Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-06
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHED.
smallpox closed the negro school

X w. turner, OF jewell
proposed for congress by some of the
fusion papers of the Sixth district.
He is a lawyer and once was high in
the councils of the republican party.
He was president Harrison's consul
at Cadiz, Spain.
Justice of the Peace Disney, who
has been dealing out knockout drops
to the Topeka jointists by sending
them to Jail for two to three years
and filming them from $4,000 to $500
each for selling liquor, was caught in
raid on a poker room at Topeka.
The wedding of c. r. Ravens and
Mabel Klein, at Wellington, was
marred by band of hoodlums that
congregated at the Klein home and
demanded money to buy drinks. Being
refused, they hurled clubs and rocks
into the house, iniuring two guests.
A H Burtis, of Garden City, looks
for beet sugar factory and refinery
to be established at that town. En-
couraged by the bounty authorized by
the last legislature of Kansas, the
farmers planted large acreage of
beets last spring and the experiment
turned out well.
Topeka land district, comprising lit
tie more than the eastern half of
Kansas, are still open to homestead
entry Of this 200 acres are located
IN Russell county, 40 acres in Els
worth, 40 Acres in Butler, 100 acres in
Chase and 40 acres in Marshall.
Congressman Miller, of the Fourth
district, has adopted a novel scheme
of settling post Office fights in some
of the smaller towns of his district.
He makes a house to house canvass
in those towns and ascertains from
the men and women from their own
mouths whom they want for post
master.
In an interview Gov. Stanley is quot
ed as saying that he wished people
interested in pardon cases would not
employ lawyers to present the appli-
cations to him; that lawyers, in their
zeal, oftentimes cover up the facts
or conceal them and lead him to be-
lieve things of their clients that are
not true.
Secretary Coburn has purchased for
the safe agricultural college at Man
haitian the purebred Galloway bull,
First King of AVIAN. It was purchased
at the recent Kansas City cattle show,
where it won the first prize. He is
almost perfect in form and will be
| used in teaching students the form Of
a model beef animal.
At the w. C. T. U. state conven-
ton in Ottawa a committee was APP
| pointed to investigate the innocence
or guilt of Willie Sells and report the
will have power to act. There were
many delegates present who believe
Willie Sells to be innocent and have
hopes he may be pardoned.
Timber wolves are terrorizing the
farmers on the road a few miles west
of Lawrence. E. A. Smith has lost
rs turkeys and rs chickens and young
pigs have been killed on his farm and
those of adjoining neighbors. The
wolves venture up to the barnyards
and several dogs have been killed.
The wolves hunt in droves.
The weather report prepared at the
University of Kansas for October says
| that only five Octobers in the last 81
years have been warmer. The rain
| fall was 1913 incres, which is 80 of an
inch below the October average. The
rainfall for the ten months of 1901
now completed has been. 1924 inches,
5.78 inches below the average for SO
years.
Fred Schwartzenberg, wealthy
Kansas farmer, near Louisville, found
his daughter, Mrs. n. NJ. Dearborn,
for whom he had been searching for
20 years, in st. Joseph, Mo. She is
his only living relative, and he had
been unable to locate her, although
living within 25 miles of ST. Joseph.
Schwartzenberg recently made a de-
post in ST. Joseph bank and a clerk
told his daughter of it. By this the
two were brought together.
Webb McNan formally announces
his candidacy for the legislature in
Smith county. McNall says he is
silver republican, but there is no or
ganization of that kind in the coun-
ty, and he will go before the demo-
cratic and populist conventions. He
has been invited to return to the re-
publican fold, but he has an ambition
to go to congress. McNall might
have had the fusion nomination in
| 1900, but he had promised to support
DR.. Dykes.
William Ford, of Kinsley; arrived in
Emporia the other day $500 short and
with a sad story. Miss Blair Wesley,
of Parsons, advertised for a husband,
Ford says, and he answered the adver-
tisement. A correspondence sprung
up, which resulted, he says, in Miss
Wesley promising to become Mrs.
Ford. However, she needed $500 to
purchase trousseau and asked Ford
to lend her the amount. Ford alleges
that the wedding day was fixed. and
he went to visit his intended. He re-
ceived warm welcome. but in a few
days she became cool to him, and
finally refused to fulfill her promise.
He AYERS she also refused to return
the $500.
Elmer Z. Ames, of Norton, recently
appointed national bank examiner,
has resigned as director Of the state
penitentiary and Gov. Stanley ap-
pointed W. d. Haskell, of Smith coun-
ty, to succeed him.