Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.


meet at Topeka December 2S and or
g2nize a state association.
Mcpherson has decided to bore for
gas, coal, salt or anything that may be
within 1000 feet of the surface.
W. j. Costigan. of Ottawa, has been
selected to prepare a memorial to the
late ex-Gov. Lewelling for the state
historical society meeting in Jan
uary.
The marriage of Miss Lucy Van
Hoeson, of Atchison, formerly of Law
renee, to Sheffield ingalls,, son of the
late John j. ingalls,, will take place
at Atchison January Q.
The Missouri Pacific may extend the
Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota line, run
ming between Fort Scott and Topeka,
to Omaha, Neb. The Topeka CONNER
cial club has taken up the matter.
The Kansas India Relief committee
met in Topeka the other day and
cleared up all accounts. Altogether
$23, 592 was collected for the India
famine sufferers and $23, 523 sent, leav-
ing balance of 500 on hand.
NJ. A. Low, of Topeka, and party
of friends shot 90 dozen quails during
a recent hunting expedition in Okla
homa, but the game warden heard of
it and cOnfiscated them before the
party could cross the state line.
It is stated that Gov. Stanley has
decided upon his appointments for the
four new places on the supreme bench
as follows: A. H. Ellis, Beloit; J. c.
Pollock, Winfield; E. W. Cunningham,
Emporia; Houston Whiteside, Hutch
inson.
The Topeka authorities not only
have trouble suppressing the sale of
liquor, but are kept busy keeping in
mates in the city prison sober. Some
one has been sneaking liquor in to the
prisoners and all Of them got hila-
riously drunk.
Wheat is growing so rank in the
Arkansas valley wheat belt that farm
ers are advertising to take stock free
for the purpose of eating it down.
The indications at this time are 25
per cent. more favorable than they
were at the same time last year.
Representative Curtis, of Kansas,
called on the secretary of the interior
recently and asked that liberal app
preparation be recommended by the
department to make needed improve
ments at the Haskell institute and on
the Pottawatomie reservation in
Kansas.
Gov. Stanley will ask the legislature
to appropriate $4,000 to reimburse
the railroads for bringing the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment home last
year. A contract was made by the
railroads to bring the regiment home
and wait for their pay until the meet
ing of the legislature.
Rev. Peter Anderson, of Dickinson
county, who began his fortune in 1899
in the Klondike and last spring went
to Cape Nome, recently returned to
Kansas 100000 richer. Several young
men who went with him returned
e1npty-handed. Anderson has pur-
chased several farms in Dickinson
county.
Chancellor F. H. Snow, of the Uni
versity of Kansas, has been granted
leave of absence for the remainder of
the academic year on account of i'm
paired health, and has gone to Palo
Alto, Cal, to spend several months
with his friend, Prof. Vernon L.
Kellogg, formerly of Kansas univer-
sity, but now of Leland Stanford.
The Kansas State Grange held it's
annual meeting at Manhattan last
week, a large number of delegates
being present. The following officers
were elected: Worthy Master, E. w.
Westgate; overseer, j. C. Lovett, of
Ct A
ReardOn, of Jefferson county; secre-
tary, George Black, of Olathe; treas
urer, William Henry, of Olathe.
The long controversy over the
ownership and control of the Leaven-
worth Standard ended recently when
D. r. Anthony took forcible possess
sion and removed most of the machin-
cry into a room in the Times building.
The Standard bad long been a thorn
in the side of Col. Anthony politically
and he has been quietly buying up
the stock of the paper until he owned
two-thirds of the plant.
A telegram from Lansing said that
James Render and Robert Williams,
two negroes implicated in the
murder of John W. Collins at Topeka
WHO Iurneu SCdGe S evidence against
John Henry Collins and succeeded in
convicting him, are now in the state
prison for life for murder. Young
Collins has mastered the printers
trade and is now foreman of the prison
print shop" He is said to be a
model prisoner.
Assistant Attorney General B. n.
Tracy went to Ness county to assist
the county attorney in prosecuting
Hilger Schrabin, charged with crimi-
nal assault. He went there upon the
netition of the Defendants own