Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
". s. Elan, a constable at Burton.

Parsons will soon be using natura
gas pumped from the Neodesha fields.
A. c. Scott, formerly of lola, is
candidate for federal marshal of Okla
homa.
Newton is the home of 675 railroa,
men, most of them with families ant
homes.
Secretary of Agriculture Coburn il
busy on a phamphlet entitled 9Th,
Kansas Steer"
William Hensley, q Reno county
farmer, hanged himself because choleri
killed his hogs.
The SO, 900 residence of L. X. Oster
bout, at Conway Springs, was burned
the other night
The Cottonwood river is lower thar
since 1861, and water power mills were
seriously crippled.
j. |. Stauffer and wife, Of Ridge
Woodson county, will soon sail fol-
Africa as missionaries
Ex-Attorney General Bradford ha.
been appointed United States commits
| plOhCI db AruIuOTe, Oh.
1t is estimated that the wheat plant
ed this fall will exceed any previous
year in the states history.
d. M. Brown, of Wichita, has been
appointed assistant United States at.
torney for the Indian territory.
While on drunken spree Arthur
Simpson, a Barton county farmer, fell
from his wagon and broke his neck.
John Drew, who died at Burlingame
recently at the age of 9S, had been a
member of the |. 0. o. T. for 45 years.
Pittsburg will send large delega.
ton of old soldiers to Leavenworth to
try and secure the next annual reunion.
John Harris, who had resided in
Leavenworth since '57, was killed by
being thrown from horse the other
day.
At the band contest during the Kan
sas City carnival the Girard band took
second prize and the Pittsburgh band
third.
Rev. Bernard Kelly, the preacher
politician, may be appointed chaplain
of the national soldiers home at Leav-
enworth.
Mr.. Geissinger. of Galena, made
SO, 300 by buying 6OO,OOO pounds of lead
ore in 1896 and holding it until two
weeks ago.
Burglars blew open the bank safe at
Chase, Rice county, and secured 1000
in cash. A posse pursued, but did not
capture them.
Dr. William Six, recently sentenced
to the Illinois penitentiary for having
six wives, formerly resided at Fronte-
nae, this state.
Charles H. Miller, the republican
nominee for sheriff in Leavenworth
county, was once United States mar
shall of Kansas,
District Judge Randolph, of Emporia,
would like to supplant Stephen II. AL
len as the fusion nominee for associate
justice next year.
The annual convention of the Chris
tian churches of Kansas was held at
Emporia last week, with every section
of the state represented.
r, T. Webb, a convicted jointkeeper
at Neodesha, was fined $1,000, sent to
Jail nine months and made to give a
bond for good behavior for two years.
The Pittsburg suburban electric rail-
way will soon be extended so as to con-
meet all the most important mining
towns of Cherokee and Crawford coun-
ties.
Harry Smith, New York City waif,
who had been cared for by j. e. Rod
man, of Topeka robbed his benefactor
of 5000 and was trying to escape when
arrested.
M. w. Sutton, United States inter-
nal revenue collector, was robbed of
S217 and gold watch by burglars who
entered his home at Dodge City the
other night.
State Auditor Morris has just COM
pleted his table of figures showing the
total tax levy for the present year in
Kansas to be 1,333,954. This amount
will be levied.
Ten thousand people visited the
Douglas county fair at Lawrence the
day Senator Mason, of Illinois. spoke,
and there was a grand barbecue OF
deer, bear and oxen.
The people of Topeka are "sore" at
the conduct of the state militia during
the festival, and the young soldiers
are blamed for the $4,000 deficit the
festival committee had to face.
After a conference with Senator
Baker at Leavenworth the other day,
w. E. Sterne, of Topeka, confidently
predicted that he would be named for
United States marshal about Janu-
airy 1.
Ex-Gov Morrill, has taken possession
of his SOO-acre farm half way between
Leavenworth and Kansas City, for
which he traded his Leavenworth bank
stock 1t will be great fruit and
stock farm.
Following the various corn and apple
carnivals and other similar affairs in
Kansas, William Allen White, of En-.
poria, has arranged for Emporia to
have "Kow Karnival," to consist OF
an exhibit of fat cattle.
1t is officially announced that the
general fund of the state treasury will
be exhausted by November 1, and
creditors will have to be 'stood Off
until 80 or go days later, when tax