Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Harry Seabrook, OF Topeka, has
been appointed a cadet at West Point
Ten houses at Hutchinson were bur-
glarized the night of the circus in that
city.
The soldiers orphans home at Atchi-
son could accommodate 200 more chill
dren.
Burglars entered Americas She other
night and looted nearly every store in
town.
Well-posted grain men say the Kan
sas corn crop will aggregate 200, 900, 600
bushels.
There are 936 prisoners in the state
penitentiary at Lansing, an increase
of A over last year.
The Santa Fe has reduced rates on
coal from Usage City to points within
100 miles ten per cent.
The receipts of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for July were $9,7O5. rs and the
expenditures Sl4, 80.
EX-Speaker Lobdell has disposed of
his Kansas City Tribune to George w.
nAhi VIM VI blS OdAGbJSs
Hutchinson will have whisk broom
factory, the only one in Kansas, and
1t will employ 100 persons.
Because his children objected, an
Atchison man so years old ran away
from home to get married.
Miss Grace, daughter of ex-Gov. John
a. Martin, is now librarian of the SOL
diers' home at Leavenworth.
Gov. Leedy is opposed to territorial
extension, particularly the annexation
of any part of the Philippines
A. c. Jobes, Wichita banker, sue
ceeds the late eX-Gov. Osborne as di-
rector of the Santa Fe railroad.
Congressman Simpson and Attorney
General Boyle will open the populist
campaign at Wichita August 25.
The federal Judge refused to grant
the application for a receiver for the
Hutchinson e. Southern railroad.
Notwithstanding recent heavy rains
it is said the Kansas corn crop will not
be over so per cent. of a full crop.
An organized gang of horsethieves
is operating in Saline county, as many
as six horses being stolen in one night.
The state board of equalization re-
duced the assessment of land in 10
southwestern counties to rs cents per
acre.
Arnett e. Co., mine operators at
Pittsburg, will mine coal by machin-
cry, one machine taking the place of
six men.
Sam Smith and Tom VIM, who
robbed the Frisco train at Andover,
Butler county, were captured at No
wata, /. I.
Martin Snyder, aged IS, was MUIR
dered and robbed by an unknown per:
son while on an outing with friends
near Wellington.
Gov. Leedy commissioned Lieut..
Calkins as captain of company D,
Twenty-first Kansas, to succeed Capt.
Vaughn, resigned.
The tickets furnished Kansas voluu-
teer soldiers to vote will not be in the
Australian ballot form, and will be
cast in the old way.
Insurance Superintendent McNall
warns creameries not to insure in the
Creamery Mutual Assurance company,
which has no Kansas license.
The epidemic Of Texas fever among
Montgomery county cattle was effect
lively checked by dipping in native
petroleum. Over 40 head died.
Fred Hook, Sabetha join tkeeper
convicted of violating the liquor law
on n counts was fined $7,7OO and SEN
fenced to serve 61S years in Jail.
jeff Slaughter, aged 16, who attempt.
ed to assault three-year.old girl at
Caldwell, was only saved from mob
by being kept in hiding by officers.
District Judge Simons, of Fort Scott,
held that the city poll tax ordinance,
which requires ten hours for days |
work, is valid, and that the state eight
hour law is not applicable.
Adjt Gen. Allen, of the state militia,
says that the national guard of the
state will be reorganized just as soon
as it is definitely settled that there
will be no other call for volunteers.
Secretary of State Bush has decided |
not to print election ballots for the
Kansas volunteers at the expense of |
the state. The various political parties
will have to furnish the ballots for the |
soldiers.
Miss Stella Mckinney, who was ex-
PEELED from the Bethel Baptist church |
in Miami county, has brought suit for
49, 900 damages against members of
the church for circulating alleged |
slanderous reports about her.
State uperintendent Stryker is
working to secure the adjustment of |
the study of Latin as necessity for
admission to the state university; also
as requirement in the high schools.
He says the time spent in studying
Latin is thrown away.
Warden Lands, of the Kansas peni-
tertiary, forced the designations of
John Chase, head mine engineer, and
David Shull, top mine officer. Lands
accused the men of crookedness Chase
is son of ex.Warden Dick Chase and
Shull is an eX-member of the legisla-
ture from Usage county.
Attorney General Boyle has brought
injunction suits against coal mine