Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-04-28

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hall occupied by the various fraternal
societies of the town.
Fighting Joe" Hudson, of Topeka,
rendered his services to Gov Leedy
and said he desired to lead company
of Kansas boys against Spain.
The total enlisted strength of the
Kansas national guard is 1878. The
inspecting officer reports the guard to
be in very fair condition in every par
ticular.
DR.. Wiley G. Woodruff was raising a
military company of state university
students, to become a part of a ma
tional organization Of university stu
dents.
Mrs. Plumb, of Emporia, recently
won $2O,OOO suit against Capt. A. A.
Thomas, partner of the late senator,
in the supreme court of the District
of Columbia,
The machine shops at the state uni
versity recently destroyed by light
ming will be rebuilt Immediately, the
citizens of Lawrence having raised the
$50, 900 required.
Secretary Corburn, of the the state
board of agriculture, has issued a
quarterly on "The Plow, Cow and
Steer" which promises to create as
much interest as any of his former
publications.
&. G. Little, private secretary to
Gov. Leedy, secured the names of so
Abilene young men who will go to
fight. Little may lead them, and it
was suggested that he might become
commander of the volunteer forces of
Kansas.
The Manhattan, Alma g. Burlingame,
a line of railway IS miles long between
Manhattan and Burlingame and con-
Meeting the Union Pacific and Santa
Fe, was sold under foreclosure for
100000 to representative of the
| Santa Fe.
The convention of Fourth Congress
sional District Republican League
clubs was held at Emporia last week.
Speeches were made tby state and
congressional candidates. w. A. Mad
ison, of Lyndon, was elected secretary
of the league.
Capt. II. M. Phillips, county-treas-
urer-elect of Shawnee county, and a
company of rs men, organized in To-
peka, marched to the statehouse and
rendered their services to Gov. Leedy
in case of war, 1t is the first volun-
teer company that will be subject to
the call of the governor.
Col. Alexander Warner, late presi-
dent of the bank at Baxter Springs,
was convicted in the Cherokee county
district court on five counts of having
violated the state banking law. When
Col. Warmers bank failed several
months ago there was less than $50 in
the vaults. Col. Warner was until re-
Gently q member of the legislature
and prominent republican politician.
Gov. Leedy pardoned Marion Clark,
of Coffey county, who was sent to the
penitentiary forten years for highway
robbery. Clark is the 16-year-old boy
who was sentenced on circumstantial
evidence year ago and on whose ac-
count j. Custer, one of the jurors, COM
mitted suicide about two weeks ago.
Evidence had been secured that Clark
was innocent and Custer killed him
self because of remorse.
committee of prominent populists
of Wyandotte county visited the at
torney general recently and requested
that quo-warranto proceedings be
brought against w. T. Quarles, chief
of police of Kansas City, and s. G. Mil
Ter, county attorney Of Wyandotte
county, with view to ousting them
from Office. The committee charges
that the condition of the police affairs
in that city and county is a disgrace to
the party; that saloons and gambling
dens are run in open defiance of law
and are of more vicious character
than is permitted in Kansas City, Mo-,
where no prohibitory law exists.
Judge w. G. Webb, one of the best
known men in Kansas, died at Topeka.
He was native of Pennsylvania, but
was for many years resident of Wis
consin, where he served in the legisla-
ture as republican. He came to Kan
sas in 1866, locating at Fort Scott. In
early life he was a democrat. but left
that party because of his anti-slavery
views. He served in the union army, |
rising to the rank of colonel. In 1875 |
he moved to Topeka and as a republic
an was three times elected to the legis-
lature and held the Office of county at
torney, district judge and judge of the
superior court of Shawnee county, and
other public positions. Seven years
ago he joined the peoples party. His
last work was the revision of the Kan
sas statutes.
In the federal court at Topeka last
week the last of the criminal charges
against w. H. Hill, founder of Hill
City, Graham county, was dismissed.
Hill was charged with obtaining gov
eminent land under false pretenses,
but he escaped prosecution under tech
nicalities.
The death of "Uncle John Reid" old
est inmate of the soldiers home at
Dodge City, is recorded. He served in
the Mexican and civil wars.
George Plumb, secretary of the Kan
sas State Live Stock association, has
isSuad q oa1l for tho animal non fior