Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-10-02
STATE NEWS pARAGRApHEr.

George w. Cochran, Brown county
farmer, has sued his married son for
| s., $50 rent.
Dodge City is made division point
of the Santa Fe between Newton and
albuquerque.
The telephone companies of Kansas
viii erect at once toll line from Sa-
lima to Kansas City.
The Fort Scott Lantern, one of the
oldest populist papers in Kansas, has
been sold to the Fort Scott Monitor.
Topeka has "a daily, weekly, month
ly and quarterly publications. Tope-
lka, therefore, leads the state in this
line
The Kansas state board of health
met at Topeka and took the initial
steps to check the spread of small
poX next winter.
State Fish Warden George Wiley
has ruled that the Kaw river is a gov
| eminent stream, and that it is lawful
to sein therein. He bases his ruling on
an opinion of the supreme court,
written by Chief Justice Horton.
Gov. Stanley has withdrawn his Of
fer to give silver cups to all triplets
born in Kansas during his administra-
ton. After having purchased 20
sets of cups he decided that he would
have to call halt owing to the ex-
pense of the scheme.
The $4,000 appropriated by the last
legislature for experiments with
plans for the determination of prairie
dogs has been spent, without result.
Tempting poisons have been spread,
but the prairie dogs have been sharp
enough to avoid them.
D. o. McCray, state immigration
agent, has just returned from a trip
| through Illinois and Iowa. He says
that he talked with scores of young
men from those states who are max
| ing arrangements to locate in Kansas
this fall or next spring.
The five-year-oId daughter of Mrs.
Frank Kimball was found dead in a
cisterm at Waterville which she evil
| IDENTIFY had fallen into. Mrs. Kim
balls husband was killed by lightning
two years ago. Her oldest daughter is
a paraIytic from fall and the feet of
her oldest son, her only support. were
recently crushed.
John w. Breidenthal will be presi.
dent of the new fraternal order which
| he and other Kansas men are forming.
1t is understood that State Labor,
! Commissioner Lee johnson will be
vice president. The name of the or
der has not yet been made public
The local organization will be known
as clubs, instead of lodges.
DIN Castle, husband of Clara Wiley
Castle, and Hayward Morrison, BROTH.
er of Jessie Morrison, who cut MRS.
Castles throat with a razor, were the
principal attractions at the Yelling
/ ton wheat carnival. Both Castle and
Morrison play in the Eldorado band.
The Wellington people saw their
chance to use this as an advertis-
ing scheme for the carnival and they
worked it.
Rich relatives of insane persons.
in the Kansas asylums have refused
to pay back claims for expenses on
the ground that claims running more
than five years are barred by the STATE.
ute of limitations. Attorney General
GODDARD rules that the statute OF linn
itations can not run against sover@
eign state and ordered suits brought
Back claims against people able to
pay aggregate 100000.
AT a recent meeting of the agricuI-
tural college regents at ManhattaH
the appropriation for the agricuturaI
department was increased to $780,
$4,000 to go to the farm departments
and $4,000 for the dairy work. The
board appointed a committee to purs
chase a pair of blooded draft mares,
Another committee was instructed to-
investigate the question of purchase
| ing or leasing more land.
The equal suffrage leaders, of Kan
sas are making ready for another
state campaign. The, consensus OF
opinion among the suffragists is that
change in the constitution is neeesS
sary and the next legislature Will be-
asked to submit the proposition to
the people. Senator F. Dumont Smith
! has promised to introduce the .reso%
luton. The republican state conAen-
ton next year will be asked to in.
| dorse the scheme.
Arrangements had been made by.
| the masonic fraternity for the laying
of the cornerstone of Anderson couns
| tvs new courthouse at Garrett, but
at the. last moment the county attor@
ney, on the strength of remon-
| STRANGE signed by 300 clt1Zens, mostly
Catholics, threatened injunction pro-
ceedings to prevent the order from
conducting. the ceremonies. The ma
sons retired. The town council was
called together and took charge.
The London Times, referring edito-
rally to Gen. Funston's account OF
the capture of Aguinaldo, published
| in a recent magazine, says: 1T is
no exaggeration to say that the cap
ture practically terminated the Phil
ippine war. Gen. Funston deserves
as much commendation for the inge-
nuity of his device as for the pluck
and determination that carried it in-
to effeet.'' The whole device, in the
Times judgment, was justified by the
laws of war.
Mrs. Sarah Sturdevant, of Larned,
has the commission issued by Presi-
dent Jefferson to Maj. Zebulon M.
Pike, who first raised the United
States flag over the territory now
known as Kansas.
The dispatches chronicIed the fact