Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-10-30
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED.

600 bushels.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sherman, of Nc
Kinnis, Republic county, are parents
of four sets of twins.
Gov. Stanley has appointed j. S.
Hunter, of the University of Kansas,
to be state nursery inspector.
1t is planned to manufacture 2,O0O,-
900 pounds of binders Irvine at the
state penitentiary the coming year.
The Topeka Ministerial union has
started an agitation for the reading
of the Bible in the Topeka public
schools.
Attorney General GODDARD and Rail-
road Commissioners Fyke and Walker
are interested in a new bank at Col
orado Springs.
The David Cook farm in Brown
county has been sold for $50 an acre,
the highest price ever paid for land
in that county.
purchased a drill and will go down
into the earth 1000 feet in the hope of
striking gas for fuel.
The ST. Louis, Kansas & South
western railroad, running from Ar
kansas City west to Anthony, will be
sold to the Santa Fe.
Miss LuelIa Rudolph, niece of Sen
ator Burton, has been appointed to
a place in the census Office at WASH
ington which pays 500 month
A daughter of Ben Simpson, of Pa
ola, the welI-known politician, has
been appointed stenographer in the
supreme court clerks office at To-
peka.
Gov. Stanley expects to bring pro-
ceedings against the sheriff and
prosecuting attorney of Leavenworth
county for permitting a prize fight
to come off in Leavenworth recently.
Having lost out in it's asylum fight
against Parsons, Clay Center now
wants the state board of charities to
reimburse it for the amount of
money it has spent in litigation. The
amount aggregates about $4,000.
A. o. U. w. lodges throughout Kan
sas celebrated the thirty-third ami
versary of the order Friday. In Mead
vile, Pa, in 1868, John Upchurch
founded the first lodge with IS mem
bers. Now there are 100000 members.
DuSI11CSS 1IlC1I VI NNCl1IIlS GOI1 ouO-
scribed $500 to erect a frame taber-
nacle SOX11O feet in which to hold
revival meetings under the direction
of Rev. NJ. B. Williams and Charles
Alexander. The revival will begin
| November 10.
Secretary r. E. Stephens, of the
Kansas Temperance union, has cut
out all laudatOry reference to Mrs.
Nation in the revised edition of his
temperance book. Her utterances
against the late President Mckinley
led him to do it.
A new disease has broken out among
the cattle at Corning. The tongue
becomes black, swells up and hangs
out the mouth, preventing the animal
from eating or drinking. AS a result
| it dies of starvation and thirst. More
| than 20 cattle died there during the
week.
Mrs. Nellie Collins, of Kansas City,
Kan, has sued the Schlitz Brewing
company in the federal court for
$4,000 damages. She claims the
brewery "staked'' her husband in
starting a joint and as a result he
has become a habitual drunkard and
| Ioafer.
George Johnson, of Republic coun-
| ty, whose wife gave to the state the
site of the ancient Pawnee village
where Pike raised the American flag,
has $4,000 bushels of corn which he
has carried over from crops of 1899
and 1900. He is selling part of it at
! So cents bushel.
The annual meeting of the Fifth
District Federation of Women's clubs
was held at Abilene Thursday and Fri
| lay. Besides the delegates the fol-
lowing visitors were present: Mrs.
W. A. Johnston. Mrs. Gov. Stanley
and Mrs Eugene Ware, of Topeka;
! Mrs. Noble L. Prentis, of Kansas City.
Mo.
This telegram recently came from
New York: ''The baggage of Carl F.
Prehm, of Galena, Kan, passenger
on the Deutschland, was seized by
Inspector Coffey because about $3.50
worth of jewelry, including woman's
watch and two diamond rings, had
not been mentioned in Prehm's de-
claration.'
This hbelous fling is from the Kan
sas City Star: A BeIoit man who adj
vertised for Il wife has not only
heard from numerous single women
| but from several married men who
offer to give him, his heirs and as
signs, a quitclaim deed to all their
right, title and interest in such cal
leo as they already possess.
A half section of land will be pur-
chased for the state soldiers home
at Dodge City. The additional land
is needed for pasture purposes. Some
40 COWS are kept at the home and
there is not room to pasture them at
the present time. There are now 45O
inmates of the home and the number
is increasing steadily. Within the
neXt-month new hospital building
will be completed and the old one will
be turned into barracks.
C. D. Walker, the Atchison attor-
ney, has purchased 500 angora goats
at 81 a head. Walker owns 500 acres
of timber land near Atchison and
will use the goats to clear the land.
Ralph and Sheffield ingalls,. sons
of the late John ]. Ingalls,, are ar
ranging to buy the routes of Atch-
| iSOn mill, mon and CONTROL the mill.