Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-10-19
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

Inc topeka Capital has received from
New York the handsome sword for
Gen. Funston, for which the people
contributed 81, 900.
George w. David was arrested at
Colum bus, Ind, and brought back to
Kansas on the charge of stealing $500
from his widowed sister-in-law at Bar
clay.
D. A. Valentine. of Clay Center, one
of the best-known editors of the state.
has been appointed clerk of the SUI
preme court to succeed Hon. John
Martin.
The Twentieth Kansas boys will be
brought from San Francisco to Topeka
in two special trains. Gov. Stanley
and Brig. Gen. Funston will occupy a
special car.
Hundreds of delegates att ended the
state Baptist convention at Ottawa
last week. Citizens of the town erect
ed large dining room on Main street,
where every body was fed free.
The Leavenworth, Topeka & South
eastern railroad, running from Leaven-
worth to Meridian, was sold to Edward
Wilder, treasurer of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe road, for 500, 600.
Miss Frances Wilson, the republican
nominee for treasurer of Allen county,
has no opposition, the young lady who
was named by the other side having
| withdrawn her name from the ticket.
E. G. Turner, a student of the junior
class of the state university, was ar
rested for stealing books from the uni
versity book store. He said he was
poor and had no money to pay for them.
A Topeka dispatch said if the repub-
licans secured control of the next Kan
sas legislature law would be enacted
| prohibiting the printing of a name on
the official ballot in more than one
place.
| While loading shocked corn near Sa-
lima, Isaac Winchester found package
of postage stamps valued at $78. They
were supposed to be a part of the booty
taken from the Assaria post Office a
few nights previous.
Mrs. A. H. Thompson, president of
Topeka Women's Federated clubs, no
titled the butchers and grocers' asso-
Citations that the society young ladies
of Topeka will act as walters at the
banquet for the Twentieth Kansas.
Temperance people of Waverly have
| adopted a new plan of fighting joint
lists. They organized a company with
a capital of $500 and every time a joint
ist opens up they make levy on the
stock and hire attorneys to prosecute
| him.
Greenwood county republicans failed
to file their certificates of nomination
for county offices, and in consequence
! cannot have their ticket printed on the
official ballot. The county is close po-
litically, and it may be that this negli-
gence will insure the election of the
fusion ticket.
Perhaps the biggest company recep-
tions to Twentieth Kansas boys will
be at Kansas City and Ottawa. At the
former place a large sum is being
raised to entertain company B, while
Ottawa has for several weeks been
making preparations for a grand ova-
ton to company <.
Ziegler & Dalton, contractors for the
new $50, 900 courthouse being built in
Junction City, were served with papers
charging them with violation of the
eight-hour law. Labor Commissioner
johnson filed the complaint. The case
is to be carried to the supreme court,
to test the constitutionality of the law.
J. T. Martens, of Leavenworth, a
private of the Twentieth infantry, was
drowned in the Pasig near Manila.
He was boarding a schooner in front of
the office of the captain of the port
when rope to which he was holding
broke and he fell into the river. He
rose only once, but as no help could
reach him he disappeared.
It required an aggregate of $50, 829. 81
to run the state charitable institutions
during September, apportioned as fol-
| lows: Topeka reform school, SIS, 235. 5S;
soldiers orphans home, So, sol. %; blind
asylum, 81, 692 Is; Topeka insane asy-
lum. SO, 1855: deaf and dumb school,
So, 720.77; industrial school for girls,
81, 923. 90; Osawatomie insane asylum,
$1O.O4O.27.
The Kansas City Star printed inter
views purporting to come from officers
of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, who
were quoted as openly 'criticising the
management of the campaign in the
PHILIPPINES. The interviews were gath
cred by employees of the San Francisco
Examiner. A short time after the Off
GERS denied that they expressed such
sentiments.
Will A. Snow, the San Francisco
newspaper reporter who was drowned
while going out to meet the Twentieth
Kansas boys, is son of Chancellor
Snow, of the Kansas State university,
and graduated from That INSTITUTION IN
1891. He was so years old and was
married only two months ago. After
graduating he taught in the Illinois
State university at Champaign, also in
the Leland Stanford university.
A recent dispatch from San Francisco
said the Twentieth Kansas boys were
out of money, having expended every
thing they had in buying curiosities in
| rboxy h1~in RI
home enough stuff to equip Smith
sonian institution. As an example,
they have more than 5000 canes made
of Philipnine woods. They have