Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-02
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED.

Manila rode in the parade instead OF
walking.
The congregational church at Syca.
more, Montgomery county, was totally
destroyed by fire the other day. Al
most all the people there are infdels
and the church was established as a
missionary enterprise.
The farmers of Wabaunsee county
have formed a sweet potato trust. The
object of the trnst is to raise the price
of sweet potatoes. The plan is to keep
the potatoes off the market until the
price suits the producers.
Cattlemen are complaining of the or
der just issued by the live stock sani-
tary commission estab lishing an inspec-
ton fee of three cents per head on all
cattle shipped into the state from be-
low the quarantine line for feeding
purposes.
The reward offered for the Doniphan
bandits, dead or alive, has been Swelled
to 81 500. The sum is made up by the
state, Doniphan and Atchison counties
and Anton Braun, whose son was killed,
and Charles Kuchs, owner of the store
at Doniphan.
AtchisOn merchants are talking of
putting in an independent electric
light plant. It is claimed that the
prices charged by the present company
are eXorbitant. The cost of the lights
will be governed only by the cost of
operating the plant.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
last week fled with the secretary of
state an amended charter showing an
increase in it's capital stock of over
$50, 600, 900. The fee paid by the com
L Il. 90
which goes into the school fund.
A contract has been closed by which
Neodesha will get one Of the zinc smelt-
ers to be erected and owned by the
mine-owners of the Kansas Missouri
district in opposition to the big smelt-
ers. Neodesha gives 40 acres of land
and leases on good gas territory.
The city council of Wichita appro-
priated $7OG as part of a fund of $40, 600
guaranteed by the Commercial club to
pay the expenses of a preliminary sur
vey for an eXten sion of the Kansas
Midland from Wichita to South Meal
ester, L. T., to be known as the Wichita
& Southern.
City Marshal Erickson, of Marquette,
attempted to arrest Harry Wiley, who
resisted, and Erickson pulled out his
revolver. Wiley Immediately drew his
and began shooting, hitting the mar
shall twice and mortally wounding him.
Wiley escaped, but was captured out
side of town.
A Washington dispatch said Brig.
| Gen. Funston is to breveted major gen
eral, and Col. Wilder S. Metchalf, of
the Twentieth Kansas, is to be breveted
brigadier general by the president
shortly on account of gallant and mer-
itorious services of the two Kansas sol
diers in the Philippines.
Gov. Stanley received a telegram
from a New York paper asking for his
estimate of the mum Der of bushels of
corn Kansas will yield this year, and
the probable value thereof. The gov
ernOr replied: ''The estimated yield is
! 800, 600, 600 bushels. The probable
value is $75. 900, 900. This is 1926 for
every voter in the state.''
A letter was received at the govern
or's Office last week from Col. Metcalf,
of the Twentieth, to the effect that a
Moorish brass cannon, captured by the
| KanSanS, would accompany the regi-
ment to Kansas. It is shipped as bag
gage on the same train as the soldiers
1t will be used to coin medals for the
members of the regiment.
Miss Ethel Tucker, of Ottawa, is now
in San Francisco awaiting a steamer to
take her to Manila, where she will
marry Sergt. Irwin V. Todd, troop A,
Eleventh cavalry. The sergeant is a
son of L. NJ. Todd, who lives near
Wellsville. The two have been lovers
several years. Todd recently re-enlist-
ed in the cavalry and sent for his af-
| famed.
October 1 the several state charitable
institutions contained the following
number of inmates: Be1oit industrial
school for girls, 112; Atchison orphans
home, 179; Winfield imbecile asylum,
15S; Topeka insane asylum, S76-592
men and 2S4 women; Osawatomie in
sane asylum, 1, O23-5O5 males and SIS
females; Olathe deaf and dumb insti-
tute, 2O7; Topeka reform school, 1877.
When the Atchison national bank
failed recently it was intimated that
w. F. Guthrie, the attorney for the
bank. gave the Atchison Bridge COM
pany, of which he was the attorney,
''tip'' which enabled it to draw out
SIT, 900 the morning before the bank
failed. Guthrie denies the charge and
says that if it is proven in the litiga-
ton that he gave out the tip he will
leave the state of his birth never to re-
turn.
Lieut.. Ferguson, mentioned in the
Manila dispatches as commanding a de-
tachment of the Thirty-sixth infantry
in two engagements in one day near
Cabao, was formerly a member of the
Twentieth Kansas. He won mention
for distinguished conduct at the Rio
Grande river, where he successfully
reconnoitered the bridge under the di-
rection of Col. Funston under the most
difficult and dangerous circumstances.
He was then Corporal Ferguson, of E
company. Shortly afterwards he was
commissioned a first lieutenant in the