Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-05-10
STATE NEWS PARAGRApHED.

William j.. Simmons, the state UNI
versity student who stole $500 from
his Lawrence landlady, was last week
sentenced to the Hutchinson reforma-
tory.
The state normal school at Er,poria
has bought $4,000 worth of land just
northeast of the normal building to
be used as a campus. Mrs- P. B.
Plumb and Maj. Calvin Hood assisted
financially in the purchase.
United States Senator Harris, of
Iinwood, carried off the honors of the
first day of the Shorthorn auction
sale at Kansas City. The only animal
he had in the sale, Lord Darlington
III, a splendid 11-months-old bull,
brought SLIPS.
A Horton man recently went to a
graveyard at midnight and deposited
$3.50 on a grave on the demand of
some one who had kidnapped his point
err dog, and who threatened to cut
off the dogs tail unless the demand
was complied with.
A Hiawatha man who is worth at
least $4,000 makes the boast that
he never received more than $50 a
month in his life. He worked hard
all his life, saved every cent that he
possibly could save, and then invested
it in Brown county land.
Reports from county clerks which
have been tabulated by the state aud
itor, George e. Cole, show that there
are 67O,18 acres of school land for
sale at $1.25 an acre. Very little of
this land lies in the eastern third of
the state and the greater part of it
is fit only for stock raising.
The police of Emporia were called
upon to disarm an old man of so who
was carrying a gun up and down tho
streets and declaring that he would
shoot on sight young man who had
been flirting with his wife. The wife
is young, not more than 80, and the
home of all the parties concerned is
Strong City.
At Leavenworth the case of Mrs.
Belle Fowler against the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern Railway
company for $4,000 damages ended
with verdict allowing Mrs. Fowler
$4,000. Mrs. Fowler and her little
girl, both of whom were crippled, were
knocked off bridge by passenger
| train.
At the meeting of the Kansas Assoc
citation of Opticians at Topeka, it was
decided to oppose the law requiring
| opticians to stand examination before
the state board of medical examiners.
If the board attempts to enforce the
law, the executive committee has au-
thority to employ attorneys and at
tack the validity of the act.
F. D. Coburn, one of the regents of
the state agricultural college, recent
1y returned from tour of the agri-
cultural colleges in Indiana, Iowa. Hi
nois and other states. He found no
institution superior to the Kansas col
lege, although in some cases twice as
much money has been spent on them.
None come up to ours in point of at
tendance.
The states general revenue fund
will be exhausted before June 1.
There was $4,000 in the fund at the
close of business on May 4. Next
week $1O9, 600 will be required for the
destitute insane, and $4,000 for the
running expenses of the charitable
| institutions for April. These two
items will amount to $4,000 more than
the cash available.
| Leavenworth is the banner potato
county of Kansas. Leavenworth's pro-
duction for 1900 amounted to 6O9,75d
bushels, valued at 1852, 1880; and the
previous year the yield was $685. $40.
The five counties following Leaven-
dotte, 564,36 bushels; Douglas, 392,-
3ss; Johnson. $4,000; Jefferson, $685.
066; Shawnee, 230, 400.
The grand lodge, Degree of Honor,
auxiliary to the A. o. q. W., closed a
three-days' session at Chanute bv
electing the following officers: Grand
chief of honor, Mrs. L. 81. Cole, Cha
mute; receiver, Mrs. Josephine Pep
perell, Concordia; recorder, Mrs. Geor-
| gia Notes.-The, Hiawatha; medical di-
rector, DR.. Martha Bacon, Kansas
City; representative, Mrs. Ada F. Rid-
die, Minneapolis.
Wichita claims to have Al whole-
sale houses and boasts that it will
have a population of $4,000 in two
| years. Topeka claims that the en-
| largement of the Santa Fe shops
means an addition of 10000 to the
population. All of which recalls the
good old times IA years ago when
watch factories, frog foundries and
locomotive works used to be estab-
lished every day in both towns.
The convention of the general asso-
citation of Kansas Congregational wo-
men was in session at Wichita. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. J. d.
Clotfeltcr, Atchison; vice president,
Mrs. Mary Smith, Topeka; secretary,
Mrs. E. H. Bowen, Manhattan; treas
urer, Miss Phoebe Haines, Manhattan;I
secretary young peoples work. Mrs.
Fannie Noyes, Wabaunsee; secretary
children's work, Mrs. C. L. Mills, Free
donna.
Bert Pigg, of Chanute, is striking
example of total depravity. His
mother gave him $500 to pay a debt on
the home, but he absconded with it.
He was arrested in Wellington, but
the mother refused to prosecute.
George W. Hanna, ex-senator from
Clay county, has disposed of his dairy
interests and viii be cashier of ths
Union state bank soon to be started