Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-23
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Work has begun on Lyons telephone

married woman of 49,
Wellington will have only brick and
stone sidewalks hereafter.
Atchison refunded 1891, 900 OF 3O'year
bonds az four per cent. interest
The Retain hotel and a livery stable
at Burton burned. Loss, $1,000.
Cherryvale will macadamize and
curb number of its business streets
The Santa Fe will erect handsome
new depots at Olathe and Great Bend.
Hutchinson has started dime chain
letter plan to help build its new opera
house.
A. T.. Martin, of Atchison, will be
state agent of the soldiers orphans
home.
Judge Simons turned down the APP
plieation for a grand jury in Linn
county.
Farmer Jennings, near McCracken,
sold 80 eight-months-old bulls for 500
per head
Pneumonia and spinal meningitis
caused 70 funerals at Leavenworth in
two days.
Il. L. Davis, a well-known lawyer,
dropped dead of heart disease in his
Office at Eureka.
One day recently rs dozen quail were
shipped from Wichita to New York for
breeding purposes
William Eldred, Mcpherson joint
keeper, must serve 1855 days in Jail and
pay fine of 80, 600
j. w. Tanner, steward Of the To-
peka asylum, was forced to resign by
the board of charities.
The Marion state bank, OF Marion
and the Peoples state bank, of Mad
ison, have been organized.
Gov. Roosevelt, OF New York, will be
an attraction OF the Chautauqua as
sembly at Ottawa this summer
Clarence Richards, sou of Editor
r chards, of the Wellington Mail, was
appointed to cadetship at Annapolis.
The state charter board, composed
of state officers, will not charter
social" clubs for drinking purposes.
DIR. George Eaton, prominentyoung
dentist at Columbus, confessed to haV-
ing committed many burglaries in that
town.
Mrs. N. J. Morrill,, of Usage City,
matron of the state soldiers orpans'
home, rendered her resignation to Gov
Stanley.
A prairie fire south of Kinsley
burned many miles, destroying build
ings, burning some live stock and
doing much damage.
f. M. Benefel, of Montgomery coun'
ty, speaker pro TEN of the house, will
seek the republican nomination FOL
congress in the Third district
1t was announced that Gov Stanley
would remove DR.. Pitcher from the
: superintendency of the Winfield i'm
beetle asylum. DR.. Newton, of Neoshc
county, will succeed to the position.
There are $50 children in the soldiers
orphans home in Atchison, and Super
, intendent Woodwork was giving each
of them teaspoonful of cider vinegar
, three times day as smallpox pre-
, ventive.
The state board of charities reap
pointed j. w. Hammond to be super
intendent of the deaf and dumb schoo
at Olathe, succeeding A. A. Stuart
I who supplanted Mr.. Hammond two
years ago
/ Seventy of the members Of company
: e, Twentieth Kansas, petitoned Gov
, Stanley TO appoint Daniel Craig cap
tain to succeed C. Nj. Christy, resigned
Col. Funston recommended William D.
Watson for the position.
, Gov. Stanley received cablegram
, from Col. Funston, Of the Twentieth
Kansas. insisting that his recon-
} mendation for promotions be followed
1t is believed that the privates of the
regiment and the colonel are at outs
Mrs. Rebecca Hooper died at Pleas
anton, having reached the great age OF
100 years and five months. She was
born near Washington, October 7, 1893
and in 1914, when the British sacked
the capital, her father ran store In
that city.
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teacher whose certificate was revoked
by the county examining board be-
cause, it is alleged, the teacher is
afflicted with epilepsy, secured a re-
straining order from the district court
and will fight the order for removal
, from his school The county eXamin
ers believe that they have the same
power to revoke certificate as they
have to grant one.
, A letter from the war department tc
Gov. Stanley says that Capt. Charles
NJ Christy, of company e, Twentieth
Kansas. has been honorably discharged
, from the service, having rendered his
, resignation. 1t was understood that
, Christy had trouble with his superior
officers, but the letter from the wal
department shows that the trouble
was not of such a character as to leave
q stain on his military record.
The increase of its acreage by more
than So per cent. in 1898, in Kansas
suggests that alfalfa is plant Ii
which the farmers and stockmen are
becoming greatly interested. A pam
phlet giving the greatest fund Of in
formation anywhere available aboui
Z the raising and management OF alfalfa
together with many valuable articles
on subsoiling and irrigation, can be
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