Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


gas.
A cattle-dipping station will be built
at Chetopa.
Prelrs grain elevator at Columbus
was destroyed by fire, causing a SIO,-
900 loss.
The fees of the state grain inspector
for September were S3, l64.4O and the
expenses SO, 64O75,
John futile, of Sedalia, Mo-, is in
Jail at Girard charged with breaking
into the depot at Hepler, Kan, and
forging lot of tickets.
Unless the Emporia school board and
city council soon agree over tax levy,
which is in dispute, the schools of that
city will be closed for want of funds.
The receipts of the state oil inspector
during September were SLOT. 10 and
the expenses $4l2,66, leaving balance
OF S6O4. Al to be turned into the state
treasury.
The poor commissioner of Topeka
persuaded Jane Bailey, negress, to
give up her two.year-old illegitimate
child tor so cents worth of provisions
and the child was found a good home.
A Santa Fe freight train was
wrecked at Barclay, near Emporia, by
the breaking of an axle and II cars
were thrown from the track and
smashed to pieces. No one was hurt.
The preliminary trial of j. j..
Kunkel, the Lawrence tailor charged
with poisoning his wife and step
daughter, resulted in his being held
without bail on the charge of murder.
w. G. Oldfeld, a Missouri Pacific
fireman who was thrown from his
engine near Independence and had
his arm severed by the car wheels, has
sued the company for $S7, 900 damages.
Douglas county lawyers are agitat-
ing plan to change the courts of the
county. They want county judge
appointed to try all cases, except those
OF minor nature, now brought before
justices of the peace.
As result of the recent snowstorm
30 miles of telegraph wire on the Santa
Fe between independence, Kan, and
Kansas City was down and over 800
poles will have to be replaced. The
other railroads Jared almost as bad.
Methodists of Newton celebrated
the twenty-6fth anniversary of the
erection of their first church there.
Addresses were made by Rev. w. A.
Quayle, DIR. j. p. Goblin, Rev. M. M.
Haun, the church's first pastor, and
others.
Gov. Leedy has offered reward OF
$500 for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer of Mrs. Clara Oliver, a
widow, who was found brutally MUIR
dered near her home on Norton coun-
ty farm. Mrs. Oliver lived alone with
her two small children.
Several Santa Fe brakemen at New
ton, who owe large sums to merchants.
will try to take advantage of the new
bankruptcy law to rid themselves of
debt. AS the men have no property,
the merchants will hardly realize any
thing through the court
The stones for the soldiers monu-
ment in East park at Newton have
arrived and will be put in position at
once. The stones are very large ones,
one weighing 80, 900 pounds. The mon
ument will be surmounted by cannon
ten inches in diameter and weighing
Is, 900 pounds.
The scheme to amend the divorce
laws of Kansas, making three
months residence in the state suffi-
cient to institute divorce proceedings,
is being pushed by a number Of
lawyers, as the enactment of such a
law would prove a banana to the
legal profession.
The board of education at Fort Scott
appealed to the city authorities to as
sist in enforcing the compulsory educa-
ton law and as a result the police
were ordered to arrest every boy Of
school age caught upon the streets
during school hours without a written
excuse from his parents.
Secretary Coburn's latest report from
the state board of agriculture is de-
voted entirely to the pork-producing
interests of the state. In glowing
terms he tells of the hog as wonder.
full mortgage remover. In 1897 there
were $500, 494 hogs in Kansas, valued
at $l1, 997, 40, an increase of 500, 900
hogs over the previous year.
The secretary of state has forwarded
to the Kansas volunteers now in the
field or in camp printed list of the
state, congressional, judicial, senate
rial, legislative and county nominees.
In several counties the list of county
nominees was not given, because the
county clerks failed to certify the list
up in accordance with request of the
secretary of state.
At Pittsburg the other night Will
Mccoy, Mineral City miner, gotinto q
game of poker here in Eaton's gaming
house He lost money and then, be-
ing seized with regret, held up Eaton
with revolver and took his money
back. Eaton had Mccoy arrested for
highway robbery, and Mccoy in turn
had Eaton arrested for running a
gambling house, which, under the
Kansas law, is a felony.
A recent dispatch said Gen. Mer-
riam has ordered the following officers
and men to proceed to the Philippines
on the transport Indiana, which will
sail in a week: Col. Frederick Funs-
ton, Mais. Whitman and Metcalf, Sur