Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-03-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Franklin county republicans in
structed for Funston for governor.
1t cost $1s,61s.3 81 to run the stat,
charitable institutions during Febru
airy.
There are now 90 negro students at
tending the state university at Law
renee.
An early morning fire at Garden City
destroyed several valuable business
houses.
Ex-Secretary of State William Hig'
gins is prospecting for gold in New
Mexico.
Work has begun on the Santa Fe
double track between Emporia and
Florence.
j. II. Glahart, a wealthy merchant
of Lawrence, was thrown from horse
and killed.
James Dawson died at Newton, aged
IS. He was veteran of the Mexican
and civil wars.
w. j. Buchan won out over j. X.
Cubbison in the Wyandotte county
congressional race.
Several horses were burned to death
in fire that destroyed the Hopper
livery barn at Pratt.
Members of the Topeka Populist
Flambeau club are booming L. P.
King, of Cowley, for governor
A posse of citizens ut Cuba arrested
three men whom they suspected of
burglarizing the post Office there.
b +. Burwell, recently appointed as
sociate justice of Oklahoma, lived in
Saline county, this state, until 1891.
The city council of Junction City
awarded the contract for the erection
of new city hall and opera house, to
cost $2O 900.
Linn county has two candidates for
the populist nomination for congress
County Attorney Clay and ex-County
Attorney Poor.
Gov. Leedy says he will not appoint
the committee to prepare the Kansas
exhibit at Omaha until the money nee
essarv is in sight.
Rev. j. d. Matthews, a Baptist
preacher at Belleville, wants a posi-
ton in the state militia, with the
privilege of fighting Spain.
State Labor Commissioner Lee John
son has made compilation of all la
Dor laws now in force in Kansas and
5000 copies will be circulated
Ex-Postmaster Sturm, of Caldwell,
who was accused of embezzling $500
while in Office, was fined $40 and costs
in the federal court at Wichita.
Bourbon county republicans in con-
vention elected delegates favorably to
Gates for congress, Funston for gov
ernor and Germany for lieutenant gov
ernor.
The Fourth congressional district
populist convention will be held at
Emporia, May II. A committee has
been named to confer with the demo-
Gratis.
Attorney General Boyle has begun
proceedings to prevent the receiver of
the Wichita & Western railroad from
tearing up the track between Pratt
and Cullison.
Three young men at Mcpherson
thought it would be a good joke on
somebody to pull up telephone pole.
Now they have fine of $500 each ahead |
OF them and imprisonmentif they don't |
pay it,
The chart agents who had been
working" rural districts were having
trouble is discounting their school war
rants as a result of the warning let
Ter sent out by State Superintendent
Stryker.
In Hamilton county the 10 town
ships have been redistricted into only
three. This was done to reduce the
number of officers and curtail ex penses.
Other western Kansas counties may do
likewise,
Solomon Smith, of Burroak, who
served Uncle Sam faithfully in the
Mexican and civil wars, says he is
ready now to fight Spain. All he asks
is that his hard tack" be soaked SO he
can chew it.
1ne Jonn A. Martin monument fund,
started three weeks ago by Editor
Howe, of the Atchison Globe, has
reached over $500. There is no doubt
the $1,000 required will be raised in
very few days.
Gov Leedy pardoned C. C. Ross.
serving ten-year sentence for high
way robbery in Cowley county. The
county attorney who prosecuted him
wrote that he did not now believe
Ross was guilty.
The disappearing carriages for the
'apid-6ring guns now used for defense
IN both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
ire the invention of Capt. William {
1rozier, son of the late Judge Robert
jrozier, of Leavenworth.
Chairman Love, of the democratic
tate committee, appointed w. F. Sapp.
J. G. johnson, Thomas G. Fitch, John
!. Lee and DIR. G. w. Brandenburg as !
he committee to confer with popu- {
lists regarding democratic representa- /
ion on the state ticket.
1t is authoritatively stated that in r
very single case brought by the state
chool fund commissioners against +
ltfenent counties to enforce the paw )
nent of bonds, the district Judge has :
ecided in favor of the county. In 80 {
er cent of the cases the supreme c