Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-20
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.


new trial until January.
A company has just been organized
to manufacture plows and other farm
ing implements at Coffeyvil1e.
There are 1,468 fourth-class post
masters in Kansas, whose average
yearly salary is only $275.74 each.
The Fort Scott Monitor has been
sold to Col. ]. II. Richards and other
friends of Senator Burton in that city.
The First Methodist church at EN-
poria, which was destroyed by fire
last summer, will be rebuilt at a cost
of $22, 900. 1t viii be the finest church
edif1ce in Emporia.
Judge Thompson, in the district
court at Lincoln, held invalid the
new Kansas law requiring a man who
solicits orders in the rural districts
to take out a peddler's license.
At many places in northern Kansas
corn thrashers are in use. The ma
chimes, in addition to removing the
corn from the stalk, cuts the stalks
into shreds and the shredded corn
stalks are almost as good as hay.
The coroner's jury held Mrs. Ed
Hotchkiss, of Ellinwood, for murder
in the first degree. She killed James
A. Duffy and evidence showed the
crime was deliberate. She was taken
to the Hutchinson Jail for safe keep
ing.
An effort is being made to GUST the
Missouri e Kansas Telephone COM
-pany from Wichita and a new COM
pany has been granted a 2O-year
franchise. It is said that Gov. Stan
ley is one of the principal stockhold-
ers.
Department Commander Norton,
of the Kansas G. a. R., urges every
member of the order in Kansas to
contribute ten cents toward the cree
ton of a monument to Mother"
Bicllerdyke, who recently died at
Bunker Hill.
Albert Griffin, the one-time famous
temperance lecturer and prohibition
advocate, is organizing a new temper
ance society founded on moral sua-
sion. Mr.. Griffin says legal suasion,
or the prohibitory law, is not solving
the liquor question.
Elmer Berlin, of Atchison, has col
1ected $4,000 tobacco tags from tobac-
co made by the tobacco trust, and
with $4,000 of the tags will receive a
piano. He has been 20 months collect
ing the tags. He paid a half cent each
for most of them.
Representative Long, of Kansas,
who is a member of the ways and
means committee of the house, was
one of President Roosevelt's callers
recently. He joins with his eastern
colleagues on the committee in OPP
posing a revision of the tariff.
Regents of the state agricultural
college and state normal school have
issued orders commanding squat
ters' on the Fort Hays military res
ervation to move by January 1. The
order affects 16 families who claimed
homes on the reservation under the
homestead act.
j. P. Ward, Labette county wild
over, was recently arrested for kiss
ing his housekeeper, widow named
Graham, in public. Irate neighbors
charged them with disturbing the
peace. The couple was given a jury
trial and it was decided that kissing
was no disturbance of the peace.
Seven young men were arrested at
Robinson for playing baseball on Sum
day. Attorneys agreed to the state
ment of facts and asked District
Judge Stuart for a decision on the
offense. The judge held that Sunday
baseball was not an offense as long
as the players did not disturb the
peace.
A telegram from Mound Valley said
that the 17-year-oId son of John w.
Breidenthal was arrested there. for
stealing some shoes, cuff buttons and
other trinkets from room in hotel
there. He pleaded guilty and was
fined $40, which was paid by friend
of the family. Young Breidenthal
is a student at the county high school
at Altamont.
Attorney General GODDARD an
nounced that he proposed to bring
proceedings to GUST C. A. Schneider,
county clerk of Finney county, from
Office for refusal to levy the full
amount of taxes demanded by the
state. The state asked Finney coun-
ty to levy sc, 800 in taxes for state pur-
poses but only $1,000 was extended on
the rolls.
An infant child was deserted in a
field near lola the other day and sus-
picion was at once directed to Miss
Coda Huffman, who lived near. The
same day the Huffman girl and EN-
NETT Lamunyan went to lola and
were married, but the deputy sheriff
placed them under arrest as they were
about to take the train, on a warrant
charging them with deserving the
child.
revolver was taken from County
Attorney Johnson by Judge Mcbride
in the Schmidt joint trial at Winfield.
Congressman A. NJ. Jackson, attorney
for Schmidt, accused johnson of car
rying revolver and the court or
dered the prosecutor to turn the pis-
toll over to the sheriff. He gave up
the frearm saying that threats
against his life had been made by the
Joint element and that he carried the
revolver to protect himself.
The grocery house of Jones &
Stones, pioneer firm at Emporia,
was destroyed by fire started from an
explosion of kerosene in the base
ment.
DR.. W. H. Hudson, a negro physi-