Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-04-20
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
The new courthouse and jail at Yates
Center will be built for S23. ITO.

EmpOrlh retunueu esl1iuUU Guy DOuub
at ~ per cent interest and 81, 900 pre-
MUM.
Mrs. Ewing Herbert the talented
young wife of Editor Ewing Herbert
of Hiawatha, Is dead.
Editor j. M. Mickey, of the Usage
City Free Press, was elected clerk of
the court of visitation.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
says the factories in Kansas are in q
bad sanitary condition.
The earnings of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for March were $40, 4lO.97 and
the expenditures S12, 66l.73.
John 4. Blake, who was captain Of
the Sixth Kansas cavalry in the union
army, died at Kansas City, Mo
George Wiley, member OF the legis-
lature from Meade county, is the new
fish warden. The place pays Sl,OOO
per year.
The annual meeting of the State
County School superintendent asso-
cation will be held at Hutchinson
May l6 and H.
TIE banks of Jefferson county have
on deposit, subject to check, 81, 1885,
6O5.97, or sos 50 for each man, woman
and child in the county.
The supreme court decided that a
district judge cannot sit in the trial of
a case where he was formerly the at
torney for one side or the other
Albert Maduska, a LeavenwOrth high
school boy, was appointed to cadet
ship at West Point upon recommended
ton of Congressman w. D. Bailey.
The remains of Private Charles
Pratt, of company M, who was the
first Kansan to fall at Manila will be
shipped to his sister in Clay Center
The fifty fourth annual meeting of
the general association OF Congrega'
tional churches and ministers of Kan
sas will be held in Topeka on May Lilo
The First Congregational church at
Leavenworth, one OF the finest in KAN
sas, was damaged $4,000 10y FIRE, The
fine library was completely destroyed.
Henry Gray, Methodist "evangel~
ist," was arrested while conducting a.
revival meeting ut Wamego, He had
forged check on Manhattan bank
Joseph Simeon, a war veteran, was
found dead in his bed at Mates Center
the other morning. His bedfellOw
awoke to. find himself sleeping with a.
corpse.
Lieut. Harry Seeker; OF company G.,
Twentieth Kansas, arrived at his home
in Leavenworth from Manila, having
been honorably discharged on account
of physical disability.
On recent meeting night an Al. o!
U. w. lodge at Winfield initiated 2B9.
mem bers, which is said to- be the
largest number ever initiated by any
one lodge in the state OF Kansas.
A Leavenwopth dispatch said that
Gov. Stanley had persuaded Warden
Landisy of the state penitentiary, to
resign. j. b. Tomlnson, of Minneaps
oils, is slated for the wardRnship.
A diminutive cyclone struck the
suburbs of Ottawa on the afternoon of
the l3th, picking up small buildings
and unroo6ng dwellings. ltlifted and
disappeared before doing serious in
jury.
The Christian church OF Abilene
called II. V. SehOles to be permanent
pastor. Mr.. Seholes is former cow
boy and led the cowboy band of Wood
bine for Gillett. He has been preach
ing since Gillett's failure
The forty.frst annual commence
ment exercises for Baker university
will perhaps be the most notable in
its long history. 1t begins with an
EpwOrth league training school which
continues from May 10 to IS
Charles Griffin, of Lawrence, grad
nate of the state university, who has
been studying at Harvard recently, has
been offered the position of lecturer
on economics in the university of Ja-
pan, at Toxic, at $4,000 pOr year.
Three well-dressed strangers, one
wearing a soldiers uniform, robbed a
store and the post Office at Devon,
bourbon county. They were tracked
to Fort Scott and. after an exciting
chase, captured. They refused to re-
veal their identity.
Nortonville has prodigy in Charley
Hummel, aged IA, who weighs 80
pounds and who weighed 1876 pounds
before he was 10 Although so heavy,
the boy has never known a days sick.
ness and can keep up with his mates
in all athletic sports.
When company B, Twenty-third
Kansas, reached Lawrence after being
mustered out, the boys were met at
the depot by band, the G. A. R. posts
and several hundred people. The
black soldiers were then escorted to a
hall and given reception and ban.
quet.
The Lanyon Zinc company, capital
lied at SO, 900, 900, is doing business in
Kansas without charter and there
fore has no standing in the courts and
could not collect a debt. Under the
Bush law the company must pay in
cash 90 per cent of its capital stock,
or S597, 900, before it can he chartered.
This it has not done.
The Kansas Women's Press associa-
tion's annual meeting was held in To-
peka last week. Mrs. Ollie Royce, of
Phillipsburp, was elected president;
Mrs. Minnie Morgan, of Cottonwood
Falls, vice president and Mrs. Frow,
of Ottawa, secretary. Several very in-
teresting papers were read and dis