Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-25
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.


February i inaugurate % new free
rural mail routes in Mcpherson coun-
ty, which with those already in exist
ence viii practically cover the entire
county.
Ali the politicians in Topeka were
caught mapping by the Nomination of
Gen. Metealf for pension agent SEN
ator Burton was in hurry and his
plans did not permit warning even
his advisers.
Over $125,O00 has been sent to the
state treasury by the various counties
in the State in payment OF next years
taxes. It is estimated that fully rs
per cent. of the full taxes will be paid
during the first half of the year.
Bert Stockwen, a farmer near
Downs. has marketed 200 fat hogs
this fall and winter which he fed on
wheat. By a system of weighing Mr..
Stockwe1l estimated that he made
2O1A pounds of pork from bushel of
wheat.
Farmers near Hiawatha were losing
much stock by feeding shredded corn
stalks. The cattle were allowed to
feed on green wheatfelds aid then
transferred to dry cornstalks without
sufficient water. One farmer lost %
head of cattle.
One of the questions which will be
| decided by the annual meeting of the
Kansas Bar association in January is
whether the judges of the Kansas SUI
preme court shall increase the males
ty and dignity of their appearance
by wearing gowns.
While plans for Gen. Funston's re-
ception are being discussed the To-
peka Capital comes to the front with
a good idea. 1t is to let Funston
walk into the old home by the back
act like one of the home folks, just
for change.
g. w. 1outhar, a Kansas student
| at Depauw university at Richmond,
Ind; Was one of the contestants in
I the oratoricaI contest t6 represent
the institution in the state contest,
but he was defeated, securing only
second place. Louthar's subject was:
Supremacy of Democracy"
Mcpherson will on March 1 be Civ
en- free delivery of mail. McPherson's
the $4,000 mark, owing to two large
insurance companies and two whole
sale houses doing business there. A
month before that time 25 rural mail
routes will start in Mcpherson coun-
ty, seven of which go oHt Of MePhers
| SON
Judge Hazen, in the Shawnee coun-
ty district court, held unconstitution-
| al that section of the Hurrel search
and seizure law which gives cities the
| right to pass search and seizure or
dinances. He held that the title of the
act was not broad enough as it did
not say anything about comforting
powers on a city council.
A recent Washington dispatch said:
Senator Burton has been compelled
to cease calculating upon the appoint
nent of Lit Crum as United States
marshal for Kansas. Crum's enemies
| have sent various and sundry charges
against him to the department Of JUS
tice and after his experience i'll fight
ing for Tracy's appointment as Unit
ed States attorney, it is said Burton
will not carry another fight of that
| character to the white house.
J. S. West, assistant attorney gen
eral, thinks it advisable for county
clerks and registers of deeds, who
hold over under the provisions of the
biennial election law, to provide
themselves with new bonds. While
| their old bonds may not make any
specific provision of the length of
time they are to run, yet it is gener-
ally accepted that a bond for a coun-
ty officer is to run but for two years,
and for this reason Judge West
thinks new bonds should be secured.
Concerning the appointment of
Gen. Wilder Metcalf for pension
agent, Morton Albaugh, state bank
commissioner and chairman of the
republican state committee, said:
''The people of Kansas knew it was
the intention of President Mckinley
| to APPOINT Mr.. Leland as pension
agent. They know that Mr.. Leland
consented to the holding up of his
appointment so as to enable Senator
| Burton to name one appointee before
| his commission was issued. Under
| these circumstances I do not believe
the people will approve of Senator
Burton undermining Mr.. Leland after
the death of President Mckinley
Col. Richard Josiah Hilton, the
weII-known co-worker with John
Brown, who served in the union army,
| 1876, is dead in London, Eng. He
was a Californian '49er and after a
few years on the Pacific slope he was
attracted to Kansas by the Kansas
| Nebraska contest, and during the
next dozen years he was prominent
! figure in the Sunfiower state. During
the free state struggle he served as
correspondent for the New York
Tribune, the California Call and other
papers. He was one of the secreta-
ries of the free state convention in
Topeka, July IS and 16, 1857, of which
Jim Lane was president, and figured
in nearly every free state convention
after that for many years.
+. NJ. Carson, aged "a, of Jewell
City, is the youngest of II brothers
living, the oldest being Eli Carson,
of Lebanon, aged 90. The grcat-great-
grandfather of the Carson brothers
came over to America with William