Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

laws will soon be issued.
Lucy Curtis, mayor of Cimarron, also
conducts general store.
Chanute business men have reor-
ganized their board of trade.
During December Harper county
people paid S75, 900 back taxes
Topeka and Pittsburg now talk by
telephone, distance of $50 miles.
George Ellis, Butler county farmer,
has 10000 bushels of grain in storage.
Over 1000 fowls were on exhibition
at the state poultry show at Manhat-
tan last week.
While digging a well near Colony
Isaac Powell was killed by prema'
ture explosion.
The Third ward school at Yelling.
ton, a $4,000 stone building, was
badly damaged by fire.
Since November the clerk of Sum-
ner county has paid three cents each
for o., sG4 rabbit scalps.
Two Memphis freight trains collided
near Paola, both engines being smashed
and IA cars of merchandise grain and
stock burned.
The annual convention of the Kansas
Alliance is in session at Topeka. Mrs.
Emma Troudner, of Carbondale, is the
presiding officer
Charles Grovenor, the wealthy young
Lawrence lumberman who left home
while temporarily deranged, was lo-
Gated at Des Moines, la.
The Kansas Farmers Alliance, in
state convention at Topeka, elected
Mrs. Emma Troudner president and
Mrs. Bina Otis secretary.
Gov. Leedy has appointed James Nc.
Kinstry, Kansas City lawyer for.
merly of Hutchinson as commissioner
of deeds in Missouri for Kansas
A fire started on the Leavenworth
county poor farm by mischievous boys
destroyed much valuable property, in
Guiding large field of corn in shock
Justices of the peace are beginning
to resign by wholesale throughout the
state as a result of the reduction of fees
by the new law which takes effect next
Monday.
Gov, Leedy has issued a proclama-
ton asking the cooperation of the
people in an effort to ascertain if that
enemy of fruit trees, the San Jose scale,
is injecting Kansas orchards.
In the past ten years the Kansas
cows have produced milk, butter and
cheese that have been sold for SAT, 742,.
100 The greatest year was 1897, when
the products aggregated 49, $50, 1852.
Willard Cooper and Fred Spencer,
Topeka youths, stole two horses and
lit out for the Indian territory to be.
come cowboys" but at Emporia they
were intercepted and returned to their
parents.
G. G. Brown, business man of Car
bondale, mysteriously disappeared a
week ago. He went to Topeka to me-
gotiate for lumber yard, but no trace
of him has been discovered since. He
is not known to be financially in
volved.
Edward Myers, a wealthy Leaven-
worth county farmer, left home sud-
denly and under suspicious circum-
stances. Two lawsuits followed one
for divorce and one for $4,000 by
ten-year-old orphan girl who charges
that Myers defled her person.
Insurance Superintendent McNall
turned in Sal, 921. 46 to the general fund
during the year 1897, as compared to
$40, OBJ. 80 turned in during 1896. 1t is
claimed that the decrease is due to the
fact that fewer companies did business
in the state in 1897 than in 1896.
The Salvation army celebrated le-
gal victory at Hutchinson. For about
three months the army has been shut off
Main street by a city ordinance placing
a license on all parades. Judge Simp-
son, of the Reno county district court,
decided that the city had no authority
to tax religious parade.
Bank Commissioners Breidenthal says
that out of 6S banks that have reported
so far this quarter, showing is made
of net increase in the aggregate sur
plus, of $685., $50 This is remarkable
showing in view of the fact that this
is the debt paying season. Mortgages
are being lifted and taxes paid, but
the bank surplus keeps right on in
creasing.
United States District Judge Foster
has suspended sentence in the cases of
Thomas Balm, DR.. A. M. Edison and j.
N. Day, who formerly conducted what
was known as the American Bond &
Coupon company, and were each SEN
fenced to 30 days in Jail for running a
lottery. The three men have promised
under oath to never have anything to
do with the lottery business again.
AS result of the examination of
applicants for certificates to teach in
county normal institutes during the
summer, almost half the number
failed, remarkable and unusual rec
ord. There were issued to conduct
ors of institutes 80 certificates, all re-
newals. OF SO certificates to instruct
ors, all but three were renewals.
Seventy-three applicants failed en-
tirely.
In his annual meteorological sum-
mary for the year 1897 Chancellor f.
II. Snow, of Kansas university, says
the year 1897 was warm, dry and calm.
1t had the warmest September and Oc-
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