Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-31
STATE NEWS PARAeRAPHED.


dale, was arrested on warrant
sworn out by Philip Erhardt, city at
torney, charged with attempted rob-
possession of the waterworks books
and accounts.
A Jewell county officer overlook
two Nebraskans at Sylvan Grove who
had $110 in counterfeit coin in their
possession. They had been swindling
farmers of northern Kansas for two
weeks. They also had $2O5 in good
money when arrested.
Someone with a bent for curious
things has figured out that more
than 100 thrashing machines have
been burned up by field fires during
the present season in Kansas. All of
the wheat counties have had one or
more CONGREGATIONS of this descrip-
ton.
Warden E. B. Jewett, of the Kansas
penitentiary, was at Guthrie, Ok,
to make settlement with the territory
for the maintenance of Oklahoma
prisoners at that institution for the
past quarter. The territory has ESQ
convicts at Lansing, and the bill pre-
sented amounts to $8,1S3.
The 80 by 40-foot well which the
city of Phillipsburg has just COM
pleted caved in, completely shutting
off the water supply. This well has
cost Phillipsburg $4,000 in cash, al
though it has not been accepted from
the contractor, who is under bonds to
finish the well satisfactorily.
William Hays, farmer living on
Deer creek, Atchison county, has 100
head of steers, which he has been feed
ing. In May he was offered s., 100 for
the bunch, but prices have gone off
so much owing to the corn failure
that they are not worth to exceed
So, 500 now, according to his estimate.
A charter was issued by the comp
troller of the currency to the First
national bank of Hobart. Ok; capital
$4,000. George A. Clark, Junction
City, Kan; George E. Cole, Girard;
Morton Albaugh, Kingman; Cyrus Lee
land, jr., Troy; N. S. Sanders, Pitts
burg, and j. R. Burton, Abilene, are
the directors.
Moran, Allen county, which gave up
trying to find gas after exhausting
the towns appropriation, struck
good well recently. This insured plen-
ty of cheap fuel for Moran. More
over, the find extends the Allen coun-
ty gas field fully ten miles further
east than the old limit, adding thou
sands of acres to the gas area.
Charles A. McLane, a young man
sent to the Kansas penitentiary from
Parsons a year ago for embezzle-
ment, has been pardoned by Gov.
Stanley. McLane acted as shipping
clerk for the binding Irvine plant at
the prison and Warden Jewett says
he rendered the state splendid service.
McLane has a splendid prison record.
Prof. Norman Triplett, a native of
Pike county, Ill, has been chosen for
the chair of psychology and child
study in the Kansas normal school at
Emporia, the position formerly occu-
pied by Prof. Oscar Chrisman, who
caused such sensation at the moth
ers' congress at Des Moines by assert
ing in lecture that men were incapa-
BILE of love.
On account of the drought it will
cost the state from 1000 to $4,000
more than usual to support its char
liable institutions this year. During
the summer large quantities of vege-
tables are raised on the grounds of
the various institutions, effecting a
saving in the cost of maintenance.
This year gardens were failures and
already canned goods are being used.
The attorney general holds that
trust companies doing business in
Kansas before the passage of the law
of 1901 must increase their capital
stock to 100000 or discontinue BUSH
ness. Trust companies organized I'M
der the laws of other states and seek
ing to do business in Kansas must
have a capital stock of 100000 and
must reorganize under the Kansas
law.
Judge Walter L. Simons, of the
Sixth judicial district court, rendered
a decision of great Importance to the
people of Kansas. He held that the
law of 1887, providing for injunctions
in liquor cases, has not been repealed
by the Hurrel law of 1901, and that
private citizen can verify the petition,
it not being necessary for the county
attorney or attorney general to join
in the action.
The state board of charities and cor-
rections will go to Parsons to make
arrangements for securing a site for
the new insane asylum which will be
built at that place. The site selected
by the people of Parsons is held at
S2S, 900 but if this is taken by the
board the price will have to be con-
siderably reduced. The last legislature
appropriated 100000 to pay for the
purchase of site and the construc-
ton of necessary buildings.
The average man, if an honest
worker, can command $50 the year
around. This includes board and
washing. The clerk must pay from
S12 to SIS per month for board. His
laundry bill and other expenses viii
exceed SIS. Then there are other little
bills-an occasional livery rig, tickets
to the theater, various entertain
ments, each calling for so cents to 81
outlay. The clerk who can count $40
cash all his own at the end OF the
month is the exception, not the rule.
A Missouri Pacific train in Rocks
county killed the twin boys of c. c.
Cook while they were playing on the