Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
KANSAS NOTES.


There are 5000 school houses in the
state.
Alexander Dumas is running a joint
at Topeka
A broom factory has been estab-
lished ut HoXie.
A Beloit creamery handles 10000
pounds Of milk daily.
A man named Cash Price died in
Hutchinson the other day.
Good Win home of Kansas City, Kan
sas has been Incorporated, or
Tho income OF the Senator Plumb
estate is said to be 81, 600 per month.
Hearing of the case of Labor Com
missioner Bird has been indefinitely
postponed.
State board Of school fund commits
sioners has purchased 100000 Riley
refunding bonds
Il. II, Moses OF Great Bend has been
elected chairman of the national irri-
cation commission.
A single insurance agency at Sedan
has fire and tornado risks in Chautau-
qua county of $354,000.
Cherokee county furnishes to the
penitentiary the first victim of the
Cubbison gambling act,
Western Kansas will produce TWEEN
ty-tvc tons of broom corn to the acre,
and it sells ut $50 ton.
The will of the late Bishop II. S.
Thomas has been admitted to probate
at Topeka. Value OF estate, $50, 0OO
The bold Packing company at
Wichita will use corn for fuel If it
gets down to twelve cents a bushe
About forty families have moved to
Lawrence from other places this year
for the purpose of educating their chill
dren,
The town of Florence was named
for Miss Florence Crawford, now the
wife of Arthur Capper Of the Mail and
Breeze
Thomas Ryan, eX-United States min
lister TO Mexico, will return to Topeka
to reside notwithstanding reports to
the contrary.
Ex-Governor John p, St. John in an
interview ut Chicago said: ~ am in
politics for my country and humanity,
but not for Office"
Five hundred and five thousand
children attended the public schools
of Kansas last year, The girls out
numbered the boys by $500.
1t is said that a Kansas City packing
house has issued orders to its Wichita
house to use corn for fuel us soon as it
can be bought ut twelve Cents per
bushel.
Ellsworth Messenger; The example
set by the postage stamp is one that
should DO emulated by all in this
world. 1t sticks to one thing till it
gets there.
Governor Morrill, has pardoned Jo-
seph Butts of Harvey county, sent TO
prison for burglary, 1t having been
proved that n man named Skinner com
mitted the crime
The trial Of Adolph Klenner for the
killing of his brother Frank ended in
the district court at Leavenworth in a
verdict of guilty Of manslaughter in
the second degree.
Bert HaclSett, Olathes crack wheel
rider, has picked up over $500 worth
Of diamonds as prizes at the various
bicycle meets in which he has been
winner this season.
The area devoted to hay in Kansas
is larger than in any other state ex-
1ept New York, and Is twice us large
as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois and Missouri respectively.
Two Kansas men, William Henry
Garner and Elmer Daniel Garner Of
America, Kan, have secured a patent
on II steel safety plate on railway ties,
that they hope will prevent the spread
ing of rails and the attendant loss Of
life and property.
At Fort Scott the jury in the case in
which Mrs Eliza Peerman sued Mrs.
Mary Dalton and her daughter Stella
for rs, 900 damages, for the alienation
of her husbands affections, was out
but an hour and found for Mrs. Peer
man, giving her judgment for 81 900.
An exchange tells of man who pur-
chased revoly or for his wife and as
sisted upon target practice, so that she
could defend the home in case Of his
absence. After the bullet had been
dug out of his leg and the COW buried
he said he guessed she'd better shoot
with an aX
The state temperance union, through
its president, Rev. Richard Wake,
made formal complaint to Governor
Morrill, OF the non-enforcement of the
pronibitory law in Atchison. He al
leges that twenty or more saloons IRE
running openly under an arrangement
with the city.
Judge Christopher Reed OF the dis
trict court at Wichita has broken the
record in granting divorce. Julia A.
Leonard was legally separated from
Henry ii. leonard. In just ten min
utcs two and three-fourth seconds
from the time the testimony was be-
gun the woman was handed her do.
cree by the clerk.
Witnesses and jurors in the liquor
cases tried at Wichita, instead of TAX
ing their fees from the county donated
them to the Orphans home and the
hospitals, which institutions are sup
ported by the taxpayers. These fees
amount to nearly $4,000, and will sup
port the institutions referred to one
year and the county funds for their
support will not be used
The late Joseph c. Wilson died of
Justification of the arteries. This was
discovered by an autopsy made by the