Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The Salvation army will build two.
story stone building at Winfield.
The state poultry association will
meet at Manhattan January all.
The Santa Fe will lay 1000 feet of
additional side track at Emporia.
At Burr Oak 20 ears of corn are on
exhibition that weigh 97H pounds.
A Jewell county man marketed go
hogs that averaged 4OOH pounds, re-
ceiving $720 for them.
A fire at Cherryvale destroyed
Caudy's hardware store and other
buildings valued at $4,000.
DIR. Glynn, a young physician at
lola, almost killed himself while eX-
perimenting with cocaine.
The contest over the office of sheriff
Of Shawnee county was decided in favor
of Porter Cook, the republican.
A young tough at Lawrence was
fined S1O5 in police court for escaping
from the city rock pile.
A jury in Wyandotte county JUS
COuEl lCluONNA w ASbhAAA ~ ~ NeANS
until their fees were paid.
Henry Webster is wanted at Yates
Center for forging his brothers name
to a $3.50 note at the bank
A Chicago firm is building $50 new
refrigerator cars for the Santa Fe rail
road, to cost 5000 each, total of $685.
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The populist clans Of the state will
meet at Topeka January 5 and for a
conference. A big attendance is eX-
pected.
A state convention of negroes was
held at Topeka December % to de-
demand a place on the republican
state ticket.
Gov. Leedy pardoned c. e. Wight
man, who was sent up for wrecking
the Tribune state bank, in time to eat
Christmas dinner at home.
w. A. Reeder, of Logan, will again
contest the Sixth congressional district
republican nomination with A. H..
Ellis. 1t is said there are others.
In the district court of Sedgwick
county Judge Dale declared valid the
Kansas law requiring railroads to give
return passes to shippers for one car
of cattle.
An electric railway will be built
from Kansas City to Bonner Springs
Wyandotte county, u distance OF 20
miles, and Bonner will be doomed as a
health resort.
The county treasurer of Sumner
county has discovered that Oklahoma
farmers have killed and brought to
WELLINGTON thousands of rabbit scalps
for which they received bounty OF
three cents each.
g. w. Howe, of the Atchison Globe,
is an applicant for the Atchison post
office, and his enemies are digging up
the mean things he has said in recent
wears about Mckinley and Senator
Baker.
Prof. G. c. Georgeson, who was last
spring let out of the state agricultural
college by the new board of regents,
has been appointed to lucrative posi-
ton in the department of agriculture
at Washington.
The Kansas court of appeals, sitting
at Topeka, held that a client is bound
bv the act of his attorney, and that an
attorney once appearing in a case will
be recognized until notice to the con
trary is fled in court.
Under the new salary law Attorney
General Boyle says county commits
sioners will be allowed pay only fol
those days actually spent working fol
the county, and in no instance car
they draw to exceed $500 year.
Judge Holt, of Wyandotte county
holds that creditors right to sue
stockholders of bank are still good
Notwithstanding the new banking law
relieves the individual creditor OF this
right and gives it to the receiver
Labor commissioner johnson ha
sent blank statement to every mar
in the state who works for wages
which is to be returned with prope'
answers. The object is to find .whetheI
the laborers condition is improving.
Lawrence Lapsley, wealthy negr
who died near Salina, left his fortune
to Prof. Charles Harne, a young mai
who had nursed Lapsley through
dangerous sickness when the othe
white neighbors deserted him on &C
count of his color.
A permanent exhibit of Kansas prod
ucts has been opened in the Nelson
building, Kansas City, Mo-, in charg
of H. c. Owen, of Beloit. Crawfor
was one of the first counties to report
sending in fine exhibit, principal,
of lead and zinc ores and coal.
Federal Judge Foster has ordere'
the Wichita g. Western railroad to pa
Sl1. 1888 back taxes to Pratt county an
dissolved the injunction restrainin
the sheriff from collecting the taxes
The money was badly needed, as tn
school districts were without funds.
: The suicide of Gen. A. B. Campbell
at Chicago, will be heard with regre
by large number of Kansas az
ouaintances. He was chaplain OF tn
state penitentiary under Gov. st. jon
| and adiutant general under Gov. Ma
tin. An appetite for whisky cause
: his ruin.
State Treasurer Hefiebower says b
| will pay for no more bonds for the pc
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