Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHRD.

State Treasurer Grimes is getting
up a s1,00O,oOO bond for the second
term.
The addition to the federal build
ing at Topeka will be completed in
March.
According to report made by
Thomas S. Morrison of the surveyor
generals office, in 1874, the center of
the state of Kansas is in Rice county.
Clay Center has won six lawsuits
from Parsons over the asylum squab-
BILE and still Clay Center hasn't got
the asylum-but Parsons hasn't
either.
A carload of fulIblood Hereford
cattle was burned on Katy freight
train just south of Burlington. The
car was next to the engine and caught
fire from spark.
A strong effort will be made at
the coming session of the legislature
to pass a law prohibiting the opera
ton of private banks. There are now
81 such banks in the state.
The two girls who were arrested at
the Beloit industrial school for girls
for setting fire to the school were re-
leased from prison last week and then
dismissed from the school.
Albert Conover, young man, was
hauling a load of corn from the field,
three miles east of Colts, when the
wagon broke and the load fell upon
him, killing him instantly.
Frank Heron, young convict aged
IS years, escaped from the Kansas
Of tho
other night. He managed to slip
away unnoticed and was not missed
until the roll call at night.
Representative Long, of Kansas, APP
peared before the house committee
on public buildings and made state
ment i'll hebalf of his bill to apprO-
pirate 100000 for the erection of Il
public building at Hutchinson.
T. A. McNeal, of the Topeka Mail
and Breeze, who was an announced
republican candidate for United States
senator, has withdrawn from the race.
He says the only candidates who will
be balloted for are Baker and Burton.
In Montgomery county county
commercial club is being organized
for the purpose Of inducing eastern
capital to locate in the gas fields of
that county. The club embraces In
dependence, Coffeyville and Cherry
vale.
delegation of building and loan
men called on Gov. Stanley and urged
that the next bank commissioner, Mr..
Albaugh, appoint a practical building
and loan man as one of his deputies.
The governor said he believed this
would be done.
The fact has leaked out that Jerry
Simpson is a veteran of the civil war
and draws a pension of $12 a month.
He served in the army from April II
to August 1, 1861, and the pension was
obtained in 1896 on the ground of
liver trouble and rheumatism.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, has issued quarterly
devoted to dairying in Kansas. This
report is intended to contain as con-
cisely as possible the latest and best
information bearing upon the cow
and her product and their profitable
management to date.
The question as to whether there
shall be created the position of state
pension agent to look after the in
terests of the Kansas soldiers is now
up to the old soldiers themselves.
Gov. Stanley is willing to incorporate
such a recommendation in his mes
sage providing the soldiers want it.
William Johnson, young farmer
five miles southwest of Manhattan,
had arranged with Miss Emma An
dArSOn n drive to n moi oh hnT.inCr +CIz
but Frank Johnson, a nephew of
Johnson, induced the girl to go with
him. When William was informed of
the success of his cousin as a rival he
deliberately committed suicide.
Senator Noftzker, of Harper county,
is opposed to voting an appropriation
for an exposition at Topeka in 1904 to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
Kansas as a territory. He says
Topeka should wait until 1911, when
the silver anniversary of the admis-
sion of Kansas as a state could be
celebrated.
The new vitrifed brick plant three
miles west of Chanute has begun
operations. The plant has a maximum
capacity of $4,000 bricks a day. The
production will be confined exclusive
1y for the present to paving brick.
The company owns it own shale, three
gas wells and holds oil, gas and shale
leases on 1,SOO acres of land adjoining
its plant, a field totally undeveloped
beyond its own gas wells and shale de-
pOsits.
Deputy United States Marshal Fred
Trigg served papers on the city Off
GERS of Medicine Lodge to compel
the payment of So, ZOO interest on S15,-
900 water works bonds The order of
the court is that a special tax levy
shall be made to secure the sum in