Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-09-25
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.
Clay Center's new county high
school has opened with 200 pupils en-

O4dJ O0HIeT new county HlBa
school has opened with 200 pupils en-
rolled.
Now Will the wheat belt quit chirp-
ing about its prosperity until it pays
its overdue accounts for seed grain to
the state? There is still due, on the
account of 1891, $10,616.6s, and on the
1895 account $13, o44.47.-Ottawa Her
aid.
The Lanyon Zinc company is erect
ing at La Harpe the largest smelter
west of the Mississippi river. A brick
plant is being started with a capacity
of $4,000 a day. October the city
viii vote>on a proposition to erect
waterworks plant.
A little Wichita boy whose grown
| kin tried to cure him of typhoid fever
| by means of faith alone, has gone to
! join the other little boys who have
toyed with thrashing machines, or
who have crawled through a hedge
fence and pulled a shotgun through
| after them.-Kansas City Star.
All four of the republican members
of the Kansas worlds fair commits
siOners are members of the legisla-
ture. w. P. Waggener, the democrat
ic member of the commission, is coun-
ty attorny of Atchison county. He
is a son of B. P. Waggener, attorney
for the Missouri Pacific railroad
Senator Burton, of Kansas, went
from Canton, where he attended the
| funeral of the late president, to
| Washington, and it seems to be I'M
derstoOd that before his return to
Kansas, James NJ. Simpson will be
| finally slated as collector of internal
revenue, if not actually appointed.
A prisoner working in the coal
shaft of the Kansas penitentiary tried
to escape Wednesday night. He re-
moved brick ;.long the side wall of
enc of the entries and hid. He did not
go up with the others prisoners He
was missed when it came to ''count-
ing in" A search was instituted. He
was soon found.
The county attorney of Reno coun-
ty has begun proceedings against the
alleged grain trust. The Haven eIe-
vator, at Haven, made charges that
a grain trust has been formed in
Kansas and that, as a result of it's
workings, the plaintiff company was
compelled to suspend business,
through the refusal of companies in
C11S COu1D1ll0 W PURCHASE 1GS grain.
Senator Burton says that he will
sustain any movement in congress
| to make anarchy come under the head
of treason, and that he would treat
the members of a conspiracy as Sc
vereIy as the actual person who com
mitted an overt act. The senator
| thinks the presidents heart was
weakened by the use of tobacco. ''The
| president was always smoking" he
said. 81 have rarely ever seen him
when he did not have cigar in his
mouth"
John C. Smith, a veteran, was ex-
| PEELED from the national soldiers
home in LeavenwOrth county. Smiths
| pension was taken away from him re-
Gently, pending an investigation. He
was rough in speaking of President
| Mckinley. He was tried and found
| guilty of Ulbecoming conduct. The
| buttons were cut from his coat and
he was put out. 1t develops that the
very day he was abusing the president
$500 back pension money was allowed
him.
Almost the entire business part of
bingham was wiped out by fire the
other night. Over dozen buildings
burned, including Ed Highs feed
store; Curry & Puryear's livery barn;
j. A. Wolverton's general store; J.
| II. Cummings harness shop; National
| Washing Machine company's factory;
| c. S. Moore's barber shop; Henry
| WoOdward's meat market; the fire
engine house and empty store build
ings belonging to c.. NJ. Howard, w.
NJ. Walker, James Little and Henry
| Woodward. Origin of the fire I'M
known. Estimated loss, $4,000.
| There are only 81 women convicts
in the state penitentiary now. Fee
male inmates are not handled as male
convicts are. While the male con-
victs are all clad in the regulation
| gray uniforms there is no regularly
adopted dress for the women. The
women are kept in a department by
themselves. 1t is a prison by itself,
although it adjoins the regular pris-
on. Warden Jewett says that a fe-
made penitentiary should be built
entirely separate from male prison;
that it should not be located in the
same locality. He hopes the next
legislature will establish a woman's
prison in some other place than Lam
sing.
A receiver was named for the Mod
ern Tonties. fraternaI insurance or
der, with headquarters at Wichita.
The trouble arose from the fact that
the main officers were getting all the
money in salaries. During the past
four years E. J. Mintz, the president,
had his remuneration increased from
$72O to $4,000 a year. In addition he
received so cents for every policy hold
er. On the first of September the
assets of the order were $4,000 and
the claims of the officers $4,000. Ben
eficiaries of policies and other cred
itors began to complain until finally
the state superintendent of insur-
ance laid the matter before the at
torney general, who asked for a
receiver and for an injunction re-
straining the officers from doing bust
ness.
Gov. Stanley is in sympathy with
the movement to make agriculture
the predominating study at the Kan