Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-04-05
STATE news pARAGRApHED.


mine at Galena recently, was buried
on the day he was to have married
young lady of that city.
The Kansas conference in recent
session at Kansas City donated lib
eral sum to extend missionary work
among the Pottawatomie Indians in
Kansas.
w. E. Dodge died at Emporia from
an abscess resulting from being
kicked last January at Madison,
Greenwood county, by Joseph Hayl,
with whose sister Dodge had eloped.
a gang of robbers entered the Null
vane post office the other night and
blowing the safe open with dynamite
secured 5000 in money, 500 worth
of stamps and lot of registered let
tiers.
The railroads operating in Kansas
granted a rate of one fare for the
republican state convention in Tope-
ka May 16. Tickets will be on sale
May Is and 16, good for returning up
to May 10.
Kansas City, Kan, is to have an
auditorium large enough to accom-
modate state conventions and other
large gatherings. It will be erected
Immediately at Sixth street and Min
nesota avenue and will be 75x112 feet.
The price of binding Irvine man
ufactured at the state penitentiary,
Lansing, was fixed at 1872 cents
pound, f. o. b., Lansing. No orders
will be sold to others than Kansas
farmers nor in less than 100 pound
lots.
The three-year-old child of Porter
Cammach, living northwest of Ga
lena, was burned to death recently.
The child's clothing caught fire from
burning meadow and before help
could reach him his clothing was en-
tirely consumed and the child died in
a few hours.
A. J. Hoenschell, of Hiawatha, met
the son of S. E. Brown coming from
school smoking a cigarette. He or
dered the boy to stop smoking. The
boy refused and Hoenschell whipped
him. The boys father made com
plant and Hoenschel1 paid fine and
costs in justice court of SAT.
Under the new financial bill the fol-
lowing Kansas towns have applied for
charters for national banks: Stafford,
Augusta, NortonvilIe, Lacygne, Kiowa,
Dodge City, Garnett, Leavenworth,
GoodIand, Argentine, Belle Plaine,
Herington, Winfield and Cove City.
Taylor Riddles term as secretary of
the live stock sanitary commission
expired last week and Gov. Stanley
named O.. P. Updegraff, of Topeka, to
succeed him. Mr.. Updegraff is
horseman of national reputation. He
had been Endorsed for the place by
the State Live Stock association and
by the state board of agriculture.
1t is said that OF ten district dele
gates already chosen to the republic
an national convention all of them
will favor the selection of a new ma
tional committeeman. There are ten
more delegates yet to select-six by
the state convention, two from the
Second district and two from the
Seventh district.
Chief Clerk Barnes, of the Kansas
penitentiary, says that orders for
binding Irvine are pouring into Lam
sing. Farmers seem to be afraid that
they will fail to get a supply, and
many of them state in their letters
that they want the Irvine shipped at
once. No shipments will be made for
several weeks, and the booking of or
ders will begin April 10.
Sin my Judgment declares Gov.
Stanley, in a circular letter trans
mitted to the mayors of Kansas
towns, county commissioners and
members of various state boards, zone
of the needs of Kansas to-day is a
united and intelligent effort upon the
part of public officials looking to a
wise and uniform management and
care of our charitable and penal insti-
tutions."
An insane man, claiming to be the
sheriff of Sumner county, drove the
passengers off a Rock Island train at
Harrington, at the point of a re-
volver. He declared he would shoot
everyone in the car. The passengers
fled from the car and locked them
selves in the sleeper. The man got
off at Herington, and after terroriz-
ing the station employees by shooting
several times at them disappeared in
the timber close by.
A fight for the removal of Cy Lee
land as pension agent for Kansas and
adjoining states has been commenced
by Patrick Hickey before the United
States civil service commission. Mr..
Hickey was until recently employed
in the pension office. He resigned on
March 1 for the reason that, he
claimed, an employee of the pension
office of opposite political belief from
the agent could not get justice in his
treatment about the Office.
Gov. and Mrs. Stanley left Topeka
for Beloit and Manhattan to inspect
the industrial school for girls and
the agricultural college. This trip
will wind up the governors tour of in