Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-02-15
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

was respondent.
Nemaha county people were agree
ably excited over the finding of zinc
ore deposits near Corning.
The republican congressional con-
vention of the Fourth district will be
held at Emporia March 20.
The free silver republican conven-
ton will be held at the same time and
place that the populist convention is
held.
j. K. Cubbison, of Kansas City, was
speaker at the Marquette club
banquet in Chicago in celebration of
Lincoln's birthday.
Ex-Congresspan jerry Simpson is
candidate for United States senator
and wants the populist state conyen-
ton to nominate the senator.
The Kansas BARRIERS association, in
session at Hutchinson, asked for a
law that will require an examining
board and license for every barber.
The Kansas Society of Labor and
union printer at Wichita, as presi-
dent and w. L. A. Johnson, secretary.
There are 35 Sac and Fox, IS Chip
pewas, $50 Kickapoos, $50 Iowas, and
584 Pottawatomies now on the Pot
tawatomie reservation. These and all
other Indians in Kansas are in charge
of Agent w. r. Honnell.
David III. Hickman, a leading mer-
chant of Liberty, has been sued for
So, O42 by James Summers, of Liberty.
He charges Hickman with having had
him fined 81 and costs and put in the
county Jail for refusing to pay his
poll tax.
The fuel problem of southwestern
Kansas, which has always been a
drawback to the settlement of that
section, promises to be solved at an
early date. Recently a siX-foot vein
of rich coal was found at a depth of
$50 feet in Barton county.
In his crusade against card playing
among women Ed Howe, of the Atchi-
son Globe, says: ''It is a worse habit
than smoking cigarettes or drinking
whisky and the women who spend
four or five afternoons a week playing
cards are loafers and gamblers.
The body of Burton H. HardimaD
was washed ashore on Angel island
in the bay of San Francisco. Whether
death was caused by suicide or acct
dent is unknown. Hardiman's home
was in Oswego, this state, where his
mother and one of his sisters reside.
The senate passed the bill grant
ing this state the abandoned Fort
Hayes military reservation of 1000
acres for the purpose of establishing
western branches of the Kansas agri=
cultural college and the Kansas state
normal school thereon, and for a pub
lie park.
A suit for the purpose of determine
ing the power of the court of visita-
ton to regulate freight rates was be-
gun in the supreme court on the 9th.
The suit is brought by T. F. Carver,
attorney for the State Live Stock as
ISOLATION, and prays for a writ of
mandamus to compel the court of
visitation to order reduction of live
stock rates.
In the future jointkeepers will find
it of no avail to fee from the state
to escape punishment. They will be
brought back for trial providing the
governors of other states will honor
the acquisitions issued by Gov. Stan
ley. 1t has been the custom of Kan
sas governors not to issue requlsl-
tions in misdemeanor cases unless
they were of an aggravated character,
but Gov. Stanley has decided to break
| the precedent so far as it relates to
whisky cases.
It was decided by the popuist state
committee to hold the convention ito
| nominate a state ticket at Fort Scott,
and the convention to send delegates
| to the national convention at Clay
| Center The date for neither conven-
ton was fixed nor will it be set until
the call for the national convention
has been issued. There are six avowed
candidates for the nomination for
governor: John W. Breidenthal.
George NJ. Munger, Webb McNall, A.
NJ. Harvey, James c. Stone and Sena-
tor Ryan.
At the Western Rock Salt mine
at Lyons, one of the cages
which is used to lower work.
men into the mine took, a sudden
drop of 100 feet before it was stopped
by the appliances provided to use in
case of such accidents. The drop was
caused by breaking of cables. The
shaft is over 1000 feet deep and it
was thought at first that the work
men had gone to the bottom. The
men were rescued, only two being in
iured at all. Foreman T. E. Wood
ward had one leg broken, and a
miners face was severely bruised.
The Kansas State Historical society
will soon be placed in possession of an
interesting relic. The ballots cast by
the soldiers of the Twentieth Kan
sas at Honolulu were lately brought
to Burlington and counted to decide
contested election case. After the
election at Honolulu the ballot box