Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

St. Louis capitalists will erect at
Cherryvale zinc smelter to cost $780,
600.
The Santa Fe will erect large shops
at Cleburne, Riley county, to cost $780,
600
Jack" Schall, of Hiawatha, has
leased Sol Miller's old paper, the Troy
Chief.
The first socialist county ticket NOM
mated in Kansas was put up at Fort
Scott.
The state agricultural college at
Manhattan last week graduated so, SO
of whom were women.
Remember the Maine" is the title
of new song just published by Frank
A. Bush, of Belleville.
L. r. Ridgely was renominated for
congressman by the Third district pop
ulist convention at Cherryvale.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners decided that it had no
power over telegraph lines in the state.
Fire destroyed one-half of the big
Lanyon spelter plant at lola. The
loss is $50, 600, no insurance, and $50
men are temporarily made idle.
DR.. Wiley G. Woodruff, coach OF the
Kansas university football team, has
been appointed a surgeon in the regu-
lar army, with headquarters at Fort
Riley.
Ben Fowler, ex-chairman of the
Lyon county populist committee, says
a middle-of-the-road candidate for con-
gress will be nominated in the Fourth
district
AT the twenty-sixth annual com
mencement of the Kansas state uni
versity last week the degree of bach
elor of arts was conferred on IS
graduates.
Gov. Leedy had nothing to do with
naming recruiting stations for vol
unteers under the second call The
government will attend to this in
every state.
Seventy new lawyers, recent grad"
yates of the Kansas states university,
went to Topeka in a body and were
admitted to practice before the SUI
preme court.
Will Goodwin, aged fG, of Neosho
Falls, swallowed silver dollar, which
became lodged in his throat, and it
was necessary to make an incision to
effect its removal.
James M. Thompson, of Caldwell, a
well-known judge, was found drowned
in Bluff creek. There are suspicious
of foul play, as some tough characters
had been with him.
The receipts of the Kansas state
grain inspection department for May
exceeded expenditures by $500. There
is now $4,000 to the credit of the de-
partment in the state treasury.
Regents of the state university de-
cided to have military instruction in
the school, and request will be made
for a United States army officer to
take charge of the department.
Mrs. Mary baltimore, found guilty
of keeping disorderly house at Fort
Scott, was declared vagrant and SEN
fenced to 80 days in Jail and fined 500
and made to give good-behavior
bond.
From the report of State Mine In
spector McGrath it is learned that the
counties which lead in the production
of coal are Crawford, Cherokee,
Leavenworth and Usage. They pro-
duce 90 per cent. of the coal mined in
Kansas
Capt. Fred E. Buchan, of Kansas
City, now captain of the Twentieth
Kansas, was married at San Francisco
to Miss Lucinda X. Smith, of Law
renee, who travelled half way across
the continent to wed the young soldier.
Both are graduates of the Kansas state
university.
The prohibition state convention at
Emporia nominated ex-senator PETER
for governor; K. T. Black, lieutenant
governor; j. b. Carton, secretary of
state; j. Biddison, state treasurer; Mrs.
i. N. Buckner, state school superin.
tendent; II. Hurley, state auditor; NJ.
Williams, congressman-at-large.
Among the statistics gathered by
State Labor Commissioner Johnson for
his annual report are figures from 80
counties ia the state on assessments
According to these statistics discrimi-
nation is made by assessors in favor of
the farmers and big corporations as
against the small manufacturers.
State School Superintendent Stryker
and other educators have started
movement to have the word dewey"
coined into the English language. 1t
means to annihilate, to wipe out, to
destoy. The word is to be coined as a
compliment to Admiral Dewey and his
recent victory in the Philippines.
Chancellor Snow, of the state uni
versity, has prepared circular on
''chinchbugs," several hundred copies
of which will be distributed free. The
reportcovers experiments for ten years,
and Prof. Snow says chinchbugs can
be destroyed, under certain conditions,
by spreading diseases among them.
He also demonstrates that rain does
not always kill bugs.
officers of the Twentieth Kansas are
recruiting 800 volunteers from the state
to take to San Francisco to fill the
regiment to its maximum strength.
Recruiting was done at Topeka, Kan.
sas City, Fort Scott, Abilene, Law