Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-10-26
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

A4OdNcu worth Is nearing cOnpIGGIOu.
Lecompton recently celebrated the
completion of a new SIS, 900 schoolhouse.
The mule cars in Lawrence have been
taken off and electric cars will take
their place.
A Marshall county farmer expects to
get 10, 500 bushels of potatoes from a
Sa-acre patch.
The Santa He railroad gave $500 to
Topeka to help entertain the Twen-
tieth Kansans.
Neodesha received profit CT $1,000
from the first years ownership of
municipal gas.
A Kansas City, Kan, flour mill will
ship 1000 barrels of Kansas hard wheat
-four to Hong Kong.
A stock company with $50, 900 capital
has been formed at Ottawa to conduct
a wholesale grocery.
It is rumored that the Missouri Pa
cific will extend it's line from McPher-
son to Geneseo, in Rice county.
Rev. T. H. James. pastor of the NJ. E.
church at Oakley, recently gave $50, 900
to Bethany hospital in Kansas City.
ExKansans in Kansas City, Mo-,
headed by ex-Attornev General L. C.
Topeka when the Twentieth regiment
gets home.
A warrant charging murder in the
first degree was issued for Mrs. 6. FL.
Aurner, woman physician of Argen-
tine, who is said to have caused the
death of Miss Gem Gilmore by a Grim
inal operation.
w. S. Quisen berry, an attorney of
Hoxie, has sued the city of Salina for
$780, 900 damages. Some time ago Quisen-
berry was passing through Salina on a
train when he was arrested. 1t was
case of mistaken identity.
Miss Helen Gould and her party Wis
tied several Kansas cities last week
and everywhere met with cordial re-
ception. At Wichita, Gov. Stanley
acted as her escort and she was shown
through the street fair and other places
of interest.
Gov. Stanley returned from San Fran
cisco on the 18th. Speaking of the vote
of the Twentieth Kansas expressing
preference to make a daylight ride
through Kansas on it's return home, he
said the soldiers should be permitted to
have their way in the matter.
Mrs. Charles Lusk is pushing $1O,-
600 damage suit against the city of
Caldwell. Her husband recently died
after a protracted spree. Mrs. Lusk
now seeks damages on the ground that
the city openly licensed and encOur-
aged the sale of Intoxicating liquor.
The people of Norton county are en-
gagged in county high school fight
which is becoming almost as warm as
the western Kansas county seat wars
of old. Every town in the county is
candidate for the location, and that is
sue overshadows all others in the cam
paign there.
1t is reported that First Lieut.. Ralph
Ingalls,, of company c, Forty-fourth vol
unteers, will resign from the service.
His hearing is defective and it is said
that an examining board, made up of
the higher officers of the regiment, has
recommended that he be retired. He
is a son of ex-senator John ]. Ingalls,
A student of Cooper college, at Ster-
ling, was arrested by order of the fac
ulty for being one of party out for
college prank, in which only
the usual college fun was indulged in.
Two-thirds of the students threaten to
leave school unless the faculty retracts.
The citizens are with the students, it
is said.
The Twentieth Kansas band, under
the leadership of Erve G. Strickland,
of Topeka, is said to be the finest mu-
steal organization that has returned
from the Philippines. It has 26 men,
and all are experts. The band will
make tour of the country, the first
concert to be given in Topeka at date
to be fixed later.
A warrant was issued for the arrest
of e. f. Reiman, county clerk of Meade
county, who is charged with completely
in a shortage of So, 800 of county funds.
1t will be remembered that George W.
Wiley, state fish commissioner, was
recently arrested on the charge of hav-
ing embezzled this sum while treasurer
of Meade county.
Last winter the legislature passed
law to enable inmates of the state sol
diers' home at Dodge City the right to
vote in the counties from which they
were sent. The secretary of state must
supply the poll books and the tally
sheets and the clerks of each county
must send to the commandant of the
home lot of election ballots and the
names of the soldiers from his county
at the home. The inmates will vote at
the home. Their ballots will then be
certified to the various counties and
counted.
The most important legal opinion
rendered in Kansas for some time was
that by Judge Stuart, at Seneca, who
held that the law passed by the last
legislature reducing telegraph tolls
from % to Is cents for ten-word mes
sage was invalid. Judge Stuart de-
cided that the rate fixed by the new
law would compel the telegraph COM
panies to do business at a loss. He |
held, therefore, that the company was |
not bound to obey the law, because its
enforcement would deprive it of its |
nronertV without due process of law.