Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-04-27
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

to prospect for gas,
The Rock Island will build 1850 box
cars Mt its Horton shops,
Out of ITO schools in Lyon county n
are equipped with libraries
A fifth grain elevator will be erected
at Coffeyville TO cost $4,000.
Col. Fred Funston cabled Gov, Stan
ley that all the Twentieth's wounded
would get well.
The governor appointed II. L. Rob
inson, of Topeka, as paymaster Of the
Kansas national guard.
An early morning blaze destroyed the
big grocery house of j. NJ. jones' at
Lawrence. Loss, $4,000.
If the Kansas Wesleyan college mt
Salina succeeds in raising $50, 900 it will
bring the college gift of 100000.
The governor appointed Clyde b.
Parks, of Oberlin, TO be quartermaster
general of the Kansas national guard.
Gov. Stanley has decided to appoint
only negroes to positions in connection
with the new industrial school at Quin-
daro.
The receiver announces that credit
ors of the First national Cross bank
at Emporia will be paid so cents on the
dollar.
Miami county's new courthouse at
Paola, one of the handsomest in the
state, costing $4,000, is now occupied
by county officers.
District Judge Hazen, of Topeka, de-
cided that in partitioning real estate be-
longing to an estate a probate judge
cannot divide homestead
Gov. Stanley has approved all claims
created by Kansas in mobilizing volun-
teers for the Spanish war, They aggre-
gate $40, 900 and will be paid at once.
Mrs Anna Weeper, n widow near
Tescott, Ottawa county, was found
dead beside her bed. She had been
kneeling for prayer and was found in
that position.
The state board of charities has en-
ployed "home finder" whose duty it
will be to travel over the state and find
homes for the 200 orphans now in the
state home at Atchison.
State Insurance Superintendent
Church announced that his examiners
would not be allowed to charge more
than $40 day and actual expenses for
examining insurance companies.
DIR. Charles Myers, of Greensburg,
will be assistant superintendent of the
Topeka insane asylum. DIR. l.. R. Sell
lers, of Fort Scott, will be assistant
physician of the Osawatomie asylum.
Close friends of Gov, Stanley, in ex-
PLANTATION of the governors free and
generous praise of Warden Lands, Of
the penitentiary, say that the gov
ernor has the warden's resignation in
his pocket.
Rev. j. E. Platt, Kansas pioneer,
died at Guthrie, Ok. He taught the
first graded school in Topeka and was
from 1864 to 1888 professor of mathe-
MATES in the Kansas state agricul-
tural college at Manhattan.
The volunteers in the Philippines
will be returned home in the order in
which they sailed to Manila. The
Twentieth Kansas boys were about
the last to sail from San Francisco and
will be among the last to reach home.
Secretary Alger wired Gov. Stanley
that none of the Kansas volunteers
could be mustered out until the regular
troops reached Manila to take their
place. No Kansas volunteer will be
mustered out simply because he was
tired of army life.
james Richtie, of Augusta, lost a
foot in the charge up San Juan hill.
Last week he received notice from
Washington that he had been allowed
a pension of $50 a month, together
with bulk sum sufficient to buy him
an artificial member.
Fire at Mulvane did $4,000 damage
one night last week. This was the
third fire since election and all are
thought to have been incendiary. In
each case the fire started in a saloon.
The officers thought serious methods
were being taken to stamp out joints.
Calvin Hood, the Emporia banker,
has brought suit in Wyandotte county
to recover $500 from Postmaster Nat
Barnes Hood claims the money was
loaned by him to Barnes, but the latter
alleges that it was paid him to spend in
trying to get delegates for Hood fol
governor.
Miss Olivia O'Brien, one of Topeka's
best-known society young women, has
returned from a 6ve.months' trip to
the Philippines, where she went last
November with Mrs. Statsenb berg, wife
of Col. Statsen berg, OF the First
Nebraska volunteers. She witnessed
many battles about Manila.
Gov Stanley appointed delegates to
the National Farmers convention, to
be held in Boston on October 8 to 6. as
follows: At large, Il. d. Coburn and
G. w. Click; John Howerton, Rossville
Hon. Z. H. Funston, Carlyle; Col. For.
sythe, Liberty; 7. M. Potter, Peabody
Thomas Anderson, Salina; George AL
lamar, Wallace; c. D. Perry, Engle
wood.
Eight years ago A. F. Harris, pas
senger conductor on the Santa Fe out
of Arkansas City, was thrown from
his train and killed. He had SO, OOC
insurance in benevolent societies, but
payment was refused on the ground
that he was intoxicated. Mrs. Harris
brought suit and the case has been
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