Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-23
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

ported missing.
There is row in the Fourth regi-
ment. Missouri national guard, at st.
Joseph, and Col. Joseph A. Corby has
preferred charges against Capt Charles
F. Keller.
In a gas explosion at the Cofeyville
plant in 1896 David Carter was killed
and his daughter recently obtained a
judgment of S., 600 damages against the
company.
Local capitalists at Cofeyvil1e or
ganized a stock company and will
double the capacity of the pottery plant
there, which will be made the largest
in the state.
The new masonic building at White
Cloud was dedicated recently with a
banquet, various lodges from surround
ing towns attending. The new build
ing cost 81, 900.
Mrs. Mary Stumbaugh, wife of a
suit for divorce. alleging her husband
failed to provide medical aid for her.
A week later she died
c. w. Foster, of Osborne county,
sowed 20 acres to broom corn last sum-
mer, and a few days ago sold Is tons
to Chicago firm at $85 ton, making
a return of $55 per acre.
The latest government crop report
places the Kansas corn acreage of 1899
at 9, 1872 900, with a crop of 1854, S2S, 600
bushels, reduction of 81, 139, 900 BUSH
els from the September report.
The sister of G. G. Gillett, the cattle
dealer, returned from chihuahua, Mex,
to Abilene and says Gil1ett, who had
typhoid fever, and his wife, who had
smallpox, are recovering rapidly.
Lon Pointer, Hiawatha jointkeeper
serving a Jail sentence for selling liquor,
lived on bread and water for over a
month because of his refusal to break
rock. He got too weak to feed himself.
DR.. E. B. Jones, of Buffalo, this state,
has been appointed head physician for
the Modern Woodmen for the district
of Kansas and Oklahoma, to succeed
DR.. John B. Hibben, recently deceased.
The lum bermen of Lyon and adjoin-
ing counties met at Emporia and
formed an organization, the object be-
ing to fight the proposed increase in
lumber rates by the railroads in that
territory.
A notice was sent out from the state
treasurer's Office urging the various
county treasurers to remit taxes due
the state as early as possible in order
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paid for want of funds. -
It is announced that Lieut.. Col. Ed
c. Little, of Abilene, will wed Miss Ed
ma Steele, of Parsons, during the holt
days Miss Steele was stenographer to
Gov. Leedy while Mr.. Little was serv-
ing as private secretary.
A farmer boy living four miles from
Fort Scott, on Mill creek. found the
body of an unknown man floating in
the creek. A heavy chain was tied
around the mans neck and a sack of
rocks was tied to his feet. The evil
dences of murder were unmistalzable.
The Twentieth Kansas band dis
banded at Leavenworth. The band
started out to make tour of the cities
of the state, but the members were
disappointed by the attendance at the
four concerts given. Most of the mem
bers will start again under a new man
agement about December 1.
The Kansas supreme court has de-
cided that where church congregation
becomes split up over the articles of
faith the property shall be put up at
auction and sold to the faction which
makes the highest bid. This overturns
the old rule of selling the property and
dividing the proceeds of the sale be-
tween the factions.
A strong effort is being made to get
part of the Twentieth's equipment for
use in military drill at the state uni
versity. The federal government will
be asked for 500 of the guns, which are
now stored at Topeka. Chancellor Snow
intends that whenever there is another
call for men those from the university
shall be already drilled.
Ed Staffieback, one of the 48 convicts
in the Kansas penitentiary under sem
tence of death, died in prison last week
of consumption. He was one of no.
torious family of criminals arrested at
!. Galena for committing numerous MUIR
ders Old Mrs. Stafaeback was sent
up for 81 years and two sons, George
and Ed, for life. The daughter, Cora,
turned states evidence.
For two months the question of city
ownership of gas has been the bone of
contention between Chanute and the
Standard Oil company. The city ex-
pended $4,000 prospecting for gas and
secured five good wells. The Standard
Oil company was already established
in that territory. Last week the city
purchased for $62, 500 every gas interest
of the company within radius of three
miles of the city.
Pretty much every body except the
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, who is the official statistician in
such matters, has ventured opinions on
this years yield of corn in Kansas.
Now that the corn and other crops are
matured and harvested he is canvassing
their growers in every neigh borhood
, to ascertain reliably what the yields
, have been, and when the information
is sifted and tabulated the public will
have something far different from
boastful prophecies or random guesses.