Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-11
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPBED.

a permanent recruiting station at
Wichita.
Eugene V. Debs, socialists candidate
for president, is billed to make five
speeches in Kansas.
The state school superintendent
says $50 new schoolhouses have been
built in Kansas this year.
All reports are of unprecedented
pasturage in Kansas this fall. On the
ranges grass is as green and almost
as succulent as in the spring.
At Galena, Joseph SmedIey, a min
er, committed suicide by taking AGO.
mite One of his legs was broken about
three months ago and since then, he
asserts, his relatives have mistreated
him.
Mayor Drew appointed Frank NJ.
Stahl, ex-county treasurer of Shawnee
county, as city marshal of Topeka.
Stahl is a prohibitionist and expects
to make the state capital dry
| town.
| Members of the masonic fraternity
at independence now occupy their new
temple It cost $4,000, is built of
pressed brick, four stories high and
| is one of the finest buildings in south
ern Kansas.
A train on the Union Pacific rail-
road ran over and killed the one-year-
old son of Felix Dover, living near
Muncie, Wyandotte county, seven
miles west of Kansas City. The child
was probably asleep on the track.
James jackson, a well-to-do farmer
and old settler living near Bolton,
committed suicide by taking chloro-
form. Jackson's wife died about two
weeks ago, and ever since then he has
declared that he would kill himself.
A prohibition fight in the repub-
1ican party in Shawnee county re-
suited in petition signed by 1900
voters that the name of George w.
Clark be placed on the official ballot
as an independent candidate for coun-
| ty attorney.
Frank Blackbor, an Indian boy
from Haskell institute, broke into
Everett's grocery store in Lawrence
and stole about $40 in cash. Black
Dor lighted some candles and stayed
in the store for some time, RECALLING
| himself on whatever he could find.
The Southeast Kansas association
of the Ancient Order of United Work.
men held it's thirty-third annual meet
ing at Fort Scott and special excursion
trains were run in from Nevada,
Cherryvale, Coffeyville, Galena and
lola. The prize drill was won by
Cherryvale.
Gov. Stanley issued proclamation
offering $3.50 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the person who
murdered Ed Fauteck at Quindaro on
the night of August 24. The reward
was offered upon the application of
the county attorney and sheriff of
Wyandotte county.
The company drilling for coal at
Atchison went through a 37-inch vein
at depth of 1,13O feet last week.
The strike was announced by the
blowing of whistles and ringing of
bells. It is the second vein of coal
struck, the first being % inches thick
at depth of 100 feet.
F. L. Williams, justice of the peace
at Agricola, wanted to appoint an as
sistant justice, and asked the govern
or for permission. The governor re-
ferred the request to the attorney
general, who informed Williams that
the law did not recognize the Office
of assistant justice of the peace.
The Kansas delegation in congress
next winter will endeavor to have the
government make extensive expert
ments in the sorghum industry in
western Kansas. A. A. Denton, of
Medicine Lodge, who has for years
been experimenting with Kansas
sorghums, is sure that high grade |
of sugar could be made from the prod |
uct.
The supreme court has dealt death |
blow to the common pleas court of
the Cherol1ee-Crawford district. 1t |
has denied a motion for rehearing |
in the case. Three months ago the |
supreme court declared the law Great |
ing the common pleas court uncon- |
stitutional. Then motion was filed |
for rehearing, and it has just been |
denied. This disposes of that court.
Suit was commenced at Independ- |
ence by Mrs. Sedina Fleming against |
A. C. barrow for $4,000 for the death |
of her husband, George Fleming. Mr.. |
barrow was having a well dug and |
was using dynamite. He put some |
frozen stick dynamite in the stove to |
thaw it out so that it could be used, |
which resulted in an explosion, wreck |
ing the whole house, a Mr.. Roberts, |
his wife and child and Mr.. Fleming |
being the inmates.
The announcement is made by At |
torney General GODDARD that if the
next legislature makes one more |
quarter mill levy for statehouse pur-
poses that it viii complete the state
capitol building. This will be refresh-
ing news to people of Kansas, not to
cav sensational Kansas has bean 20 |
years building her statehouse and |
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