Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-11
STATE NEWS pARAeRApHRD.

AT che request of Congressman Car
ter, the United States geological sur
Vey has sent an expert to Trego eeun-
ty to investigate the reported gold
find in the shale of that county:
Edmund G. Ross, United States SEN
ator from Kansas from 1865 to 1871,
the man whose vote saved President
johnson from impeachment and dis
grace, is working at the case at
printing office in Albuquerque, N. M.
According to the official weather
report for Kansas, compiled by the
chancellor of the state university, the
past month has, on the whole, been
an average Kansas August. The rain
fall is slightly below the August aver
age.
There are six post offices in the
United States named Kansas-in
Walker county, Alabama; Edgar coun-
ty, Illinois; Graves county, Kentucky;
Seneca county, Ohio; Jefferson coun-
ty. Tennessee, and the northern part
of Indian territory.
Ernest Agnew, who was a second
lieutenant in the Twentieth Kansas
and Miss May Sexton, both of Man
haitian, were married and left inn
mediately for Manila, where Agnew
has been assigned to heutenancy
in the regular army.
A Greenwood county farmer expert
mented with blue grass this year. He
raised 1850 bushels of grass seed on
24O acres of land. He sold the seed for
So a bushel, or $1O,O50. The cost of
the original seed and the labor was
s., O5o,~so he cleared $4,000 on the crop.
Probate Judge Mason, of Lyon coun-
ty, is wearing a watch, the case of
which is made from gold which he
| dug with his own hands in California
in 1S49. The works, which he bought
| in California in 1850, cost his $24O.
| Probably better ones could be bought
now for S..
F. NJ. Powell, a Mayetta barber,
committed suicide with morphine. He
left a note behind asking his friends
to see that he had more flowers on
his casket than were placed on the
casket of his sister who died a few
days ago. III health and dependency
caused him to take his life.
Gov. Stanley has issued commits
sion to D. o. McCray, as immigration
commissioner for Kansas. Mr.. Nc
Cray, with Arthur Capper and W. A.
Thompson, have organized the Kan
sas immigration bureau, new enter
prise, to advertise the resources of
the state and to bring homeseekers
and investors here.
The executive committee of the Tax
league of Fort Scott, as a result of the
discovery that the mayor and council
had been paying the attorney who de-
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ecution, voted unanimously to begin
proceedings to remove Mayor Good
lander and a number of city officials.
The most nervy and astonishing
thing ever seen at Anthony was when
the blind son of Farmer Californian
swung himself into a wagon behind
a team of runaway horses, grooped
around until he found the lines, and
then brought the team to a standstill.
The boy was standing by the wagon
when the team started to run. He is
wholly blind.
According to figures tabulated by
r. Adjt. Gen. Fox, of the K. N. g., Kan
sas lost more volunteer soldiers by
death in the Philippine campaign
than any other state. The total
deaths in the fighting Twentieth
amounted to 6S. Nebraska came sec
ond with 81 and Dakota third with
So. Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska
each lost three officers.
Mrs. M. K. Haines, wife of the
former Topeka ticket broker who is
serving life sentence in the Missouri
penitentiary for killing a Union
avenue saloonkeeper in Kansas City
some months ago, has gone insane.
Worry over the fate of her husband
and business troubles drove her in
sane. She imagines everything is
alive with microbes and refuses to
eat anything.
Attorney General GODDARD has de-
clined to institute a suit for the re
moval of Sheriff Everhardy, of Leav-
enworth county, and the Afro-Ameri-
can league has appealed to the gov
ernor. The attorney general says
that while the sheriff might have
saved the negro, Alexander, from the
mob which burned him at the stake,
the evidence to prove this neglect OF
; duty is not sufficient to convict.
Is the Kaw river a government
stream or state stream is question
that will soon, be tested in the courts
State Fish Commissioner Wiley
backed by the opinion of B. H. Ira
cy and the attorney general, claims
that it is a state stream and subject
to the laws of Kansas. The fisher
men around Lawrence claim that ii
is a government stream, under the
control of congress. and that the
anti-seining laws of Kansas do not ap-
ply to it. Wiley says the Lawrence
fishermen are violating the state law
on that theory, and he is going tc
have some of them arrested in order
!, to test the law. If the courts hold
that the state has jurisdiction over
!, the river, then the fish commissioner
will rigidly enforce the anti=seining
law.
Seven freight cars on the centra
branch of the Missouri Pacific went
into ditch near Vermillion, and sew
eraI persons were severely injured.
; The village of Reserve, Brown coun
ty, has musical odigy-Claude Ry
ner, aged six years. He can play OF
Tho uiaDO most auv tune he hears