Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The A. M. y. conference at Lawrence
decided to send missionaries into Cuba.
The enrolment at the state uni
versity last week passed the $50 mark.
The Sumner county high school AT
Wellington opened with over $50 pu'
pills.
A San Francisco telegram said Col.
Funston and Lieut. Col, Little were at
peace.
At Atchison Luther Dickerson, aged
20, was married to widow just half
his age.
Fred Wulf, wealthy German farmer
near Shawnee, committed suicide be-
cause Of poor health.
The Windsor hotel at Emporia was
destroyed by fire started from the ex-
plosion of coal oil lamp.
1t is very probable that Kansas
election will be held this year in the
middle of the Pacific ocean.
During the past IA months the state
grain inspection department officially
inspected 1879, CSC car loads of grain.
Capt John Waller, of the Twenty
third (colored) Kansas regiment, writes
from Santiago that Cuba is the only
country for the negro.
Gov. Leedy appointed ]. D. Beel, of
Grainfleld, member of the live stock
sanitary board to succeed Frank Vein
shank, resigned. Beel is a democrat
Pretty 16-year-old Kate Yancy, of
Grenola, wasmissin gfron home and it
was thought she had eloped with a
travelling Snowman named Armstrong.
The receipts of the state coal oil in
spector's office for August were ST.
O75. 60, the salaries were $3.50, leaving
1906 to be turned into the state treas
uTy.
The coal business in southeastern
Kansas is booming and railroads
traversing that section are hauling
more of it than ever at this season of
the year.
A Topeka telegram said the attor-
neys for John Henry Collins, charged
with numbering his father, would not
ask for change of venue from Shaw
nee county
Private Roberts, of the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas, died of fever in camp at
Leavenworth. Instead of reporting
at sick call he remained in his tent
until nearly dead.
Sheriffs of southwestern Kansas met
at Wichita and organized to wage war
on horsethieves They will go in with
the anti-horsethief association to ex-
terminate the thieves
The charter of the Lawrence & EN-
poria railroad, line 81 miles long
from Lawrence to Carbon Hill, has
been annulled. 1t has not been oper-
ated for nearly four years.
Gov. Leedy appointed Sergeant Ma
jor Dodge lieutenat of the Twentieth
Kansas to succeed Lieut.. Flanders,
who resigned rather than undergo an
investigation for incompetency.
Ex-Gov. Lewelling and Dr. A. M.
Pratt, prominent populists of Wichita,
but members of opposite factions, en-
gagged in street fight over remark
that Pratt had made regarding the ex-
governor.
The trial of County Attorney Norris,
of Saline county, for alleged illegal
practices, resulted in his disbarment
The charges were instigated by H. N
Gaines, ex-superintendent of schools.
Both men are populists.
1t took 1922, O4O.2 S to run the several
rtoko
August, not counting the state insane
asylum at Topeka. Of this sum, $!4,-
49O.2l was for maintenance and ST.
55O.O7 for salaries of officers and at
tendants.
The national university of the
Friends church, the school recently
endowed at Wichita by j. M. Davis, of
st. Louis, with 5000, 900, has been for
mally opened. Edmund Stanley, ex-
state school superintendent, is presi-
dent of the faculty.
The Kansas appellate court, sitting
in session at Leavenworth, upheld the
Sunday-closing law, the suit being
brought by the labor unions of the
city to close the barber shops on Sun
day. The decision also affects Sunday
baseball and theaters
The district and appellate courts at
Leavenworth held that a wholesale
house in Kansas City that was trying
to collect liquor bill from Kansas
jointist had no legal standing in the
courts, as the business of selling
liquor in the state was prohibited by
statute.
There were on July 4 last 1854 state
and private banks in Kansas, de-
crease since 1891 of 80, but the total
deposits were S92, 1874, 956.S1, an in
crease of 4S3 "a per cent. over 1891.
There are SO banks in the state whose
surplus equals so per cent of their
capital stock.
On June 30, 1898, there were 7s2 pris-
oners in the Kansas penitentiary, an
increase of 80 over the preceding year.
OF this number Wyandotte county fur
nished the greater number, Shawnee
second, Sedgwick third and Mont
gomery fourth. The expenses of the
institution the past year were S14S,-
072.
Crime, criminals and the cost of |
punishment for crimes in Kansas is
the subject of an investigation now
being conducted by State Labor Com
missioner johnson Under the head |