Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

spoke at Topeka Labor day.
Atchison's corn carnival has been
declared Off on account of lack OF funds
Oklahoma has just paid Kansas so,
900 for keeping territory prisoners
The bill is of several years standing
John b. Johnson, the Highland
banker who died recently, owned over
81, 900 acres of land in five counties in
Missouri.
At the National Irrigation congress
at Cheyenne, Wyo, last week j. IA.
Churchill, OF Kansas, was made one OF
the vice presidents.
At the state band contest in EN-
poria first prize was awarded the Cow
boy band, of Woodbine, and the second
to the Lyndon band.
At the Modern Woodmen log rolling
at lola a special feature was nat
ural gas display, to make which a.
900, 900 cubic feet of gas was used
A Washington dispatch said j. l..
Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster
general, would come to Kansas and
take part in the political campaign.
The internal revenue collections for
August in the Kansas-0klahoma dis
trict were 500, S97. 2s, about three times
the amount collected in August, 1897.
Convicts in the Kansas penitentiary
were caught making counterfeit
money, but not before they had turned
out great many nickels and quarters.
There will be confederate day" at
the G. A. r. reunion at Topeka this
fall and Col. John b. Stone, of Kansas
City, Mo-, will be one of the speakers.
Ed Henderson, the Fort Scott negro
barber who was held for running 10
year.old white girl, was spirited out
of town by officers to save him from a
mob.
S. NJ. Jarvis, the New York capital
list who was the first American to es.
tablish bank at Santiago, years ago
published the Times at Sedan, this
state.
John Harding, aged II and Edith
Edison, aged ID, eloped from Hiawatha
in lumber wagon, intending to find
some officer who would issue them a
marriage license.
William Madden, well-known
young barber at Fort Scott, was ar
rested for bigamy, the charge being
made by alleged wife No. 1, who re-
sides at Kansas City.
Topeka will vote on proposition to
issue $4,000 bonds TO purchase the
present waterworks system or build a
new one. The capacity must be G.,
100000 gallons daily.
At San Francisco the other day
when Gen. Miller reviewed the I, 200
troops camped there, Col. Fred Fun.
ston, of the Twentieth Kansas, was
made division commander.
Because the maple Leaf" railroad
erected a water tank and switches
adjacent to the First Methodist church
property in Leavenworth, the church
has sued the railroad company for ST..
900 damages.
State Superintendent Stryl1er says
more new schoolhouses are being built
in Kansas this year than in any year
in the states history, not excluding
boom times. The vast majority oil
thom are country schoolhouses.
Prof. Arnold Emch, of Switzerland,
will occupy newly-created chair Of
mathematics in the Kansas agricul.
tural college at Manhattan. Emch's
father-in-law, Prof. Walters, is also
one of the faculty at Manhattan.
Amos Walton, a resident of Kansas
since 1857, died at Arkansas City. In
1868 he was member of the legisla-
ture from Douglas county He served
with distinction throughout the civil
war in the Ninth Kansas cavalry.
Attorney General Boyle holds that a
parsonage owned by the church and
occupied by the pastor as residence
is exempt from taxation, together
with the ground upon which it is 10.
Gated not to exceed one-half acre.
Gov. Leedy commissioned Charles
Lindsay quartermaster of the Twenty
second Kansas to succeed Lieut.. Henry
Lamb, deceased. Lindsay is brother
of Col. II. G. Lindsay, of the same
regiment. Both reside at Topeka
Sergt Craig Harris, son of United
States Senator Harris, was seriously
i'll of fever at Montauk point. Young
Harris, though but II, enlisted last
spring in Washington city and was
one of the first to see service in Cuba.
According to Chancellor Shows
weather report August was nota-
bly, lacking in weather extremes The
highest temperature during the month
was 945 on the 10th and the lowest
was 56.5 on the 1st. The rainfall was
s. 46 inches.
Arthur w. Brewster, of st. Joseph,
nominee of the Fourth Missouri re-
% publicans for congress, was born and
grew to manhood at White Cloud, Doni-
phan county, this state. AS student
of Washburn college he gained quite
reputation as college orator and
won several prizes in Oratorical con-
tests.
All the daily papers have been full
of reports from San Francisco about
the quarrel between Col Fred Funs-
ton and Lieut.. Col. Little, of the
Twentieth Kansas, over appointments.
The latest dispatch said Funston had
ignored Gov Leedy in making one APP
pointment, alleging that the governor