Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Topeka,s DOMINATION is a,e5l.

Two or three addlJlonal new SmelLerh
will be built at lola.
The Kansas corn acreage this year is
722, 900 less than in 1897.
The war tax will cost the Santa Fe
railroad S1S0,00O year.
The first new wheat marketed at
Newton brought 80 cents.
Rev. Father Then, a Catholic priest
of Wichita, has been appointed an
army chaplain.
Wyandotte county furnished two
companies of negro volunteers for the
two Kansas battalions.
A pest that attacks the roots and
bodies of trees is badly damaging fruit
trees in Atchison county.
Two white men-one from Kansas
City and one from Wichita-enlisted in
the Kansas colored battalion.
Over adozen horses have died at Con-
way, Mcpherson county, of disease
thought TO be loco poisoning.
Farmer William Fair, near Hutchin-
son, had $50 acres of wheat burned by
fire from a locomotive engine.
The salary of Wichita's mayor was
increased to 81, 900 per year, because OF
the extra work imposed by the new
police law.
The principal business thoroughfare
of Lawrence, Massachusetts street,
will be paved with brick a distance OF
two miles.
Charles Root, n Russell volunteer
who died in camp at Chickamauga,
was buried with military honors at
Russell. He was only II.
Rev. Bernard Kelly, the well-known
Methodist preacher, is chaplain of a
regiment that has been before San"
tiago the past few weeks.
A grand potato feast will be given
at Edwardsville, Wyandotte county,
July 23, as sort of thanksgiving for
the abundant potato crop.
John Henry Collins, the young col
lege student in Jail at Topeka charged
with the murder of his father, is clam
oring for change of venue.
Highland, Doniphan county, one of
the oldest towns in Kansas, will have
railroad soon, having voted 100000
bonds for a branch of the Grand Island.
Since the uniform textbook law
went into effect rs counties have
adopted books and secured the ex-
change rate of half price on new ones.
Frank Miller, an organ salesman at
Halstead, was whipped, tarred and
feathered by mob because he had at
tempted to outrage four-year-old
girl
Senator Baker has returned to his
Leavenworth home from Washington.
He will sojourn in Colorado before
taking part in the republican cam
paign.
Farmer Stowe, seven miles west of
Lawrence, lost several cattle from an
unknown disease. They were taken
sick and died in two hours in great
agony.
A prominent horticulturist says the
apple crop in the Kaw valley will not
be sufficient to supply local demands,
an April hailstorm having badly dam
aged the buds
D. B. Stephens, of lola, is looking
up price raid" claims in Kansas,
which, he says, will aggregate S25, 6sS.
Stephens will try to get the national
government to pay these claims.
Gov. Leedy was considering the ad
visibility of paroling a number of coll
o.,oI ,Y,v tap fv,N,,, hn tof
tory at Hutchinson upon condition
that they enlist in the volunteer army.
Because the city requires ten hours
for a days work, a revolt against
working out the poll tax was started
by male citizens of Fort Scott, who
will test in court the validity of the
law.
A well-known farmer near Cherokee
created much Indignation by publicly
horsewhipping his grown daughter
upon the streets of Cherokee because
she was in the company of a young
man whose society he had forbidden
her.
The state labor commissioner will
ask the next legislature to pass law
prohibiting adulteration of -four. His
reports from Kansas mills show that
large percentage of mills in Kansas
adulterate flour either with corn or
glucose.
Paola will have big crowd at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
Miami county courthouse July 81. The
masonic lodge will conduct the cere-
monies and Justice David ]. Brewer,
of the United States supreme court,
will deliver the Grafton.
Walter Woods, of Concordia and Roy
Nicely, of Topeka, privates in company
B, Twenty-second Kansas, who were
recently appointed to minor positions
on Gen. Miles staff, accompanied the
latter to Santiago and were the first
Kansas volunteers to set foot on Cuban
soil
Brig. Gen. ]. X. Hudson, of Topeka,
has been assigned to the Second brib-
ade of the Second division Fourth
army corps, one of the finest of the
volunteer troops. 1t embraces the
First regiment District of Columbia,
Second New York and Fifth Mary
land.
A number of bank depositors in diff
ferent parts of Kansas are making an