tractors association of the Missouri
/ valley. The state house Job is the
! only one upon which union men are en-
! pIOyed, and the strike Will not affect
the other members Of the contractors
association.
Thursday morning a body was found
on the prairie, five miles west of Kiowa
with a bullet hole in the head. The
! body was that of Tom Legate, owner Of
a large ranch twelve miles west of
| Kiowa, who had been to town Wednes-
! day and left for home late in the even
! ing. It seems that some days ago
Legate had a difficulty with the fore
man of his ranch and the two severed
/ business connections. 1t is thought
| his death can be traced to some one
! interested IN the trouble.
The Omaha, Dodge City & South
western railroad has been organized at
Dodge City; capital, 81, 900, 900. Pres
! ident, George M. Hoover; vice presi-
/ dent, @. E, Gallagher; secretary, Ed
! WiebesOn; treasurer, George B. Cox.
/ Hoover and Gallagher VIII at once en-
/ deavOr to secure the right of way The
new road runs through Republic, jew
/ ell, Cloud, Mitchell, Osborne, Lincoln
Russell, Ellis, Rush, Ness, HOdgeman
/ Ford, Gray, Meade, Haskell, Stanton
! Steward, Stevens and Morgan counties,
Kansas, to FL PasO.
@. S. BeadIe has begun a suit against
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Spring
] field railroad for discrimination in rates
on coal shipped over their line. The
! petition sets up over 900 causes of ac-
/ ton charging discrimination in favor
/ of the Keith & Perry Coal company
/ and the amount asked In Judgment is
/ something over SIS, 900. 1t constitutes
/ a huge printed volume of several hun
/ hundred pages bound In Turkey mOroc-
co with gold trimmings This is the
first suit of this kind brought under
the railroad commissioners law and is
intended to be test,
Miss Jennie Brooks, daughter of
Martin NJ Brooks, living nine miles
/ southeast of Parsons, committed suicide
Thursday by shooting herself through
the heart with a 22-calibre revolver. In