Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-10
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Fire at Louisville burned two store
buildings, residence and Odd Fellows
hall.
Newton is erecting handsome mon
ument to dead soldiers in the park
there.
In Ottawa county the officials are not
allowed funds for postage or bank ex-
change.
W. E. Winner proposes to run an
electric railway from Atchison to Leav-
enworth.
Burton has for the third time within
three months been visited by disas-
trous fire.
Dodge City people raised $1,000 cash
to purchase a public park near the
town hall.
The receipts of the Western Union
Telegraph company in Kansas last
year were SIG, 397.31.
Kansas this year leads all other states
in the union in corn acreage Nebraska
is second and Iowa third.
The Oldest officer in Kansas is Orson
Kent, of Burlington, who has been
notary public continuously since 1859
A Mcpherson county farmer who be
lieves that corn is going to be very
cheap sold his crop as it stands at 1917
cents bushel.
Howard Gottscha1l, a farmer near Sa-
lima, thrashed 3O-acre field of wheat
which yielded Lila bushels-37 2-15
bushels per acre.
A junction City man paid the gov
eminent So. so a ton for 1900 tons of
hay he put up this year on the Fort
Riley reservation.
On a wager of $500, Bob Chadwick,
of Winfield, swan in the Walnut river
from Winfield to Arkansas City, q
miles, in So hours.
A soldiers monument will be erected
in the park at Hiawatha. A gun IA
feet long, weighing $500 pounds, will
be mounted upon it.
The post offices at Wakeman and
Sharps Creek, in Mcpherson county,
were discontinued because no person
would serve as postmaster.
Negotiations are pending for the con-
colidation of the First national bank
and the Merchants national bank, two
strong institutions of Topeka.
William Oliver, a farm hand, COM
mitted suicide at Junction City because
he could not leave liquor alone. He
had been married only ten days.
Thomas Lake. of Girard, got up from
a sick bed wandered to the Memphis
railroad track and tried to board
freight train and was ground 10 pieces.
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
D., the famous millionaire, owns a
IA, OOO-acre ranch in Kiowa county and
he resides there six months of the year.
Jewell county stands first in the acre
age of corn. Marshall is second, Reno
third, Washington fourth and Nemaha
fifth. Stanton has the smallest acreage.
The friends of Congressman Ridgely
say there is no truth in the story that
he promised Senator Hugh Farrelly to
stay out of the Third district congress
sional fight in 1900.
Charles Norton, of Sibley, Douglas
county, left home February 3 to visit
his daughter, who lived at Linden,
Clay county, Mo. Since that time he
has never been heard from.
The attorney general lately ruled
that the school textbook law of 1899
did not provide for the exchange of
books. The book companies, however,
have decided to exchange books, the
same as under the old law.
There is to be another investigation
at the soldiers orphans home, in Atch-
ison. A 14-year-old girl complained
that two teachers, Miss Wood and Miss
Rude, had mistreated her and that Miss
Rude held her while Miss Wood whipped
her with board.
Johnnie Gibson, Burlington boy Of
10 years, found a pocl1et-book contain
ing $500 in money and at once took it
to W. Il. Brewer, the owner. The boy
had to fight to keep a crowd of urch1ns
from taking the money from him. He
is a son of poor people.
The Emporia council passed an
ordinance making it a misdemeanor to
plant cottonwood tree anywhere on
the townsite and requiring all cotton
wood and willow trees within 35 feet
of any waterworlzs main or city sewer
to be destroyed. It is claimed that
the roots of these trees grow into and
obstruct the mains and sewers
Mrs. Thomas Gilmore, of Argentine,
went before the probate court and
swore to complaint charging her hus-
band with being an habitual drunkard.
According to his wife's statement, Gil
bert has done little work for the last
II years. He was given a hearing be
fore jury and found to be incapable
of managing his own affairs. He will
be sent to one of the state asylums.
The proceeding was brought under
the old Kansas law of 1878.
Gov Stanley says that elections are
held entirely too often in Kansas for
the good of the state, and in his
message to the legislature he will
urge the passage of a law cutting
out half of them. His idea is to
cut out one state election. Elect
state officers for term of four years,
at the time the president is elected.
Then prohibit state officer from hold
ing more than one term. Consolidate