Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-04-16

Sis4,0C0.
The Parsons registration books
closed with 2,002 names on the list of
which the women furnished about 25
per cent.
The widow OF Editor Hole OF the
Washington Post.Register has sold
the paper to j. j. Veach and James
Ponteus.
Adelegation Of ten Salvation Army
girls from Kansas City are making
tour of the State in the interest Of
army work.
The sheriff of Rocks county has
overruled the Supreme court; he nd
vertises mortgage sale without the
right Of redemption"
Topeka will endeavor to raise, by
subscription, $4,000 towards the ex-
penses of fall carnival and already
81, 800 has been collected.
George Schriner, n New York wait
who was adopted by William Lewis Of
Formosa, Jewell county, was hanged
in Oklahoma few days ago.
Southwest Kansas conference, in
session 1T Wichita, adopted strong
resolutions recommending the enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
A Fort Scott woman skins four gal
Ions of oil day from spring in her
back yard and sells it for illuminate nR
purposes at IL cents gallon.
Lester Reiff, q Kansas boy, will ride
Richard Croker's "Montauk" in the
great English derby. Croker, who is
the great New York Tammany leader,
has bet $780, on his horse.
The bill introduced by Congressman
Curtis, providing for the opening Of
the Chippewa and Munsee reservation,
is meeting with opposition by the
Chippewa branch Of the tribe.
G. T. Scott, lola Register; Grant w.
Harrington, Hiawatha Democrat, and
Harold Chase, Topeka Capital, have
been appointed as q press committee
by the State Temperance Union.
A recent Reno county experiment
wherein two steers were penned up
and fed nothing but alfalfa hay for
forty days resulted in an average gain
for each of them Of three pounds =
day.
william Pope, the colored editor Of
Topeka who has been i'll with small
poX for nearly two weeks, died of the
disease There are no new cases, and
all those who have seen Pope are
quarSntined.
The Mail and Breeze has investi-
gated the different offices in Topeka,
aud finds that the women are filling
many Of the places Of trust and re-
sponsibility and there is danger Of the
men being crowded clear out in the
cold.
Rev. j. c. Telford, who died at
0lathe the other day, was one of the
pioneer Methodist preachers of Kan
sas, having been an active worker in
the state more than quarter of a
century. His death was due to pa.
ralysis.
At Sedan Judge Jackson admitted
to bail Theodore f. Cox, William Lick
letter, Marcus McBee and James Bur
CESS, the men recently held to await
trial for the murder of John s. Fra
zier. The amount of bail was fixed at
So, 900 each.
Judge Alden of Kansas City has de-
clared the law passed in 1893 by the
Legislature, providing for the weekly
payment of wages, unconstitutional
because it was class legislation and
also that it iuterferes with the right
to contract
The test oil wells In Bourbon coun-
ty have all been abandoned but one,
in which the drill is down 1000 feet
without having struck flint, and
wherein the work is being continued.
There is scarcely any hope of finding
oil where the flint struck.
The regular monthly weather re-
port issued by Chancellor F. II. Snow
of Kansas university shows that the
past month has had a remarkably
small amount of rainfall. The total,
including melted snow, has only been
.62 of an inch, and only one March,
that of 1879, has had less, In other
respects the month was normal. The
temperature was only slightly below
the average, the warmest day being
March 80, when the thermometer
reached 76.5 degrees, and the coolest
day being March 10, when the ther,-
mometer fell to los degrees. The
number of winter days was high.
The cloudness and humidity were
slightly below, and the wind slightly
above the average.
The State treasurer's report for the
month of March shows the cash on
hand to be $1,000, O3952. The total
bonded indebtedness of the State IL
S752, 900, of which $4sl, 900 is held by
the permanent school fund. Only
$3.50, 900 of the bonds of Kansas are
owned outside of the State.
Kansas State Temperance Union
will make an endeavor to get 90,U00
voters to pledge themselves to vote
for no candidate unless he pomises the
enforcement of the prohibitory law,
and as this number will constitute the
balance of power in Kansas politics,
the Union believes 1t eau elect any
ticket it champions