Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Labette county ia in tight over
tho new county high school. The schoo
of Altamont, where the school is located
has employed attorneys to protect itf
interests.
There is talk at Washington, ID. O., OF
the early marriage of the daughter Of
Congressman Broderick Of Kansas, to q
well-known young business man, of Hol-
ton, Kans.
Nearly all the Kansas colleges includ-
ing the state university, the Baldwin
university, the Ottawa university, and
the state normal school, opened for the
fall term last week, and all have an in
creased attendance.
Prof. V. L. Kellogg, Of the state uni
versity will spend several weeks at Cor
nell assisting Prof Comstock in the pub
LEGATION Of u new book, and will then go
to Europe. He has q leave of absence
for year. He will not 60 to Leland
Stanford probably.
At Leavenworth the annual sale OF
tax certificates began at the county
treasurer's Office, but there were no buy
ers present. Heretofore, especially last
year, real estate men were hot after tax
certificates. The reduction to Is per
cent. has frightened them off this year.
Taral, the Kansas rider whom New
York papers now declare to be "the
greatest jockey on earth" who won the
Futurity stakes and $4,000 for his en-
ployes Tuesday, ten years ago was a
bootblack in Harper. This year his
salary is $17500 besides his "rake off"
From Caldwell: The order prohibit
ing any person passing through the strip
except by the railway has caused hun
drcds of strippers to ship their families,
wagons, horses and cattle from the north
to the south side by railway. The Rock
Island is carrying outfits Of hundreds of
the strippers through the strip to Hen.
nessey, where the shippers VIII await
the opening.
Emporia Republican: Enough boom
ers have probably already passed through
Emporia to take every foot of desirable
land in the Cherokee stripan still there's
more to follow If they are going from
other directions in anything like the
same numbers man will stand about
the same chance to win as he does when
he plays the Louisiana lottery. Com
mercial street was lined with prairie
schooners, there being more than twen-
ty on that thoroughfare at one time, and
they kept coming along in squads of
four and five all day long. One man who
kept tab on them says that ninety seven
passed his house. There were tifty-four
wagons in camp on the Neosho river two
miles from town.
Topeka Capital: The action of the
legislature in reducing the interest on
tax sale certificates 8 per cent has re-
suited in the buyers being very scarce
this year. Last year, when the inter
est was "a per cent the county treas
urers Office was full every day Of the
sale from morning till the closing hour
and the bidding was spirited. This year
there was only handful, during the
afternoon only ten. There was very
little buying for speculation. The coun-
by took most of the property certif-
Gates outside Of those by mortgages,
who assume them to protect their inter
est. The sale was completed in one
day. This is the first time that the
annual tax sale has been confined to ono
day.
From Wichita: The first of a batch
Of forty-three cases brought by laborers
against the Barber Asphalt Paving COM
pany, under the eight-hour law, was
tried here and decided against tho COM
pany. The company hired the men by
the hour, paying them at the rate Of
$3.50 for a ten-hour d.. There was no
protest during the three months the
work was in progress, but as soon as
the paving was completed the men
claimed the difference between $1.20 and
$3.50 day, and these suits, aggre-
eating several thousand dollars, were in
stituted. The court held that the fact
that the stipulated amount per hour was
agreed, instead of so much day, was
presumptive evidence of intent to evade
the eight-hour law. The decision will be
appealed.
The opening Of the Cherokee strip has
opened the way for a colony Of the fol-
lowers of Edward Bellamy to organize a
cooperative town to be operated on the
plan outlined in Bellamy's book, "Look-
ing Backward" A charter has been
filed with the secretary of state, OF the
Cherokee Cooperative Townsite ccmpa-
ny, which has been organized with head
quarters at Wichita. Their scheme is to
locate their town in the strip on the day
of the opening, on site already select
cd, but the location of which is an abso-
Lutte secret. They propose to control the
entire town and will refuse to sell lots to
anyone. Cooperation is to be the rule
in everything. Apartment houses are
being built in sections and will be erect
ed on their townsite on the day of the
opening. These apartments will be pro-
vided with large kitchen and dining
room where all the people of the colony
will be fed. One big store will contain
everything the people will need. There