Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-04-16
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.


congress again.
1t costs $4,000 month to run the
state of Kansas when the legislature
is not in session.
The Hutchinson Salt company has
capacity of 1000 barrels of salt a
day.
The Union Pacific railroad will
build new depot at Manhattan, of
brick or stone, to cost $4,000.
James w. Orr, newly-elected DEM
ocratic mayor of Atchison, will ap-
point William Sullivan, a populist
leader, as chief of police. Open sa-
looms and high license viii prevail.
A Butler county widow recently
paid costs and fines for drunken son
to the amount of $22, and then mort
gagged her home for money to send an
other son to a Kelley institute.
At the NJ. E. church in Hiawatha
Easter Sunday the women members
the church was almost entirely with
out the customary millinery exhibit.
A company is being organized in
Atchison with a capital stock of $780,
600 to develop the 36-inch vein of
coal discovered there last fall. Most
of the stock will be solicited by SUBJ
scription.
Mrs Nation has received the gold
medal voted to her by the Kansas
State Temperance union. 1t is me-
dallion, upon which is inscribed on
the face: Mrs. Carrie Nation, Bravest
Woman in Kansas"
Floyd Graham, the negro prisoner
who climbed out of the mine and
aided in ending the mutiny at the
Kansas state prison, is writing book
on the penitentiary and about the
mutiny.
The convicts of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary were treated to an egg break
fast Easter morning. Each convict
was given four boiled eggs. 1t re-
quired $50 dozen for the meal. The
eggs were boiled in 3O-gallon kettles.
Kansas intends to keep pace with
the times by bringing her state build
ings up to date. The state will spend
more money in improvements this
year than any year since its admis-
sion into the union. The total to be
spent will aggregate $792,5Oo.
Mrs. Frank Clark, of Kingman,
ii
ing that she is the mother of triplets
and asked if the state offered cash
prize for triplets. The governor re-
piled that the state gave no prize for
triplets, but it ought to.
w. D. Gilbert, inspector of rural
mail delivery in Kansas, says the
| farmers are careless with their mail
boxes, using them for targets to
shoot at. He has found it necessary
to condemn about third of the boxes.
Carriers areI not allowed to deposit
mail in condemned boxes, and the
| farmers whose boxes are condemned
receive no benefit from the service
The legislature enacted law last
winter designed in its inception to
| compel the registration of the voters
of the counties of Sumner and Mont
| gomery, but its text gives it such
broad scope that it really is law
requiring the registration of the
voters of all the counties in the state,
and the attorney general decides that
| it must be so construed.
Of the 2S4 convicts who took part
| in the recent coal mine mutiny at the
Lansing penitentiary all have been
sent back to work in the mines except
| 81. George Fox, the negro leader of
the mutiny, has spent nearly all OF
| the time since in the ''crib." He ap-
pears to be subdued in spirit. The
60 are kept locked in cells and are
given one meal day.
| Uncle "Jaky" Martin. who had been
proprietor of the hotel at bingham,
Atchison county, 30 years, is dead,
aged 90 years. He was a prO-slavery
man of the early days. When Will
liam H. Seward spoke in Atchison
during the slavery agitation abOlition-
lists went to Martins farm to kill him
and take his stock. The raiders were
routed with three wounded.
The figures of the recent election
in Topeka are interesting. COL
Hughes, the republican nominee, re-
ceived 3,085 male and 3,196 female
votes. Albert Parker, the democratic
nominee, received 4,193 male and
2,14O female votes. The total vote,
as cast up by the city council was:
Hughes, 6,341; Parker, 6,332. It will
be seen that Col. Hughes owes his
election to the women.
Fifty newspaper women attended
the eleventh annual meeting of the
Topeka. Old officers were reelected.
Papers were read by Mrs. Minnie D.
Morgan, Cottonwood Falls; Mrs. Isa-
bel Worrel Ball, Larned; Mrs. Olive
T. Royce, Phillipsburg; Miss Anna
Marie Nellis, Topeka; Mrs. Charlotte
Wilbur, Manhattan; Mrs. Mary ".
Humphrey, Junction City; Mrs. C. b.
Hoffman, Enterprise; Mrs. John P.
Fritts, Topeka; Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns,
Salina; Miss Gertrude Hill, Lawrence;!
Miss Edith Brewer, Topeka; Mrs. S. r.
Peters, Newton; Miss Isabel Diggs,
Topeka, and Miss Anna Carlson, Nc
Pherson. The meeting closed with q
banquet at the Hotel Throop.
No more homeless children can be
brought into Kansas unless each is
accompanied by certificate of good
character, backed up by $1,000 guar
anty bond. The state board of char
tiles laid down this rule in accordance
with the law passed at the recent ses-
sion of the legislature