Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-01-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Hardin county, o., has furnished
Kansas three governors-Carney, Green
and Stanley.
Cofeyville is becoming a big grain
center, 1900 cars being inspected there
in December.
Populist legis' ators supported Sem
ator II. w. Young, OF Independence,
for sIate printer.
Hutchinson's new theater, to be
built on the Kansas City Convention
hall prize plan, will cost $40, 900
j. M. Hart, superintendent of the
state reform school at Topeka, sent his
resignation to Gov. Stanley ON the 18th.
In Montgomery county last year
there were 1859 births and 1919 Deaths
big majority for the cradle over the
grave.
A Topeka dispatch said that S. o.
Spencer, of Fort Scott, would be APP
pointed state oil inspector by Gov.
Stanley,
A vein of fine rock salt three feet
thick and near the surface, was dis
covered on the James Gallagher farm
near Troy.
Sumner is the banner wheat county
of Kansas, Nemaha the banner corn
county and Washington the banner
oats county.
Chairman Albaugh, of the repub.
llcan state committee, has been named
as receiver of the First national
Gross bank at Emporia.
Gen. Otis reported from Manila that
Bert Cornett, of company e, and vii.
liam II. Bash, company Z, Twentieth
Kansas, died of smallpox,
A meeting of all labor unions ia Kan.
sas will be held at Topeka February
to organize state bureau of labor, as
provided for in the new law.
Officers of the state temperance
union say they will not ask Gov. Stan-
ley to close the joints, and will not
precipitate any prohibition war on the
governor
The farmhouse of II. y. Matheison,
near Argentine, was entered at night
by burglars who carried away two
gold watches and S27O in gold that
was concealed in the walls.
U. G. Cavaness, who came to Kansas
43 years ago, died at Baldwin, aged SO.
He was in Lawrence when Quantrell
raided that town. Only few days
ago Mr.. Cavaness' wife passed away,
aged 81.
Harvey county employed an agent
to go after the tax dodgers. He found
$3.50, 900 worth of property that was es.
Gaping all taxation and the county coll
lected 80, 3l3 from its owners, of which
the agent received half
1t is not unlikely that a big state
heating and lighting plant will be
built at Topeka this year at cost of
about $50, 600 to heat and light the cap
itol building, the state reform school
and the state insane asylum,
In a fit of dependency brought on
by financial reverses which he is said
to have suffered only few days ago,
Jacob N. zook, prominent grocer OF
Lawrence, committed suicide in
room at the Blossom house, Kansas
City, Mo-
While Will Bruce, of Verdi, was
driving with friend near Solomon,
the team ran away and the men were
thrown out. Bruce fell on his face in
a puddle of water and a sack of salt
from the wagon fell on him, holding
him down until he was drowned.
Elk Representative Brown, silver re-
publican of Cowley county, wrote let.
ter to ex-Gov. Leedy calling him a
coward for sending message to the
Legislature denouncing Brown in his
absence. Brown had accused the gov
ernor of boodling and the governor
called him liar.
The president on the 10th signed the
bill to retire United States Judge Fos-
ter. A Washington dispatch said it
was believed that William G. Hook,
Senator Bakers law partner, would
Foster, though Congressman
Curtis was fighting vigorously for AL
bert H. Horton.
Recently w. A. Mobley, of Paola,
sent his two sons to New Mexico in |
hope that the climate would benefit
their pulmonary troubles. At Pecos
they were assigned to hotel room
that had been occupied by man with
smallpox. Arriving at Roswell, the
boys were taken with the disease and !
both died
In Coffey county the fusion candi-
dates for county attorney and district
clerk, on the face of the returns, had a
majority of three and received certifi-
Gates of election. Now word comes
from Manila that the soldier vote gave
The republican candidates for the two
offices II majority, which may compli-
cate matters.
At Topeka charter was issued to
the Topeka, Westmoreland & Water
Vile Railroad company, which pro-
poses to build line from Topeka to
distance Of $50 miles, A
charter was also issued to the JEFF
ferson City, Fort Scott & Southwestern
Railroad company, the purposes of
which is to construct road from JEFF
erson City, Mo-, to Fort Scott and
through the counties of Bourbon,
Allen and Neosho to Chanute thence
southwest through the counties of
Elk, Montgomery, Chautau-
qua and Cowley to the southern line
II Kansas; estimated length, 800 miles.
f. H. Dreaming, who served ten
ears as probate judge of Doniphan