Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Enterprise on the cooperative plan.
An epidemic resembling blind stag
gers is killing horses west OF McPher-
son.
The Topeka city council placed a
tax of so, 900 a year on premium stamp
companies.
Citizens along the Salina branch Of
the Union Pacific want daily passen-
ger service.
Ex-senator PETER has written let
ter accepting the prohibition nomina-
ton for governor.
Kansas banks have all paid their war
revenue tax ranging from $50 TO $500.
Several banks paid as high as $500.
George Plumb of Emporia, brother
of the late Senator Plumb, will be the
fusion NOMINEES for member of the leg
islaturc.
Theodore Raucher, baker at Atchi-
son, recently fell heir to $1,000, 600
through the death Of his father in
Germany.
Mrs, Barbara Hoist, convicted at
Holton of selling liquor, is keeping out
of Jail by appealing her case from one
court to another.
Over 1870 teachers from Kansas were
in attendance at the National Educa-
tional association meeting in Wash
ington last week
A telegram from San Francisco said
Lieut.. Col. E. G. Little, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, had resigned. A later
report came from Little denying that
he had resigned.
The first battalion of colored troops
was made up of volunteers from To
peka, Lawrence, Ottawa, Paola, Kan
sas City, Emporia and Fort Scott
four companies in all.
The attorney general decides that
city or district school boards cannot
exclude children between five and
seven years on account of the crowded
condition of the schools,
The company of negroes from Wyan-
dotte county broke all records for
physical perfection, only one man be-
Ahk INlCCbGhs NblbG companies 1OSb
from three to 80 men each.
State Labor Commissioner Johnson
says the average annual pay of Kan
sas coal miners is $4,000, and the av-
erage cost of living, S4O1. Ss, leaving
the miner 81 cents clear at the end OF
the year
The assistant United States attorney
says that state, county and municipal
officers do not have to use war reve-
nue. stamps on checks. Official tele-
grams and telephone messages are
also exempt.
l. L. Lambert, United States attor-
ney, announced that he would bring
criminal proceedings against all in
pay for all war revenue stamps used
on their receipts.
A Topeka dispatch said Gov. Leedy
had offered the lieutenant colonelcy
of the two Kansas negro battalions to
George w. Ford, of Fort Scott, who
is treasurer of the negro masonic
lodges of the state.
While sitting alone before an open
window in her home just south OF Fort
Scott, Mrs, James May berry, wife of a
young farmer, was fatally shot by some
unknown person, the shot coming
through the window.
Larned has dewey square" in
which is 1OO-foot fagpole from which
floats 26x15 feet flag. 1t is surmount-
ed by an arc light, and 10 feet above
the ground is eucircled by band
stand capable of holding 95 musicians.
Fire at Mcpherson destroyed the
First National Bank block, in which
were located the Citizens bank, sew
eral mercantile establishments and
Offices The town was temporarily
without fire protection. Loss, SIS, 900.
The six packing-houses in Kansas
four at Kansas City and one each at
Topeka and Wichita--turned out fn-
ished products last year valued at
$62 1926, III. They paid SS,9l4,0O6 to
1870 employees, 8,S59 of whom were
men and 6S2 women.
James Eagan, son of rich farmer
near Topeka, was persuaded by his
fathsr to desert his young wife and
attend school at Baker university.
Young Mrs. Eagan Immediately sued
her father-in-law for damages and
jury awarded her S4 GOO.
State Treasurer Heflebower states
that S45, 900 of Quantrell raid claims
have been received in his office. There
is but IS, 900 available for the payment
of these claims, and Mr.. Hefebower
says he will pay them in the order in
which they were received.
On June Is two-days-old infant
was drowned in the Arkansas river at
Wichita. Officers began an investiga-
ton and three weeks later arrested
Joe Kleinniger and Henry Church for
the crime. The dead child, it is al
legged, belonged to Kleinniger's daugh-
ter and young Church, it is charged,
was the father.
Returns of assessors furnished to the |
Kansas state board of agriculture from
~ counties show 800 600 bushels, or
nearly 30 per cent less corn as having |
been in the hands of their farmers
March 1 this year than at the same
time in 1897. Jewell county farmers
were holding on to 4,179,0OO bushels; |
Republic, 3,754,000; Brown. 3, los, 600, |