Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-06
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

LeavenwOrth and Lansing are now
connected by an electric road.
Ex-Congressman r. w. Blue has
moved from Chetopa to Columbus.
Pittsburg will vote on a proposition
to issue $50, 900 in bonds to build city
hall.
John Stanton, of Topeka, has been
appointed state architect. The place
pays $500 per month.
While the Frisco depot employees at
Cherryvale were out to dinner thieves
broke a window light and gained en-
trance and tapped the money drawer.
The Great Bend mills caught fire in
the dust room near the top and burned
to the ground. The mills were owned
by G. II. Hume and were not insured.
The loss is $40, 900.
Frank Burkholder, John Gump and
other farmers near Fort Scott lost cat
tie, hogs and sheep from hydrophobia.
The animals were bitten by a rabid
terrier the week previous.
According to the terms of the occu-
patton tax for lola, book agents who
work the town will have to pay Ii
cense of 81 a day or 81 a week. 1t costs
$40 year to run a newspaper.
Ravanna, which was the county seat
of Garfield county in boom times, now
uses the $4,000 courthouse as cold
storage reservoir for hay and in cold
weather calves are sheltered there.
State Treasurer Grimes the other
day received $50 of Kansas military
scrip issued in 1862 by State Treasurer
j. E. Hayes and used in protecting
Kansas homes during border troubles
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the big barn of Ben Ringle, two miles
north of Hutchinson, together with
100 tons of alfalfa, buggies and farm
machinery and two horses Loss, So
500.
The high waters of the Republican
river broke the mill dam at Concordia
and about 100 feet was swept away.
The dam supplies power for the mill
and electric lights, and Concordia was
dark for time.
Very little irrigating is done in cen
trail Kansas this year compared with
previous seasons. The rainy season
has made it to some extent unnecessary
and the expenditure of previous years
was not entirely satisfactory.
William Warner, of Melvern, Usage
county, filed suit in the federal court
against the Consolidated Barbed Wire
company, of Lawrence, for $500, 900 for
alleged infringement upon a woven
wire fence patent owned by the plain
tiff
A transfer of the management of both
big prisons at LeavenwOrth was made
this week, Maj. McClaughry assuming
control of the federal penitentiar and
j. B. Tomlinson succeeding Harry Ian
dis as warden of the Kansas state peni-
tertiary.
While painting the steeple of the
German Methodist church at Enter
prise, Samuel Beaver and Edward
Hungerford fell to the ground, a dis
lance of 35 feet, their scaffOlding col
lapsing. Both were badly hurt, Beaver
perhaps fatally.
The Kansas editors have invited Web
Wilder, Senator PETER, Gen. John H.
Rice, Father Baker, Jake Stotler, w.
H. Rossington, j. K. Hudson, John
Speer and few others of the oldtime
journalists to go with them on the Can
adian excursion.
Lloyd Parkinson, son of a prominent
Fort Scott family, left home three
years ago and later he was reported
killed in New Orleans. Last week a
letter was received from him saying he
had just been mustered out of the army
and was on his way home.
The Missouri Pacific railroad agreed
to transport free of charge all the
stone used in building the memorial
gateway at Ottawa in honor of the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers. The
stone is to be taken from Carthage,
Mo-, and five carloads will be required.
For the fourth time Bertha Mccoy,
of Labette county, has been found in
sane by jury and sent to the asylum.
Each time she has been released as
cured after a few months treatment,
and the Parsons Sun says the taXpay-
ers are getting tired of holding Mccoy
trials.
Il hear that our lodge held some
kind of funeral services over me, -
writes Robert Fuller, southern Kan
sas boy, who is serving in the Philip
pines with the Colorado regiment. 81
didn't die, though the smallpox came
mighty near getting me, and now 1
can read my own obituary"
William Bradford was in the Bur-
| lingtOn calabOose for refusing to pay
his dog license. He would not appeal
the case or take other legal steps to
get his freedom, simply allowing the
law to infiict the penalty for its viola
ton. However, he threatened to sue
the town for $50, 600 damages.
Bank Commissioner Breidentha1 re-
ports deposits in state and private
! banks at last report at $23, 900, 600, with
national bank deposits $24, 900, 900, a
total of over $47, 900, 600. This is an in
crease of 81, SOC, 900 over year ago.
about $40, 900, 600 over two years ago
and SIS, 900, 600 over three years ago.
Willis c. Metcalf, formerly of Sumner
county, is now lieutenant on the
| police force in Havana. Metcalf was a
conspicuous figure in Kansas by reason
j of the important part he took in the