Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-05-25
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Galena is big enough to have a city

Lieut., Col Little is being mentioned
for governor on the populist ticket.
Nineteen walnut logs that weighed
10000 pounds were shipped from Eure-
ka to England.
Geary county's S35, 900 four per cent.
20-year courthouse bonds sold at q
premium of SLIGO.
A military academy for the training
of young Kansas soldiers may be erect
ed at Leavenworth.
The state textbook commission will
recommend that agriculture be taught
in the public schools.
Mcpherson county commissioners let
contracts for four new iron bridges
across streams in that county.
Great crowds of sympathizing friends
attended the funeral of the wife OF
Capt. Fred Buchan at Lawrence.
Nellie Moore, Wichita school girl,
was attacked by two vicious bulldogs
and seriously bitten about the face.
Lawrence will begin system of
brick paving, which will necessitate
the building of vitrified brick plant
there.
Attorney General GODDARD received a
'tip" that the lumber dealers of Kan
sas had entered into combine to fix
prices.
The total mineral output of Kansas
for 1898 was valued at $97, 10000, an
increase over the previous year of over
a million dollars
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Price cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at Wellington. Rev. Price is a
pioneer Methodist preacher,
Senator Baker says he wants the vol
unteers of the Twentieth Kansas to de-
eide by ballot what city in the state
they prefer to be mustered out at.
w. II. Sweet, of Eudora, who sued
his business partner, II. V. Carr for
$40, 900 for alternating his wife's affec-
tions, was awarded 81 by the jury.
The big wooden trestle on the Mis-
souri, Pacific in eastern Butler county
caught fire and 100 feet of it burned.
The trestle is 400 feet long and 10 feet
high.
The state board of charities reduced
the salary of II. j. Hill, steward of the
Olathe deaf and dumb school, $15 per
month. Mr.. Hill is Gov Stanley's
father-in-law.
Farmer Barackman, of Elk county,
owns four-year-old COW that has had
five calves, four of them being dropped
the past II months and all of them are
living and thriving.
The laying of the cornerstone of
Kansas City's 100000 high school
building was attended by great crowds.
Gov. Stanley was one of the speakers
1t will be the finest school building in
Kansas
Forty-four years ago j. b. McAfee,
now of Topeka, founded the Leaven-
worth collegiate institute, which was
the first school in the Kansas territory.
A year later the border rutfians de-
stroyed it.
G.. G. Gage, Il Topeka banker, who
had lived in Kansas since 1859, died on
the 10Th. Three years ago he built in
Topeka $4,000 monument in memory
of the union soldiers who fell at Will
son Creek, Mo.
The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Rudy, of Olathe,
was celebrated in the Congregational
church there. Ex-Gov. St. John, on
behalf of citizens, presented the aged
couple substantial token.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, of New York, brought suit
against ex-Superintendent of Insur-
ance Webb McNall to recover 81 1906
which it claims he wrongfully collected
from it while he was in Office.
Mrs j. Reasoner, of Reserve, has
suggested that popular subscription
be raised to buy each member of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment sun
flower medal to be given him upon the
return of the regiment from the Phil
ippines.
Gov. Stanley finally decided to give
the $500 reward offered for the MUIR
derer of John S. Collins, of Topeka, to
Sheriff Cook, who will divide it with
Detectives Harbaugh and Wood. Chief
of Police Steele, of Topeka, also claimed
the reward.
Mrs. Fannie Hubbard, widow of
former Santa Fe conductor at NiclSer-
son, committed suicide in a Kansas
City roominghouse by inhaling chloro-
form. Her husband left her considera-
BILE money, but in recent years she had
taken to drinking and ran through
with all of it.
The 1S-months-old girl of E. b.
Steele was run over and killed by
Frisco passenger train near Sedgwick
while the mother and father looked on.
The baby crawled through wire fence
onto the track and when the train came
up unnoticed the parents could not get
through the fence in time to save the
child's life.
T. j. CASTOR, a school-teacher at Lib
erty, was awarded Judgment for S15,-
600 against the Frisco railroad for be-
ing put off train near Wichita two
years ago. When put off CASTOR had
ticket over the Santa Fe, but he claimed
he had asked for Frisco ticket and
that the company's agent had made
mistake and gave him the wrong ticket.
Wetmore struck gas at a depth of 122
feet.