Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-11-08
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.

son man has buried side by side his
first wife from whom he was divorced;
her mother and his second wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Banks, of Whit
ing, have eight girls and eight boys all
living and all married. They had the
children home and celebrated their
golden wedding November 3.
On an appeal from Salina, the Kan
sas court of appeals has decided that
police court has no power to punish
witness for contempt. In the case
in question a witness who was sub
poenaed refused to appear. The de-
cision discountenances the right of a
police judge to cause a witness to
testify against his will.
Within the last week the Kansas
Gas & Oil company, which recently en-
tered the Kansas gas belt, has struck
two of the best gas wells drilled in
Montgomery county this year. The
first of the week they struck a 5,000,-
600 foot gas well on the Penfield farm
near Jefferson, and later struck an
other well near Liberty, equally as
strong
A funny little riot took place in
Potter, Atchison county. Albert Linn
baugh, the local school-teacher, had
whipped some of his pupils and their
parents got mad about it. Meeting
some of Limbaugh's friends on the
street the parents started a fight
with them. While the row was in
progress Limbaugh appeared on the
scene with double-barreled shotgun
and made both sides quit.
woman from Philadelphia who has
just rejected an offer of $500 a week
to accept the leading soprano in the
Bostonians, went to Philadelphia
about six years ago from Fort Scott.
She lived through childhood in Linn
county and was the daughter of James
Kincaid, brother of the well-known
Kincaid brothers, who died in 1882.
His widow later married B. G. Garri-
son.
An understanding has been reached
between the state board of charities,
Parsons and Clay Center concerning
the new asylum fight. The board
agreed not to proceed with the con-
domination of a site at Parsons for the
asylum until the supreme court de-
cided the suit in mandamus, providing
Clay Center would abide by the re-
suit of the decision. This was agreed
to. The agreement was satisfactory
to Parsons.
Mrs. G. W. Simmons, wife of the
jailer of Sedgwick county, was warned
in dream that an attempt would be
made by the prisoners to force the
grating of the bastile and escape. She
4 hn
Charles Mccoy, under sentence for
horse stealing, busily engaged in saw
ing the iron bars between himself and
liberty. Nine other prisoners were
with him, and a wholesale delivery
was contemplated. The alarm was
sounded and the prisoners were over
powered.
William Dacy, prisoner from Okla
homa, made his escape from the sher-
if of his county in bold manner
when within $50 feet of the Kansas
penitentiary gate. With four other
prisoners Dacy was being marched
from the train through Lansing to the
prison. He managed to slip his hand
cuffs and darted in among some citi-
zens standing near him. This pre-
vented the officers from shooting and
before any effort could be made to
stop him Dacy gained some brush and
later on cornfield, and he is now at
large.
This winter there will be between
400 and 500 farmers of Montgomery
county using natural gas from the In
dependence wells for heating and
lighting their homes. The Independ-
ence Gas company is laying more than
so miles of pipe into the country. This
plan of piping is done in order to hold
leases. 1t has also proven an inesti-
mable boon to the farmers. The gas
company takes a lease on the farm
er's land and furnishes him gas for
fuel in place of paying him a cash
royalty. Of course, it will pay cash
for the leases if desired, but most of
the farmers want gas, and in the event
that gas is discovered on the land the
farmer receives royalty in addition
to the gas.
Detective Harry Sutton, of Wichita,
who is working in connection with In
spector Stice, of the post Office depart
ment, st. Louis, received information
from the later officer which may lead
to the unearthing of one of the holdest
gangs of post Office robbers that has
operated in that part of Kansas. The
officers have evidence in their posses.
sion which lakes them believe that
the leader of the gang is a woman,
the wife of one Shea, who has been
twice convicted of murder The
woman is now under police surveil-
lance. Within the past ten days no
less than seven post offices have been
robbed, all of them located within a
radius of so miles of Wichita. Several
thousand dollars in stamps and cash
have been secured. In each case a