Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-09-21
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED,

Seven new schoolhouses have been
built in Mcpherson county this sum
mer.
Ex-Gov. Morrill, planted 400 acres of
fruit trees in Brown county this sum-
mer.
The Twentieth Kansas band will
make a tour of Kansas the coming
winter.
A Mcpherson gardener had tomato
vine that produced "a pounds of to-
matoes.
More than 600 former citizens of
Wichita, now residents of Kansas City,
Mo-, held a picnic in the latter city re
Gently.
Returns of assessors to the state
board of agriculture show the acreage
of kafir corn to be $50, 895 acres, or
about nine per cent. greater than last
year.
A letter from an officer of the Twen-
tieth Kansas states that Lieut.. Col
Little, during his visit in Japan, was
engaged in writing a history of the
! Philippine war. to be published when
he returns.
Two negroes from the Twenty third
Kansas received commissions in the
new volunteer negro egiment-Capt.
| w. NJ. Hawkins to be a captain and
Second Lieut.. George E. Payne to be a
second lieutenant.
David Beare, a farmer living south
east of Kinsley, has been arrested,
charged with numbering his eldest son,
a boy of IS. The boy mysteriously
disappeared about five weeks ago and
circumstances point strongly to muir
der.
Gov. Stanley refused to pardon Frank
Grice, of Marshall county, who is in
Jail for whipping boy. The boy, who
was employed by Grice, did not curry
horses fast enough to suit Grice and
Grice beat him with the butt end of a
whip.
Donnie Powell, the 15-year-old son of
John Powell, while engaged as holster
man at the Rhodes mine, near Galena,
fell into the mine. a distance of 80 feet,
and was killed. Three accidents have
occurred in this family within the last
month.
The soldiers reunion at Arkansas
City last week was a big affair, the at
tendance one day exceeding 5000.
Capt. w. f. Henry, of Kansas City,
Mo, led the campfres. Addresses were
made by prominent soldiers, civilians
and oficials-of the state.
The Topeka Commercial club does
not take kindly to w. E. Winners
scheme for an electric line connecting
Topeka and Kansas City. The reason
given is that such line would tend to
make Topeka "a suburb of Kansas
City, and thus destroy local trade.
The expenses of six state institutions
for the month of August were: Peni-
Tertiary, $14, S33. %; Topeka insane asy-
lum, 50, 761.O7; Hutchinson reformato-
ry, So, 477.67; Atchison orphans home,
50, 4O2. Is; Beloit school for girls, ST.
sos. 40; Kansas City blind institute,
ST, SOO.35.
There were more bankruptcy cases
fled in the Kansas federal court during
August than in any previous month
| since the law went into effect. Labor
ing men are taking advantage of the
law. Railroad men are, in particular,
for three garnishmentS loses railroad
man his job.
Arthur J. gladden.. second lieutenant
in the Twentieth infantry, was at home
in Beloit last week in the ca pacity of a
recruiting officer. He left with 26 en-
listed men for Fort Leavenworth. 1t
is doubtful if any other recruiting Off
Ger can show such a record in town
of 5000 inhabitants.
The report of the Twentieth Kansas
for July places the total membership
of the regiment at 951-46 officers and
9O5 enlisted men. Eighty-two men
We're discharged in July. Nearly all
of them re-enlisted in the companies
forming in the Philippines. There
were no deaths during the month.
Ten thousand people attended the
Southwest Kansas Log Rolling associa-
| . Of 10
The association embraces $50 lodges in
that section. 1t was the biggest crowd
Cherryvale ever entertained, but all
had plenty to eat. In the team drill,
Fort Scott secured first prize. In the
band contest Fort Scott also won the
prize by one-half point over Colum bus.
Next years meeting will be in Fort
Scott.
Corporal Alex Hunt and Fred Atch-
inson, company G, Twentieth Kansas,
arrived at Fredonia last week. They
were discharged at San Francisco, the
former on account of sickness, the lat
ter because of a gunshot wound. Hunts
discharge credits him with serving in
IA battles and Atchinson's eight. The
boys say the regiment was on constant
duty at the front, not even removing
their belts, from February to June
"a. Atkinson lives in Oswego.
William Hahn, who, it is charged,
has been posing as a charming widow,
is in Jail at Topeka to answer the
charge of using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes. Hahn, it is claimed.
over the name of ''WiIhelmina Hahn, .
advertised in a paper for a husband
and requested answers sent to him at
Bonner Springs, Wyandotte county.
Replying to these answers Hahn would
suggest that if the wife-hunter would
send SIS or $40 the widow would go
J and be his housekeeper long enough to
decide if the union would be agreea ole.