Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-03-15
KAN sAs ITEMS CONDENSED.


tents.
Helen Gould has sent 100 volumes
for the children's corner in the Hutch
inson free library.
Citizens of Quindaro, suburb of
Kansas City, Will erect a monument
to WILDER Kline, Twentieth Kansas
soldier killed in the Philippines.
The state administration last week
took up $4,000 of binding Irvine plant
bonds held by the permanent school
fund, thus stopping interest on that
amount.
The Atchison college, conducted as
preparatory school by Misses Jo-
hanna Parker and Helen Scofield, was
destroyed by fire recently, causing a
loss of $4,000.
The fusion forces of Shawnee county
will nominate ex-United States Sena-
tor John Martin, of Topeka, for dis
trict judge to run against Judge
Hazen, the present republican judge.
Miss Helen Gould will give 81, 900 to
the railroad Y. NJ. C. A. library at
Fort Scott. Miss Gould is establish
ing libraries at all association points
directly on the Missouri Pacific lines
dG on enormous expense.
The board of directors of the peni-
tertiary, after a conference with Gov.
Stanley, decided that the price of the
product of the binding Irvine plant
will be ten cents a pound, or as near
that figure ms the cost of production
will permit.
Ex-Congressman John Davis, of
Junction City, has gone totally blind.
No man in Kansas has more friends
among the populists than he. He
was one of the founders of the popu-
list party and served two terms in
congress from the Fifth district.
The silver republicans of Kansas
will hold in Topeka, July 2, a conven-
ton to nominate delegates to the ma
tional convention of the party which
will be held at Kansas City July 4.
There will be no state convention for
the nomination of state officers.
At the request of the state live
stock sanitary commission, Gov. STAN
ley signed a proclamation of quaran-
tine to prohibit the shipment into
Kansas of dairy and breeding cattle.
This quarantine is established to pre-
vent the further introduction of tu-
The ''Katy'' depot at Humboldt was
wrecked by safe blowers, who over
charged shot with which they in
tended to blow open the safe. The
roof of the building was blown off
and the walls shattered. All the con-
tents of the building were broken and
scattered, and the safe was demol-
ished.
Charles Wilson and George Mar!s, of
Shawnee county, sold 397 head Of cat
tie from a ranch near Hoyt for SILL
O47, giving what was supposed to be a
clear title. Afterwards, it is alleged,
the purchaser learned that a Kansas
City commission firm had a mortgage
on the stock and Wilson and Maris
have been arrested.
Memorial tablets, one in memory of
Rev. r. w. Oliver, the first chancellor
of the University of Kansas, and the
other in memory of Lieut.. Alfred C.
Afford, Twentieth Kansas, are soon
to be put in the chapel of the Uni
versity of Kansas. The fund for the
Afford tablet was started by Eugene
F. Ware, of Topeka.
John Leonard and William Boiler,
both deaf mutes, attempted to drive
on the ice in the Missouri river above
Atchison. The buggy went through,
letting men and horses into a foot of
water and several feet of mud. The
men could not eXtricate themselves,
and being dumb, could not call for
help. They were accidentally dis
covered and extricated, but were al
most dead from chill.
DI,;JaJo1701,;o oR
fered to buy the product of 600 acres
of cucumbers and pro, iect is on foot
to secure LOO acres near Lawrence
on the line of the proposed electric
railroad The cucumber crop ma
lures just as the school term ends
and with the public schools, the gov
eminent Indian school and possible
chance of getting a few pickers form
the state university students tends to
the success of the project.
Mrs. Bird S. Ford, nee Miss Bird
Shultz, who went to Wichita two
years ago and was received in the
most polite social circles, sang at
the leading churches in the city and
was married to a young grocer there,
has been taken to Washington city
under arrest, charged with obtaining
money from Mrs. Mary Al1yle, of
city, under false pre-
tense. Mrs. Akyle says Miss Shultz
pretended to be the private secretary
of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and
secured money in that way.
The attorney general holds that a
convict who commits murder in pris-
on can be taken out and tried for |
that crime. On February 2, Frank |
Clark, a convict from Junction City, |
killed Phillip Boyd, another convict,
at the Lansing prison. The relatives
of BOYD insisted upon Clark being |