Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-11-01
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPBED.

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of more than 1000 Inhabitants
and Caney.
W. S. Briggs, who bought the first
town lot sold by the original Atchison
town company, died there recently.
He was "a years old.
A corps of IS surveyors started
from Liberal to set grade stakes for
the Rock Island extension from Liber-
al to Clayton, n. Mex.
In the game between the Kansas
and South Dakota university football
teams recently the Jayhawkers won a
decisive victory by score of Al to o.
Surviving members of the old
Twelfth Kansas met at Burlington re-
Gently to form an association. Some
of them had not met since the war.
Mary Voelher, an employee at the
Manhattan hotel at Wichita, received
word that she had fallen heir to a
fourth interest in an estate in Ger
many valued at 100000.
The residence of DR.. J. C. McClin-
took, at Topeka, was robbed the other
night of diamonds and other jewels
to the value of $500. The burglar en-
tered the house by way of a cellar
window.
Topeka has 1916 registered voters,
a great increase over any previous
year. Kansas City has 1929, consid-
cradle more than four years ago. At
Fort Scott the registration shows a
decrease.
The Legislative committee of the
State Society of Mines and Miners will
ask the legislature this winter to
amend the law governing the organi-
zation of that society, so that the
membership will be lessened.
Daniel Howe, of Garland, raised a
sweet potato this year that meas
ures p inches in circumference and 80
inches long. 1t weighs eight pounds.
Mr. Howe has sent it to- President Nc
Kinley for his Thanksgiving dinner.
Through the influence of Senator
Baker and Congressman Curtis, the
interior department has appointed ex-
Secretary of State William Higgins.
of Galena, as appraiser of Indian
lands in the territory at 500 per
month and expenses
George Davis, aged p years, commit
ted suicide at Lebo by taking strych-
nine. He also took small dose of
carbolic acid. Davis was Respondent.
He got the strychnine at the home Of
the young woman upon whom he
called early in the evening.
S. S. King, election commissioner of
Kansas City, refused certificates of
qualification to blind students at the
state asylum there. Judge King ruled
11o he ho
that they were inmates of a state in
stitution and not residents.
The Monmouth 0n) stoneware
works, the largest in the country,
will probably put in a branch plant
in the natural gas belt near indie
pendence. this state. A large bed of
clay suitable for making pottery ex-
lists just north of Independence.
This story recently came from
Wichita: Frank Allgood, sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary for
horse-stea1ing, was baptized by inn
mersion Sunday at the Christian
church here. His hands and feet were
shackled and he had to be carried to
the baptistry."
I. P. Griswold, a big ranchman of
western Kansas, sees big profit in al
falfa. He has cut, three crops this
season and expects to cut another.
Each cut runs from 11a to 2 tons per
acre and it sells for 81 a ton in the
stack. This brings him about $24 per
acre for the season.
At Esbon, Jewell county, E. A.
Hayes and w. f. Mallory have made
a wager on the Kansas election by
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bed and remain there So hours if Nc
Kinley carries the state, whereas
Mallory does the sleeping act if Bry-
an should prove the winner. y
There are 1,O27 inmates of the Osa-
watomie insane asylum-5O1 males and
526 females. There were during the
past year 236 deaths and 90 were dis
charged as restored. In discussing the
reasons for people going insane the
superintendent says: 'Ill health leads |
with the greatest percentage, while |
heredity is a close second. Next |
comes intemperance. The lowest of
all is disappointment in love, while |
next above is cigarettes
Reports of the geological survey on
the gas production of this state says:
1.-THE value of the output in Kansas
is gradually increasing, and gas is
produced in a commercial way in AL
len, Labette, Montgomery, Miami and |
Wilson counties. A few good wells
have been found in Franklin county |
but have not been utilized. There |
are indications that many other pools |
will be found in the future The gas
is now used in southeastern Kansas |
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poses. and the wells have shown bus |
slight reduction in pressure. The gas
from lola fields is being used extern