Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


United States Judge Foster of To.
peka, has gone to California and will
be absent until April.
An educational journal for the Luz
theran church of the United States has
been started at Abilene
Dickinson county Ave per cent. re-
funding bonds TO the value Of S97l, 900
were sold at premium Of S575.
State superintendent Stryker has
designated March 10 and April for
examination of applicants for common
school diplomas.
Because his wife had sued him for
divorce, B. 4. Jones threw himself be-
fore n train at Atchison and was
ground to pieces
The State Plumbers association pro-
poses to disband IL the attorney gem
eral, after examining its bylaws, de-
cides it as u trust.
Chairman Riddle, of the populist
state committee, says the state con-
vention Of his party will be held June
30, place not yet selected.
This secretary of state has dug up a
law which requires all corporations OF
profit to report annually. There are
II, 900 of these corporations in Kansas.
During November and December
about II per cent Of the entire tax
due Harvey county was collected by
the treasurer, which beats all records.
Secretary Coburn had printed 1000
copies of Bank Commissioner Breiden-
thal's address before the state board
of agriculture for circulation in the
east.
The city council of Hutchinson, de-
feated in the local courts in its efforts
to prevent the Salvation army pa
rades, will appeal to the supreme
court.
OF all the bank failures in Kansas
since 1899, the farmers were not re-
sponsible for single one. Specula-
tive business men and poor banking
did it.
Insurance Superintendent McNall
says he will refuse to relicense eastern
companies formed to insure live stock
unless they change the conditions of
their policies.
The assignee of the Lebold, Fisher &
Co. bank at Abilene, which failed in
1889 for $3.50, 900, has made his final re-
port. A dividend of only three per
cent was paid creditors
Fred b eler the cattle king of the
northwest, who lives in Jewell county,
has 4O4 head of cattle almost ready for
the market and will put 800 more on
feed the first of February.
Neodesha voted for a $50, 900 bond is
sue to build waterworks and light
ing and heating plant This was the
second election on the proposition, the
first one having been declared illegal.
The state treasurer has ample funds
to pay all warrants that had to be sold
last fall because there was no money
to pay them. Accumulated interest
on the warrants will cost the state
about $500,
There is an uncertainty as to what q
marriage license will cost man in
Kansas. At present it is either 81,
81. so or SO, and it will require an opin-
ion from the attorney general to de-
termine which.
The county commissioners Of Sedg-
wick county were talking of buying a
newspaper plant and hiring a man to
do all the county printing, claiming
that such action would save the coun-
ty about So, 900 per annum.
Proceedings have been commenced
in the supreme court to GUST AL Perry
from the office of county commissioner
of Doniphan county, on the ground
that he was illegally elected, Perry
! is nephew Of Cyrus Leland.
The county commissioners of Douglas
county will receive bids for building a
bridge across the Kaw river at Lee
compton. 1t will cost only $500 and
jefferson county has already voted
Sis, 600 TO aid in its structure.
State Superintendent Stryker's lat
est scheme is to have night schools es-
tablished in cities for boys and girls
who work during the day. He says
boards of education can appropriate
money for their maintenance.
Old soldiers at Fort Scott will sue
the Bourbon county commissioners for
not employing soldier for janitor OF
the courthouse. Action will be
brought under the law of 1890, which
gives veterans the preference in all
such cases.
The new law for taxing judgments
provide that all taxes on such judg-
ments shall be paid in the township
where the action originated. AS nine
tenths of the judgments are rendered
in the district court, che new law will
greatly benefit county seat towns.
The state board of health will adopt
drastic measures to stop quacks from
practicing medicine in Kansas. AL
who practice will be compelled to file
certificates with the county clerk
showing where they secured theil
medical education and place of gradua
ton.
Many surviving pioneers of Kansas
attended the annual meeting of the
state historical society at Topeka. The
society now has ,034 bound volumes
Eugene Ware presented the society {
bronze bust of D. w. Wilder, the vet
eran editor. Officers chosen are: Pres.