Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-05-07
THE STATE OF KANSAS

O,OUO barrel steel tank at Ihayer.
The Oakley Graphic says the frost
killed the fruit buds in that vicinity.
Kansas has the largest area of hay
lands OF all States except New York.
One estimate OF the probable yield
Of wheat in Kansas this year is l0O,-
600, QUO bushels.
Ex-senator Tabor Of Colorado was
once member of the Kansas Terri
torial Legislature.
Congressman Calderhead's brother
is chairman Of the Montana Populist
State central committee.
Ground around Kinsley Is soaked to
depth of three feet, enough moisture
to carry wheat to head.
V. L. Kellogg, young Kansas man,
has been chosen as u professor in the
Stanford University in California.
Western Kansas papers feel very
happy over the excellent crop condi-
tions caused by the recent abundant
rains.
The regular joke will now be start
ed that people in Kansas can't sleep
on account of the noise made by the
growing wheat.
The new Santa Fe hospital at Tope-
la, recently completed Mt a cost of
about 100000, will probably be for
mally opened May 10.
Attorney General Dawes holds that
q board of health has no power to
keep children who are not vaccinated
from attending school.
I. II. Brundage and I. b. Haslen
have left the Topeka Co-operator and
bought the Eldorado Advocate of ex-
Treasurer CT State Biddle.
During the past ten years Mont
gomery county has sent more prison
ers to the penitentiary than any other
county in the State Of equal popula-
tion.
Dick Blue has introduced q bill
granting pension of $50 month to
Judge Owen A. Bassett, who was lieu-
tenant colonel of the Second Kansas
cavalry.
Steps are being taken to start new
daily newspaper at Wichita about
June l. II will advocate resubmission
and probably be the official organ OF
the Mystic brotherhood.
At Gaylord, Kan. where the women
elected their entire ticket, war Is now
threatened between the two sexes
Mrs. Antonette Haskell, the mayoress,
has threatened to make clean sweep
in appointive offices
The Kansas coal mines now opened
have q producing capacity of o7,04s
tons daily, requiring Ia, 100 men for
! their operation, but. in 1898, only 5000
{ men were employed and the output
? was 3, 100, s43 tons, valued at 81, 500, 141.
: The capital employed amounts to
| 81, asa, 900.
Crawford country leads in produc'
' ton of coal for 1898 with total OUT
i put OF 1,bl7,e56 tons, and Cherokee Ia
close second with 1,O13,6l2. Leaven-
worth. Bourbon and Usage arc the
only other counties that produce more
Q than $4,000 tons
3 Prominent colored men have bought
a tract Of 1000 acres ten miles east OF
a Topeka, and will establish a town
q there exclusively for colored people.
v Several small manufacturing concerns
= will be located there, and the land d.
/, vided into lots for gardening purposes.
The new town will be called Sumner.
The county officers in the court
house at Troy have evolved success
full plan for shaming the expectora'
ton fend out OF his disgusting prac-
n tice while in their quarters. They
t have put up signs in the different
rooms which read: "Please spit in
i. the middle OF the floor"
q Topeka Capital: W. P. Tomlinson
= was sent to Europe by the New York
u Evening Post In 1859. He landed at
@ Gibraltar, travelled through Spain on
d foot, and spent several months in
Il France, England and Scotland. Mr..
Tomlinson was poet in his early
). days. In 1862 he published volume
;, of his verses entitled Home and
Abroad"
In the Moses Wronker whisky case
tried at Topeka, Judge Foster, In his
charge to the jury, said that's man
:. had right to take orders for liquor
. and afterward do the collecting him
, self. "If the orders were sent in ia
> The house at Kansas City to be filled,
- he said, "tnen the sale was made there
q and the defendant is not guilty OF q
violation of the United States law"
At Anthony Charles Clark, who
with his brother-in-law, William
Mattox, and Mrs. Charles A.
y Rodman, were arrested last
month, charged with the murder Of
% the latter's husband on February 49,
was acquitted. Clark proved an alibi
l. by Mrs. Mattox, who testified that he
10 was eating supper at the time of the
10 murder. William Mattox was dis
charged, the evidence against him be
n ing entirely insufficient.
IL c. II. Race, ex.cashier Of the Bur
lington National bank, who, at the
d last term of the United States District
10 court at Fort Scott, was acquitted o.
II the charge of embezzling $4,000 o.
the banks funds, has fled suit IN thu
!. Coffey county District court sgains
20 the Burlington National bank, Will
u lam Martindale, president and Davit
q Eppinger, one of the directors, To-
$93, 500 damages for false imprison
d ment and malicious prosecution.
IT The famous Major John M. Laing
% Crawford Moore case was called up IL
O. the district court at Leavenworth, ant
ON motion of the county attorney
l., went over The attorney for Moore
y who was charged with assault will
IL intent to kill, wanted definite under