Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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Beloit.
W. H. Webster, of Rocks county, has
just completed sowing LOO acres of
wheat.
The Moherman Angora goat ranch
at Wellsville has sold 500 goats this
season.
A Kansas farmer has introduced a
new steam plow, which does the work
of "a horses and eight men.
Fred Stadler, of Hays City, has re-
ceived $90O-a-year clerkship in the
| subsistence department of the army
DR.. II. NJ. Charles, of Washington,
will succeed w. S. Hancock as super
intendent of the state reform school
at Topeka.
In district court at Winfield the 9TH
er day eight jointists pleaded guilty.
Winfield has just passed through
great religious revival.
At Cherryvale, in a quarrel over a
dog, Henry Linton, aged 10, was
killed by blow from a ballbat in the
hands of man named Bird, many
years Linton's senior.
Mrs. Ayres, of Hiawatha, who was
married to Jacob Ayres in August,
has sued for a divorce because she
alleges that he is so jealous of her
that he will not permit her to visit
her own family.
Morton Albaugh, state bank COM
missioner, says there is $SO,OOO,OO in
the banks of Kansas, while only one
half of it is in use. He asserted that
banking in Kansas is on a sounder
basis than ever before.
S. G. Brown, a railroad brakeman.
was arrested in Atchison on a charge
OF assaulting J.,L. Wade, his landlord.
Mrs. Brown, his wife, charges Wade
with calling at her home, putting his
arms around her and kissing her.
Wade denies Mrs. Browns charges.
w. d. Buchanan, of troop D, Four
teenth cavalry, located at Fort Riley,
was found dead in his cell at the
Junction City Jail. Buchanan had
committed suicide by hanging, hav-
ing made rope of towel. Buchan-
an murdered Policemen White and
Cooper at Junction City.
Lantry Bros, of Chase county, an
nounce that all their grading ma
chinery, several hundred teams and
500 laborers are to be removed to San
francisco Immediately. The Lantrys
have $1,OOO,OOO contract with the
Santa Fe to fill in a large section of
the bay almost surrounding that city.
D. j. Tangney, proprietor of the
Topeka Avenue hotel in Wichita, was
struck on the head early Friday
morning by a heavy hammer in the
hands of a burglar whom he sur
prised in the act of robbing the hotel
office. Mr.. Tangney was not expect
ed to recover. The burglar escaped.
William H. Klusmire was convicted
in district court at Oskaloosa of kill
ing his wife near Ho1ton, the case
going to OskaloOsa on a change of
venue. On the stand KIusmire said
that his wife had committed suicide,
and that he had buried the body to
avoid the disgrace that would follow
publicity.
The president has appointed Will
liam Cozier chief of ordnance, with
rank of brigadier general. Crozier
is native of Kansas, his father, the
late Robert Crozier, having been
judge of the Leavenworth district
court many years. He was appointed
to the military academy in 1872 and
has made a splendid record in the
army.
In many parts of Kansas the dry
season this year turned the attention
of farmers to local irrigation and the
storing of rainfall. Logan township
in Sheridan county has put in opera
ton plan of grading the roads across
the gullies, hollows and ravines In
stead of bridging them. This not on
ly makes good roads, but good dams,
suitable outlet being provided to car
ry off any overflow.
John Gerrigues, secretary of liq.
uor firm in Kansas City, Mo-, whose
guess that the total vote for gov
ernor of Ohio would be s27, 500, will
probably bring him the $4,000 prize
in the Kansas City guessing contest,
is former resident of Leavenworth
and for a number of years was city
editor of the Times. Gerrigues is
graduate of ST. Marys college at St.
Marys, a Catholic institution.
Gov. Stanley's attention having been
called to the advent of shipment of
New York foundlings to Kansas, he
viii ask the state board of charities
to ascertain if the men who brought
| them here have furnished a guaranty
that they will not become a charge
upon the state. A recent act of the
Legislature places a penalty upon per-
sons who ship INDECENT persons, par
| ticularly children, into the state.
There is something more than
good joke in the fact that profess
or and body of students from the
Onaga high school went out to spell
ing match at country school and
were all spelled down by 12-year-old
girl. 1t is corroborative of the state
ment once made by Kansas univer-
sity professor that the country
schools were more thorough in the
fundamentals of an English educa ton.
kansas City journal.
Omar Gregory, of Osborne county,
at the age of co is the father of II
living children, G. grandchildren and
II grandchildren
Jacob Van Leeuwen, who died in
Neosho county recently, once owned
the ground on which the town of
| Westport, Mo-, now stands.
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