Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-11-22
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


sioner of Kansas, has been elected to
the lower house in Oklahoma.
A starch factory will soon be To-
Gated at Bonner Springs to use the
Gull potatoes in the Kaw river valley.
The vote at the Dodge City soldiers
home resulted as follows: Mckinley,
81; Bryan, 81; Stanley, so; Breiden-
thai, %.
Miss Fannie Bailey. a spinster lady
who recently died in Kansas City,
made a bequest of $500 for the care
of her horse and cat.
Leavenworth citizens are contribute
ing to the fund for a monument to
Miss Pearl Forbes, the young woman
SO fouIly murdered there.
State Oil Inspector Spencer collect
ed $2,7O7 in fees during October and
spent $1,O49 for expenses. The sur
plus was turned into the state treas
ury.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco rail-
way has filed a $25, 900 mortgage on
the Kansas Midland railroad. Much
of the money will be used in imprOv-
ing the tracks.
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mated Post Office Inspector John r.
Harrison, now postmaster at Havana,
as the acting director of posts in
Cuba. His home is at Salina, Kan.
Capt. w. j. Watson, of Pittsburg,
who lost a leg in the Philippines, like
ly will be given a life position by
the government. His Kansas friends
will petition the president in his be-
half.
The Kansas Hard Wheat Millers'
Information bureau, to be established
in Kansas City, has been organized.
An agent will be placed in charge
there whose business is to advertise
Kansas wheat.
At Winfield last Saturday Josiah
Moose celebrated his ninety-ninth
birthday, and he is still strong and
hearty. Moose is the man who guild
ed the Mormons across the plains to
Salt Lake City.
Official returns as reported at re-
publican headquarters show several
changes in the Legislature, but the
republicans still have 100 members.
The fusionists have SO members and
there is a tie in the 1O8th district.
The Kansas Horticultural society is
collecting a display of apples for the
Pan-American exposition, which will
open at Buffalo, n Y, May 1, 1900.
AS fast as the exhibits are received
they are repacked and are placed in
cold storage.
Andrew CoIgan, who died on his
farm four miles east of Atchison re-
Gently, came to Kansas in 1855,
bringing with him $4,000 in gold,
strapped about his waist in a belt.
He is the father of 16 children, all
of whom are living.
It is now certainty that the Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient railway will
pass through Lyon county and the
city of Emporia. The road is to re-
ceive $50, 1000 in bonds from the city of
Emporia and $4,000 in bonds from
Lyon county, beside the right of way
through the city of Emporia.
Miss Ruth Plumb, of Emporia, sec
ond daughter of the late Senator Pres
ton B. Plumb, will soon wed Schuyler
ColfaX Brewster, district clerk-elect
of Allen county. Brewster is a grad
uate of Kansas university and served
in the gallant Twentieth Kansas dur
ing the Philippine campaign.
The Kansas state board of charities
will make d strong effort this year to
reach every blind child in the state
to lay before them the usefulness of
the state school for the blind to them
and secure their attendance to the
school, where they are taught to make
h. toll no
great a measure as possible of the
missing one.
An organized effort will be made to
have a creditable educational exhibit
at the Kansas semi-centennial expo
sition. Prof. Longshore, of Garland,
has been appointed by the executive
board to supervise the work and
State superintendent Frank Nelson is
giving his assistance in bringing the
matter before the teachers and edu-
Gators of the state.
a movement was started at Fort
Scott to effect an understanding be-
tween the Senator Baker men in the
legislature and the fusionists, where
by the latter will assist the former
to organize the legislature in consid-
GRAFTON of Legislative offices. The
three fusion members from that coun-
ty will vote for Senator Baker for
senator if they think their votes will
prevent Burton's election.
Judge E. w. Cunningham, of EN-
poria, who will probably be appointed
one of the new supreme court judges
by Gov. Stanley, has record as
Sabbath school superintendent that
beats that of Gov. Stanley himself,
if not of any other man in Kansas
or the union. Cunningham has been
continuously for the past % years SUI
perintendent of the First Methodist
Episcopal church Sabbath school in
Emporia and will probably be for %
wears more If he lives that LONG