Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-07
kansas SIT news.

TINS vicinity are attending the state nor
NAL school at EmPoria-
Kansas University has students from
seventy-three counties of Kansas and
from twenty-five states of the Union.
Topeka Capital: About fifty people
from Topeka took advantage OF the
Santa FEES Oklahoma excursion yester-
dav to go down and look the landscape
DER. From 400 to 500 went from this
section of the country.
Salina letter: At the civil service ex-
animation held here about sixty appli-
cants for civil service positions were
present from various parts of the state.
Forty five of the sixty were examined
for the railway mail service department.
Abilene letter: The State Gospel
Union convention met here in annual
session. Delegates from all parts Of the
state were present. The organization is
supplanting the Young Mems Christian
association in the state and pushing the
African missions. Addresses by promi-
nent members we're delivered.
Louisburg.-Bert Lowe, 12-year-old
son of James Lowe, OF this place, was
passing through a gate when it closed
suddenly, and he threw back his head to
avoid being hit. This threw his neck
out of joint. He walked home, over half
mile. The doctors set his neck, and
he is resting as well as could be ex-
Pected-
Wichita.-Suit for the recovery of a
quarter section of land known as Col
lege Hill, a fashionable residence suburb,
IS commenced in the United States cir
cult court here by Antoinette Sanders,
of Springfield, Ill. The petition sets
forth that in 1873 Lindley Lee, OF Ful-
ton, n. Y, decided the land, then a farm,
to George A. Sanders, as trustee for the
three minor children of George and An
tOinette Sanders and grandchildren of
the grantor All the children died in
youth, and in 1882, after their death,
| George Sanders decided the property to
Thomas Devereux. Mrs. Sanders alleges
that the deciding was illegal and sues for
her half as heiress of the children.
The Kansas Christian Endeavor Union
will hold its fifth annual convention at
Kansas City, Kansas, May As. DR.. T.
E. Clark, the national president, will be
there. The people of Kansas City, Kan
sas, want to give free entertainment to
| LOCO delegates. Address all inquiries
regarding the convention to Edwin G.
Hadley, 1913 Valley street, South side,
Kansas City, Kansas. Those expecting
to attend and desiring entertainment
should send their names as soon as pos
sible to the chairman of the entertain
ment committee, @. L. Brokaw, Wy
andotte National Bank, Kansas City,
Kansas. Every society in the state
should send their annual report to
Geo. P. Stitt, state corresponding seere-
tary, Hutchinson. Kansas.
Kansas City, No, Journal: A Kan
sss man, Judge Tillotson, formerly OF
Eureka, is the judge before whom Lieu
tenant Hetherington, the man who shot
another man for annoying Mrs. Hether-
ington, will be tried. The judge is con-
sui general in Japan. The Kansas man
is omnipresent. It is probable that
when Gabriel executes his sHittish little
scherzo, and the heavens roll together
like a nice new high school diploma
when the morning stars sing ''Com-
rades;" when the innumerable caravan
gets at last to the pearly gate, there will
be found a Kansas man serving az
chairman of the committee on creden-
tials, and another serving in a like
capacity on the committee on rules and
order of business.
The school of instruction for drill anc
practice for cavalry and light artillery
1t the Fl. Riley post in Kansas is now
almost completed and the purposes Of
the war department in the establishment
of the school will be outlined in an or
der to be issued from army headquar
tiers. The school Is to comprise one
regiment of cavalry and five batteries o
light artillery, and such other officers
and enlisted men as may be assigned
for duty at the school for instruction
The troops of each arm will constitute
sub-school of practice. The colone
of cavalry at the post is to be the com
handing officer of the school, the mex
senior cavalry officer the director of thu
sub-school of cavalry, and senior artil
lery officer the director of the sub
school of artillery. The school stat
will comprise the commanding office
and all the field officers of the two ARM
at the post, and the adjutant will be thu
secretary of the school. One-half o
each instruction year will be devoted by
each sub-schoOl to instruction in thu
special duties of its arm, with the add
ton of signaling, and the other half Il
field work and exercises by the two arm
combined. The school is to be undel
the immediate orders of the command
ing general of the army, but the de
partment commander, General Miles, il
given authority to inspect it, and il
emergencies the troops will also be sub
ject to his orders.
The senate has passed the bill, by 4
close vote, authorizing the erection o
federal buildings for postofices wher'
the amount of business of the postoffic'
is from $4,000 to $4,000, for the pre-
ceeding three years. Should this be
come a law the following list name
places in Kansas which come under it
based on present volume of business
and gives the amount of cost of author
lied building for each: Abilene, S25. 900
Anthony, $4,000; Arkansas City, $50,
coo; BelleviIle, $4,000; Beloit, SIS, 900
Burlington, $4,000; Chanute, SIS, ZOO
Cherryvale, $4,000; ChetOpa, $4,000
Clay Center, S21, 900; Coffeyville, S15,
600; Columbus, $4,000; Concordia
$4,000; Council Grove, 1900; Dodg
City, 81, 900; FL Dorado, SIG, 600; Ellis
worth, $4,000; Emporia, $4,000; Eu
reka, $4,000; Fredonia, $4,000; Gar
den City, $4,000, Garrett, $4,000
Girard, $4,000; Great Bend, $4,000
Harper, $4,000; Hiawatha, $4,000
Holton, $4,000; Horton, so, 900; How
ard, $4,000; Hutchinson, S4S, 900; indie
pendence, $4,000; lola, $4,000; juno
ton City, S2I, 600; Kansas City, SIS,