Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-11
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPBED.

mite shape.
The entire faculty at Baker uni
versity at Baldwin was reelected.
The old Methodist church will be
purchased and remodeled for college
use. Baldwin VIII also have electric
lights.
The board of regents of the Kansas
5tate normal school at Empprla chose
Mauvan, Russell & Gardner, of ST.
Louis, as architects for the new nor
Will cost $4,000.
The democratic state committee has
been called to meet in Top..i>a Satur-
day. June %. The principal subject
of consideration, no doubt, viii be
the ways and means of foi ming an
alliance with the populists.
Kansas, with 1,47O, 495 people, is the
twenty-second state in point of pop
ulation. In 1890 it was nineteenth;
in 1850, twentieth; in 1870, twenty
ninth; in 1860, thirty-third. In 1860
the state had 1o7,2O6 people.
Rev. William Blair, of Sc ina, and
Miss Edith Allen were married at
S:.lonion and viii go to Korea TO re-
side. Rev. Blair has taken a place as
missionary of the Presbyterian church
and has been assigned to t'Ist field.
Jasper n Wilkinson HIS been
chosen president of the Kansas state
normal school to succeed a. l.. Taylor.
Prof. Wilkinson is a native of Ohio,
was born in log hut. and aised on
a farm. Mr. Wilkinson has teen with
the Kansas normal since 1884.
Secretary of State Clark proposes
to get after various CORPORATIONS.
They must report according to law
and report quickly. Secretrry Clark
had strict penalty added at the
last session of the legislature and he
will apply it if any of the companies
fail 10 report.
The Missouri Pacific has made ar
raneemcnts with the Kansas City
Sou hern for the use of tit latter's
tracks from Pittsburg to Joplin, Mo.
in Il short time a passenger train
will be put on the Kansas, Nebraska
& Dakota, Missouri Pacific branch,
between Topeka and Joplin.
Whitaker, the Labette county
stockman, who was arrested on COM
plant of the Boston-Kansas city Loan
company, has brought sui against
that company for 100000 damages.
He alleges that the company is at
tempting to use the criminal law to
collect civil debt.
Mayor Hughes, of Topeka. has Just
promulgated some rules that will
make his name famous. One is that
every employee of the city must pay
his debts. "'The merchant is taxed to
pay the salary of the city official, >
said he, "and the official should be re-
quired to pay his grocery BILL
Morton Albaugh, state bank COM
missioner, calls the attention of state
and private bankers to the provisions
of the banking law which prohibits
banks from owning real estate and re-
quires them to dispose of the land
they own now before March, 1902.
This provision of the law will be
strictly enforced.
Gov. Stanley doesn't believe in the
modern idea of sumner vacations"
He declares that a person comes home
from vacation more in need of rest
than when he started out. This OBJ
servation is made by the governor
in an article to an eastern church pa
per in opposition to giving preachers
summer vacations.
Tie Rock Island railroad has a big
artificial lake at Smith CeAter, and
some years ago it became stocked
with carp by the washing nut of
private fskpond some dista4ce above
It. The Smith Center Pioneer says
the lake now has Thousands of big
fish, some of which must weigh 30
or 4 pounds apiece.
While Barbara Spinden, IL years of
age, of Emporia, was attempting to
start a fire, the can whicl. IS sup
J osed TO have contained gasoline ny
mistake for coal oil, exploded in her
hands. The room was at once en-
veIC j,ed in flames and she was burned
10 Death. Her mother came near los
ing her own life in an attempt to res
cue lie girl.
The state agricultural college re-
Gently sold 126 head of cattle II
months old which topped the market.
They were taken at weaving time
and fed the same as fattening steers.
They gained an average of 400 pounds
each. The remarkable feature of this
experiment is that it only required
500 pounds of corn to make 100 pounds
of beef, while in ordinary feeding
1000 pounds of corn are required for
100 pounds of beef. On this account
the experiment promises to bring
about a radical change in the methods
of producing beef on Kansas farms.
Attorney General GODDARD says he
is not bit worried over the outcome
of the suit to test the constitution
atty of the biennial election law, so
far as it relates to county officers.
'There is absolutely no danger OF the
law being declared invalid on the
county Office proposition" said he.
''The only question in the case is rs
to the validity of that section in
reference to district judges. This is
a disputed point, but I believe the SUI
preme court will sustain the law all
the way through"
The attorney general has decided
that the law requiring newspapers
to be published 50 consecutive weeks
before printing ordinary legal notices
does not apply to city printing.
Mary Elizabeth Lease writes from
| -, oorfo----1fafaS a