Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-07
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFs.

KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.
Tom Kelly viii be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for state
treasurer in 1902.
The senate also passed bill appro-
priating money for the support OF the
Dodge City Soldiers Home.
Senator Tom Noftzger of Barber
county will be a candidate for con-
gress in the Seventh district in 1902
Fred Dumont Smith, senator from
Edwards county, says there is no
truth in the report that he is going to
move to Topeka.
The Rev. w. S. Priest of the Chris
tian church of Atehison declares that
Christ believed in moral suasion
rather than prohibition
Emporia is debating proposition
to keep its public library open on
Sunday as a means Of keeping young
men from the haunts of sin.
stolen from persons in and near
Girard and there have been one or
two robberies of stores in the business
section.
The ways and means committee has
recommended for passage the bill ap-
propriating 1000 to aid in the sup
port of the G. A. R. museum in the
state house.
The senate, Wednesday, for the sec-
ond time defeated the Scott bill, au-
thorizing Western Kansas counties to
compromise their bonded indebted
ness. The vote stood 10 for and 16
against.
Ex-United States Senator PETER IS
in feeble health at his home in Tope
ka and has been ordered to change
his residence. He likely will go to
Washington, D. c., where his daugh-
ter resides.
E. W. Howe, editor of the Atchison
Globe, has been in bed with the grip
for three weeks. David Martin, ex-
chief justice of the supreme court, is
seriously i'll with dropsy at his home
! in Atchison.
| A resolution by Adams of Butler for
| a standing committee on the State
Historical society has been adopted.
The speaker named as such commit
| tee, Kinkle, Owen, Francis, Reming-
ton, Adams of Butler, Geissler and
Bowman.
The senate, Wednesday, adopted the
house concurrent resolution submit
ting a constitutional amendment to
raise the salaries OF members of the
! legislature to $500 a session. The
question will be voted upon at the
| 1902 election.
Upon motion Of Senator Stewart. of
Allen, Wednesday, the senate struck
out an item OF $4,000 in the Osawa-
tonne insane asylum appropriation
bill for the purchase of additional
land, and then passed the bill as it
came from the committee.
Bolt Stark of Topeka has been
found guilty of helping smash Muir
phys joint on February II. The trial
was before jury in the district court.
Stark accompanied Mrs. Nation and
the Home Defenders on their raid.
The case will be appealed to the SUI
preme court.
! Walter Dunlop, proprietor OF a hotel
at Bonner Springs, Kas., ten miles
from Kansas City, committed suicide
at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by
shooting himself through the head
with a reovlver. The deed was COM
mitted in back room of the hotel
after having had a quarrel with his
wife. He was % years old.
Mrs. Maggie Hicks building at Hol-
ton was burned to the ground Tues
day morning between IL and 1 o'clock.
This is the bul1ding which the Hicks
people used as a joint and which was
cleaned out by the citizens on Febru-
airy 9. Last Saturday the building
and furniture was insured for 81 ZOO.
No one was in the building at the
tiTue of the fire. Mrs. Hicks was in
Topeka.
The Salina city council has decided
to issue 81 600 worth of improvement
bonds for sewer construction. In order
to keep lnis amount of money at
home, instead Of selling the bonds to
eastern syndicates, the council will
sell the bonds to local parties. This is
to afford an opportunity to people Of
Salina and Saline county who have
money to loan to secure a safe and
satisfactory investment. The sale will
be made popular loan and the s11,
600 will be issued in denominations OF
800 each, eleven of such bonds fall
ing due each year for ten years, and
drawing interest at the rate of IA
per cent per annum. The entire a.
mount must be purchased by local
parties, or the bonds will not be issued
in the denominations and manner
specified.
Here is another "sure cure" This