Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-09

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NOBLE l.. PRENTls
(Tle will Write History OF Kansas)
This bill also provides for Kansas
history, which 1t is understood Noble
L. Prentis will write. Ed Greer, Of
Winfield, will print the book, con
tracing to have it on the market fol
September schools The history will
have 300 pages and will cost go cents
Pearr, Apricota and Grapes All Right
Reports received by Secretary
Barnes, of the state horticultural so
ciety, show that great damage has
been done to all kinds of fruit by the
excessive cold Of the present winter
The loss is much heavier than was al
first estimated. The list of fruits
which have been destroyed includes
Japanese plums, raspberries, black
berries, peaches, and Strawberries
which we're not protected Pears,
apricots and grapes are all right
Kansas a. q. U, w. OnlcerN
Four hundred delegates attended the
annual session of the grand lodge A.
0. U. W., jurisdiction of Kansas, at
Pittsburg, The following officers were
elected
Grand master workman, John H. Crider, Fort
Scott; grand foreman j. M Gibbons, Topeka;
grand overseer. N, b ChRttelle Galena; grand
receiver M. b Light, Winheld grand recor'
der, =, NJ Forde, Emporia grand medical ex-
aminer, DR. j. M. Minnick. Wichita, represen-
tatives to supreme lodge, e f Murphy, State
Insurance Commissioner Webb McNall and
Congressman j. M Miller
WIN Follow Eugene W~re's SuGR eStIOn.
Eugene Wares suggestion that each
county which has suffered loss of sol
diers by death at Manila erect suit
able memorial tablets to the memory
of such dead, struck a popular chord
at Paola. Miami county has already
lost two Of her brave volunteers-Jay
Sheldon and Alonzo Ricketts,, and the
school children OF Miami county will
contribute funds to erect a suitable
tablet to be placed in the new court
house at Paola.
lntrresting School Satisfied
State Superintendent Of Public In
struction Frank Nelson has completed
his first compilation of school Stats
tics. 1t shows that there are 496, 43s
children of school age in Kansas and
the semi-annual apportionment, at the
rate of A cents per capita, aggregates
S2lS, 482.72 Wyandotte gets more than
any other county, 9,O9OS4, Shawnee
being second with $7,b5S,O4 Stanton
gets only $3J.36.
To Kesist the Gas Combine.
Since the gigantic combine has Sc
cured control of southern Kansas
smelters and gobbled up all gas and
oil leases the people are becoming
aroused and will resist further agrees
sions. An agreement is being made
by local gas companies, citizens and
farmers to prevent the com Dine get
ting any more leases; also to stop the
piping of gas out of the county where
found.
NJ ssionarieS t. the Philippines.
Rev. d. S. Hibbard, the popular
young pastor of the Presby
church at Lyndon, accompanied by his
wife, will leave in a few days to take
up missionary work in the Philippine
islands, under direction of the Presby-
terian Board of Foreign Missions
Rev. HID bard graduated from the Col
lege of Emporia in 1898.
Public Sentiment the Law.
A white man appeared in Probate
Judge IIardy's Cf1ice at Troy and asked
if there was law in Kansas to pre-
vent him marrying negro woman.
He was informed by Judge Hardy that
there was no law to prevent it, but he
would not issue a marriage license for
such union.
The Care OF the Insane.
For caring for the destitute insane
who could not secure places at the
asylums, the state of Kansas owes the
various counties SOL, 317 SO. But these
counties owe the state in back taxes
an aggregate of SOS, 9G6. 10, leaving q
balance of S132, 352. SO in favor Of the
counties.
MIX for CreRmsrIes Scarce
Kansas creameries are experiencing
this winter in Obtaining suf-
fcient milk. In western Kansas the
milk supply fell off the past month
over 80 per cent. and there were some
creameries where the supply decreased
40 per cent
1t Is Now Jddge Hook.
March Cassius G. Foster retired as
United Stated Judge of the district of
Kansas, after service of over quar-
Ter of a century, and was succeeded by
David c. Hook. Miss Detweiler, of
Leavenworth, will be Judge Hooks
private secretary and Frank L. Brown
will be clerk OF the court
MiShNp to Lieut.. Col. Little.
At Manila, January is, while Lieut..
Col. Ed c. Little, of the Twentieth
Kansas, was handling his revolver, the
weapon was accidentally discharged,
the ball entering his leg just below