Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

In the police court OF Kansas City,
Kan, $3.50 was collected as result OF
the raid made on a gambling house on
Kansas avenue Twenty mon were fined
$40 each and Andy Kassimer, the keeper,
paid $50.
Henry Smith, a young man about
twenty-one years Of age, who has for
the past three months acted as a night
receiving clerk at the Emporia postofIice,
was arrested by inspectors on the charge
of riAing the mails.
Fire broke out in the boot and shoe
store Of A. Mohler at Emporia and COM
municated with the music store of Hall
Bros. The buildings are not badly
damaged but the stocks in both stores
were damaged by both fire and water.
Both are insured.
The eleventh annual oratorical con-
test at Kansas university took place in
University ball, and Lorin b. Sears, OF
Chillicothe, o., won the honor of repre-.
senting the local association in the in
ter-collegiate contest at Topeka. J. A.
Orr, Of Cane Springs, took second place
and will be alternate delegate to the state
contest.
Gypsum City cement has been chosen
under open competition, to be used in
the congressional library building at
Washington, d. G. The contract called
for 400 tons of cement, and is the
largest order placed in that line for some
time. There were many eastern bidders,
who are not pleased over the fact that
a Kansas plant could run off with the
contract.
Pittsburg special: A new $4,000
school building has been dedicated in
this city with appropriate speeches,
making the fifth fine edifce of school
architecture now in the city. The build
ing is of the latest modern school archi-
lecture, substantially constructed, and is
considered one of the hondsomest and
most convenient Of this class of build
ings in the state.
Pittsburg special: The mysterious dis
ease among the colored miners, con-
tinues to afflict them and deaths are re-
ported among them nearly every day.
This is creating considerable excitement
among them. Three deaths we're reported
from Yale in one day, recently. These
men do not seem to become acclimated
to Kansas, or the air in the mines proves
too much for them.
At the oratorical contest at Washburr
college, Topeka, the marks given by the
judges awarded George Reginald Lord
first place and representative of Wash
burn college at the state oratorical con-
test; Miss Gertrude Dewey second place,
and who will also go as delegate repre-
senting Washburn college at the meet
ing Of the state oratorical association,
and Ferry Platt third place.
Wichita special: The courts of Kan
sas will for the first time be called upon
to settle the question Of the lawfulness
of the numerous bond investment COM
panies that have sprung up in Kansas
in the last year, in a suit filed in the dis
trict court here, against the Safe Invest
ment company, Of this city, which was
recently forbidden the use of the mails
by the postmaster general. The action
is brought for the recovery Of moneys
paid on bonds.
Thenew catalogue of Kansas university
shows a marked increase in the number
of high schools in the state which pre-
pare for the university. There are now
1902 high schools and academies which
are on the accredited list. Notwith-
standing the fact that the requirements
have been made more rigid there has
been steady increase in the number
Of preparatory schools. In 1888-90
there were 80; in 1S90-91, AZ; in 1891
90, 65; in 1929, IA; and in 1893
"a, 1922
The wire nail machines are started,
adding new industry to the list in
Lawrence. Those in position will be
thoroughly tested and if satisfactory,
more will be put in operation at once.
The mill is in connection with that Of
the Consolidated Barbed Wire company
and occupies their new building built
last year. The company has been max
ing preparations to start this industry
for more than year. 1t draws it's own
wire and now has the only nail mill in
the west.
Both the Santa Fe and Union Pacific
sent special trains to Lawrence January
20 to begin the harvesting of ice for fill
ing the numerous houses along both
railroad systems. The ice on the Kan
sas river there is about seven inches
thick and the quality excellent. There
are several hundred men employed by
the railroads, and this, with many more
working to fill the houses Of local dealers
makes the scenes along the river very
busy ones. 1t will take two weeks to
get as much ice as is wanted.
A contract for heating apparatus for
the de Boissiere Odd Fellows Orphan
home at Silkville, to cost $4,000, has
been let by the directors of that institu-
ton, who believe that the temporary in
junction granted by the district court to
prevent them from collecting the tax as
sessed on the local lodges will be re-
moved. The hearing of this injunction
is set for February 14th in the district
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