Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


reason. Ten thousand bushels were
worked up by the local ovaporator and
10, 900 bushels Of wind falls and culls
we're worked up into cider. The evHpo-
'stor has paid 20 cents bushel and the
slider mills from l2k to 10 cents.
Acting under instructions from the
mayor and council Of Fort Scott, Attor.
ney billiard filed suit against the Fort
Scott Water company for the forfeiture
of It's franchise The petition alleges
that the company failed TO keep their
part OF the franchise and therefore asks
the court to set it aside and to declare
it null and void.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: #. X.
Hanna, of the firm of Burnham. Hanna,
Munger &c Co., has purchased hundred
acre farm near Rosedae The property
was owned by Daniel Abbot The price
paid was $685. 900. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Hanna intends to improve the farm.
One half OF it is in Wyandotte county
and the other half in johnson county.
The state administration has com.
menced making long needed repairs on
the state road from Leavenworth to
Lansing. Broken stone from the peni-
Tertiary quarry is being used in large
quantities. 1t is understood the county
is to pay for distributing the material,
the warden of the penitentlary looking
after everything else. The work was
begun a few rods south Of the Mt.
Muncie road and is being prosecuted
toward the city limits.
News reached Wellington that two
women OF Milan, one named Frye and
the other milliner of that place, whose
name could not be learned, met with an
accident while driving to their claims in
the strip. They were travelling over
land in spring wagon. While driving
along, the buggy plunged into a gutter,
breaking the coupling The team be- /
came frightened and ran away dashing
the ladies from the wagon, instantly |
killing one and rendering the other un-
conscious.
Topeka Mail: A peculiar wager was
witnessed on Jackson street near Fourth
where the farmers line up their hay
wagons Two men discussed how many (
grapes person could eat without be-
coming ill. One young farmer said he
never did eat too many and didn't be-
lieve he possibly could. He was will !
ing to bet, he said, that he could eat
half bushel. A couple Of dollars and the
cigars were wagered and the young
farmer set to work eating the half bushel
Of grapes that were set out in front OF
him. You may not believe it, but that |
young man ate all the grapes.
Larned special; Harvey and Arnold,
the murderers Of Mayor Marsh, of Kins-
ley, were taken before Judge Vandivert,
of this city, where they pleaded guilty
to the charge Of murder in the first de-
gree. The sentence imposed by Judge
Vandivert was Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary until such time as the gov
ern shall decide that they shall be
hanged. The boys were taken on the
8 o'clock train for Leavenworth by
Sheriff Heath, but not until a mob
had gathered and threatened lynching.
Judge Vandivert convened court an
hour before TIE regular time in order to
Illustrate the would-be lynchers. The
boys are II and IS years old.
Emporia Republican:GW. E. Bray,
defeated candidate for clerk of the !
district court, is 1915 short in his
accounts with Union lodge No. Is, I. 0. !
o. f. Of this city of which he was treas
urer and has absconded. He disap-
peared as soon as the result of the cleo
ton was ascertained and his present
whereabouts are unknown. The lodge,
is fully secured by an assurance compa-
ny. The lodge, itseems, had been press
ing him for settlement and he promised
to meet the committee the day following
the election, but when the committee got
together Bray was nowhere to be found
1t Is believed that Bray used the funds
Of the lodge to make the campaign. Mrs.
Bray is almost crazed with grief. Mr..
Bray was very popular in Emporia and
the news of the defalcation came as a
shock to the entire community. Bray
was a candidate for the nomination OF
secretary of state last June, but was de-
feated by j. W. Amis.
The express companies doing business
in Kansas, assisted by number of bank
ers located in the border towns, have I'M
earthed gang of outlaws in central
Kansas They have rendezvous in the
Blue Hills Of Osborne county, and when
pursued too closely in that neighborhood,
they run off down into the Indian terri
tory until matters settle down. There
are thirty members Of the band and the
robbery committed at Sylvan Grove in
Lincoln county last week and the bold
robbery at Tascott, in Ottawa county,
last September, were perpetrated by this
band. About two weeks ago man was
arrested at Leavenworth, Kan, who has
given the officers information as to the
history and whereabouts OF his COM
panions. The evidence now in posses
sion of the authorities is so strong that
the bank robbers will be forced to leave y
their haunts in north central Kansas. !
The man arrested at Leavenworth has l
1ivulged that plan had been arranged
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