Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-11-29
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

The average age of school-teachers
in Morton county is 80 years. In
some counties the ages run as low as
49,
The canning factory at Girard has
shut down for the season, after put
ting up 10000 cans of tomatoes and
10000 cans of apples.
Running out of Topeka on the San
ia Fe is a locomotive engineer who
is paying alimony to no less than
three divorced wives.
Norman Baratt, cashier of the de-
funct Atchison national bank, has
been indicted by the federal grand
jury for misappropriating funds of the
bank.
Capt. w a. Bonner, who is dead at
Concordia at the age of 81, was born
on the high seas, while his parents
were coming from England to Amer
lea
A bust of Louisa M. Alcott has been
presented to the state university and
will be placed in the library with APP
propriate exercises sometime during
December.
The next legislature will be petit
toned to allow the coal taken from
the penitentiary mine at Leavenworth
to be sold to the public. 1t is now all
used up by state institutions.
The state bank commissioner has
issued a charter for the Burns state
bank, capital $4,000. Burns is little
village in Marion county, and two
hours after the bank opened for bust
ness it had received deposits of $4,000.
Two brothers by the name of Coe
were candidates in the recent election,
one for clerk of the district court on
the republican ticket, and the other
for probate judge on the populist
ticket, in Stafford county. They were
both defeated.
Gov. StanIey's move to abolish the
live stock sanitary board has brought
an avalanche of protests down upon
him. The governor believes that one
state sanitary commissioner is
enough, so long as the federal govern
ment has a board that does all and
more than the state board can do.
In Rush county there was tie in
the votes received by Mr.. Mccormick
and Mr.. Anderson for the office of
county attorney. Before drawing
straws as provided by law the men
agreed that the winner should make
the loser his deputy and equally di-
vide his salary.
A boiler in the Clipper flour mills
at EIdorado exploded, completely
wrecking the mill. A. N. Crowther
and Grant Rogers, owner of and en-
gineer at the mill, were seriously
Choy.Toc was
blown against the wall and received
fatal injuries.
Kansas millers are protesting
against the action of the Santa Fe
railroad in making an order that the
milling-in-transit rate would not be
given them unless they consigned
their -four over the road as far east
as Chicago. The millers prefer to
have the railroads compete for their
business at Kansas City.
A sensation was created in church
circles at Kansas City when Mrs. John
F. Won Herlich, wife of the rector of
ST. PauIs Episcopal church, an
nounced her intention of going on the
operate stage. Her husband fully APP
proves of her course and declares he
has $4,000 to spend in preparing her
voice for grand opera.
Republicans are depending upon 800
soldier votes in the Philippines to
elect George Wheatley to congress in
the Third district, but John S. Gil
more, the Fredonia editor, says not
more than so Third district soldiers
are in the islands. The majority of
Judge Jackson, WheatIey's opponent,
is about IT'S, so Wheatley's only
chance to beat Jackson is to make
contest.
Lee johnson, state labor commits
sioner, will cause to be introduced
in the legislature a bill for the pre-
vention of child labor. He says the
factories and other industries of the
state are full of boys and girls who
ought to be in school, and that in
planning and other mills where edged
tools and saws are used nearly all the
boys employed have mutilated hands.
An organized effort will be made to
have a creditable educational exhibit
at the Kansas semi-centennial expo
sition. Prof. Longshore, of Garland,
has been appointed by the executive
board % supervise the work and
State superintendent Frank Nelson is
giving his assistance in bringing the
matter before the teachers and edu-
Gators of the state.
The argument in the Carter habeas
corpus proceedings closed at Leaven-
worth and Judge Thayer announced
that the case was taken under advise
ment and viii notify attorneys when
he is ready to hand down his decision.
Attorney Blair asked that in case
Carter is discharged he may be per-
mitted to go without guard to Savan-
nah, Ca, to surrender himself for
trial under the Indictment found