Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-12-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

yohn w. Breidenthal is senatorial
candidate.
J. G. Morrill,, hardware dealer, Pitts
burg, failed.
Nortl west Kansas horses are dying
Off fast from mysterious disease.
Ed G. Little of Abilene is Governor
Leedy's private secretary.
Hutchinson is getting up charity
ball
About 10000 head of Indian Terri.
tory cattle will be fed at Hcrington
this winter.
The Rev. Mr.. Tarbill of Abilene has
been appointed superintendent of
Methodist missions in Wyoming.
The wife of President-elect McKin-
ley and Mrs. &. A. Mize of Atchison
were schoolmates at Delhi, N. Y.
A large number of elevators along
the Central branch have been shut
down because of the scarcity of cars.
The demand for Secretary Coburns
report on COW culture is greater than
the supply. Cattlemen say the report
is good thing.
Superintendent Faulkner of the Or.
phans' home at Atchison will accept h
similar positio at the Washburn Or
phans' home at Minneapolis, MINI.
Ship your Butter, Eggs, Poultry and
Game direct to Frank Hyde e. Co., ia
East Fourth street Kansas City, Mo.
Prompt returns guaranteed. Write
for regular weekly quotations and
tags.
People who are disposed to take
discouraging view of next seasons
fruit crop have possibly overlooked the
marriage of Sadie Appleton and Alfred
Plumtree at Cottonwood Falls last
week.
John Rogers, who has just been
elected governor of Washington on the
Populist ticket was formerly county
commissioner in Harvey county, and
later lived in Ness county.
w. H. Morris, state auditor-elect,
has selected w. E. Topping, of Chero-
kee county, for one of his clerks. Top
ping was a clerk in the auditors Office
during the administration of Van B.
Prather.
Secretary of State elect w. &. Bush
has selected G. NJ. Ross of Jewell
county for his first assistant.
j. G. Sturtevant, who defeated Joe
Sibley for congress in one of the Penn
sylvania districts, is president of the
Merchants bank at Hill City, and ownG
large body of real estate in Graham
county.
The Topeka Commercial club has arr
ranged for a public reception to tho
new Populist state officers to take
place the week of their inauguration.
The time for annual meetings is
coming rapidly. One of the earliest ia
the Kansas Poultry association which
will be held for five days, January 4
to 8.
Cy Leland, who runs general mer-
chandise store at Troy, is said to have
had an advertisement in every issue of
the Troy Chief for over twenty years.
Logan county bank of Russell
Springs has gone out of business, leav-
ing only 1888 state banks in Kansas,
against AGO in 1891 and lis national
banks instead of 1876 as five years ago.
Maude Mcdonald, Fort Scott, still
lives after taking embalming fluid,
hair dye and two doses of strychnine.
The doctors pumped her out each time
but she vows she will make it yet
George Callahan and Chester Miller
found a horse on Santa Ee trestle,
near Abilene, and notified the COM
pany in time to avoid a wreck. The
company has rewarded them by giving
Callahan a pass good for life and Miller
one for SIX months.
Mrs. Minnie Hatch of near 0berlin
committed suicide by shooting; cause,
family quarrels
Oakley township, Logan county,
made bid for distinction by electing
q lady for constable. Her name is
Carrie Fields.
An effort will be made this winter to
have the Legislature pass game law
which will stick. The Murdoch law is
30 hagrantly bad that county attorneys
refuse to prosecute under it.
William j. Stewart of Glasgow, Scot
land, wants to start sugar factory in
Kansas, and has written to Secretary
Edwards about location.
/ The taxpayers of Cowley county are
greatly excited over demand made on
the board of county commissioners by
e. P. Greer for commission of $15,-
900 for negotiating the sale of 100000
refunding bonds to the state school
/ fund commissioners.
Sam Riggs of Lawrence has deter
mined to contest the election of G. A.
Smart, who has been issued the certif-
cate as Judge Of the district composed
of Anderson, Franklin and Douglas
counties. On the face of the returns
Smart had thirty-nine majority, but
Riggs claims that he can show his OWN
election through votes which were
illegally thrown out in Douglas coun-
tv. The contest will be determined
by the state senate, which is the only
tribunal qualified to hear judicial con-
tests.
State Senator A. g. Forney of Sum-
ner county proposes railroad legisla-
ton in the form of maximum freight
rate bill similar to the Iowa law. He
has examined freight rate laws of all
the states which have them and be-
lieves that the Iowa statute is the best.
He probably will introduce the meas
ure in the senate.
Thomas r. Bayne, successful
farmer and stock raiser, who lived
near Williamstown, in Jefferson
county, died suddenly of Inflammation
of the stomach. He was 60 years OF
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