Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-12-14
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

finest buildings of its kind in the state.
T. c. Price, of Ashland, Judge of the
Thirty-frst judicial district, covering
IL counties of southwest Kansas, has
announced his intention to resign and
remove to Sandusky, O., to practice
law.
Word was received at E1dorado of
the death of Maj. F. C. Armstrong, sur
geon of the Thirty-second infantry, at
Manila The major was surgeon of the
Twenty-frst Kansas volunteers. He
had lived at Eldorado Is years.
w. B. Mckinley, representing a COM
pany of capitalists in Portland, Me-,
arrived in Wichita and closed a deal
for the purchase of the Wichita street
railway system. The price paid is re-
ported to be about $50. 900. It is sup
posed this will end the long fight to
get new street railway system.
Fred Teske, a wealthy farmer of
Center township. Riley county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
rafter in the barn on his late home
stead. Teske was in state of tempo
rary alteration of the mind and was
laboring under the belief that some
person was going to take his homestead
from him.
The ladies of Wichita have been can
wasting the town for subscriptions in
aid of the poor. They tackled L. R.
Delaney, of the Santa Fe, in a cigar
store. He had just one nickel in his
pocket. He took this out, walked over
to the slot machine and dropped it in.
Out rolled SIS in nickels, which Delaney
piled into the apron of one of the la
dies.
Cy Leland, Kansas member of the re-
publican national committee. stated
that he was decidedly in favor of the
Payne resolution for the reapportion-
ment of representation in the national
convention, and he expressed the opin-
ion that the present time was oppor-
tune for the change, there being no
probability of strife for the nomina-
ton.
At the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City
a number of Kansas democrats met for
conference. Among those in attend
ance were J. Mack Love, Arkansas
City; w. P. billiard, Fort Scott; Will
liam F. Sapp, Galena; c. w. Brandon
burg, Frankfort; Frank S. Thomas,
Topeka; j. G. johnson, Peabody;
George P. Locke, Wichita, and W. Fl.
L. Pepperell, Concordia.
An Abilene dispatch said the mem
bers of company L, Twentieth Kansas,
are becoming restless in civil life and
several have already re-enlisted at Fort
Riley for service in the Philippines.
Nothing more has been heard of the
light artillery battery Capt. G. n. Wat
son said he would raise. He has never
returned to Abilene and is at present
in Iowa, his childhood home.
Charles Boman, of Wilson county,
serving term in the penitentiary for
manslaughter, has applied to Gov.
Stanley for a pardon. Boman was
consta BILE in his county and killed Sam
Smith while attempting to levy on
goods belonging to the latter. Smiths
friends had Boman convicted, and now
over 1000 residents of the county have
petitioned the Cover nor to release Boz
man.
John c. Sheridan, who died at PaoIa,
aged 45, was a brother of Editor B. J.
Sheridan and one of the best-known
democratic politicians in Kansas. He
had resided in Paola about 40 years,
and when % was elected county attor-
ney. In 1855 he was an elector-at-large
on the democratic ticket. Hewas tenn
porary chairman of the democratic con-
vention that elected delegates to Chi
cago in 1896
The revenues from the Topeka post
Office last year were SLY, 1856, which was
the largest in the state. Kansas City
is next with receipts of $64, 400 and
Wichita third with $57, 900. These are
the only irst-class offices in the state.
The total net revenue from the Topeka,
Kansas City and Wichita offices was
$193, 1850, or 81 per cent. of the net
revenues produced by all the presiden-
tial offices of the state.
The court of visitation continued the
Western Union Telegraph company
case pending before it until the case
attacking the constitutionality of the
law creating the court is finally deter
mined by the United States supreme
court or the supreme court of Kansas.
Attorney General GODDARD and Solicitor
Wyatt were authorized to take any le-
gal steps necessary to get quick de-
cision and to employ additional counsel
The case of w. S. Roark against S.
M. Greene, an appeal from Geary coun-
ty, was argued in the supreme court on
the 9Th. While chewing gum one day
Greene got the toothache. He went
" AOOd1hS OOAGlSGs anu utQ GnS COOGn
pulled. In order to do a painless"
job the dentist squirted some stuff into
Greeno's gum. Greene claims that the
stuff was filed with bacteria; that it
poisoned him and caused his jaw to
swell up.
The annual report of Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General ]. L. Bristow
contains some interesting information
concerning Kansas post Offices. Ac-
cording to it the state has 1855 post
offices, of which 1,552 are fourth-class
offices and 1873 presidential offices. Of
the presidential offices are first-class,
10 are second-class and Ill are third
class. This is an increase of over
1898. Kansas stands eleventh in the
number of presidential offices-133-be-