Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-02-13
THE STATE OF KANSAS

D geles, Cal.
Joints pay monthly license of S9G
0 ut Larned.
: A burglar-proof grave vault is the
. attest at Topeka.
Governor Morrill, has refused to re-
move the Wichita police commission
! ers.
Next legislature will be asked to es-
tablish home for feeble minded wo-
men.
The Appellate court has decided
that Stanton county sugar bonds are
void,
The Cubbison gambling act will
soon be tested in case IN Wyandotte
county.
G. H. Lawrence contests the election
of Henry Leidigh as clerk of Ford
county,
The Ellis county court house was
burned Janury 90, 1t was insured for
$40, coo.
The Ehrsam Machine company at
Enterprise paid out $2s, 900 during 1895
for labor
j. B. Johnson, the anti-Leland
candidate for delegate-at-large, is for
Mckinley.
The annual encampment of the Sons
of Veterans will be held at Belot
April 21-3.
Mr. Ice, of Chase comfy, remarks
that this has been very lonesome
winter for him.
DR.. McLalln has retired from the
Topeka Advocate, the paper he
founded in 1888.
Judge Kingman of Topeka is the
only surviving member OF the first
Kansas supreme court.
1t cost Harvey county $4,000 to get
Wash Rogers to the penitentiary for
burning county records.
Mr.. Hutchinson of Scott was intro
duced to Mr.. Scott of Hutchinson at
Great Bend the other day,
City councilmen of Arkansas City
have made twenty per cent reduction
in all salaries except their own.
There are only forty-seven candi-
dates for the Republican nomination
for probate judge in Wilson county.
The Standard Oil Company has es-
tablished sawmill in Neosho county
for the purpose of getting out timber.
Y. NJ. G. A. OF Atchson is now a
thing of the past, its effects having
been sold to satisfy claim for rent.
A volunteer fire company with eight
officers and several other mem bers has
been organized AT Cottonwood Falls.
A company of about 100 oil prospect
ors will leave Pittsburg, Pa, for
Neodesha, during the month of Feb
ruary.
A Clay Center man who has been
blind tor eighteen years claims to have
had his sight restored by faith and
prayer.
The State university students have
withdrawn their invitation to Bob
1ngersoll to deliver the commencement
address.
Five Scott county farmers recently
bought five cars of Weir City coal.
The coal cost $l25 and the freight bill
was $685..
Hon. Lucien Baker will deliver the
address of welcome at the State Edi-
torial convention at Leavenworth,
February II.
The sermons and prayers in Kansas
on the fourth Sunday in February will
be devoted to prohibition and the en-
forcement of law.
The Hutchinson Gazette (Popuist),
dominates Congressman Mcclure OF
for president and Mayor
Pingree for vice president.
al o,,Jn,, QUO
too many suits over death benefits.
The trouble probably lies in careless
work when members are admitted.
Ed Howe's description of thor
ough bred is: "A man who will stay
up when he wants to go to bed and
drink whisky when he doesn't want
to-"
Charles Cogeshall, an old Santa Fe
conductor on the Southern Kansas, has
quit that job and gone to travelling for
a patent truck, of which he is the in
Ventor.
Fifty per cent of Smith countys
corn crop has been sold by the men
who produced it, and not ten per cent
Of it has been shipped out of the
county.
Charles A. Smart OF Ottawa will be
4 candidate for judge of the Fourth
judicial district to succeed Judge A.
W. Benson, who will not be candi-
late again.
Mrs. j. A. Bendure of Atchison has
her claim to share of
Dig estate in New York city through
he birth page" of Holland bible
$50 years old.
A wagon, in which were George
1aines and N. Kleinfelter, was struck
~ a Santa Fe train at crossing near
Nortonville and broken to pieces; the
men escaped injury.
Judge w. A. johnson of Garnett
erved through the war in Kansas
egiment. His father served in the
var of 1912, and his grandfather and
,reat-grandfathe in the war of the
evolution.
Coal thieves are so numerous and
persistent in Alton that dealer there
las supplied his yard with couple of
arge traps which he hopes to find &C.
upied some fine morning.
AS straw pointing toward the re-
urn of boom days, il may be men
toned that Carney is to vote on rail-
Dad subsidy proposition at a special
lection for that purpose.