Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Ter county was raised, over 5000 head
of suspected cattle being released
EX.Gov. Click, of Atchison, lost SO, 900
worth of blooded cattle from black
leg. Other farmers also lost heavily.
The w. c. T. U. of Salina presented
a petition of 800 names to the city
council, protesting against vice in that
city.
News comes from Skaguay, Alaska,
that Fritz La HUM, of Arlington,
Kan, committed suicide in his tent
there.
Ex.Gov. Click is credited with say
ing that mixture of morphine and
carbolic acid is u sure cure for hog
cholera.
George Tallman, private in the
regular army who was wounded in the
Santiago battle, is visiting his parents
at Holton.
The worSingmen in Kansas who be-
long to labor unions are employed on
an average of ten hours and six min
utes daily.
1t took $500 worth of revenue stamps
on the deeds transferring the Missouri
river bridge at Atchison to its new
purchasers.
While in a game of cards with his
wife, Dave Miller, of Coffeyville, few
into fit of passion and stabbed her
with knife.
John c. Sheridan, popular citizen
and democratic politician of Paola,
will go to New Mexico to live, ON ac-
count of his health.
The private bank of J. d. Harpster,
at Willis and the Eastern Cowley
Banking company, of Burden, have
gone into voluntary liquidation.
L. L. Dewey, of Wilson county,
nephew of the famous admiral, became
the father of triplets recently, all of
which are girls and alive and healthy.
State Superintendent Stryker says
the average annual wages of rural
school-teachers in Kansas is but $160,
and it is not surprising that they are
giving up the profession to engage in
other pursuits
The grand lodge of Kansas colored
masons, in session at Fort Scott elected
d. A. Jones, of Leavenworth, grand
master; II. II. Curtis of Baker Springs,
secretary and G. w. Bailer, of Fort
Scott treasurer
A Harvey county farmer wants one
per cent of the present wheat crop of
that county to be set aside as fund
for the Letters, who failed after hav-
ing raised the price of wheat and help
ing the farmers.
Pearl McDaniels, little Fort Scott
miss, accidentally swallowed small
bead. Some of her playmates told her
it would kill her, when she grew sud
denly frightened and died before
doctor could reach her.
Gov. Leedy named the following
delegates to the National Irrigation
congress at Cheyenne, Wyo.: w. ].
Fitzgerald, Dodge City; John E. Frost,
L. b. Cowgirl and II. r. Hilton, To-
peka; j. $. Emery, Lawrence.
A city ordinance at Lenora prohib-
its absolutely the sale of liquor in the
town except by prescription drug
gist, and penalty is provided for per
sons guilty of giving away liquor or
resorting to any method of treating.
A colonization company, with $780,
600 capital was chartered at Topeka,
headed by ex-United States Marshal
Walker. The company's object is to
get up excursions to Cuba and Porto
Rico, and buy and sell land and lots
there.
Jack Fowler, horsethief who had
been taken from the Troy jail to wash
windows in the sheriff's office, grabbed
two pistols from drawer, jumped
through window and held his pur-
suers at bay until he made good his
escape.
Rev. w. A. Quayle, formerly presi-
dent of Baker university, but for five
years past pastor of Independence
Avenue M. E. church, Kansas City,
will preach in the Meriden Street NJ.
E. church, Indianapolis, Ind, after
January /.
Capt w. d. Sherman, of company X,
Twenty-second Kansas, died in the
hospital at Fort Myer, near Washing
ton. His home is at Seneca. His
death will cause promotions as follows:
Louis Miller, to be captain; Elliot A.
Davis, to be first lieutenant, and Sergt
Roy j. Martin, to be second lieutenant.
f. D.. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has issued
folder giving interesting statistics re-
lative to Kansas products during the
past 20 years. The aggregate value
for the 20 years for the principal prod
ucts is SO, 4S1 ,O61, Isl, or an annual av-
erage of $124, O53, OS7. The dairy prod
ucts have averaged S4,774,91O for ten
years, the best year being 1897, with
value of S., 959,752.
Miss Catharine Withers, the young
Fort Scott society lady who clandes-
timely left home to marry " E. Atkin-
son, dry goods clerk at Emporia, was
found at Wichita by her father and
taken home. Her parents were great
ly gratified that circumstances had
prevented her marriage. Had Mr. At
kinson received funds, which he ex-
pected in Kansas City, she says, they