Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-27
THE STATE OF KANSAS

Will be composed OF 6l0 delegates.
There will be thirty names on the
ballots this year, besides township of
fcers.
The Prohibition papers of the coun-
try have started John Peter st. John
In the race for president
A Santa Fe engineer, named Jerry
Shaw, is a candidate for department
commander Of the &. A. II.
The Republicans of the Arkansas
t)ity district will renominate j. V.
Beekman for the Legislature.
Republican central committee of
Bourbon county is eleven to one in
favor of Mckinley for president.
Nine years ago seven Harper county
towns supported newspapers; now
only three can afford the luxury.
Benjamin II. Wrightson of Kansas
has been promoted to 81, 400 position
in the War department at Washing.
ton,
Cost OF maintaining the State blind
asylum at Kansas City, Kan, from
July to December 81, 1895, was
$1000,l3.
Colean, the Fort Scott State bank
defaulting cashier, Is in the prison
hospital of the penitentiary at Leav-
enworth.
At recent series OF revival meet
ings in Greeley county, one-twentleth
of the entire population ofIthe county
were converted.
Rev. j. G. Dougherty of Kansas City,
Kan, called on Governor Morrill, and
denounced the present Metropolitan
police system of Kansas,
Governor Morrill, says there isn't a
word of truth in the Atchison Cham
pion's story MS TO his contemplated
withdrawal from politics.
Colean, the Fort Scott embezzler, Is
now in the penitentiary. His wife
and children will make their home
with relatives in st. Louis
Rents have advanced in Moline on
account Of n report that the Howard
branch is to be operated as u part Of
the Southern Kansas division,
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
taken charge of the Valley State bank
/ VA NuBlbuAg RlObtObVy 10
sets, S934,0OO liabilities, $134, 900.
Kansas City, Kan, university cor
ner stone will be laid May 10, during
the Methodist Protestant general con-
ference which meets in that city May
l--l0.
Uncle John Speer has completed the
task of setting the type for his life OF
Jim Lane, the press work is finished,
and the volume is now ready for the
binder.
The Capitals voting contest shows
Bliss for Mckinley, 81 for Reed, 22S
for Allison, and 1863 for Harrison For
second choice Reed and Allison arc in
the lead.
TO settle all doubts as to the legal
ity Of j. X. IIudson's right to the Office
of state printer he was formally APP
pointed to that position by Governor
Morrill,
The artesion wells on ]. G. Mart's
farm in Meade county are flowing
abuudantly One of the expectations
of the stat irrigation board is to find
tins wlter in adjacent counties
William IIcddie hanged himself in
jail at Norton After I'm exciting trial
lasting week he had been convicted
Of the murder of Albert Apologize, u
young farmer, and was sentenced by
Judge Gelger to serve II term of fifteen
years in the pcnitentiary ut hare la
Dor. The conviction was for guilt in
the second degree.
Congressman Curtis has introduced
these Kansas bills: To pay Martin
Feeney of Yates Center n pension Of
$50 u month; Henry FeilSner of Topeka,
BIZ; Flora Beller of North Topeka, $l2,
to increase the pension of Arba Capron
OF NorCh Topeka to $50 month, and
to pay Thomas Delbert of Topeka $500
for services rendered during the war.
The sem-annual apportionment OF
the state school fund has been made.
Twice each year the int rest derived
from bonds owned by the permanent
school fund Is divided out among the
school districts in proportion to the
school population. The payment at
this date amounts in total TO S2lo,-
4lO2s. The total school population is
4OG, 3s7, and the distribution, there
fore, amounts to forty.four cents for
each pupil. The largest sum received
by any one county is SIS, 1884, which
goes to Wyandotte county, and the
smallest is 5000, to Morton county.
Grief and anguish have become tho
portion of the average Kansas politi-
clan. The railroads give 1t out cold
that no passes will be issued to tho
delegates to the Wichita convention,
o., indeed, to any of the political meet
ings of the year. There never was
time IN Kansas when plenty OF men
could not be found in every county
with political enthusiasm enough to be
willing to pay fare to conve ntion'
but at the same time there will not bs
that intensity of rivalry for the places
Of delegate which usually attends the
issuance Of free passes.
Once q Kansan, always Kansan.
Elk Superintendent of Insurance w.
II. Mcbride. who emigrated to Seattle,
Wash, last fall with the intention OF
making that locality his permanent
home, is said to be slated for an early
return to the land of the sunflowers.
They all DIT,
Mr. aud Mrs. CritchAeld settled in
Mitchell county more than twenty
years ago with only forty cents in cash.
While the husband has been indus.
trious with his crops and stock, the