Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-01-28

Breeders association, are IN IaVOr OF Jne
government extending the work Of in
spection to cover the entire pork prod
uct, approving that already done.
The officers of the association are:
President, Colonel NJ Stewart, of
Wichita; secretary, G. w. Berry, of
Berryton.
Governor Humphrey has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and convic-
ton of the party or parties who muir
dered William Coulter at his home in
Greenwood county, on the night of jan
uary 9th.
The Kansas Bar association will hold
its ninth annual meeting in Topeka on
January % and %. The program has
Just been completed. It is one of
much more than ordinary interest All
who have been given places are jurists
whose regulations are not confined to
Kansas.
The Society of Surveyors and Engi-
neers of Kansas, at their annual meet
ing, elected the following officers for the
ensuing year. President, M. q. Jones,
of Jackson county; first vice president,
NJ. Brown, of Lyon county; second
vice president, Fred Giddings, of Atchi-
son; secretary and treasurer, B. A.
Bailey, of Topeka.
George W. Seward has completed a
copy Of the resolutions adopted by the
executive council upon the death of
Senator Plumb. He has printed them
in old English and surmounted the doc
ument with a drawing of the dome of
the state house, showing the flag at half
mast. They will be handsomely framed
and then presented to Mrs. Plumb.
The board of managers of the soldiers
home at Old Fort Dodge, Ford county,
have made heir annual report to the
governor. The report shows there are
at present 1873 inmates of the home, as
follows: Old soldiers, AZ; old soldiers
wives, "a; children-boys, So; girls, 46.
The total cost to the state for support
ing these inmates was 1892 per capita.
Warden Geo. II. Case, Of the state
penitentiary, has made his statement
with the auditor of state for the month
of December, 1891. The expenditures
for that time were S1O,877.80; the re-
ceipts were S9,887.8O; leaving a deficit
of S989.92. There were 1852, 724 bushels
OF coal mined during the month. The
cash sales of coal amounted to $87, 459
bushels, and 81, 265 bushels of coal were
supplied to state institutions.
Judge Riner, of the United States
court, has decided that the bonds voted
and issued by Scott county, $4,000,
to induce the building of branches of
the Missouri Pacific and of the AtchisOn,
Topeka and Santa Fe railways are valid
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fused payment of coupons due on advice
from some attorney that the bonds were
void because the county had not been
organized the required length of time
when they were voted
The State Historical society has re-
eeived from the family of the late Colo
mel Charles D. Lines the manuscript
book containing the minutes of the
meeting of the Connecticut Kansas col
ony, better known as ''The Beecher
Bible and Rife Colony" which was or
ganized in New Haven, Conn, March
7, 1856, and settled in Wabaunsee in
April of the same year. Colonel Lines
was president of the colony and came
with it at the time of settlement. He
died at Wabaunsee a few months ago.
This manuscript book was brought to
the rooms of the Historical society by
Harvey D. Rice, Esq, of this county
who joined the colony in Connecticut
and remained a member of it until the
settlement was made at Wabaunsee; but
he made his own settlement in this
county In the fall OF 1856, on the land
where he now resides, east of Topeka,
The colony was composed of nearly LOG
members, each of whom was furnished
with Sharp's rife. The most of the
money for the purchase of the rifles was
raised by Henry Ward Bescher by con-
tributions by the members Of his church
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