Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

W. ~. DTlVST, inc Wcll-huOWll hSBIO
editor and orator, died at Coffeyville.
The Dunkard college at Mcpherson
has paid off debt of $4,000 the past
year.
A newspaper will be printed at De-
troit, Dickinson county, q village OF 90
people.
Emporia was threatened with q
water famine and the situation was
serious.
The advent of the creamery has done
wonders in improving the breed OF cat
tie in Kansas.
The canyons have started a second
smelter at lola which gives employ
ment to $50 men.
The retail grocers, butchers and coal
dealers of Topeka have federated for
mutual protection.
Charles Martin, the well-known re-
publican of Salina, will be made a
clerk in the pension Office at Topeka.
At the urgent request of numerous
citizens jointkeeper at Mulvane took
trip to Colorado "for his health"
The city of Salina has compromised
it's $44, 900 Rock Island railroad debt in
a manner that will save the city S1s,-
600.
The 31st annual meeting of the Kan
sas State Horticultural society was
held at Topeka three days the past
week.
The republican state committee will
open headquarters at Topeka before
March /, with Frank L. Brown in
charge.
The barn of w. S. Kale, at Topeka,
was destroyed by an inceudiary fire,
together with nine horses and five
vehicles.
There are III insurance companies
doing business in Kansas, apportioned
as follows: Fire, rs; life, 81; miscella-
neous, II.
Washington, the county seat of one
of the best counties in the state has no
Sunday mail, but steps are being taken
to secure it.
A Fort Scott lawyer received notice
that case in Illinois, in which he was
counsel, had been decided in his favor.
His fees are $4,000.
The temperance workers of Ottawa
county tried hard to secure grand
jury, but the 100 necessary signatures
could rot be secured.
The Phoenix Fire Assurance company
of London has also withdrawn from
Kansas to avoid annoying fuses with
Superintendent McNall."
The young son of Grant Stingly, of
Ottawa, died from poisoning as re-
suit of eating tomatoes that had stood
several days in an open can.
Near Beloit, Mrs. Devore, while
standing with her back to the open
fireplace, had her clothing catch fire
and she was burned to death.
A Seneca paper says that town gave
$50, 900 cash and 20 acres of land to a
railroad, and in return got two-stall
roundhouse and a blacksmith shop.
Chief of Police Williams, of Fort
Scott, was accused of selling liquor at
Fort Scott from distillery at Clay
ton, Mo-, of which he was the alleged
owner.
William Sprague, a member of the
Latter Day Saints church in Atchison,
quarreled with his pastor, Elder
Guinard, and the elder was slapped in
the face.
Two hundred delegates from Kansas
and adjoining states were in Topeka
last week attending the annual meet
ing of the Interstate Literary society
(colored).
Wichita has purchased the Riverside
park for a city park. A ive-mile
boulevard will be built, and in the
center a G. A. r. memorial statute will
be erected.
The Kansas County Clerks associa-
ton met at Hutchinson and elected A.
M. Denny, of Sedgwick, president, and
w. S. Yeager, of Reno, secretary.
Wichita was selected for next years
meeting place.
Lutte P. Bowen, the newspaper man
who committed suicide in Montana,
was q native of Kansas and established
the Frankfort Bee. His father is
Thomas p. Bowen, ex-United States
senator from Colorado.
Chairman Williams, of the prohibit
ton state committee, has issued an ad-
dress in which he charges that the
leaders of all the political parties in
the state are in secret league with the
brewers and saloonkeepers.
DR.. Lawrence, of Eldorado, is trying
to arrange for the organization of a
cooperative library association in each
county seat town, to distribute free
silver and populist literature. Gov.
Leedy and other state officers approve
of the plan.
Seven years ago Joe Chandler, an &C.
centric Atchison citizen, left his fam
lily and was not heard of until his re-
turn on Christmas day, 1897 He had
been in Montana. Chandler is a
brother of the United States senator
from New Hampshire.
A New York agent was in Kansas re-
Gently to make arrangements for locat-
ing another colony of Russian farmers
in Ellis, Trego and adjacent counties
They may purchase part of the 1OO,-
600 acres of Union Pacific lands that