Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-16
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
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Mitchell and Jewell counties want
new courthouses.
Garnett is now on the long distance
telephone circuit.
l. M. Yost's home, the finest in Hays
City, was destroyed by fire.
s. o. Spencer, newly-appointed coal
oil inspector, is u native Kansan.
The IIiawatha Democrat urges Sen.
ator w. A. Harris for president in 1900.
Fifteen carloads OF Montgomery
county cotton were shipped recently to
Japan.
The legislature will pass law Civ
Ing Bourbon county the right to build
high school.
Aunt Dizzy" Dibbs, aged 80, who
lived alone at Shawnee, was found
frozen TO death.
g. II. Ridgway, of Ottawa, will be
assistant under State Insurance SUI
perintendent Church,
Ex-Attorney General Dawes Is the
recognized republican leader in the
lower house of the legislature. o
On the coolest day last week the
Dunkards cut the ice in Crooked creek,
10 miles northeast OF Burlington, and
Immersed six converts.
Mrs, Sydney Burroughs. OF Kansas
City, Kan, was nabbed by Uncle Sans
sleuths on the charge of sending OBJ
scene literature through the mails,
While working on the new court.
house at Paola, c. 4. Beaman was per.
haps fatally injured by huge iron
vault door falling on him and pinning
him to the floor.
Eugene H. Ware, the Topeka lawyer
poet suggests bronze tablet to the
memory of Lieut.. Afford, killed in bat.
tie at Manila, to be placed ia Univer-
sity hall at Lawrence.
The house passed bill appropri-
ating Sl50,OOO for government build
ing at Kansas City, Kan. The sum of
SIS, 900 was voted to enlarging the gov
eminent building at Topeka.
A Washington dispatch said 1t was
exceedingly doubtful whether the APP
preparations for public buildings at
Kansas City and Topeka would get
through this session Of congress.
A clerk of the district court in a
western Kansas county makes $500 a
year out of his Office, and business is
so light that he personally tills large
farm near the county seat, devoting
but two hours a day to his Office.
President Taylor, of the Kansas state
normal, received word that his new
book THE Study of the Child" had
been adopted as the professional book
of the Illinois State Teachers Reading
Circle, composed of $4,000 teachers.
Col. Fred Funston cabled from Ma
Mia to Gov Stanley recommending
that Second Lieutenant Showalter,
of company b, Twentieth Kansas, be
promoted to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of First Lieutenant Afford.
Peter Hammerly, the Miltonvale
iointist who last fall shot into a COM
pany of temperance crusaders, who
were entering his place, and severely
wounding the editor Of the Miltonvale
Press, has been found guilty of as
sault.
Mrs. Harriet Mealer, a prominent
society woman of Lacrosse, was ar
rested by government official for draw
ing widows pension while the wife
of another man. She kept the facts
concealed even from the immediate
members of her family.
John Krebs, of Junction City, whose
divorced wife was recently sent to the
penitentiary for numbering Mrs Liz
zie Craig, his housekeeper, has been
arrested on the charge of adultery
Kre BIS and the Craig woman lived alone
in his home for months.
The state camp, Modern Woodmen
of America, met at Topeka and elected
d. G. Tillotson, OF Topeka, state con-
sui; P. G. Chubbic, OF Beloit, state
clerk and j. M. Doyle, of Belleville,
state advisor. Wichita was selected
for next meeting of the state camp.
1t is said the oil inspectors office in
Kansas pays $4,000 year. A bill
prepared by State Auditor Cole has
been introduced which places the oil
inspector and his deputies on salaries
and requires that every cent collected
by them be turned into the state treas
ury.
While the thermometer registered 20
degrees below zero the other night a
big fire broke out in Herington and
but for the heroic work of firemen the
town would have been almost wiped
out AS it was, the Hotel Herington
and five business houses were de-
stroyed, causing loss of neary $780,
000
The State Society of Labor and In
dustry, created by the extra session
OF the legislature, met in Topeka and
organized by electing Joseph McGrath,
Kansas City, president and w. II. L.
johnson. the present labor commits
sioner, as secretary This practically
makes johnson labor commissioner
for two more years.
The spirit of patriotism which has
pervaded the Kansas legislature re-
suited in the unanimous passage OF
Fairchild's general bill removing the
disabilities of all ex-confederates in
the state. There is provision of the
constitution which prevents the
removal of these disabilities except
upon the request Of the person
a ffected As this hill is general in