Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Girard is preparing to drill extcns
sively for natural gas.
Over 100 cases of measles were re-
ported at Marysville last week.
Elijah Britton, Mexican war vet
eran, died at Lawrence, aged So
In the past two years 14O boys were
arrested in Atchison, most OF them for
theft
Congressman Frederick, of the First
district, is in favor of postal savings
banks
Superintendent McNali said there
was a local fire insurance trust at
Atchison.
Farmer" Funston will enter the
race for congress in his old district,
the Second.
Mrs. G. V. Norman, oldest daughter
of Cy Leland, died at Santa Fe, N. NJ,
of consumption.
Ralph Armstrong, aged 10, died from
injuries received while playing "black
man" near Holton.
Thomas Foster, cattleman of Nor
ton, has lost over $4,000 worth Of
cattle by black leg.
Attorney General Boyle declares he
will appoint no more assistants to help
enforce the prohibitory law.
Ex-senator II. Kelley contemplates
starting populist paper at Topeka, to
be the administration organ.
Gov. Leedy gives emphatic denial
to the story that he would call spe-
cial session of the legislature.
Representative Kansas democrats
will observe Jackson's day, January s,
with big banquet in Topeka.
Two large business houses at Cimar-
ron were destroyed by.fire, including
the Republican printing Office.
Fred Funston, of Allen county, now
a colonel in the Cuban army, expects
to be in Kansas on Christmas day.
Senator Baker has great hopes of
getting the bill through congress this
winter for another federal district.
Judge Theo BotlSin, department COM
mander of the G. A. r., will enter the
Seventh district congressional race.
But IL pupils are enrolled under Miss
Mead, district school-teacher in But
Ter county. The children belong to
but two families, each contributing
six
Levi Wilson, who came to Fort
Leavenworth in 1S49, and who was for
many years q prominent contractor
and railroad builder, died recently,
aged 10.
Chancellor Shows November weather
report said only eight Novembers in 80
years had been warmer. The rainfall
was 10 inches below the November
average.
G. C. Clemens, of Topeka, the noted
socialist, announces that he will soon
hold revival meetings throughout the
state and eXhort people to believe in
socialism.
State Superintendent Strykers plan
of forming township schools in the
sparsely settled counties is reported
to be meeting with favor with the
teachers of the state.
Albert Griffin, the venerable tenn
perance worker, is out with a card in
which he confesses that prohibition is
failure and says moral suasion is the
only solution of the drink problem.
The roster of the Kansas G. A. r.,
department shows a decrease in mem
bership of over 1000 last year, and it
is feared by the department officers
that this record will be exceeded this
year.
The North Central Kansas Teachers
association at Junction City elected e.
w. Kendriclk, of Junction City, presi-
dent, and Miss Stone, of Concordia,
secretary. The next meeting will be
at Concordia.
The $780, 900 bonds recently voted by
Neodesha citizens to build waterworks
and gas plant will not be issued,
Judge Stilwell deciding that the bal
lot used at the election did not con-
form to the Australian ballot law.
Col. A. M. Coffey, who died at Knob
noster, Mo-, recently, was Indian
agent for the present eastern part of
Kansas in 1875, and in 1856 was a
member of the council of the Kansas
legislature, instituted by congress in
1854.
The Northwest Kansas Teachers as
ISOLATION at Nortonville elected j. r.
Connolly, of Thomas county, president
and Mabel Reynolds secretary. First
prize in the declamatory contest was
won by Mark Thompson, of Norton
county.
A decision by Judge Foster at Tope-
ka in regard to government liquor
licenses makes it impossible to convict
a man for selling liquor in Kansas
without license, until the commits
sioner of internal revenue modiies a
rule in regard to issuing these licenses.
DR.. ]. H. Wood, aged 81, was run
over by team of horses at Wichita
and fatally hurt. DR.. Wood was one
of the men who laid out the city OF
Lawrence. He was an anti-free state
man and was Douglas county's first
probate judge, being appointed by the
pro-slavery authorities.
President Andrews, of Brown uni
versity, who will address the state
teachers association December 80, will
take for his subject "The Public