Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-12-21
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


eminent building at Emporia-
A new wholesale grocery house has
been established at Hutchinson, back
ed by capitalists from st. Joseph, Mo-
Wendell Mclaughlin, once stenogra-
| pher to the late Senator Plumb, has
been appointed to a government posi-
ton in Manila. His duty will be to
interpret the Spanish language.
premature explosion of dynamite
at the Mount Carmel Coal company's
shaft at Frontenace killed four
miners; all foreigners. Several other
men had narrow escapes from death.
At De Soto new bridge to cost $14-
/ 300 is being built across he Kaw river.
THE Sana Fe railroad has built via
duct to the bridge, which viii enable
uninterrupted travel across the rail-
road track
Mrs. Mary Folk, who died at St.
Marys, was probably the youngest
bride who ever lived in Kansas. She
was married at the age of IL. She
was the mother of Mrs. George
Huycke, the Ellsworth editor
Gov. Stanley has appointed W. W.
Guthrie. of Atchison; T. NJ. Potter, of
Peabody, and 7. A. Hubbard, of Rome,
as delegates to represent Kansas at
the meeting of the National Live
Stock association to be held at Fort
Worth, Tex, January 16.
The twenty-eighth annual session of
the Kansas state grange was held at
! Olathe last week with so delegates in
attendance. Delegates were elected on
the basis of one delegate for every 800
members, which indicates a Grange
membership of 5000 in the state.
Some time ago the city council at In
dependence passed an ordinance for
street paving. Several taxpayers en-
| Joined the council from awarding con-
tracts and the matter was taken to the
supreme court where the ordinance
was held to be valid, and street paving
Will be proceeded with.
Representative Curtis introduced IN
| the house bills to reimburse the
towns of Atchison and Leavenworth
for expenses incurred in improving
the streets surrounding the post of
fee buildings there. Atchison is re-
imbursed in the sum of $1,000 and
Leavenworth in the sum of 1904.
| The temperance people of Chapman
have organized a club with the Pur
pose of securing the passage of a law
| appointing a state temperance COM
missioner who shall, with his aids,
have the power to summon witnesses
and shall be empowered to look after
the enforcement of the prohibitory
laws, as the state oil inspector cares
| for the oil interests.
During the meeting of the repub-
ican national committee, Cyrus Lee
| land, of Kansas, offered a resolution
which went over under the rules, pc
titioning congress ''to reduce the rep
resentation in the house Of repre-
sentatives in congress in any state
which has in force laws denying or
in any way abridging' the right to
vote, as provided in the constitution. -
DR.. F. c. Rainier, young physician
of Fort Scott, was accidentally killed
while out hunting near that place
| with party of friends. The two men
had laid their guns on pile of fence
posts to scare a rabbit out. When
the rabbit ran the doctor grabbed the
gun by the barrel. The hammer
caught on a post and the charge ex-
ploded, the entire load going into his
forehead.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, has issued a quarterly
report in which he treats of 'Fhe
Horse Useful" The secretary has
found that Smuggelr, 2:15; Robert
NrcGregor, 2:171s; Joe Young, sire OF
/ Joe Patchen; John r. Gentry and Joe
Patchen, all Kansas horses, are first IN
their respective class. Joe Patchen is
discussed as ''the foremost horse OF
all the ages"
Nothing has been learned of George
A. Kimmel, the Arkansas City bank
cashier who mysteriously disappeared
on July 80, 1898, with $500 in his pock-
cts. People who knew him have never
ceased to wonder at his strange con-
duct. No motive for voluntary dis
appearance has been found. Kimmefs
accounts were all right and he left be-
hind about $4,000 in money and prop
erty. He had no family.
In the injunction case of the county
attorney of Clay county against the
state board of charities Judge W. S.
Glass made permanent the injunction
az aingt the purchase of an asylum
site at Parsons. He held that the asy-
lum law does not authorize the COM
mittee to buy, or the state treasurer
to pay for site and that the state
board of charities is not authorized to
procure lands except by condemnation
proceedings.
Kansas pluck and business sagacity
is demonstrated in the case of Law
renee NJ. and j. Logan Jones, now at
the head of big department house
at Kansas City, Mo. A few years ago
these young men started in business
at Stafford, Kan, in a small frame
building and with limited capital. In
1895 they moved to the Missouri city,
and that their business has grown at
q phenomenal rate is evidenced from
the fact that last year they had the