Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The population of Wyandotte county,
including Kansas City, Is 80, 40.

Ellis county Will build q new Sl5, 600
courthouse at Hays City, using native
stone.
Ten inmates of the Hutchinson re-
formatory have escaped within a few
days.
Neodesha voted $50, 900 in bonds to
build city waterworks and natural gas
plants.
The socialists of Kansas recently met
at Pittsburg and formed state organ
ization.
In the Oldest Odd Fellow contest in
Kansas r. R, Martin, of Beloit, easily
stands at the head. He joined over SO
years ago.
A company has been chartered to
operate an electric street railway at
Fort Scott.
A man at Hunnewell weighs 7s4
pounds and his wife tips the beam at
603 pounds.
Three townships in Hamilton county
cast total Of only 10 votes at the re-
cent election.
The annual meeting of the state tenn
perance union will be held at Topeka,
February / and 2.
N. II. Harmon, editor of the Valley
Falls Vindicator, is dead. lie came to
Kansas 40 years ago
Wherever the proposition to ''cut
away the hedge rows" was up at the
recent election it carried.
Charley Ritter, county attorney, is
the only populist ever elected to a
county office in Allen county.
Gov. Leedy will reappoint j. G. Nc
Coy as live stock inspector for Kansas
at the Kansas City stock yards,
George Fox, aged %, of Ellis, took
two big drinks of bed-bug poison,
thinking it was wine. Funeral large
ly attended.
Al Randolph, son of a policeman and
nephew of district judge, was placed
in Jail at Emporia because he could not
pay fine for gambling.
Frank Finch, the editor and pro.
prietor, says the Ottawa Republican
has not been sold to l.. c. Slime, the
fusion leader or to any other person.
Near Andale recently Joseph Burc-
holtz, while feeding u thrashing ma
chine, had his arm dragged into the
cylinder and torn from his body at the
shoulder.
The bodies of so union veterans are
buried in the potters' fields in Kansas,
and Department Commander Botllin
will try to have them removed to reg
ular cemeteries.
Miss Maud Herrell, of Topeka, known
as the daughter of the Kansas e. A.
r." has been given a position in the
office of Thomas Ryan, assistant secre-
tary of the interior.
Charles Eckert, editor of a populist
paper at Larned, was assaulted on tho
streets by Edward Buckles, for an al.
legged slanderous publication about a
woman relative of Buckles.
Two joint keepers were sent to Jail
at Larned last week and they had so
many callers the sheriff Investigated
and found that the men were conduct
ing regular joint in the Jail.
William T. Berkey, of Geuda Springs,
was sent to the insane asylum the
other day at his own request to pre-
vent him from killing his own chill
dren. He was aware of his mental in"
trinity.
The bad feeling engendered in the
football contest between Kansas and
Nebraska recently seems likely to re-
suit in the cancellation of the annual
oratorical contests between the two
universities.
At Larned, John Potter sued the
Santa Fe railroad for $4,000 damages
for the loss of his 19-year-old sons leg.
The boy fell under the cars and his leg
was so badly crushed that amputation
was necessary.
The state irrigation convention at
Lawrence last week was big success.
Speeches were made by some of the
ablest advocates of the system in state
and nation and many helpful sugges-
tions were advanced.
In the district court of Wichita coun.
ty Judge Andrews decided that the
S42, 900 Wichita county bonds now held
by the state, were void because they
were issued over the authority of an
injunction. The attorney general will
appeal.
Judge Mcdonald, who has been
under arrest at Fort Scott several
months charged with defrauding his
associate counsel in the $34O, 900 Craw
ford county mine explosion cases, has
compromised the cases against him anC
has been released.
State Superintendent Stryker holds
that the only way to remove district
school officer is by legal process in the
district court, under charges. He also
rules that school board has no right
to employ teacher who does not hole
a certificate at the time.
Mrs. Anna Cairns, of Atchison, go
Judgment against her sons for $50
They had agreed to pay her $40 ;
month for life, provided she did no
bother them. They discontinued pay
ments recently and she brought suit
the jury allowing her claim in full.
Many women have been elected Il
the office of county superintendent il
Kansas, that being about the only ofric,
they have ever tried for. This year