Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
There are s,794 miles of railroad in
Kansas.

NED McHenry, single, was killed IN
the ore.crushing machinery at an lola
smelter.
The Helen Gould home has been es.
tablished at Wichita for benevolent
purposes
All wooden sidewalks in Newton
will be torn up and rebuilt with brick
and stone.
Congress voted S72, 900 for barracks
and other improvements at Fort
Leavenworth.
Gov. Stanley appointed A. j. Tur-
ner, of Chanute, regent of the state
normal school.
Maurice p. Gould, of Wamego, won
honors in class prize competition at
Yale university.
The Santa Fe railroad will erect an
immense building at Argentine to be
used for carshops
There is a big agitation in Salina
against joints and it will be the issue
in the city election.
The Kansas boys at Manila, 1t is
said, excel in marching, discipline and
the manual OF arms.
George Yeager was drowned while
trying to cross the Kaw river above
Lawrence on the ice.
The body of Capt d. s. Elliott, OF
the Twentieth Kansas, was started
home from Manila on the 10th.
Ex.Gov. Leedy has purchased stock
in zinc mine at Galena and will de-
vote most of his time to mining.
Residents near Browns creek and
Prairie townships, in south Jewell
county, want rural free delivery.
Farmer Stone, living north of Gil
rard, was robbed of $l95 cash by a
strange man he had kept over night.
Gov, STANDBY appointed w. D. Casey
for Judge and j. w. Starr for marshal
of Atchison's new city court Starr is
negro.
Members OF the Topeka bar BAN
quoted Federal Judge Hook the other
night. David overmyer was toast
master.
Prof. Lapier Williams, a teacher in
the Kansas City schools, was appointed
uperintendent of the state blind
asylum at Kansas City.
A whole township of land in Kear.
ney county was purchased by Califor-
MIA parties who will engage in the
breeding of fancy stock.
Rev. w. w. Boyd, noted Baptist
divine of st. Louis, will preach the
baccalaureate sermon at the state uni
versity commencement in June.
Dapt. David s. Elliott, who met
death at Manila, was member of 10
different secret societies and carried
life insurance aggregating $40, OOO
A cable from Manila said that Capt.
c. M. Christy, of company e, Twen'
tieth Kansas, whose home is in Coffey
county, has resigned under charges.
A Topeka telegram said Gov. Stan
ley would remove from office Taylor
Riddle, chairman of the live stock
board, and Warden lands, of the state
penitentiary.
Warden Lands says the state bind
ing Irvine plant at the penitentiary
will be in operation about June l. 1t
will employ rs convicts. Machinery
will cost $4,000 and motive power
SIS, 900.
The masonic lodge and Sons OF Vet
Grams camp at Lawrence received relics
from the Tween tieth's boys at Manila
in the shape of gavels made from
pieces of the sunkcn Spanish cruiser
Reina Christina.
State Accountant Joseph f. Riggs,
of Lawrence, handed his resignation
to Gov. Stanley, who requested it.
There will probably be no appoint.
ment made, as the Legislature made no
appropriation for the Office
John Gilbert, the beast who MUIR
dered his wife and four small children
near Industry, Clay county, comes of a
bad family. His grandfather was
driven out of Clay county years ago
for stealing from his neighbors.
The grand lodge of colored masons
of Kansas will meet in Atchison Au-
gust 1918. A monument which is be
ing erected in Atchison to the memory
of D. &. Lett, first grand master of
Kansas, will be unveiled at that time.
County Attorney Shepherd, of Bour-
bon county, will arrest the manager
Of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany at Fort Scott, who was not obey
ing the special session law reducing
telegraph rates, in order to test the
legality of the law.
Two bills were vetoed by Gov. Stan
lev.-tbe one licensing certain persons
to engage in the drug business and
the measure allowing certain persons
to practice dentistry without the
usual state examination or the pres
en- ia ton of certificates.
The legislature passed an appro-
priation bill allowing Secretary CO.
burn, of the state board of agricul-
ture, So 500 salary per year, but the
figures were juggled after the bill had
passed and before it reached the gov
ernor, making the salary 81, 900.
A. s. Polete's joint, across the river
from Eudora in Leavenworth county.
known as SANDY Hook" was burned
the other night. A party Of from IS to
50 assisted in the burning and kept
close guard while the structure was in
flames to see that their plans were not
interfered with. The joint has been
notorious for months.
Capt c. L. Longley, a well-known