Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.
The Kansas Statesman is the name
of the new paper in Atchison.
Gaspar c. Clemens has started
new paper in Topeka called the Fool
killer.
DR.. ]. w. Cheney has been appoint
ed pension examining surgeon at
Kingman.
It is reported in Pittsburg that State
Auditor Cole will move from Girard
to that city.
c. w. Goodlander, who owns large
per cent of Fort SCOTS business en-
terprises, is building sanitarium.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Harvey has
declined the Democratic nomination
for judge Of the Topeka city court.
Fresh & McNary, of Potwni, Kas.,
had in hogs that sold for $5.2512 per
cwt. They are regular shippers to the
Rogers Commission Co.
The postoffice at Hale, Chatauqua
county has been moved one mile west
of present location, and James 3. Nc
Cornell appointed postmaster.
Sharpers with new system of
school charts disposed of 100 of them
in Washington county alone at $50
set. Three thousand dollars in one
Kansas county has all the outward
manifestations of ready money.
These Kansas postoffice appoint
ments were made Wednesday: At
Lapland, Greenwood county, J. P.
county, J. S. Halstead; at Saint Clere,
Pottawatomie county, H. w. Hughes.
Senator James M. Allen of Doni-
phan county is suffering with an at
tack of paralysis of the hands and
has been ordered to California by his
physician. Senator Fred Dumont
Smith, who has some nerve trouble,
will accompany him.
According to the Stockton papers,
the doctors of Kansas City have given
little encouragement in the case of
13-year-old Stockton boy who is next
to totally blind from smoking cigar
cites. One eye is surely gone, and
the other may follow.
The Goetz Brewing Company has
sued Sheriff Campbell, of Nemaha
county, for 500, the alleged value of
some joint fixtures which he smashed
the other day. The sheriff. claims to
have had an order from a justice of
the peace.
A printer working for the Emporia
Gazette was unable to rent a house
because of his three children. He ad-
vertised for a house, offering to kill
two Of his children. providence, .
says the Gazette, got even with him
for his levity by sending him a pair
of twins this morning. Moral: Don't
get gay
Two veins of rich COAL have been
struck at Mound City, which are
claimed to be the largest finds in the
Kansas field. w. S. Canatsey, man
ager of the Mound City Gas company,
says that one vein is five feet thick at
a depth of 300 feet and another six
feet thick at depth of $40 feet The
striek has created quite a sensation
there. :s-e "a,
Mr.. Louis Waubansee, of Wauban-
see, Jackson county. was in Kansas
City few days ago with seven loads
of cattle. He bought these cattle
about ayear ago, graZed and fed them
and marketed them at satisfactory
profit. They sold for $4.S5 per cwt
Mr.. Waubansee is of the Reservation
and transacts his business with the
Rogers Commission Co., when in Kan
sas City. ~ IA -.,i
The city of Pittsburg receives ST.
800 a month from it's jofnts-twenty-
three joints at S100 each. The money
is collected as a license and there is
no beating around the bush about it
When Mrs Nation was IN the smash
ing business the authorities decided
that if she visited Pittsburg they
would lock her up on the charge OF
insanity and have the probate court
Enquire into her case.
Tom Kelly, farm hand, shot ant
killed Isaac ]. Edwards, near Lyons
Wednesday. The affair occurred short
ly after breakfast, where everything
appeared peaceful. After this, one o
the hands by the name of Brown, de
sired to leave and wished a settle
ment. and quarrel followed, in which
Kelly took Browns part. Edward
was shot through the heart and diet
instantly. Kelly at once came to tow
and and gave himself up.
The state labor bureau has begun
the work of compiling statistics TO
its sixteenth annual report. A fea
ture of the report will be a chapter o.
the milling industry of the state
which will give the following infor