Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-22
THE STATEOF KANSAS.

Tom Ryan has always played in the
best of luck. Commencing in 1866,
when he was elected county attorney,
q fat Office has always turned up just
In his hour Of greatest financial need.
A few days before he went TO Wash
ington after place under Mckinley,
he told Topeka banker that he would
be mighty glad to get job anywhere
which paid as much as 81 900 year.
Ryan was never a money saver. Dur
ing all the time he was minister to
Mexico at salary of $4,000 a year,
he saved only enough to pay off a
So, 900 mortgage on his Topeka home,
which he now owns clear Of all incum-
brance. Kansas City journal.
Atchison Globe: b. P. Waggener of
Atchison carries SOS, 900 in life insur-
ance. j. w. Parker has $4,000 and
John M. Price nearly 100000. Kan
sas has a dozen or so of big policy
holders, of whom the following are the
most important: j. w. Watkins, Law
renee, 500, 900; Augustus Holm, Perry
Hutchinson, Charles r., Kaester,
Charles f. Pasch and M. M. Sheffield,
Marysville, $4,000 each; Condor, 0s-
wego, $4,000; d. Bennett, Topeka,
$62, 900; John r. Mulvane, Topeka, $43,-
900; M. w, Levy, Wichita, $4,000, and
A. w. Oliver, Wichita, $4,000.
A funny little romance is reported
from Gaylord, in Smith county. Thirty
years ago u. N. Harding was divorced
from his wife in Indiana and married
again. About year ago his second
wife died. In his loneliness he began
to think of his first wife and finally
concluded that she was a much bett.
woman than he believed when he di-
vorced her. He,confided this change
of heart to letter and she responded
that she was ready to try it all over
again. Last week she arrived at Gay
lord and they were married-he at the
age of so and she at 67.
Mrs. Philetus Phillips of Doniphan
county brought from Tennessee just
after the war roll of confederate cur
rency. Recently in examining the
notes she discovered Kansas bank
bill, issued by the Drovers' bank of
Leavenworth, July 1, 1855, probably
carried to Tennessee by some Kansas
soldier The Leavenworth bill has an
engraved herd of buffalo on its face
and is signed by r. Constant, presi-
dent, and j. G. Sargent, cashier.
Printed on one end are the words,
Wv L. Ormsby, New York" The
number is 10,06S.
A religious census of the students at
the state university has just been
taken. 1t is found that 4j per cent of
the men and rs per cent of the women
are church members. Of the whole
body, SO per cent are church members.
| The churches are represented in the
following order: Methodist, Congre-
gationalist, Presbyterian, Episcopal,
Baptist, OK ristian, Unitarian, and so
on down through twenty-seven dcnom-
nations
Work on the new oil refinery at Ne
odesha has been delayed by an odd
discovery. The stills had been riveted
together at the factory in Titusville,
Pa, and shipped west on fiat cars.
Somewhere between Chicago and Kan
sas City it was found that the huge
fills would not pass under some of the
Western bridges. They were hauled
back to a factory at Whiting, Ind,
where they are now being taken apart
for reshipment to Neodesha
Six years ago some Atchison heirs
got into quarrel over will. They
hired lawyers and went to court. The
court appointed an administrator to
take charge of the estate in contro-
versy pending the litigation. Under
his management the property has
shrunll so per cent in value, and still
the battle of the lawyers goes on.
Some wise writer on Jurisprudence
says law is the perfection of reason"
John Robbins was initiated into
the United Commercial Travellers as
ISOLATION at Atchison on Saturday
night" says the Troy Chief. "a part
of the work consisted in beating him
on the shins with a hickory club. He
was drawn up by block and tackle
twenty feet in the air, and suddenly
dropped into a net; and John only
protested when they attempted to
bore a hole into the back of his head
with gimlet."
Theodocius Botkin of Hutchinson,
w. f. Osborn of Baldwin, e. b. Jones
OF Holton, D. W. Eastman Of Emporia,
B. Dornblaser of Fredonia, j. A. Wells
of Erie and S. L. Wilson of Beatrice
are candidates for department COM
mander of the G. A. r. The reunion
will occur at Chanute, April 81.
One of Sitting Bulls old braves is
now a member of the Salvation army
at Atchison.
At recent funeral in Atchison, after
the casket had been lowered, the grave
was filed half way up with straw, and
the earth then piled in. This is in &C
cordance with the old-time custom to
prevent grave robbery. 1t is alleged
that to remove the straw would require
so much time that detection would
follow.
w. C. Webb, who was to furnish the
state with 5000 copies of the revised
statutes, has let the contract to Steph-
ems, a Columbia, Mo-, printer. State
Printer Parks claims it is public print
ing to which he is entitled and he will
take the matter into the courts.
Joseph Taylor, who recently died at
White Cloud, had fourteen children.
To each of them he gave eighty acres
of land, and to his wife he left the old
homestead containing 160 acres. BY
close attention Mr. Taylor has accum-
] ulated !, $50 acres of the richest land
In the world, after starting poor.
Richard William Drummer, who re-
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