Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

TIC Va nun
sas City, Kan, is an even $1,000,00O.
The contract for Ellis county's new
sl3, 900 courthouse has been awarded.
The county attorney has, by injunc-
ton, closed all the drinking places in
Hutchinson.
The national dairymen's convention
at Topeka February 2l-26 promises to
be big affair.
The city hall and opera house at
Junction City, recently destroyed by
fire, will be rebuilt by the city.
Mrs. l., p. Moss, a school-teacher at
Lincoln Center, was fatally burned by
the explosion of a lamp in her home.
Aov Leedys private secretary, E. G.
Little, wants the state to go into the
insurance business on gigantic scale.
Fort Scott will soon have long-dis-
lance telephone connection with all
the important towns of southeast Kan
sas.
There are SO high schools in the state
that prepare their graduates for direct
admission to the freshman class of the
state university.
Carelessness in running q freight
train caused a wreck on the Rock
Island at Clay Center which cost the
lives of three persons.
l.. d. Mckinley, of Topeka, a popu-
list cousin of the president, has been
appointed chief physician at the Osa-
watomie insane asylum.
Within the last six weeks the state
treasurer has received 81, 100000 in
taxes, which is the best record for tax
paying in the states history.
A Topeka telegram said populist
state officials and prominent populist
politicians have raised fund to start
a populist weekly paper at Topeka
The report sent out from Topeka
that Miss Wheeler, matron of the state
insane asylum there had resigned
rather than face charges, is denied.
Several young women students at
the state university have raised an en-
barge against liquor by refusing to as
sociate with young men who drink
Bonnie Surkaro, a seven-year-old
Hutchinson boy, has a mania for steal
ing horses that are hitched along the
streets. He will be sent to the reform
school.
Mable Dougherty, school-teacher
at Silverlake, was burned to death
while cleaning dress with gasoline.
A lamp was upset and the gasoline ex-
ploded.
A call has been issued for state
meeting of Kansas BARRIERS at Topeka,
February 81. A state association will
be formed to secure legislation against
incompetent workmen.
The Kansas County Treasurers' assoc
citation met in annual session at Topeka
last week. II. M. Phillips, Shawnee
county, was elected president, and j.
c. Moore, Douglas county, secretary.
The first edition of the physiology
adopted by the state textbook com
mission had over so errors in it and
Superintendent Stryker had the pub
fishers get out revised edition.
-Four Kansas men from near Leba-
non, have left for Jerusalem, giving
for their reason that they want to
sweep the streets and get old Jerusa-
lem ready for the second coming OF
Christ
Agents of the Canadian government
have been in SedgwicS county solicit
ing settlers to locate in the Canadian
northwest territory. Free Transports
ton and fine homestead of 100 acres
are offered.
William Repetto appeared before the
probate court at Newton and asked
that he be sent to the asylum. He
said he was at times insane and de-
sired to better his own and his fam
ily's condition
Letters are being received by the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton making inquiry about the work
ings of the new school book law. They
/ are nearly all from legislators OF adj
= joining states,
e The bust of the late eX-Gov. Charles
. Robinson, ordered at the states ex
J pense at cost of 81, 900, has arrived If
Lawrence from Chicago and as soon as
accepted by the state will be placed il
= Fraser hall at the state university.
The estimate by State Bank Commits
sioner Breidenthal that 100000, 900 O
, farm mortgage Indebtedness would b'
t paid in Kansas during 1896 and 1882
e may prove too small. In Sumner
e county alone the net reduction wa
1 S541,95S
e The time has expired in which Sum
= ner county agreed to pay bounty or
rabbit calps. In all, $4,755.42 were
4 paid for ,514 scalps, during a perioc
d of only two months. This amounts tC
y "a scalps for each quarter section o
= land in the county.
In Maxwell township, Stafford coun
: ty, six district schools will be abol
+ ished and one central township schoo
! established. The pupils will be con
!, veyed to school in wagons each day
y The districts abolished are sparsel.
s. settled and the action is taken to saw
=, expense and secure better school.
: Ex-Gov. John P. st. John has started
a movement for the erection of mon
ument over the grave of ex-Gov. JohI
II A. Martin. In his appeal to the peopl
= of Kansas for funds, he calls attention
to the fact that no suitable ston