Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-03-05
THE STATE OF KANSAS

be enlarged to the extent Of an SIS, 900
addition.
Lee $. Dages, the Oldest boss barber
of Fort Scott, committed suicide by
shooting himself.
The Kansas division of the Grand
Army has lost lG4 in membership dur
ing the past year.
Nine Kansas bidders got $40, 600 of
the late bond issue, Of which all but
SIG, 600 went to banks
Emporia is in the ranks of the ice
less, also, not pound having been
put up there this season.
Mr.. Lease did not attend at the
Church of Christ, Wichita, when his
wife occupied the pulpit.
Only two of the twenty-six roads
operating in Kansas report having
paid dividend last year.
Sumner county has II surplus of SlO,-
900 cash on hand, and is in the market
Il buy some of its own bonds.
An Eflingham dealer has shipped
away from there more than $4,000
worth of horses during the past thirty
days.
The Santa Fe has discontinued the
transportation Of mail west of Scott
City, the Missouri Pacific taking it
from there.
| Congressman Long has succeeded in
having Sl5, 600 added to the agricul.
tural appropriation bill in the interest
of irrigation in Kansas,
The railroads of Kansas employed
81, 0ji persons last year, paying in
wages SAP, Ais, 900, decrease of 81, l0G,-
600 compared with the previous year
Alleging lack of time for prepare
ton as a reason, George Peck declined
an invitation to deliver the commence
ment address at the unworthy this
year.
win McAlier and young man
named Vansyke were both killed by
being accidentally shot in the vicinity
of Chetopa. Both were shot in the
forehead,
Four negroes were drinking and
shooting craps at Atchison when Jim
Mitchell was shot and killed by John
Price, Negroes claim the shot was
accidental,
The Standard Oil company is secur.
ing leases on all the supposed oil belt
territory in Bourbon county and is
putting down an experimental well
near Uniontown.
The Second district will select its
delegates to the st, Louis convention
at Ottawa May ID, The Republican
candidate for congress will be named
at Lawrence May .,
Senator PETER is much gratihed by
the adoption of his resolution calling
on the interstate commerce commits
sion for information as to discrimna.
ton in freight rates.
Judge w. S, Vandivert decided, at
the Kinsley term of District court, that
the fire guard tax law, passed in 1895
and applying TO all counties west of
the ninety-ninth meridian, is uncon-
stitutional.
Mrs. A. d. Arbogast, wife of the
foreman of the Missouri, Kansas 81
Texas bridge department owns and
personally manages a farm of $50 acres
near Parsons, and makes glittering
success of it, too.
The prize of SIS offered by New
York city men who are Interested in
Kansas University for the best essay
by students Of the school on Tenny-
sons Princess" was won by Il. Il.
Price of Hutchinson.
Some eastern friend of Bethany col
lege, at Lindsborg, has presented that
institution new $1,000 pipe organ to
be placed in the spacious auditorium
recently completed, and it is to be
used for the first time Good Friday.
Kansas City, Kan, is in state of
great excitement over the prohibitory
law and the strict enforcement of the
new tipping ordinance. d. S. Aters,
a jointest, was fined $500 for viola
tion and church people are applaud
ing the police judge. Jointists are
respondent.
Evelyn b. Baldwin, whom a Chicago
syndicate proposes sending at the
head Of an expedition to meet DR..
Nansen, the returning Norwegian eX-
plorcr, is a Kansas man, having been
raised from a small boy in Labctte
county. For some time before he was
appointed, in 1881, to position in the
government weather bureau, he taught
school in the county where he still
maintains his residence.
Peabody is coming to the front as a
shipping center for poultry, During
the past year PIG, 420 pounds of poul-
try, 1864, 7GO eggs and 1876, 1888 pounds
of butter, valued respectfully at $685.
6S4, 1855 and $31, j09 were sent out
from there.
A suit has been fled in the District
court of Lcavenworth against Gov.
ernor A. J. Smith of the National
Soldiers Home for SIS, 06G.9 for per-
sonal damages. Thomas wilkins, the
plaintiff in the suit, is veteran now
at the home, who alleges that lie has
been forced three times to take the
Kelley cure; that his health has been
ruined, and that ne was made to sign |
orders on his pension money contrary
TO law.
Frank Williams, commercial trav-
cler who represents u Chicago house,
requested the chief of police of Atch. |
ison to take him into custody and lock J
him up. He said that about twice a
year he had an uncomfortable appetite |
for strong drink and would get on al
protracted spree and neglect his bust !
ness and squander his money. He re-
allied that he was on the eve of one of !
his semi-annual spells and wanted the |