Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-12-11
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

as favoring school district consonda-
ton.
The Alton flour mills started 1000
sacks of flour to Liverpool, Eng, one
day recently.
a monument erected at Wichita by
popular subscription to the memory
of ex-Gov. L. D. Lewelling was I'M
. yelled Sunday.
A Wichita dispatch says the Choc-
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad will be
extended to that city from Anthony,
and possibly to Ellsworth.
A new dam to store water for EN-
poria will be built in the NeOsho riy-
er nine miles north of town, to cost
S., 1000, exclusive of land.
Nearly every republican congress-
man from Kansas Endorsed DR.. J. a.
Il. Grassland, the ST. Joseph (Mo.)
negro, for register of deeds of the
District of Columbia.
The Kansas university faculty, IL
to 5, voted against the proposition
submitted by Prof. w. II. Carruth
that all games played by the college
team must be played on the home
grounds.
The attorney general holds the
owners of buildings in Kansas are re-
sponsible for the fines of jointists
opera ting therein and a fine against
jointkeeper becomes lien on the
property.
'"Tom" Ferguson. the new governor
of Oklahoma, is a graduate of the
state normal school, Emporia, has
taught school in Kansas and learned
the printing trade in Chautauqua
county.
Senator Smith, of Kinsley, will in
troduce a bill in the next legislature
providing for the creation of fund
| by the state to insure depositors from
| loss by bank failures. The fund will
be raised by tax on the banks.
A petition was filed with the board
of county commissioners asking for
franchise in Wyandotte county for
an interurban electric railway to be
built along the Kaw valley from Ar
gentine to Lawrence and Topeka.
The Fort Scott council will pass an
ordinance at its next meeting that
will raise its revenues materially. A
license ordinance taxing lawyers
from SIS to $50 year and preachers
$40 year has already been drawn.
Congressman Miller, of the Fourth
district, is urging congress to appro-
pirate $4,000 to improve the Kansas
silk. experiment station at Peabody
and cooperate the same in connection
with the Kansas state board of agri-
culture.
On account of the protracted
drought the water company at Fort
Scott shut off the supply to all large
consumers, including factories, and
they are compelled to haul water.
The supply on hand will be used for
domestic purposes and fire protection.
81 do not believe there is a single
millionaire in Kansas" said Gov.
Stanley in discussing the states
wealthy men. eve haven't any mill
lionaires, yet we have SGT per capita
in the banks. This means that pros
perity is not confined to a few, but is
general
Senator j. r. Burton resigned his
position as attorney for the Chicka-
saw Indians and the tribe has chosen
Y. T. Burton, a brother of the senator,
as it's legal representative. Secretary
Hitchcock, of the interior depart
ment, has refused to ratify the con-
tract.
The Kansas delegation will put
forth strong efforts in congress this
winter to secure better postal facih-
ties through Kansas. During the past
few years business has doubled in
the west and yet there has been no
increase in the railway postal service
to meet the demand.
Ex-Gov. John P. st. John, of Olathe,
WHO is largely interested in mines in
Morgan county, Mo-, in an interview
at Kansas City sail he was 'out of
politics and religion" He frankly
admitted that he had yielded to the
Commercial tendencies of the age"
and is giving the almighty dollar
hard chase.
AS a result of the religious revival
| in Wellington about everybody in
town was converted except the city
officials and jointkeepers. The former
refuse to cut off the latter and as
result an appeal will be made to At
torney General GODDARD for an assist
ant attorney general to prosecute
jointists.
Senator J. r. Burton has shaved of
his mustache and a Washington paper
gives the following sketch of him:
with smooth face and coal-black
hair, plastered down upon his fore
head, he looks like an actor who is
weighed down with gloomy thoughts.
10 tragedy would be too deep for
him, no situation too intense to be be-
yond his reach
James NJ. Simpson, recently APP
pointed United States revenue collect
or, has long been prominent in Kan
sas politics. The only state Office he
has held is that of railroad commits
Eioner Under Gov. Morrill,. He was at
another time postmaster of his home
town, Mcpherson. Mr.. Simpson, in
the capacity of chairman of the re-
publican state committee, conducted
the state campaign in 1884.
Topeka is At years old and the an
niversary was appropriately celebrat-
ed. In 1854 to present. state capital
was laid out, C. K Holiday being one
of the chief promoters.
An agitation is on foot to erect