Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-03-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

lOpekh eNpecCS TO geL Jne popullSb
state convention to be held June 10.
lola claims to have grown in popula-
ton from 1900 to 1000 in the last 1s
months.
Over $4,000 head of cattle will be
shipped into Kansas this spring from
eastern Texas.
w. w. Price, of Atchison, may be the
fusion nominee for congress in the
Fifth district.
The city council at Hutchinson is
taking steps TO move its big out-of-
town auditorium into the city.
Speaker W. d, Street has withdrawn
from the race for the populist nomna-
ton for congress in the Sixth district.
Fort Scott will vote on u proposition
to iss ne $l25, 900 in bonds to pipe nat
ural gas from Laharpe, 36 miles. The
idea is to revive cheap fuel as an in
ducement TO manufacturers
1t is said that Kansas will establish
stations for the inspection of all cattle
coming into Kansas from the south
and southwest at Amarillo, Tex, and
La Junta, Col, within the next six
weeks.
The Durkee Coal company, which
owned extensive mining property in
Bourbon and Cherokee counties, failed
for SIS, 900. There are more than 100
creditors and the liabilities exceed the
assets.
Col. Thomas Moonlight, the we'll
known democratic politician, has re-
turned to Leavenworth after a four
years absence as minister to Bolivia.
He will locate in business at Galena,
this state.
The annual debating contest be.
tween Washburn college and Drury
college, Springfield, Mo-, occurred at
Topeka the other night and was won
by Drury, which gives that college
two out of three victories,
Theo Botkin, department command
err of the Kansas G. A. r., is out in an
other interview attacking Pension
Commissioner Evans Botlsin says if
Evans should die or resign he would
confer favor on the public,
Justices of the peace in several east
ern Kansas counties are accused of
having had bogus fee lists printed in
their dockets, The fees in this list are
about 80 per cent higher than the law
allows. Attorney General Boyle will
investigate the charges,
Manson Humphrey, 15-year-old
schoolboy at Larned, went hunting
the other day and failing to come
home at night search was instituted
and he was found dead two miles out
of town. His gun had exploded, blow
ing a large hole in his abdomen.
w. j. Bryan lectured in Lawrence
the other day and afterward spoke to
the students. He also donated $3.50 to
the state university regents, the inter
est of which will be given each year
as prize for the best essay on the
principles on which rests our free gov.
eminent.
At five o'clock the other morning
lightning struck the powerhouse, en-
CINE room and machine shops at the
state university at Lawrence and they
were burned, causing a loss of $36, 900.
There is no insurance. A spring vaca-
tion of two weeks was declared to give
time for repairs and many students
left for their homes.
Mennonites in Harvey and adjoining
counties were taking out 'non-resist-
n ~ ~ IN y0arS frO,,, tho ooun t,y olarlye 4o
prevent their going to war with Spain.
1t is a part of the Mennonite belief
that no one shall participate in strife
of any kind, or resist an attempt to use
violence in any manner, Especially
with horror do they look upon warfare.
A few days ago Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
wood, who own a handsome home in
Pittsburg, left for the east on pro-
tracted visit. They left card on the
front door notifying friends of their
departure. Tramps saw the card,
gained entrance to the house and domi-
ciled themselves therein, using the
beds for sleeping and the kitchen for
cooking and the larder for supplies,
as long as they lasted. When finally
discovered by the police the house
was found in great disorder and con-
siderable damage had been done to
| furniture.
Over 500 Pratt county citizens signed
protest against pardoning Ellsworth
Hacker and Green Roberts, now serv-
ing life sentences in the penitentiary
for numbering Jacob Baker. The state
pardon board is considering an appli-
cation for their pardon. Hacker and
Roberts were notorious border charac-
tiers who lived in the sand hills west
of Pratt. Baker lived near them and
in August, 1894, was riding with them
in a wagon from town. After the open
prairie was reached the two despera-
does put a gun to Bakers head and
killed him, then robbed him of 500
and threw the body into an old well.
The attorney general has decided
that Christian science healers do not
come under the law which provides
that no doctors shall practice in this
state who are not equipped with di-
ploma from recognized medical col
.. lege. 1t is held that as Christian
scientists claim their power direct
from Jehovah, and employ no manifest
or earthly treatment, or claim that
such would be effective in the cure of