Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-05-17
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

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The Kansas Live Stock commission
has filed charges against the federal
| inspector at Quanah, Tex, asserting
that he has admitted to Kansas cattle
| covered with the ticks which are
productive of Texas or splenetic fever.
The Santa Fe railroad will build
additional shops at Topeka to cost
nearly 100000 and give employment
to 800 skilled men. In return To-
peka will give the Santa Fe sufficient
ground for the shops, the same to
cost ST. 900.
While Frank and Sherman Cox and
William Whitelaw, three prominent
young farmers of Shawnee county,
were in a boat on Wakarusa creek
running a troutline, one of them
leaned over too far and caused the
boat to capsize. All three were
| drowned.
Sumner county's new jail, for which
$20,000 in bonds were issued last fall,
has been completed. It is built of
Butler county limestone, having all
accommodations for 80 prisoners, be-
sides detention rooms for insane and
women prisoners and spacious jailer's
residence.
AT Meade Center the case of George
W. Wiley, charged with embezzling
the funds of Meade county while
county treasurer, resulted in hung
jury, standing seven for acquittal and
five for conviction, upon one count
of the information. Mr.. Wiley is at
present state fish commissioner.
John II. Atwood, of Leavenworth,
received an invitation from President
| and Mrs. Mckinley to receive with
them May %, when the delegates to
the imperial council of the Mystic
Shrine are to be received at the white
house. Mr.. Atwood is the imperial
potentate of the imperial council.
A tornado struck the home of a
farmer named Rodgers, 10 miles
north of Dodge City in Hodgeman
county. Mrs. Rodgers and her daugh-
| ter, who were in the house, were car
ried quite a distance. Mrs. Rodgers
was found unconscious under debris.
Gov. Stanley has sent circular let
| ter to the various county boards in
Kansas, asking them to appoint dele
gates to meeting June 5, to make
preliminary arrangements for the
holding of an exposition in celebration
y
| the organization of Kansas as a ter
ritory.
At Paola man was tried on the
charge of insanity and adjudged to be
of unsound mind. However, it was
discovered that there had been an ir-
regularity in the proceedings, and
new jury was summoned. This jury
promptly acquitted the defendant, the
testimony in each trial being exactly
the same.
The new Y. NJ c. A building at
Leavenworth, erected at a cost OF
$15, 700, was formally dedicated Sun
day. It is entirely paid for and is
not only the finest Y. M. C. A. build
ing in Kansas, but is the only one,
aside from a railroad building at
Argentine, owned by the association
in the state.
The Leavenworth county commits
sioners decided to have prisoners in
the county jail work in the future
at breaking stone and repairing roads.
A stone yard will be put near the
county Jail and the prisoners worked
under a guard. In case a prisoner
shows a disposition to run away,
ball and chain will be fastened to his
ankle.
II. B. Adams, clerk of the city court
at Fort Scott, paid into the city treas
ury 1869, the amount of discrepancy
recently discovered in his accounts
by committee of the tax league. He
claims to have simply failed to de-
post the money monthly, as required
by law. The charge of shortage in
his state fine account is now being
investigated.
Ex-Postmaster w II. L. PepperelFs
bill, to relieve him of a charge of
81 ,545 stolen from his Office at Con-
cordia, while serving as postmaster
under the first Cleveland administra-
ton in 1887, has finally passed both
houses. His post office was entered
during the night of August II, 1887,
and 1,345 in postage stamps and $500
in postal funds were stolen.
A tornado passed over the central
portion of Republic county, striking
five miles north and east of BeIleyille
and completely devastating two farms.
The houses and barns were blown en-
tirely to pieces and scattered along
for miles. All the farm implements
and wagons were destroyed, the stock
killed or mangled and the owners of
the farms left with almost nothing
but the vacant land. Both families
escaped by going to caves.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state pen
itentiary, last week turned into the
state treasury $4,000, received from
the sale of 100000 pounds of binding
Irvine manufactured by the state
plant. Mr.. Tomlinson said he has
on hand about 50O,O 600 pounds of Irvine
and expects to dispose of it all by the
time the harvesting season begins.
There is enough raw material at the
plant to last until June 20, and until
that time the plant will turn out
1900 pounds of Irvine daily.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon offered to
give the city of Topeka 81, 900 on con-
dition that the council appropriate a
like sum for a detention hospital to be
operated in connection with the city
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