Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-28

I How to raise revenue With which 20
pay the expenses is a question that Is
bothering the residents of Solomon.
Since the new temperance law went
into effect the joints have gone out OF
business there and as the town only
i derives $25 a year from licenses, the
question is one that is demanding at
| tention. The majority of the citizens
seem to favor the issuing of bonds,
while a few favor an occupation tax.
The town is at present free from any
/ Indebtedness.
! The state officers whose duty it is
! to purchase or build a mansion for the
governor in Topeka, have made up
5 their minds that they will have to paS
| fancy price for property. Prices
have advanced from 25 to so per cent
on all property offered, the intention
of the owners evidently being to get
so much of the $35, 900 appropriated
| for mansion purposes as they possibly
can. Property which could have been
bought a month ago for from $4,000
to $4,000 is now held for from $4,000
to $35, 200.
The abstract of the condition of the
national banks of Kansas, at the close
| of business of February 5, as reported
to the comptroller of the currency,
shows the average reserve to have
been 1878 per cent, against 1888 per
cent on December 13. Loans and dis
counts decreased from S26,770,166 to
$23, 1872, Ill; gold coin from $1,228, 452
to 81 ,078, $40; total specie from 81, $685.
| 954 to $1,710,969; lawful money reserve
from 1888, 795 to $3.50, 1858; individ
ual deposits increased from $29, 500, 4S4
to $29, ZOO, 500.
In the district court at Ottawa, Will
liam Lockwood pleaded guilty to
forgery on two counts and was SEN
fenced by Judge Smart to serve two
years in the penitentiary. Lockwood
is a country boy whose home is be-
tween Lane and Rantoul. He went to
Ottawa one day last December and
passed two forged checks on stockmen
in his neighborhood. The amount Of
the forged checks was $125. The
forgery was detected before Lockwood
left town, and he was arrested. Lock-
wood feigned insanity up to few
days ago, when it was announced ne
would plead guilty.
| The state executive council has
awarded contracts for the completion
of the second floor of the state house.
| This is the floor on which are located
the supreme court, the state library,
the house of representatives and the
senate chamber. A great deal of money
has been spent upon this floor but the
contracts awarded this week will fin
ISL it entirely. The successful bidders
were: Plastering and carpenter work,
Henry Bennett, of Topeka, 1915;
marble wainescOating and floors, Gran
! tie Marble Company, Milwaukee, So
| TO; heating and lighting apparatus,
Frank Edison, Topeka, $3.50.
Mrs. Mary E. Bradley, aged II years,
one of the earliest settlers of Salina,
hotel there in 1866 The building was
a log structure with a dirt roof and
! stood on the bank of the river near
what is now the center of the town.
| This hotel was in the early days the
stopping place for all travellers west
ward bound, and had among it's gests
many men who have since become
prominent in the states history. Bay
ard Taylor, the poet and traveller, was
once a guest at the hotel over night
on his trip to Denver as correspondent
, of the New York Tribune in 1866,
died Wednesday night at the home of
his nephew, w. G. Sta1ey, at 3O8 Ord
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the liver. The body was taken for
burial to Farmer City, ILL.,, where his
son, Harry A. Rathburn, is a dentist
Mr.. Rathburn came to Kansas City to
spend the holidays, and had been i'll
most of the time since, though he was
confined to his home for only a few
days. He was past post commander
of the G. A. r. post at Marquette, was
So years old and belonged to the
knights of Pythias and the EIks. He
served in the civil war in company r,
: Second Illinois cavalry.
The marriage and divorce laws of
Kansas are brought in question again
by an odd Case at Marysville During
harvest last year, Ed Pallas was
caught in a machine and ground up
feaffully. He got partly well, but
while still in bed his wife ran away
and left him. In October he procured
a divorce from her, which, under the
law, did not become final until the
expiration of six months But last
week he died, and promptly his di-
vorced wife appeared on the scene and
claimed his estate, alleging that she
was legally his wife and heir until the
expiration of the statutory limitation
/ About o'clock Tuesday morning the
bank at Madison, Greenwood county
} some twenty miles south of Emporia
: was broken into by burglars. Dyna
mite was used to blow open the door:
of the vault The explosion made 81
l much noise that it woke nearly all the
l inhabitants of the town and alst
r frightened away the robbers. This i
/ the third robbery that has happened a
S Madison within a few weeks Tht
= other two were more successful thai
this The robbers were traced in