Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-17
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There are 36.444 members of the
A. o. U. w. in Kansas, a gain of about
5000 during 1900.
Senator Al Henley, OF Douglas, is
in favor of utilizing convict labor on
the roads and will introduce a bill to
that effect.
The Independent Salt company will
drill eight salt wells near Hutchinson
and erect a plant to cost $3.50, 900.
Work will begin at once.
The Farmers Alliance Insurance
| company, which closed its state con-
ventiOn at Mcpherson last week, was
organized II years ago. It has about
$4,000 policy-holders and surplus of
| $4,000 in the treasury.
1t is one of the oddities of the KAN
sas system that it should devoIve upon
Chief Justice Frank Doster, the only
remaining populst in the capitol, to
| administer the oath to Gov. Stanley
| and the other state officers
Mrs. SchieveI, of Fleming, pointed a
''didn't know-it-was-Ioaded'' shotgun
at Harry Dievers and pulled the trig-
ger, the young man falling dead at her
feet. The woman was completely
d
maniac.
E. b. Jewell, of Wichita is in To-
peka to push bill appropriating $780,
| 600 to build mansion in Topeka for
the use of the governor. His plan
is to buy ground fronting the capitol
square and heat the house from the
statehouse plant.
Alyan and Dan Munsell. father and
son, while returning from their days
work at night were held up and
robbed by three masked men at Thir-
teenth street and Washington avenue
in Kansas City, and compelled to give
up their valuables.
Mrs. Mary Lappey, so years old,
was found dead at her home in OIathe.
She was the second white woman to
come to that section in 1857 and had
been Familiarity known as ''Aunt
Mary" For many years past she had
been living in solitude.
On Christmas James Oliver, of Bur-
| lingame, received a check for $500
from Miss Helen Gould. When the
late Jay Gould was lad Mr. Oliver
was his school teacher, and every
Christmas Miss Helen sends the old
| gentlemen a reminder of this assoc
| clatlOn with her father.
The American Book company, which
was eliminated from Kansas by the
passage of the state uniform textbook
law by the pOpulist legislature of 1897,
has opened headquarters at Topeka
to secure the repeal of that law, or
| to tack on amendments which will
destroy the uniformity idea.
| The state bankers association has
appointed a committee to draft bill
providing that the idle funds of the
state shall be lent to banks that will
offer the highest rates of interest for
| it, the loans to be secured by deposits
of state, county or United States
bonds, upon the approval of the exec
utive council.
| Miss Cora Frost, who was the prin-
cipal witness for the state in serious
criminal case against her father at
Fort Scott and who suddenly disap-
| peared when the case was called for
| trial, was arrested in Joplin and
| brought back. She said her step
mother induced her to leave and Mrs.
| Frost was arrested.
The district court of appeals, south
ern Kansas division, adjourned sine
die at Wichita on the Sth. This makes
| the finale to an eventful term of six
years, during which time the court
| disposed of some 1,7OO cases. There
were still about 400 cases to be dis
posed of in this division, but they
Will be certified to the supreme court.
DIR. John P. Wood, of Coffeyville,
the physician who celebrated his
ninety-ninth birthday anniversary
recently, has decided to take the lee
tnre platform early this coming
spring. He will lecture at first on
Longevity" Dr. Wood is probably
the oldest Practicing physician in the
world.
Representatives of about so indie
pendent telephone companies of Kan
sas met at Salina to form state
telephone association. There are now
independent telephone exchanges in
Kansas from Topeka west to Els
| worth and from Council Grove north
west to Stockton and southwest to
! Great Bend, all of which lines CEN
| ter in Salina.
Native Kansans are coming to the
| front as statesmen. This legislature
contains more men born in the Sum
| flower state than any previous legis-
lature. \ few years ago a native
Kansan as a legislator was curiosi-
ty. At first only one of them scored.
| Then another crept in. Things got
| to rolling their way and now there
are Is of them in the legislature-5
senators and Is members of the
house. The native Kansas senators
are: Allen, of Doniphan; Caldwell. of
Bourbon; Leidy, of Butler; SponabIe,
of Johnson, and Wulfekuhler, Of
! Ieavenworth. The native Kansans in