Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

big carnival at Manhattan on Satur-
day, the 18th.
The net earnings of the Kansas state
grain inspection department for 0cto-
Der were s69s.
In 1896 the resources OF Kansas state
banks were S25, SOL, 4s1. This year they
are S3l, 34S, $50.
The Kansas orphans asylum at
Leavenworth has been forced to close
for lack OF funds
Kansas banks have S6,0O0,OO0 more
of deposits and So 900, 900 less of loans
than one year ago.
At the recent election Ellis county
carried bonds for the erection of new
courthouse at Hays City.
The announcement comes from To-
pelSa that Mrs. Annie l.. Diggs will
be elected state librarian.
The Santa Fe railroad will soon erect
a depot, eating house and division
offices at Newton, to cost $4,000.
Mrs. Joseph New and George Dobbs
are under arrest at Eureka charged
with the murder of Mrs. News hus-
band, prominent farmer.
S. Z. Cottrell employed in an eleva-
tor at Coffeyville, had his foot caught
in one of the cups and his leg was torn
from his Sody, causing instant death.
The assistant attorney general says
he fears the provisions of the anti
trust law are so severe that the law
will be knocked out by the supreme
court.
X. L. Netherton, of Harper, was ac-
quilted by a jury at Lawrence of bur-
glary and larceny alleged to have been
committed while student at the state
university.
Cora Cottle, half-demented Leav-
enworth girl, started fire in her lap
and was burned to death. Her mother
and brother were seriously burned try
ing to save her.
in recent interview eX-Gov. Level
ling denounced the present metropol-
itan police system and said it would
break the political back Of any gov
ernor who fooled with it.
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State Horticultural society will be
held at Topeka December $3.50. Some
of the leading horticultursts of the
country will make addresses.
John Mcdonald, editor of the West
ern School journal, wants state
grammarian appointed to correct laws
after they are passed by the legisla-
ture and before they are published.
Gov Leedy has pardoned T. L. Nc
Manus, of Weir City, who was convict
ed in August and fined $1,000 and sem
fenced to 4So days in jail for running a
Joint. McManus is a noted strike
leader.
Albert Steigmeyer, a farmer, was
buried alive by the caving in of sand
pit on his farm near Salina. He was
dug out Is hours after the accident oc-
Cured. 1t is supposed he was instant
ly killed.
Gov. Leedy has heen informed that
the state board of charities was pay
ing II cents pound for soap for use
at state charitable institutions that
was selling on the open market at
three cents.
The recent decision of the supreme
court unfolding the Cubbison anti
gambling law, has dampened the spirit
of gambling house keepers, who real
ize that conviction hereafter means
q term in the penitentiary.
While showing his married sister
how he could defend himself if at
tackled, j. F. Young, of IIiawatha, acct
dentally discharged the gun, the
charge killing the woman and barely
missing an infant in her lap.
A recent telegram from Fort Scott
said it was generally understood in
political circles that Attorney General
Boyle would be candidate before the
next populist and democratic state
: conventions for governor, in opposition
! to Gov. Leedy.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court decided that Superin-
tendent McNall had a right to inter
, fere with Harrison Clarkson in max
= ing rates for Kansas fire insurance
companies, anu Gldb hC4Ndll COulu CA
} clude any company entering the Clark
} son combine.
A petition is being signed exclusively
: by Sedgwick county populists request
ing the dismissal of Rufus Cone as 8
member of the state committee fol
, having authorized statement to b.
made in local paper that he votet
the entire republican ticket at the re
v cent election.
The Scottish-American Investmen
company of London has brought sui
in the federal court at Topeka agains
I the Kansas Loan & Trust company, o
which II. b. Sweet is president, to re
cover S125,OOO. The plaintiff charge
fraud and alleges that Sweet and hi
q associates are in default $4,000 TO
loans collected, but not turned over.
y An agreed statement of facts in tn
: action by the state to enforce the new
scrip law in Crawford county was sub
mitted to Judge Simons at Girard b.
attorneys on both sides. The law wa
: passed to effect the abolition of tn
!, company stores in the mining district
u and to require the companies to pa
d cash wages. The companies maintain
u that the law is unconstitutional, an
II IL has been apreed to take the shortes