Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-30

w. hoacn TOT mayor
Jerry Simpson said his herd of 500
cattle came through the winter with
the loss Of only eight.
Gov Stanley named Editor Raney,
of the Monitor, to be judge OF Fort
Scotts new city court
State Auditor Cole refused to pay
the appellate court judges 500 year
for their private Office rental.
The Santa Fe railroad has just com
pleted fine Y. M. Q, A. building for
its employees at Argentine.
William Koch, wealthy farmer east
of Holton, paid $83 an acre for 100
acres of pasture land near Larkin.
Ex.Attorney General Boyle and ex-
Railroad Commissioner billiard have
opened law Office in Kansas City, Mo
At Parsons the colored voters put
up city ticket made up entirely OF
negroes from mayor down to members
of the school board.
The Hillmon insurance case will be
tried again, this time before Judge
Hook at Leavenworth. The case has
been in court 10 years.
Gov. Stanley followed Col Fred
Funston's recommendations and APP
pointed William J. Watson, of Pitts
burg, captain of company q, TWEEN
tieth Kansas
A party of 70 Cuban eX-soldiers who
fought under Gen. Gomez, passed
through Wichita to western Kansas,
where they have purchased farms and
will engage in farming.
All temperance organizations have
Joined in an effort to celebrate May l
as prohibition day throughout the
state. 1t was on May l, 1881, that the
prohibitory law went into effect.
Incendiaries made an unsuccessful
attempt to burn block of buildings
in North Ottawa the other night. The
flames started in Lockwood's drug
store, but were soon extinguished.
In Cowley county the officials held a
sale of judgments as provided for in
the new law. The sale brought 5000,
and the bill for advertising was $l,45O,
leaving the taxpayers out of pocket
just 81, $50.
A Topeka dispatch said that repub-
licans of the Seventh congressional
district were grooming Morton AL
baugh, of Kingman, for the United
States senatorship in 1901 to succeed
Lucien Baker.
A Portland cement company from
Michigan will erect 500, 900 plant at
lola, to give employment to rs men
and manufacture 1000 barrels of ce-
ment daily. lola donates one gas we'll
to the company.
In his call for statement OF the
condition of all Kansas banks on
March IS, State Bank Commissioner
Breidenthal adds paragraph asking
for the amount each bank has loaned
to its stockholders.
A. L. Brown, of Garden City, was
told that hogs would grow fat on ar
senic One morning he gave his pork
ers dose and the result was both
startling and disastrous. Some had
Fl is, some spasms, while others died.
Rev. R. D. Parker, who died at Man
haitian recently, came to Kansas in
the 5Os with Revs. Richard Cordley,
Bodwell and Morse. He founded the
Congregational church at Lawrence.
For 40 years he has resided in Man.
haitian.
Attorney General GODDARD says he
will at once proceed to collect the in
terest on $75O,OOO defaulted bonds In
the permanent school funds. He will
first propose that the delinquent coun-
ties and municipalities pay the back
interest in installments
The board of regents of the state
university increased the salary of
Chancellor Snow from 81, 600 to $4,000.
The salary of ]. w. Green, dean of the
law department, was increased from
So. 900 to So, $50. The deans of the
other schools were raised from $1,75O
to $4,000.
The federal grand jury at Wichita
indicted Eli Williams, the Mcpherson
banker, and L. A. Colburn and John
C. Hamilton, Mcpherson, millers, for
violating the revenue law. 1t is
charged that Williams got the millers
to use II check in the form of receipt
in order to get out of paying the two
cent war tax. Williams was until re-
Gently a member of the Legislature
from Mcpherson county.
Miss Rae Chesney, daughter OF
prominent Topeka attorney, left her
home secretly the other evening
dressed in male attire. She left a
brief note stating that she believed
she was losing her mind and that
when they next saw her she would be
maniac. Later she was found at the
home of young lady friend. 1t was
believed she dressed up as she did in
order to get revenge on her lover.
Charles Fuller and wife were re-
married at Wichita after having been
divorced only two weeks Fuller is a
wealthy merchant and his wife is a
leader in church circles
Ex-Probate Judge Hobbs, OF Brown
county, has brought suit to re-
cover 81, 1913 in fees which he claims
were wrongfully withheld from him
by the board of county commissioners.
The county attorney of Phillips
county is prosecuting parents who fail
to have their children attend school.
The young child of DIR. w. S. Bum,