Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-06-01
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED,


Seneca will entertain the state meet
ing of Universalists July SIS.
A street car line may be built between
junction City and Fort Riley.
ChcTyvale has new company of
state militia with r. j. Hulse captain.
The post Office department will es-
tablish free rural delivery route from
Topeka July /.
Milburn, the blind chaplain of the
senate, will address the teachers of Sa-
lima on June 80.
Mankato has let the contract for II
$50 600 system of waterworks; also
telephone system.
Secretary Alger says the boys of the
Twentieth Kansas will be permitted
to say where they shall be mustered
out.
Judge A. T.. Callahan, n pioneer law
yer of Leavenworth and prominent in
early Kansas politics, died of apopleXy
on the Goth.
One day last week 80, 1000 bushels Of
Pawnee county wheat, grown on the
Kingsley ranch, was sold to Kansas
City firm for export to Europe.
Another dividend of ten per cent. for
creditors of the First national Cross
bank, of Emporia, has been declared
making in all 30 per cent. on claims
aggregating $500, SAT.
A correspondent in the Philippines
says the Washington reports of the
wounded are not accurate, in that they
do not include the names of those not
hit hard enough to go to the hospital
George +, Pond, of Fort Scott, has
just received a gold medal awarded to
him by the government for " deed of
bravery performed in 1864 when he was
a member of a Wisconsin cavalry regi-
ment.
0. NJ, Holloway, atraveling salesman
for wholesale liquor house, was ar
rested at Independence for soliciting
orders. A test case will be made to de-
eide whether the prohibitory law COW
ers this case.
Gov. Stanley has added another con-
dition to the agreement entered into
by convicts who want conditional par
dons. 1t is that persons urging par
dons shall give the convict employment
upon his release.
Bruno Hobbs, of Wyandotte county,
was elected vice president of the In
ternational Y. M. C. A. congress at
Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr.. Hobbs is the
law partner of Justice Smith, of the
Kansas supreme court.
In reporting the fact that Mr.. and
Mrs. Welcome Wells, of Manhattan,
had just celebrated the SEVENTEEN an
niversary of their marriage, local pa
per declares that in all this time they
have never had a quarrel.
The total assessed valuation of rail-
road and telegraph property in Kansas
has been raised from $5S, 49s, O91 to $780,
O22, $50. The Santa Fe comes first with
a valuation of ST., 49, GIG and the Mis-
souri, Pacific next with S13, $3.50, 974.
At Central City, Cherokee county,
Miss Anna Bennett, hotelkeeper,
publicly horsewhipped Jack Evett, a
carpenter, because-of alleged SANDER
Gus remarks made about her by Evett.
The mans cries were heard for several
blocks.
In Arkansas City the mayor had all
the iointkeepers arrested for keeping
disorderly houses. Later the city
council passed an ordinance declaring
them public nuisances and ordering
the marshal to seize and destroy all
liquor found.
Department Commander Coulter, Of
the Kansas G. A. r., has requested the
government to give to the department
a captured Spanish cannon out of which
to manufacture the medals of honor
which it is proposed to confer upon the
soldiers of the Twentieth Kansas.
A Topeka dispatch said ex-Gov
Leedy favored the nomination of Lieut..
Col. Ed c. Little for governor by the
populists. Mr.. Leedy, it was said,
thought Gov. Stanley and Gen. Fun
ston had sighted Little in elevating
Maj. Metcalf to the colonelcy of the
Twentieth Kansas
The legislature of '97 passed a law
taxing mineral leases. The question
arose recently about the taxation of
the immense oil and gas leases in
southeastern Kansas. The attorney
general holds that the law applies to
oil leases but not to gas.
George w. Martin, president of the
Kansas State Editorial association, says
the Canadian government has invited
the Kansas and Missouri editors to take
trip over the Canadian Pacific rail
road, from st. Paul to the Pacific coast.
The date set will be the 18th or goth of
August and the trip will occupy two
weeks.
The members of the Pi Beta Phi fra
ternity at the state university estab-
lishcd a $500 loan scholarship as me-
mortal to Mrs. Lucinda Smith Buchan,
who died at Manila April Is. This
money is to be lent without interest
for long period to any member of the
fraternity who may need it in order to
pursue her studies at the university.
Capt. Fred Buchan, of the Twentieth
Kansas, who brought his wife's body
home from Manila for burial in an
interview said the efforts being put
forth to take the regiment to Kansas
City for big banquet and reception
would prove futile. The boys, he said,
wanted to get home, and they were not