Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A cost Office has been established ut
Bunch, Butler county, and Henry A.
Goodrich appointed postmaster.
Albert j. sibley, prisoner In the
WyGudotte Jail awaiting trial for
forgery, committed suicide by hanging.
The Cunnty Clerks association Of
Kansas will meet in Topeka on Janu-
arg II, 1s and 10. They hope to influ-
ence legislation that will equalize the
basis of assessment in the state.
A Topeka telegram said the present
extra session proposed to abolish the
board Of pardons, the labor bureau,
mine inspection bureau, state board OF
health and live stock sanitary commits
sion.
The Santa Fe will soon take up its
track from Enterprise to Salina and
use the Rock Island track. These
roads parallel each other for so miles,
being side by side and the business
does not justify.
DIR. M. Stalker, for many years at
the head of the Iowa State Veterinary
college, is to be at Topeka, January
10, and talk TO the state board of
agriculture upon the Farmer, His
Own Veterinarian"
Mrs. Lizzie Craig, housekeeper for
John Krebs, farmer six miles north
of Junction City, was found murdered
in the Krebs home. Suspicion pointed
to Krebs' divorced wife, who had Wis
tied the farm that day.
AS result of barber shop war in
Fort Scott, caused by an effort for
Sunday closing, an ordinance has been
inroduced in the city council abso-
lutely prohibiting all kinds of work
on the Sabbath, even including preach
ing for pay.
II. D. Watson, of Kearney, Neb,,
who Is successful raiser of alfalfa
and hogs, is on the programme of the
annual meeting of the Kansas state
board of agriculture at Topeka, jan
nary ll-13, and will tell the secrets of
his success,
The coroner's jury at Junction City,
in the Mrs. George Craig murder case,
rendered verdict placing the guilt
upon Mrs. John Krebs, who was placed
0nder arrest and will have to appear
in the district court for trial which
convenes January 2.
December "a a big meeting of stock
men and farmers was held atGoodland
and a gigantic suit was instituted
against the Union Pacific railroad to
recover damages for the destruction of
property by great prairie fire that
started December and ragged for three
days.
At the Forthcoming meeting Of the
Kansas state board of agriculture,
President George E. Morrow, of the
Oklahoma agricultural college, will
deliver an address upon modifying
the characteristics of Farm Animals"
which will be finally illustrated with
stereoptican views.
George A. Kimmel, who was cashier
of the Farmers national bank at Ar
kansas City until last August, when
he mysteriously disappeared while on
business trip to Kansas City, had
1913, 900 insurance on his life. Since
his disappearance no one, so far as
known, has heard aught of him.
At Topeka Simon Greenspan was
sent to the asylum for the insane.
Greenspan is young man who
married the wealthy widow of Allen
Sells, the oldest of the family of show
men. Greenspan immagined he was
to head party to go around the world
and offered 100000 each for persons
to join him.
After January / Kansas will own
every cent of her outside indebtedness,
the state school fund commission hav-
ing last week purchased $4,000 in
bonds, the only indebtedness outstand-
ing. The total debt of the state is
$685. 900 and after the first of the year
the state school fund will own it all.
Kansas is the only state in the union,
SO far as known, that owns its own
debt.
State Auditor Morris has prepared
a bill repeating the garnishment laws
Of the state, and will work for its pas
sage at the special session. He de-
clares that the present gernishment
laws are farce and work hardship
to the common laborer. If they are
repealed, he says, merchants will be
more careful about extending credit
and in the long run everybody will be
better off.
Recruits are pouring in Leavenworth
for the Twentieth United States in
fantry, and many men who desire to
make the trip to Manila with the regi-
ment cannot be accommodated Two
weeks ago when it was announced
that the Twentieth was detailed for
duty in the Philippines the regiment
was over 400 men below the standard,
and now it has 1850, about 100 more
than required.
The national banks of Kansas are
fighting Breidenthal's bill for guar.
anty OF the deposits of state and
private banks Its enactment would
make patrons of state and private
banks absolutely secure and therefore
would give to such banks a monopoly |
of the business. If the bill becomes a
law the national banks, for their own
protection, would be forced to SUR