Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-11
THE STATE OF KANSAS.

port. IL is nearly 1000 words in length
and fully reviews the testimony, which
fila a thousand pages octave Size. The
committee found many things to COM
mend in the home at Leavenworth,
Sut does not hesitate to call spade
spade, and recommends the removal of
Governor Smith; that Major Shockley
DO replaced by some one in firmer
health, and that there be general
apturning and infusion Of new blood
all around.
The State live stock sanitary com
mission has appointed Frank Williams
of Kansas City TO be its agent at the
stock yards Of that place. Williams
compensation as fixed by the commits
sion will be 800 month. The COM
mission will also appoint agents for
Texas and New Mexico. The duty of
these agents will be to inspect AL
cattle from the "ticlsy" country, in
Guiding Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona
and Texas, for shipment into Kansas.
The inspection shall be two cents a
head, TO be paid by the cattle owners,
Abilene Reflector; At the present
time a carload of $4,000 pounds OF gilt
edged butter Is worth about $4,000 in
Central Kansas; so is 100 carloads of
corn of 20 900 pounds each worth about
$4,000. 1t Is very much cheaper to
pay freight on one car load. Freight
charges are never considered excessive
on articles of small bulk and great
value, while they are always burden
some on small values in large bulk.
That is why 1t pays to concentrate
products out here.
William Addison Brown of Baker
university carried off first honors at
the fourteenth annual contest of the
intercollegiate Oratorical association
of Kansas held in Topeka last week.
Man" w. II. Foulkes, representing
the College of Emporia, won second
place, with an grafton ON "rhe Mis-
sion of the Seer" while third place
was awarded to j. w. Newell of Wash
burn college, who spoke "Eor the
People"
IAN act concerning nopotism, and
declaring certain appointments to DO
illegal" was the title Of u bill intro.
duced by Representative Taylor in tho
House. The bill catches all kinds Of
officers. 1t prohibits state, county and
city officers from appointing TO any
position of trust person who Is kin to
such officer by affinity or consanguin-
ity within the third degree. No per-
son receiving such an appointment
shall receive any compensation for any
services rendered,
Senators Campbell, Field and Wal
lack, comprising the committee APP
pointed to investigate the financial
condition of the cities of Anthony
and Cimarron, filed a report In
the Senate, in which they de-
clared the towns were insolvent and
recommended that the school fund
commissioners be authorize to com
prise the bonds OF those towns held In
the school fund. No action has yet
been taken on the report
Sol Miller has so far recovered that
he Is at his editorial desk again. In
the course of an account of his recent
illness he says he had grippe, pleurisy,
biliousness, stomach trouble, fever,
heart disease, nervous prostration and
such a miscellaneous assortment of
aches and pains that he did not feel at
all we'll. The only things he did not
have were pneumonia, the bubonic
plague and appendicitis.
j. s. Miller of Doniphan county will
SOW wheat and oats together this
spring, He says this is regularly done
in Minnesota, and in that country
threshing machines separate the wheat
and oats without trouble. He believes
also that when oats grow with wheat
the chinch bugs will let the wheat
alone, since II is we'll known that these
pests never modest oats. He will plano
forty acres as an experiment
All efforts to secure legislation re-
ducing telegraph and telephone tolls
have been abandoned by Representa-
tive Keefer, chairman Of the commit
tee on telegraphs and telephones His
last bill referred to the committee on
cities of the first class was killed, and
Keefer says 1t is no use to try longer
to secure legislation in that line.
The fees and salaries committee Of
the Senate introduced bill fixing the
salary Of the clerk of the Supreme
court at $4,000 year and allowing
him $4,000 annually for clerk hire.
All fees collected shall be turned into
the state treasury. The clerk Is di,
rected to make report monthly to the
executive council.
Representative Topscott introduced
bill in the house providing for the
appointment of county bee Inspectors.
The duties OF these officers shall be
ITO suppress and eradicate foul brood
and other infectious and contagious
diseases Of bees" The salary of each
inspector is placed at "a per day.
The Arkansas City Milling company
has contributed carload Of -four ia
the San francisco committee which IL
working to relieve the distress in
India, The railroads agree to haul
such contributions to the seaboard
free and the Indian government fur
nshes transportation across the water.
John J. Ingalls, has received an offer
from the New York Journal to go to
Washington to write up the inaugural,
and also to 60 to Carson City, New, to
give his impressions of the Gorbett-
Fitzsimmons prize fight and the crowd
attending it,
II ever two people needed to be in
troduced to each other it is Mr.. Seeker,
of Hillsboro, and Mr.. Finder, OF Os-
borne Mr.. Seeker, Mr.. Finder; Mr..
Finder, Mr.. Seeker.
| The HAYES Republican saws It takes