Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-05-18
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

penditures Sll,75
The sos, 900 waterworks bonds voted
by Arkansas City will be bought by
local capitalists.
Guy Neybegall, a private of company
I, who enlisted from Fort Scott, died
at Manila of fever.
Gen. Fred Funston received a slight
wound in the hand while in battle near
San Tomas on the 5th.
Frederick Funston is the youngest
brigadier general in the United States
army if not in the world.
There are 3,270 dogs in Kansas City
Kan, and the city realizes $4,000 in
revenue as tax from them.
The state textbook commission has
adopted Noble Prentis' history OF Kan
sas for use in the public schools Of the
state.
City Attorney C. S. Berner, of Fort
Scott, died of congestion of the brain,
resulting from overwork in the recent
campaign.
County Attorney Gaitskill arrested 80
Crawford county jointists in one day
and they contribute an average OF SlSo
each to the school fund.
Saline county recently refunded $780,
900 in bonds at reduced rate OF inter
est, Eureka township, in that county,
issued $40, 900 in bonds.
John Hammond, who was once state
architect and planned the state normal
building at Emporia, died recently in
the masonic home at Wichita.
Edwin Peters, the two-year-old son
of Henry Peters, of Argentine, was
choked to death by accidentally swal-
lowing piece of broken collar button.
The state board of health, in view OF
the smallpox scare at Emporia and
elsewhere, issued instructions requir-
ing all school children to be vaccinated.
The state board of charities has in
augurated radical reforms in the man
agement of the industrial school for
girls at Beloit. Work on the new $780,
900 building will also begin soon.
David HorlSman, of company ii,
Twentieth Kansas, has arrived at his
home in Concordia with one blind eye,
a deaf ear and the bullet that did it in
the charge at Caloocan, February 10.
Milk supplies to central Kansas
creameries decreased so per cent. in
April. Low prices of butter and high
prices of cattle caused farmers to raise
stock for sale instead of for milking.
The annual conclaye of Knights
Templar of Kansas, held gently at
Topeka, elected Ed Hayes, of Yelling
ton, grand commander and Maj. L. j.
Anderson, of Topeka, grand recorder.
George Bundy, a Lowell hotelkeeper,
was carried over the dam in Spring
river near Galena and drowned.
Bundy attempted to cross in a boat,
and when in midstream he lost an ORE
A jury at Oswego refused to return a
verdict for Thomas Stice, a prominent
farmer who sued his brother for SLAM
der. Members of the jury said they
were averse to encouraging that sort of
litigation.
A few weeks ago the four deacons Of
the Church of Christ, at Harveyville,
dismissed the pastor, Rev. E. Redgate.
The dismissed preacher has brought
suit against the four deacons for $22,-
900 damages.
A corps of surveyors were at work
near Abilene locating levels for a de-
termination of the ninety-eighth me-
ridian through Kansas to the Nebraska
line. All the highest points were
marked by permanent record stones
Gen. Frederick Funstons friends
claim that he is entitled to portion of
the So, 100000 allotted by the United
States to the Cuban troops Funston
served in the Cuban army two years
and for time had control of all of the
artillery.
Two eastern banks instituted suits in
the federal court to force Editor G. v.
Eskridge, of Emporia, into bankruptcy.
The banks hold two $40, 900 notes which
Eskridge claims are accommodation
notes." given to the Cross-Martindale
bank before its failure.
A stubborn fire broke out in the Cen
trail school building at Lawrence the
other day, but the 400 pupils were at
once marshaled for exit and marched
out in wonderful order, indicating their
splendid training and the confidence
they had in their teachers.
Rev. Guy P. Benton, professor of his
tory at Baker university, Baldwin, was
offered the presidency of the Methodist
university at Fayette, la. Mr.. Benton
was for long time superintendent of
the Fort Scott schools, and was assist
ant state superintendent under Stan
ley.
Miss Jennie Sellers died from small
box at Emporia on the 18th. Her
brother was attacked by the same dis
ease and Robert Hurst, who lived near
the quarantined Clinton hotel, was at,
tackled and his wife and two children
ordered to the pest house. Frank
Trumbull was also stricken.
The grand chapter, Order Eastern
Star of Kansas in session at Wichita,
elected the following officers: Eva
Wheeler, Norton, grand matron; E. w.
PoindeXter, Topeka, grand patron;
Elite Main, Parsons, associate grand
matron; David Smythe, Wichita, asso-
ciate grand patron; Jessie NJ. Pearsall,
Fort Scott, grand conductress; Myra
Mottram, Ottawa, grand secretary, and