Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

was mustered in as regimental band
with Kansas volunteers.
James Lewis, editor of the Kinsley
Graphic, succeeded &. c. Little as Gov
Leedy's private secretary.
A company of SO volunteers went
from the Emporia state normal, Prof
w. c. Stevenson commanding.
Among the Pittsburg volunteers was
Robert Robyn, president of a national
bank who enlisted as a private.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Kansas League of Republican
clubs will be held at Topeka May 26.
Two Kansas county attorneys re.
signed to join the army-Egan, OF
Cheyenne and De Ford of Franklin.
G.. w. Hancher, employed at the
Crystal salt mine in Kingman, got
caught by the cable and received fatal
injuries.
Hereafter Rock Island freight cars
will be built in the shops at Horton.
This will increase Horizons population
about 500.
During rainstotm at Olathe, James
Hacl1ett, while sitting in Luellen's
livery stable, was struck by lightning
and killed.
Last year 100 acres of land produced
1900 bushels of wheat for II. M. Laing,
of Russell county. Last week he sold
it for 81 a bushel. Net profit, $500.
Up to date Adm. Dewey's cousins in
Kansas number ST. If the same pro-
portion is maintained the admiral will
have 4,S79 cousins in the United States.
Chester G. Moorehead, whose family
was identified with the early history
of Leavenworth, committed suicide in
that city because of trouble with his
wife.
Crawford county has five men with
Dewey at Manila. So sar the presence
of 20 Kansas men in the commodore's
fleet has been authoritatively estab-
lished.
Tents and guns were being shipped
to Fort Leavenworth by the war de-
partment to be ready for the Kansas
volunteers when they arrived from
Topeka.
The numbering of Kansas regiments
will begin where it left off at the close
of the civil war and the first regiment
has been designated the twentieth
Kansas"
The grand commandry, Knights
Templar, in session at Topeka elected
George II. Jenkins, Kansas City, grand
commander, and A. NJ. Callahan, To.
peka, secretary.
BY the appointment of Lieut.. Gov.
Harvey to be major in the army, Sen.
ator Householder, of Cherokee county,
by virtue of his Office as president of
the senate, becomes lieutenant gov
ernor.
The colony which located on valua-
BILE railroad lands in Woodson county
under the advice of Judge j. +. Nc
Donald, has been ordered to vacate
and serious trouble is probable for
some one.
The state dental association, in am
nual convention at Topeka, elected
these offices: President, j. f. Burket,
Kingman; secretary, Edward Bum.
gardner, Lawrence; treasurer, j.
REM, Leavenworth.
Taylor Riddle, captain of the Marion
company and chairman of the populist
state central committee, was rejected
by the surgeons in charge when he
tried tried to get into the volunteer
service. They said he had trouble of
the heart
According to recent supreme court
decision the city of Independence
must pay hydrant rental for ~ years,
amounting to $4,000. 1t was ~ years
ago when the city took forcible pos
session of the plant because of alleged
poor service.
A wife's rights in Kansas were clear
ly defined by recent decision of the
state supreme court 1t decided that
If wife, even if not properly wife,
aids her husband to acquire property,
she is entitled to an equal division of
such property on separation.
Gov. Leedy named Prof Cowgirl, of
Topeka, and w. H. Phipps, of Beloit,
both populists, as regents of the state
agricultural college to succeed c. b.
Daughters and c. r. Noe, republicans.
Cowgirl was formerly professor in
the college and Phipps is a recent
graduate of the institution.
A Washington telegram said that
Chase Doster, son of Supreme Judge
Doster, will probably be one of the APP
pointees to second lieutenancy in
the volunteer army. Young Doster
was at the military academy two years
and since the opening of the war has
been anxious to enter the service.
The wholesale brewers notified To-
peka jointists that no more bars and
fixtures would be loaned for use of sa-
looms as the losses were too great.
This means an end of fine bars in To-
peka for the time being. 1t has been
the custom for brewers to supply pros
pective jointists with all the necessary
parapherna ALA without cost.
j. NJ. Miller, of Council Grove, was
nominated on the thirteenth ballot
for congress by the Fourth district re-
publican convention at Emporia. His
opponents were j. s. Dean, E. G. Pipp,
G. H. Lamb and b. H. Tracy, but every
vote was cast for Miller on the last
ballot William Martindale was made
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