Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

independence Will be paved,
In recent Topeka interview ex. Gov.
Morrill, said he was forever out of poll
itlcs, in the sense of holding Office.
1t is said ex-Gov. John p. st. John
would not refuse fusion nomination
for congress in the Second district,
Congressman Curtis has introduced
a biz to give Mrs. Hester A, Hanbank,
widow of Lewis Hanback,, pension Of
$50 month.
The Chanute city council voted to
appropriate money to prospect for gas
and also voted to macadamize the main
street Of the town.
Atchison banks started contest as
to which should become the county
depository, and the county will secure
AZ per cent. interest as result
During January the state grain in
spector collected S2, SAG. 05 in inspection
fees and paid So, 749.2S in salaries and
expenses, leaving balance Of $0731
A consignment of 800 birds, repre-
senting nearly every species of the
southern climate, has been received by
the Kansas state university from Yu-
catan.
Since +. d. Coburn, of Wyandotte
county refused to enter the republican
gubernatorial race, the friends of j..
X. Cubbison, of Wyandotte, will urge
his candidacy for congress.
j. X. Elwell, of Lawrence, has gone
to Cuba to distribute supplies under
direction of Consul General Lee. He
will also serve Miss Clara Barton, Of
the Red Cross society, as private and
confidential adviser.
Col. J. L. Alternately, one of Leaven-
worth's wealthiest business men, has
sold his handsome residence there and
will move to Kansas City. Col. Aber-
nathy located in Leavenworth in 1856,
and has served as mayor.
L. D. Wheeler, state forestry COM
missioner has devised plan to
have lecture on agriculture and
horticulture delivered by some eminent
authority before every teachers in-
stitute in the state during the summer.
The Atchison Globe has undertaken
to raise funds to erect monument to
eX-Gov. John A. Martin in Atchison.
A subscription list has been opened,
and it is believed that 1000 families in
Atchison alone will subscribe 81 each.
Twenty-six citizens of Arkansas City
were cited to appear in federal court
at Topeka and show cause why they
should not be held in contempt for re-
fusing to pay waterworks Judgment
of $25, 900 in favor of an Illinois trust
company.
Mrs. Mary Fenlon, mother of Thomas
P. Fenlon, the well-known democratic
politician, died at Leavenworth, aged
SO. She was the last of family of IL
children and herself the mother of II
children, Thomas P. Fenlon alone
surviving.
The Topeka school board will fight
the case brought by Attorney General
Boyle to compel the use of the new
text books in the Topeka schools. The
board declares that the books author
lied by the state textbook commission
are not fit to be placed in the schools,
State Superintendent Stryker de-
clares that, in the event the legislature
is convened by Gov. Leedy, he will
urge bill extending the state text
book law and make it cover maps,
charts, desks and school supplies of
every description. At present the law
only covers textbooks.
Because their parents objected to
the company they were keeping two
Redfield girls, Ethel Roach and Gertie
Emmett, aged is and 90, eloped with
two neighbor boys, Owen and Theo
Ramsey aged 10 and 20. They were
found in st. Louis rooming-house
and brought back home.
State Superintendent Stryker will
issue request that every school pupil
in Kansas plant a tree on Arbor day
this year. Instructions as to how
to plant the trees are being prepared
and will be read publicly toal the pu-
pills. IT is expected that over 100000
trees will be planted that day in Kan
sas.
In an open letter to the women of
Kansas, Mrs. Helen M. Cougar urges
them to assume charge of the work Of
erecting monument over the grave of
the late John A. Martin, who, as gov
ernor of Kansas, advocated, secured
the passage of and signed the bill Civ"
ing women municipal suffrage in this
state.
The sensational report was in circula'
ton at Topeka that during the heat OF
the big insurance fight State Insurance
Commissioner McNall was offered 500
900 at one time and $4,000 at another
if he would LAY down" and permit the
companies to do business in Kansas
without molestation. Both offers, 1T
is said, were Indignantly rejected.
Eugene H. Mikesell, a jeweler of Fort
Scott, who, with his wife, is charged
with having burned their home to de-
fraud insurance companies, was sur
rendered by his bondsmen and is in Jail,
Joseph McQuitly, brother-in-law,
was also arrested, charged with arson
and he confessed that Mikesell tried
to hire him to burn his house. Mrs.
Mikesell had disappeared.
The legislative committee appointed
to secure a 81, 900 bust of eX-Gov. Rob