Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

turned iuto the city treasury.
John Ainsley, Ridgely farmer, was
In Topeka looking for his wife and
Zach Martin, neighbour who had
eloped.
Farmers at Great Bend will organize
cooperative company to build an ele-
vator, hoping to handle their grain
and save the profit now paid middle
men.
Floyd Stafford, an Emporia negro
boy has come into possession of
SIS, 1000, left him by his grandmother
Chippewa Indian, who died recently
in Michigan.
The upsetting of a lamp in the mill
linery store of the Misses Brown in
Manhattan caused the destruction of
the entire stock. The building was
saved after hard work.
A two.year-old child of Olaf John
son, of Emporia, was burned to death
by piece of waste paper blowing into
the house onto lighted gas stove,
then, in flames, alighting on the child's
clothing.
John w. Breidenthal, state bank
commissioner, will recommend in his
annual report the passage of a law
for the inspection of building and loan
associations, patterned after the Mis-
souri, law.
Chancellor Snow, in his weather re-
port for October, says the month was
noted chiefly for the snowfall on the
18th, which came 26 days earlier than
the average date, and exceeded in
depth the entire snowfall of all the 80
previous October records.
At the Omaha exposition the first
gold medal for the best salt was
awarded to the Kansas Salt company,
of Hutchinson. The award to the
Kansas company was over the best
salt works of Michigan, New York and
other big salt-producing states.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Carlson, of Colby,
this state, were found dead in the
Hotel Vendome in Omaha, Neb., hav-
ing been suffocated by gas Mr. Carl
son, it was reported, had been drinking
heavily and it was thought he had
blown out the gas instead of turning
it off.
A remarkable triple wedding is an.
nounced for Harsool1, Ellis county.
A widower married widow, and the
son and daughter of the widower
married the son and daughter of the
widow. 1t is related that the young
people first fixed up their love affairs
and then the old folks talked it over
and decided to sweep the board.
At Lawrence, District Judge Riggs
released j. j. Kunkel, under indict-
ment for wife murder, on a bond of
$4,000. Judge Riggs stated that inn
prsonment before conviction was not
punishment, but surety, and that
if, in the judgment of the court, a
given bond would secdre the attend
ance of the accused, a bond ought to
be accepted.
Forty-three Kansas counties, which
made returns to the state board of
health for the quarter ended Septem-
Der 30, reported $40 deaths from pre-
ventable" diseases, the apportion-
ment to the various diseases being as
follows: Diphtheria, 2S; typhoid
fever, 65; cholerO infantum, "a; cancer,
So; consumption, Sc; malarial fever, 49,;
whooping cough, 10.
The state fish commissioner distrib-
uted several thousand young black
bass and catfish to farmers of Pawnee
county for stocking the streams and
artificial bonds. This is the third time
the streams of southwestern Kansas
have been stocked with black bass,
but as far as known none have ever
been taken from it's waters, and sports
men are not a little puzzled to know
what has become of them.
Capt John l.. Waller, of the Twenty
third geOlored9 Kansas volunteers,
writes hack from Santiago that not
more than one-half the negro troops
of the regiment will get back home.
The young neguOes have played havoc
with the hearts of the Spanish and
half-breed women and have also lost
their hearts in return, and according
to Waller many of the soldiers are al
ready engaged to marry Cuban wo men,
and he expects many more to follow
suit.
The dairy class in the state agricul-
tural college at Manhattan has been
testing adnlterated milk. Each mem.
Der was supplied with five samples of
milk without any knowledge of how
they had been treated and asked to
give diagnosis of each samwIe. By
the use of the thermometer, Gactom-
eter and Babcock test they found that
one sample was normal milk, one
sample had heen watered, one sample
skinned. one both watered and
skinned, and one had cream added
to it.
A. w. Smith, tsf GFherson, one of
the Kansas Omaha exposition commits
sioners, says Kansas received more
prizes for the NUN Der OF exhibits than
amy state i'm the union. Outside of
rthe live stock exhibit" he added,
+iKansas received 40 medals in the
horticultural department; one silver,
1S bronze medals and five diplomas ian
the agricultural department, and one
silver and three bronze medals in the
apiary. We had the finest mining ex-
hibit and in this department received
one gold, six silver and nine bronze
medals, besides an honorable men