Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Work has commenced on a local tele-
phone exchange in Paola.
Maj. Calvin Hood of Emporia, owns
$500 acres of Kansas land.
There was a slight epidemic of scar
let fever in Russell county.
Cyrus Leland has declared in favor
of John Seaton for governor.
An Episcopal church, to cost $4,000,
will be built at Yates Center
The Frisco will build handsome
new IS, 600 depot at Neodesha.
A number of new steel wagon bridges
will be built in Jackson county.
1t is said Charles s. Finch will be APP
pointed postmaster at Lawrence.
The state insurance superintendent
collected over $4,000 during January.
Wichita subscribed 1850 pounds of
homemade flour TO the Cuban relief
fund.
Farmers of Sumner county want the
three-cent bounty on rabbit scalps re-
sumed.
Baldwin, the seat of Baker univer-
sity, is clamoring for better depot IA
cilities.
The town Of Frontenac has been so
undermined Tor coal that it has sunk
about % inches,
Ex-Secretary of State w, C. Edwards,
of Larned, has entered the republican
gubernatorial race.
The Delahunt elevator at 0lathe,
with several thousand bushels of
grain, was burned.
Fort Scott will vote on proposition
to build $15O,OO0 waterworks and
electric light plant.
The new army chapel just dedicated
at Fort Riley is said to be the finest of
its kind in the country
The Salina city council defeated an
ordinance which levied prohibitive
license on glove contests,
Mrs. r. b. Cary, the most active
woman of Hiawatha, is ~ years old
and the mother of Is children.
Lillian Frazier, 15-year-old Atchi-
son girl, died as result of spinal in
JuTlGS TeCGlNeu WnllG COdSbluB'
Charles Ruffner, Holton youth,
fooled with gun and may lose his
eyesight in addition to carrying a
SCARED face the rest Of his life.
The branches of an oak tree grow
ing in Doniphan county will shelter
500 persons from the SUMS rays.
Farmer Kenny, of Reno county, har-
vested 1900 bushels of wheat from 100
acres--an even As bushels to the acre.
The State bank at Norton, the oldest
financial institution in Norton county,
was forced into voluntary liquidation
because of conflict between stock
holders
Col. Montgomery Bryant, born at
Leavenworth December %, 1881, is said
to be the first white child born in
Kansas. Bryant is now living at
Wichita.
jackson county has decided to refund
its bonded Indebtedness of 500, 900.
The bonds will draw five per cent i'm
terest and have been contracted for by
eastern parties.
The old soldiers association of Pitts
burg adopted resolutions protesting
against the passage of the bill in con-
gress which has for its object the pub
LEGATION of the pension rolls.
Ex-Congressman Peters, of Newton,
who was supposed to be slated for
judge of the proposed new judicial
6fctriot bnc rriuaD ~, ho,Na Of fba hill
passing this session of congress.
State Superintendent Stryler has
reminded county school superintend-
ents that they cannot under the law,
teach in school and act as county SUI
perintendent at the same time.
The last piece of machinery of the
sorghum sugar industry in Kansas,
upon which the government spent
$3.50, 900 in experiments, was sold at
Fort Scott and taken to Nebraska.
The bust of ex-Gov. Charles Robin
son, for which the state paid $1,000,
will be unveiled in Frazier hall of the
state university at Lawrence on Feb
'uary 20, A number of well-known
speakers will be present
Attorney General Boyle has filed
mandamus proceedings in the supreme
court to compel the Topeka board of
education to put in use in the city
schools the textbooks adopted by the
state textbook commission.
The Kansas university faculty voted
to retain three years of Latin as a re-
quirement for entrance to the uni
versity. In this they ignored the
wishes of State uperintendent Stry-
lSer, who desired to substitute Greek,
German or French.
Representatives from several fair as
sociations met at Chanute and organ
lied the kansas Grand Circuit, which
will include Wichita, Chanute, FIRE.
donia, Erie, Parsons, Coffeyville, indie
pendence, Girard and Winfield. Good
purses will be hung up.
The grand chapter of Kansas Royal
Arch Masons will be held at Wichita
February IA. The grand lodge A. F.
81 A. NJ. will convene at the same place
on the 10th, and the grand lodge A. O.
U. w. will convene in the same city on
the 10th and continue until the Goth.
The G. A. r. state encampment and
Woman's Relief Corps will meet there
April 1922
prof T. Uoru,, a. ..ao1.-.:A II.