Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-08-30
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

| In douglas country Two former re-
pubGcans and negro have places on
the fusion ticket.
An officious marshal at Great Bend
has been interfering with the side
walk crap games.
The twenty third Kansas (negro)
regiment of the Spanish war was in
reunion at Topeka.
There was a big ''gas belt reunion
| ut lola last week, addresses being
made by prominent men.
The farmer who lights his pipe
while working on his wheat stack
is still at large in Kansas.
The day following his Topeka no
| tification address Mr.. Bryan made
speeches at Manhattan and MarysvilIe.
Lawrence Boyington, assistant
coach at Cornell university last year,
has been engaged to coach the Kan
sas football team this year.
Frank Rockefeller, the Standard
Oil magrate and brother of John d.
Rockefeller, owns a cattle ranch of
$4,000 acres near Belvidere, Kiowa
county. He announced in Kansas City
the other day that he expected to
make it the finest stock farm in the
world.
The Kansas middle-of-the-road pop
ulists got together at Topeka and de-
cided not 10 nominate a state ticket,
but to devote all their energies to
the Barker electoral ticket. Chair
man Willets announced that head
quarters would be opened at Topeka
September 10.
a coincident in the Bryan noti-
fcation day events at Topeka was the
presence there of James B. Weaver,
of Iowa, and J. G. Field, of Virginia,
who were the candidates of the peo-
pies party for president and vice
president respectively in 1892, the year
that Kansas left the republican cleo
toral column.
The state election contest board
at Topeka last week heard the con-
test between F. w. Sponable and NJ.
G. Miller as to which is the regular
republican nominee for senator in
the JOhnson-Miami district. Spon-
oble is a Burton man and Miller 4
Baker man. 1t was thought the board
would decide for Sponable.
Topeka has the most remarkable
family of musicians. It is the Hoover
family, and from it is made up a COM
plete brass band, an orchestra and
mandolin and guitar club. The FAM
lily is composed of four girls and one
boy. They are all native Kansans.
They were reared on a farm in Potta-
watomie county and went to Topeka
with their parents two years ago.
The Marysville News reports the
marriage of a 13-year-oId boy to IT.
year-old girl. The incident is doubly
interesting because it opens a new
field of endeavor in which this young
fellow may become a champion. Up
to date no American father has ever
had a kid old enough to go to the high
school before he himself was old
enough to be a voter.-Kansas City
Journal.
George R. Landers, the Anthony ex-
banker and live stock SPECTATOR, APP
peared in the Wyandotte district
court and paid all costs arising from
his original arrest and subsequent ar
rest at FL Paso, Tex, and the cash
bond deposited by him in the city
court of Kansas City was refunded.
Landers was then taken back to the
county Jail and locked up to await
trial on the charge of having defraud-
ed the Evans-Snider-Buen Live Stock
commission firm out of $4,000.
z. E. Vansant and Mark Phillips
are Topeka neighbors, and they own
a chicken ranch between them.
Thieves have been stealing their
chickens recently. The other night
the chickens began to squawk, and
each man, unknown to the other,
grabbed his revolver and started for
the hennery. Each took the other
for a chicken thief and several shots
were exchanged. A ball struck Van
SAINT, going through his face from
side to side. He now lies in a serious
condition.
The railroads are working night
and day shifts in their shops to get
cars ready for the movement of
wheat. If all the wheat in Kansas
should be shipped at one time it
would require 100000 cars to haul it.
This would make a train T3S miles
long, one that would reach half way
from Topeka to New York. The
wheat crop of one county Saline
is worth s., 100000. The yield of that
county is 100000 bushels. It would
require $3.50 cars, or train p miles
long, to haul Saline .county's crop to
market.
o. H. Swingley, of Omaha, adjustor
for the Union Pacific railway COM
pany, was at Goodland settling claims
regarding the capture of the Union
Pacific train robbers. The reward of
So, 600 was paid to Sheriff Walker,
j. B. Riggs and George Cullins. Mr..
Riggs received the largest proportion.
The adjuster allowed Mr.. Bartholo-
NEW S1.1OO for the burning of his