Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-07
STATE NEWS PARAeRApHED.

build convention hall.
j. r. Harrison, post Office inspect
or whose home is at Salina, is now
acting postmaster at Havana.
Kansas took the third prize on gem
States at the Paris exposition
A commercial club has been formed
at Belleville for the purpose of pro-
noting the interests of the city.
The president has appointed Henry
c. Sluss, of Wichita, associate justice
of the court of private land claims.
The internal revenue collections for
the Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian ter
ritory district for May aggregated
1881, an increase of $4,000 over the
same month last year.
Mayor Stewart, of Concordia, has
signed the new ordinance closing sa-
looms there. The ordinance takes eff
feet Immediately, and for the first
time in four years Concordia is a dry
town.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to rob the Citizens state bank
at Leroy. The doors to the vault were
badly bent and broken, but were not
and the noise of the explosion brought
citizens to the scene.
A Topeka dispatch says that in
event of Bryan's election Kansas dem
ocrats will demand that E. Z. Muir
ply, of Leavenworth, be made warden
of the federal pen; Sam Bishop, of
Lawrence, Indian territory judge, and
Billy Deford, OF Ottawa, Indian ter
ritory commissioner.
Gov. Stanley has written to Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow, now at Havana, asking him to
see that C. NJ. Rich, the Kansas man
tangled up in the Cuban postal
frauds, gets a fair deal. The letter
was written upon the request of
Rich's relatives at Emporia.
George L. Douglass, formerly of
Wichita, speaker Of the house in the
Kansas Legislature during the blood
less war, has proceeded to get busy
again in Chicago, his new home. AS
member of the Marquette club he
originated the plan for the club to
take action in the matter of SO
amending the constitution as to en-
able congress to throttle the trusts.
The officers of the State Dairy as
ISOLATION, in making their arrange
ments for the coming meeting of the
association to be held in Topeka next
winter, have decided for the first time
to offer prizes for country butter
which will be put on display, as is
the creamery butter. Secretary Will
son, of the department of agriculture,
will be one of the speakers and the
T,,oa+in0 will aT6 with
Near Hiawatha the other day Floyd
Matthewson and Phil Alber were
mounted on ponies when it was pro-
posed by Floyd that they should each
attach an end of a long lariat rope to
the horns of their saddles, and then
with the rope coiled loosely on the
ground between their ponies run their
ponies in opposite directions to see
which could jerk the other off. The
ponies bounded away and when the
rope came taut FlOyd's pony was
thrown to the ground and he was
killed beneath it.
The 1850 veterans of the national
soldiers home, with old soldiers from
Leavenworth, Kansas City and neigh
boring towns, joined in holding me-
mortal services at the home at
Leavenworth. There was pa
rade of veterans in the morning
from the home headquarters to the
cemetery. Little girls dressed in
white decorated the graves of the l.
700 dead veterans with flags and
flowers. The deaths of veterans have
averaged more than one a day during
the last year. Of the 1,700 buried in
the cemetery within II years, 400 died
the year just ended.
Some time ago Gov. Stanley par
doned man out of the penitentiary
on the strength of a statement by the
prison physician that the convict was
in a dying condition and should be
permitted to expire a free man. The
convict after being released got we'll
right away, and Immediately opened
q joint in Fort Scott. Another con-
Wet is now trying to get a pardon on
the same grounds, but the governor is
skeptical. He says the convict will
have to produce better evidence than
a certificate from the prison physi-
clan showing his critical condition
before he will grant him a pardon.
a suit attacking the constitutions
atty of the law passed in 1897, pro-
viding for the interchange of district
judges, has been filed in the supreme
court. This law provides that when
a judge of a district court is disquali-
fed for any reason from trying a case
he can call in the judge of an adjoin-
ing district. \ boy named Allie
Hewes was arrested in Kingman coun-
ty for a criminal offense. Judge P.
B. Gillett, of that district, called in
Judge F. C. Price to try the case. The
boy was found guilty and Judge Price
sentenced him to the rcformatory.
Glenn Fairchild, his attorney, has
filed habeas corpus proceedings in the
supreme court to secure his release.
supreme court to secure his release,