Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-18
STATE NEWS PARAeRAPHED.

"A new Episcopal church was recent
" dedicated at lola, free of debt.
The enrolment at the University of
Kansas before the opening of the fall
term, which occurred Wednesday, was
unusually large.
The big horse owned by Suffer
Bros, of bingham, which had been
exhibited at many fairs. died recent
~. 1t weighed 3,4oO pounds.
The secretary of the state board
of agriculture, through B. Warken-
ton, of Newton, has distributed $1,000
bushels of Russian seed wheat.
Fred Wellhouse, the well-known
horticulturist, has sold $4,000 to $1,000
bushels of apples on his trees near
Leavenworth to a New York firm for
$3.50 to $3.50 per barrel.
Miss Ada Heaton, a graduate of
| physical culture, with postgraduate
work in the Yale method, is the new
physical director for women at Baker
university and will have entire charge
of the women's gymnasium.
State Mine Inspector Keegan has is
sued an order that the employment of
child labor in the coal mines of Kan
sas be stopped. He says all persons
in the future employing children in
coal mines will be prosecuted under
the new state law
From his home in Scotland Andrew
Carnegie has directed his cashier to
honor the drafts of the proper au-
thorities of Kansas City in sums as
needed from time to time up to $751;
600, to pay for the proposed library
building in that city.
vict, escaped from the Kansas peni-
tertiary. He went out for a load of
sand near the river and walked away
in the timber towards Kansas City.
BOughna was sent from Saline county
for larceny. His term would have
expired the latter part of September.
Miss Mary Laplant brought suit at
Wichita against Marcellus Herndon,
a real estate man there, for $4,000
damages for failing to keep his prom
Use of marriage. The wedding was
to have been last week, but the groom
failed to either show up or send an
excuse for its postponement. Both
are well known in society.
The state of Kansas will on Sep
timber 90 hold a notable celebration
to unven a monument cOmmemOra-
ting the occasion and the spot where
Lieut.. Zebulon NJ. Pike on September
20, 1906, at the Pawnee village low
cred the Spanish ensign and raised
the United States flag. This historic
spot is in Republic county.
The women won first blood in their
fight for recognition in the Kansas
councils of the Episcopal church. Aft
er a spirited discussion Mrs. c. E.
Cary, of Pittsburg, was permitted to
| take seat as delegate to the annual
convention of the Kansas Episcopal
diocese. The matter will be appealed
to the, general assembly at San
Francisco next month.
Moran councilmen passed an ordi-
nance levying an occupation tax of
! $500 a year on druggists who hold
permits to sell liquor. 1t affected
only one druggist. He claims that
this branch of his business brings him
but 1910 a year. He went into the
courts and Judge StilweH issued
temporary injunction restraining the
city from taking steps to collect the
tax.
A bulletin on alfalfa production is
sued by the state board of agriculture
shows the growth of this crop in Kan
sas leads all the other states. In
1891 the total acreage of alfalfa in
the state was 34,3S4. This year the
acreage is $4,000, an increase in ten
years of over 828 per cent. The plant
this year has already yielded two,
three or four cuttings, and is beconl-
ing the most popular crop i'll Kansas,
and one that ranks high as drought
resister.
At the annual convention of the
Kansas diocese of the Episcopal
church at Topeka the requisite num-
| Der of parishes agreed to cede the
| western part of the state, contain
ing 176 parishes to the general assem-
bly,, with a view of having the Kansas
| diocese divided and another bishop
chosen. The proposed new bishop will
nave charge of the western diocese,
leaving Bishop Millspaugh to preside
over the eastern diocese, which will
include only the counties east of
line drawn north and south through
| the state east of the east line OF Re-
public, Cloud, Ottawa, Saline, Nc
Pherson, Reno, Kingman and Harper
counties.
When Jessie Morrison left the state
prison the other day she was handed
| S487 by Chief Clerk Brown. She had
$3.50 of the amount when she went
to the prison, and the other $187
was her earnings" The women prs
oners are paid 31a cents day when
they work, and the money is saved up
and given to them when they leave.
Miss Morrison did fine needlework
while she was in prison. Several doilies
and handkerchiefs of her handiwork
have been sold in the penitent;ary
thinker shop She was the most
noted prisoner incarcerated there dur
ing her stay, and the statement that
they were made by Jessie Morrison
tended to increase their selling value.
The highest point in Kansas is
Bird City, in Cheyenne county 1000
feet above the level of the sea. The
lowest point is Kansas City, KAN
700 feet above the sea lie. el.
It is said that some of the students
of the Atchison county high school
board on s1.25 a week. This is less