Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-25
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

county, MO, never TO my memory
says Mr.. Kinney, did General Shelby
come to town without bringing me Il
bushel of fruit or some other Of the
products of his fine farm. He was the
most generous and kindly hearted
man | ever knew"
Mrs. Cletilda Hilton Greer, widow Of
Samuel w. Greer, Is dead. Her hus-
band was the first territorial superin'
tendent of public instruction in Kan
sas. Mrs Greer has four surviving
sons, three of whom, Ed p. Greer of
the Winfield Courier, Frank II. Greer
of the Guthrie State Capital and Bert
r. Greer of Kansas City, Kan, are in
the newspaper business.
Mrs. Hillmon's attorneys are trying
TO induce the superintendent of insur-
ance not to issue licenses to the New
York Mutual Life, the Connecticut
Mutual and the New York Life Assur-
ance companies to do business in Kan
sas until they make a settlement with
Mrs, Hillmon.
The order has been issued from
Washington that the deputy United
States collectors Office be removed
from Wichita and consolidated with
the Office at Parsons. This leaves but
two offices in Kansas, and both in exc
trene eastern Kansas.
Richard c. Meade, the Atchison man
who swindled widows and orphans and
eloped to England with his typewriter
girl, wants to be pordoned from the
penitentiary on the ground that his
health is bad
The month of December was an eX-
ceptionally hard one on the A. 0. U
W. of Kansas. Forty-eignt deaths
were reported, which necessitated the
payment of 100000 in benefits and
called for q double assessment.
The Standard Oil company has re-
leased about two thirds of the million
acres of land that they leased in
Kansas two years ago. They intend
TO hold only that which has been inn
proved
1t is reported that Anderson Grey,
ne of hypnotic murder fame, who was
recently pardoned out of the Kansas
intends to organize
company at Kansas City and take it to
Cuba.
1t doesn't necessarily follow that
winter is over. One of the coolest
days Kansas has ever known fell upon
the 18th of March, 1860 Cattle and
men were frozen to death all over the
state.
The Rev. U. M. Kinkaid, secretary
of the Congregational Home Mission
airy society, died of anemaia at his
home in Brooklyn. He was ordained
IN 1867 and preached at Leavenworth,
Kan, 1870 to 1876.
Guy Sherman, State university
has been studying bicycles,
rather than Latin, and has invented
and patented tire tightener, that has
received commentator even from Eu'
rope.
A proposed change in the constitu
ton provides for elections every four
years, instead of every two years. If
adopted the Kansas politicians occu-
patton will be half gone.
The Kansas mans ruling passion is
strong, even in Alaska. A former
now resident of Alaska, pc
Congress- to revise the laws OF
that territory.
Speaking of the dogs which barked
at the pyramids, we observe that Mrs
w. w. Canine of Burden has fallen
heir to 100000 from the estate of an
eastern relative.
Ernest Leisler is holding down case
on Leavenworth newspaper, al
though in his SEVENTEEN year. He has
been sticking type for fifty-four years.
An Eldorado woman publishes card
Of thanks TO her neighbors for their
laid and cooperation in the death OF
my late husband"
A Florence man who married
widow always refers to her husband
when speaking of him in company as
my predecessor.
Ruth Ward King, a pretty young
woman, defrauded an old soldier at
Fort Scott out of $50 pension money he
had just received.
The new jail for Wilson county has
been completed and accepted by the
1t cost the county
$500.
A jury at Emporia awarded Mrs.
Carter 81, 1876 against the Santa Fe for
the death of her husband.
An effort is now being made to Sc
cure the establishment of Irvine fac
tory at the state penitentiary, similar
to the one now in successful operation
in Minnesota.
Seven aspiring gentlemen have filed
for the governorship Of
the Soldiers home in advance of Gov
ernor Smiths removal.
There are thirty-fve clerks in the
Topeka pension office, mostly Atchison
men, who will lose their jobs when the
office goes to ST. Louis.
Jerryc' Botkin, congressman-at-large
from Kansas, has two brothers who
are in the secret service of the Santa
Fe railroad.
Joel Mack, wealthy Indian Terri
tory stock raiser, whose family live at
independence, was murdered near Ne
wata, l, L.
Seven million eggs were shipped out
If Dickinson county last year. That
is something to cackle over.
Dighton has more windmills than
any other county of its size in Kansas.
Real windmills, not statesmen.
The homeopathists want one of their
number named as superintendent of