Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-03-26
THE STATE UF KANSAS


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Speaker LObdell is president of
500, 900 cattle COMPANY.
New irrigation plants are being es-
tablished in Western Kansas at
rapid rate.
Half the towns in Kansas expect to
have the champion base ball club Of
the state this year.
Mrs. Stephen Ridge, an aged colored
! woman living near Mound City, fell
into fire while in fit and was
burned to death.
Galveston business men are prepar-
ing to make tour which will include
northern cities. They will pay special
attention to Kansas.
A man who has just returned from
Cripple Creek says that in his opinion
Galena mines offer greater oppor-
tunity to become rich.
+. A. Waugh, a graduate of the
Kansas Agricultural college, has been
elected to the chair OF horticulture in
the University of Vermont
William Carmi Babcock, lieutenant
in the United States navy and of the
U. s. S. Michigan, who died at New
York, was appointed to the navy from
Kansas.
Lieutenant Harry A, Smith of Atchl-
son, who has been stationed at Benicia
barracks, California, has been assigned
to duty on Governor Morrill's staff, at
Topeka.
A Kansas court has ruled that "a
man who calls upon a woman regu-
larly and takes her to entertainments
occasionally, is legally engaged to
marry her."
The Rev. James Chew, who since he
left the Congregational pulpit at
Atchison has girdled the globe trying
to find better place to live, is now
preaching at Thayer, Mo.
II. e. McNichols, formerly of Well
ington, is now "city day editor,' for
Brooklyn of the New York World.
He tried the navy awhile and then
drifted into newspaper work.
John Robson, a miner, was killed
in mine of the Hamilton e. Braid
wood Coal Company, Weir City,
through shot hanging fire He
leaves wife and five children.
The citizens of Parsons are I'M
equivocally in favor of municipal
ownership in the matter of electric
lights, and they will not sanction the
letting of contract for term of
years.
A Doniphan county farmer will
plant forty acres of sassafras, from
the product of which he will manu-
facture cigarettes which he thinks
rryi11 r.
bacco cigarettes
Two Topeka young men have bought
tickets for trip round the world, pay.
ing 5000 each. They go by way of
San Francisco, Hawaii, Australia, Yo-
kohama, Red Sea and the continent
The tickets are good for two years.
A cave apparently of vast proper
ton has been discovered near Olathe.
In it were some human bones and on
the wall by the bones was some illeg-
ible writing which probably told the
story of the person who died there
Miss Anna Scott, student at the
Central Normal college at Great Bend,
has been notified of her appointment
as clerk of the Venezuelan commits
sion. She is niece of Justice Brewer,
of the Supreme court, chairman of the
commission.
Captain d. s. Knouse, veteran OF
the war, was fatally injured at Ster.
ling by runaway team. The horses
became frightened by breaking of the
neckyoke straps Mr.. Knouse was
thrown onto water trough, fractur-
ing his skull and injuring the spinal
cord.
State Labor Commissioner Bird
makes sensational charges against
the majority of employment agen.
cies in Kansas, declaring that many
of them live and thrive ON the
money they filch from poor work.
ing girls, and that some of them
are in the procuring business. He
has prepared and is sending to all
the cities of the first class an ordi-
nance which, if passed, will drive
them out of business.
When the newly appointed member
of the Wichita police commission, Oscar
q. Smith, took his seat as the successor
of S. d. Lleurance, Immediately the
heads of nine men in the police depart
ment dropped, including that of Chief
Burrows and Police Judge Tucker
All the men let out were appointed
under the prohibitory regime. In all
cases where appointments were made,
the men who were let out by the old
administration got the places.
The Fredonia Agriculture assocla-
tion has recently become the possessor
of the old Wilson fair grounds, claims
to be free from incumbrance, has a
paid up capital stock and surplus on
hand. There are only fourteen stock
holders, but they all mean business.
They commenced with a force of
twenty-five teams to build regula-
tion track and will hold their first
fair August rs to 2s inclusive.
Hon. Melville J. Salter, ex-lieuten-
ant governor of Kansas, died at his
home near Fort Scott of congestion
brought on by an attack of la grippe.
Governor Salter had resided in this
State twenty-five years He moved
to Kansas and located near Thayer,
Neosho county, in 1871 In 1874 he
was elected lieutenant governor, de-
feating in the convention the present
governor, Hon. e. N Morrill,, and
Hon. Marsh M. Murdoch of Wichita,
and was reelected in 1876. One year
later he was appointed register of the
United States land Office at Indepen-
dence, which position he held for
number of years. He also served as