Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-04-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Northwest Kansas M. L. confer
ence will be held at Downs next year.
new state bank will be started at
Abilene to be called the United States
bank
Farmers of northwestern Kansas are
putting in large acreage of spring
wheat
The miners Of the state are urging
the removal Of State Mine Inspector
McGrath.
movement was started to erect at
Junction City g. A. Il. monument to
cost 81, 500.
Gov. Leedy announced he would re-
commission all metropolitan police
commissioners.
Pittsburg retail clerks organized an
association to bring about early clos
ing of the stores,
Prof. w. d. Kuhn, of Holton, has
resigned as member of the state
board Of education.
Eighteen German Luthern families
of Geryville, Pa, will locate in Kansas,
where they can get larger farms.
Frank p. Randolph, a released con.
Wet from the Kansas penitentiary,
says the convicts are cruelty treated
and poorly fed.
There is a sad coincidence in the
fact that within two weeks both Con-
gresham Curtis and Congressman
Botkin came home to bury their faith
ers.
Albert II. Greet, of Pittsburg, who
was appointed on the Omaha EXPOSE
tion commission, will devote much of
his time to mining exhibit of the
state.
The state executive council re-elect-
ed William Campbell railroad commiS-
sioner and designated the Topeka Adj
vocate and News as the official state
paper
In the Shawnee county district court
Judge Hazen decided that an officers
salary could not be tied up by garnish-
ment because it was against public
policy.
Capt. Jack" Curtis, father of Con-
gresham Curtis, died recently in the
Indian territory, where he had been
living Is years. He settled in Topeka
in 1855
Frank II. Price, whose ten-year-old
son was accidentally drowned in a
water reservoir in Atchison, secured a
Judgment of ST, 900 against the water
company.
The new McKenna rolling mill to be
erected in Kansas City, Kan, will cost
$115,O 900 and will consist of four con-
nected buildings, having total area
of Salts feet.
George L. Moore, who committed
suicide in Wichita the other day be-
cause he had neither friends or money,
was two years ago well-known and
wealthy cattleman.
A big colony of window-glass MAX
ers from Belgium are figuring on
coming to Kansas and establishing a
window-glass factory somewhere in
the natural gas belt.
C. H. j. Taylor, the well.known Kan
sas negro democrat who held promi-
nent positions under President Cleve-
land, is dean of the law department of
Morris Brown college, Atlanta, Ga.
At Larned the $4,000 damage suit
brought by ex-senator j. w. Rush
against ex-Judge Vandivert, ex-Con-
gresham Peters, A. e. Austin, w. H..
Vernon and Fred Dumont Smith was
decided against Rush.
State Insurance Superintendent Nc
Nall has warned "a companies doing
business in Kansas that unless they
Immediately report as to the amount
of salaries paid their officers they will
be excluded from the state.
Republican county conventions in
the Third congressional district were
instructing for Kirkpatrick and it
was thought he would be renominated
at the independence convention by a
practically unanimous vote.
Suit has been brought to foreclose a
mortgage of $4,000 against Mount
Hope cemetery near Topeka, an So
acre tract laid out during the boom
days. 1t was losing investment from
the start not over 20 lots being sold.
B. P Boyd, of Reading, has sued a
half dozen residents of that city for
$40, 900 damages, alleging that the de-
PENDANTS circulated petition against
his being postmaster and his character
was damaged to the extent of $4,000.
Gov. Leedy has named the following
commission to raise funds and arrange
a Kansas exhibit at Omaha: EX-Gov.
Click, Atchison; A. w. Smith, McPher-
son; John E. Frost, Topeka; A. FL.
Grief, Pittsburg; A. G. Lamb, Yelling
ton. From six to ten other commits
sioners will probably be named.
The attorney general decides that
where a school-teacher is thrown out
of employment by circumstances for
which he or she is not responsible, the
district will be compelled to pay wages
for the full term. The attorney gen.
eral says district school boards should
make provision against such emergen-
cies in the contract
A sensation was created in Kansas
recently when the widow of ex-Gov.
Charles Robinson wrote letter pro
testing against placing the likeness OF
ex-senator Preston B. Plumb in the
statehouse dome as one of 16 represent
alive Kansans. She said it was in
/ II IL