Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-24
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


City. Kan, this winter. 1t will cost
s.. 55 per ton.
Since January L bonds in the sum of
1922. s34 held by the permanent school
fund have been paid off from one to
twenty years before maturity.
A Topeka man who petitioned to be
declared bankrupt gave his liabilities
at S197, 500, while his assets consist of
$50 worth of clothing and Waterbury
watch.
A watermelon carnival will be given
at Clyde September 6, free watermel-
ons for all visitors being a feature.
Clyde is the center of a great melon
country.
The son of Judge Johnston, of the
Kansas supreme court, who went to
Manila with the Twentieth regiment,
has re-enlisted in the First Philippine
volunteers.
Large crowds attended the Ninth
district Epworth league conference at
Belleville. j. C. Posth1ethwaite of the
state railroad commission, is president
of the association.
A. T. Haines, a farmer near Sedg-
wick, exhibited an ear of corn from his
field that measured i44 inches in
length. It was 16-row ear and con-
tanned over 1000 grains.
A letter signed by Senator Baker and
Congressman Miller, Bowersock, Cur
tbs and Calderhead was sent to the
president requesting the removal of
Pension Commissioner Evans.
Jesse Dove, of Greenwood county,
swore out a warrant for A. B. Melon
aid, reporter for Kansas City news
paper, who wrote up Dove in connec-
ton with the Dobbs-New murder case.
Harvey county delegates in the re-
publican judicial convention at New
ton bolted because Reno and McPher-
son counties refused to adopt a resolu-
ton promising the next judge to Har-
vey county.
The bridge over the Big CLANCY river
near Elgin gave way while a herd of
Texas steers was being driven across
it. The cattle fell about SO feet and 40
head were killed. One horse was
killed and two men hurt.
A tramp named Wallace Bowers is in
jail at Ottawa with big load of shot
in his body received while trying to
burglarize the home of c. A. Bradford,
of lines. Both eyes are injured and if
he survives he will be blind.
The reports from the various 6. A.
r. posts in Kansas for the first six
months of the present year show an in
crease in membership of over 700 over
last year. The present membership of
the order in the state is Ii, 621.
Pittsburg gave an enthusiastic recep-
ton to Capt. w. j. Watson, of the
Twentieth Kansas, upon his return tie
~,
Watson was dangerously wounded and
now carries a Mauser bullet in his
body, he is in good health.
Farmers say the best wheat produced
this year was grown upon ground
which was well cultivated, narrowed
and plowed before the sowing. In
some instances the blowing and har-
rowing were done as early as July, and
this gave the ground a chance to take
up all the moisture that fell during the
fall.
Mrs. W. J. Mayfeld, living at Cum
mings, Atchison county, was bitten by
a rattIesnake and will die. Mrs. May
field, who is 81 years of age, was
gathering eggs from a nest in the
weeds, when the snake stuck it's fangs
into the back of her hand. Medical
aid was at once given her, but the poi
son had entered the system.
The daughter of ex-Secretary of State
Bush and w. A. Bowhay, while out
driving in Topeka, had a thrilling es-
cape from death while crossing the
Union Pacific tracks ahead of a passen-
ger train. The buggy was completely
demolished by the engine and the horse
killed. Bowhay was thrown 30 feet
and was severely injured. Miss Bush
saved her life by jumping from the
buggy.
Since going into effect as agent to
find homes for the children at the state
soldiers orphans home, A. f. Martin
has succeeded in tracing 73 children
who We're once inmates of the home.
Hereafter map will be kept showing
the location of every child. 1t is now
possible for the superintendent to
know in a very short time if a ward of
the home is unhappily located, and
take it back to the home.
The total expenditures for the eight
institutions controlled by the state
board of charities were $43, 821. So dur
ing July. divided as follows: Topeka
reform school, 81. 948.21; Topeka insane
ASYLUM, S12, 521 80; Olathe deaf and
dumb institute, So. 084. A; Osawatomie
insane asylum, s13, 595. OF; Kansas City
blind asylum, 81, ia. 50; Beloit indus
trial school, 50. O25. o9; Winfield imbe-
Gle asylum, s., sos. 43; soldiers orphans
home, Atchison, S.. 1920.
A report on Kansas grapes by Will
liam II. Barnes, secretary OF the State
horticultural society: The total bear
ing vines in the state is 1854 acres.
Seventy-two counties, represent
6, IA acres of bearing vines, report the
present prospects at an average for the
state of 72.5 per cent, SO counties not
reporting. An acre of grape vines
planted Sx1O feet contains $40 vines.
Well-grown vines will produce from 90