Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The state irrigation convention will
he held at Lawrence November IS.
The Olathe Herald has been sold by
j. Il. Herman to George Foster, an at
torney
George Fox, aged SO, was married at
Lincoln Center to Mrs. Mary Smith,
aged 81.
The father of T.. w. Hoch, the we'll
known editor, died at Marion recently,
aged s5.
The annual convention of the Y. w.
G. A. of Kansas was held at Baldwin
recently.
Indications of the presence of sill
yer and copper ore have cropped out
near Parsons
Rev. w. j. Martindale has sold the
Western Methodist, of Wichita, to p.
A. Rohrbaugh.
The safe in the 0berlin roller mills
was blown open with dynamite, but
only $50 was secured
Sixty thousand head of new cattle
have been taken into Phillips county
this fall to be wintered.
The 10th annual state convention Of
the Y. M. C. A. will be held at Law
renee November II to H.
The government has established q
signal and experiment station at Har-
per, with 21 sub-stntions.
Complaint was made that the state
normal school regents were not using
the states new textbooks
A Topeka telegram said Senator
Baker and Cyrus Leland had fallen
ous over federal patronage.
Policeman H. c. Reeder, of Wichita,
was bound over to the district court ON
the charge of stealing corn.
Farmers of northwestern Kansas
will give the Campbell method Of soil
culture test the coming year
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Editorial association will be held
at Kansas City February next
1t is said Judge John Guthrie will be
Topeka's new postmaster and that he
will take the Office January next.
At a wedding feast in Jewell county
the other day 20 turkeys were roasted
and the whole township turned out.
Several additional mine operators in
Crawford county have been arrested
for alleged violation of the anti-scrip
law.
Rev. Fl. B. Fleharty, Gov. Leedy's
executive clerk, will open a law office
in Usage City and run for congress
next year.
A Topeka dispatch said that eX-Gov,
Humphrey, of Independence, was a
receptive" candidate for United
States marshal.
w. L. Trumbell, Topeka business
man, was run over and killed by pas
senger train in the railroad yards at
Kansas City, Mo.
The Mann brothers, at Wilder, john
son county, are the potato kings of
Kansas, their product this year being
about 1850 bushels.
Mrs. Louis Titus, of Armourdale,
was convicted of running joint, the
second woman to be convicted of the
offense in that county.
Many newspapers throughout the
state, especially in the western por-
ton, are charging on account of in
creased advertising patronage.
The report recently sent out from
Manhattan about mob congregating
to lynch Ike Warren, Sheriff Lard's
murderer, is pronounced a fake.
Blacl1leg appeared among Lincoln
county cattle, but radical steps were
taken to stamp it out, diseased ami
mails being slaughtered and healthful
ones vaccinated
The w. R. G. of the Fifth district re-
Gently elected Mrs Ella Brown, Vim
ing, president; Miss Hardness, Clay
Center, secretary, and Mrs. Billings,
Clyde, treasurer.
H. S. Jamison, who two years ago
came from Virginia and located on a
farm near Lawrence, was recently ar
rested for running moonshine whisky
still while in Virginia.
A consistory of Scottish Rite Masons
has been established at Fort Scott 1t
will be authorized to put on the 33 de.
gree. Its jurisdiction will be 16 coun-
ties. Topeka and Wichita have the
rest of the state.
At Nashville, Kingman county, Rev.
]. f. Litsey, aged rs, Baptist preach
er, was married to Isabel Lukers, aged
&c. The groom gave a reception to
four children, 81 grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
The Fifth district G. A. r. reunion
at Clay Center recently was a big sue
cess, fully 5000 people attending and
$500 school children taking part in
the parade. Ex-senator John K.
Wright, Junction City, was elected
president of the association.
BY Mr.. BreidenthaPs August reports
the state and private banks of Kansas
held SO, 900, 900 more in deposits than a
year ago. With eight banks yet to
hear from the present deposits exceed
those of year ago by S6,0OO,OOO The
gain over October of last year is 40 per
cent, which is sensational and un-
precedented Deposits now amount to
approximately 49,, 900, 900 and for all
banks of the state will hardly fall
short of $40, 900, 900. Adding the capt.
tai and surplus, the money available