Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-18
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

ing rebuilt at a cost of 100000.
Gas was struck at Greeley at g
depth of 545 feet and the flow is very
strong. Another we'll viii be sunk.
Members of the democratic state
committee deny taking any hand il
the suit against State Treasurer
Grimes.
The Vienna flour mills in the cen
ter of Cherryvale were destroyed by
fire and adjoining buildings badly
scorched.
NJ G. Cook, a Kansas cadet at An
napolis, is among those who will be
tried on the charge of hazing fourth
class men.
Frank Gilstrap, a young farmer
who was very deaf, was killed by a
Fort Scott & Memphis train north
of Pleasanton.
Over 80 handsomely-de car
riages We're in the flower parade at
Salinas street fair, and it was one OF
the most beautiful professions ever
witnessed there.
J. W. Roberts and wife, of Oska-
1oosa, recently celebrated their golden
wedding. Over 40 years ago Mr.. Rob
erts started the Osl1aloosa Independ-
ent. He was intimately connected
with the early history of Kansas.
The grand lodge of Kansas, I. o. O.
F., took action to discourage cleo
| pioneering by candidates for offices in
the grand body. A resolution to in
crease the salary of the secretary
from 1,SOO to So, 900 was defeated.
| The Kansas Presbyterian synod
| T ~
week The Kansas synod embraces
81 churches and 213 ministers. The
| total membership is $4,000, and the
value of Presbyterian church proper
| ty is 81 1000.
There is a strong sentiment in Law
renee in favor of change in foot
| ball affairs at the state university
| The present team is woefully below
| the average and in some quarters the
faculty is blamed for the stand it has
taken regarding the securing of new
men on the team.
Tom Lamar and a son of II were
| killed by powder gas sever miles
northeast of Fredonia while blasting
a well. The father entered the well
too soon after the blast and was over
come. The son ventured after the
father and was also overcome. Both
were dead when taken out of the we'll
The Kansas grand encampment, L
! o. o. F., in session at Topeka, elected
these officers: Grand patriarch, II.
c.. Stevens, Topeka; grand high
priest, Thomas Dryden, Spring Hill;
grand scribe, Ed T. Reed, Leaven-
worth; representative to sovereign
grand lodge, W. j. Russell; Kansas
City.
The electric street railway plant
of Fort Scott, the operation of which
was discontinued, will resume oper-
alton under a new ownership, OF
which Grant Hornaday, chairman OF
the state board of charities, is at the
head. The city council has given Mr..
Hornaday and his company a five-year
street lighting contract as an encour-
agement.
Charles Crummel, % years old, met
with a terrible accident near Rice
while thrashing. He jumped on the
separator to remove a pitchfork that
had been dropped and breaking
through the cover to the cylender both
feet were caught in the teeth. The
right foot was completely ground of
and the other so badly lacerated that
amputation will be necessary.
State Auditor Cole has ordered
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie to
file at once a statement showing the
receipts and expenditures of his de-
partment from the date he took
charge. The state grain inspector
has been applying the surplus fees
on the deficit for several months and
the state auditor thinks it about time
the deficit was made good.
During the recent tornado which
visited Neodesha and vicinity John
Keys, a farmer, had a cow which was
chewing her cud in her stall in the
stable, cOntented in the knowledge
that both her horns were on straight
When the storm landed there it tore
down the stable and the COW, when
found, was fully dehorned. 1t is be-
Heved her horns were torn off by fly
ing timbers.
Ely Stark, of Neodesha, is known
as the man with the magnetic eye.
He has way of finding lost articles
that is truly remarkable and is at
tracing great deal of attention
People in the neighboring towns have
heard of him and he has gone many
miles on several occasions to locate
lost articles. Away from che glamour
of the public gaze he is the lowIy
herder of the town cows
The football situation at Kansas
university is still very unsettled.
Many of the players said they would
quit if the faculty did not so arrange
the presidents agreement that
Tom Smith could play. but since the
faculty stands against anything that
savors of professionalism and will not
make the one execution so much de-