Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
At present there are sss children in

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death while playing with matches.
olathe's new high school building, a
handsome two-story brick, with ac-
commodations for 900 pupils, was dedi-
Gated recently.
The safe of the United States Ex-
press company at Almena, Norton
county, was blown open and robbed of
over $4,000 in gold.
Gov.-elect Stanley and the Wichita
Commercial club'are pushing for an ex-
hibit of corn and It's cooked products
at the Paris exposition.
Ex-Sheriff j. L. Brewer, of King
man, has been appointed COVER nment
land inspector. His headquarters
will be at Springfield, Mo.
Thomas Moody, postal clerk whose
home is in Leavenworth county, and
j. L. Bliss, of Ottawa, have been APP
pointed post Office inspectors.
The Kansas State Temperance union
is laying plans to defeat any attempt
to secure a resu omission resolution at
the coming Legislative session.
Ex-senator Ed M. Hewins, former
stockman of Chautauqua county, died
recently in Douglas, Wyo. His wife is
a sister of ex-United States Senator
Edmund g. Ross.
George z. Cole, state auditor-elect,
says the present assessment and taxa
ton laws are wholly inadequate and
he is preparing an entirely new law
covering the subject
Privates in the Twentieth Kansas at
Manila and in the Twenty-third
(negro) regiment at Santiago are writ
ing home that they are weary of army
life and want to come back.
Edward Roe, a stockman of Wood
ward, was seeing the sights" in Kan
sas City the other night when two
women who were with him robbed
him of gold watch and $40 in cash.
A Topeka dispatch said Chairman
Riddle, of the populist state commit
tee, would call state conference of
populists at Topeka in January, when
the talk of party reorganization will
be discussed.
The probate judge of Wyandotte
county performed juvenile marriage
recently, the contracting parties being
Willie McShane and Lizzie Uptmore,
each II years of age. Their parents
Abnsented to the marriage.
The news that the two first battal'
ions of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment had reached Manila on the 1st
without single death and with very
little sickness, was received with great
satisfaction throughout Kansas.
The charity bazar at Wichita closed
with the auction sale at which Gov
elect Stanley served as auctioneer
Among the things sold was Cuban
machete, found on the Santiago bat
tlefield and sent to the ladies by Gen.
Shafter.
Receiver Mitchell, of the State bank
at Fort Scott, which was wrecked two
years ago by steal of $4,000 by
Cashier Colean, has called upon the
solvent stockholders to make up $40,
900 to pay the balance due depositors
and other creditors.
Representative Campbell, of Fort
Scott, is being urged by constituent
to introduce bill in the next legisla-
ture which will exempt the parent of
ten children from taxation of every
character, with view of rewarding
the parentage of numerous progeny.
Lewis Rhoades, former employee of
the Rock Island railroad at Phillips
burg, has sued the company for $40, 900
damages because he is no longer able
to masticate. Rhoades alleges tina
last April his head was crushed by a
locomotive in such a way as to deform
jaws
While returning home from Troy
the other night Harry Ellis, a school
teacher, was held up ~ miles north
of Troy by two highwaymen and
robbed of $40. Ellis was tied and
gagged in his buggy and his horses
tied to fence, where he was found
next morning almost frozen.
The Kansas school fund has received
81, 900, 900 from borrowers in the past
two years. Most of the borrowers
were country school districts where
the taxes for buildings fall heavily.
In some instances the bonds had not
matured, but the school fund commits.
sion accepted the money because they
could easily lend it again.
A member from Atchison county will
introduce bill in the next Legislature
making it criminal offense for any
person to knowingly garnishee wages
known to be exempt. The present law
provides that wages earned by the
head of family, which are necessary
to the support of that family, shall be
exempt, but there is class of lawyers
who embarrass debtors with garnish
ment suits until they lose Their posi-
tions.
The cost of running the various state
charitable institutions during October
was as follows: Winfield imbecile
asylum, Sc, 100; industrial school foI
girls at Beloit, Sl,4l9 90; Osawatomie
insane asylum, SlS, 10 95; Topeka in
sane asylum, S15,627.79; school for
blind at Kansas City, $l,73L5O; state
reform school at Topeka, $3.50. IS
Olathe deaf and dumb asylum, S3,
657O1; soldiers orphans home al
Atchison, So, 7O4.71.
Henry Keenan, and Mary Randall