Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-05-28
stats NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Morris county has voted bonds for
new courthouse.
Mary, Madge and Maud Cook, the
Kingman county triplets, appeared
at the st. Louis baby show last week.
The Ottawa Herald thinks the bust
ness men OF the city should give a
bonus of $1,000 and site for a first
class hotel.
Seniors of the state agricultural
college were publicly suspended for
posting their class emblem at the
top of the smokestack.
Clarence D. Huffman, graduate of
the Kansas state university and a
prominent educator, was killed in a
collision between an electric car and
Frisco engine a mile southwest of
Pittsburg.
Of the 1,063 convicts in the state
penitentiary only "a are women. OF
the total number of convicts 779 are
whites, 276 are negroes, are Indians
and are Mexicans. Fifty-one are in
prison under the sentence to be
hanged.
Louis Tote, who had just been re-
leased from the Kansas penitentiary
and was going to Atchison on a
freight train, was run over and killed
while trying to alight from the NOV
ing train in the Missouri Pacific yards
in Atchison.
j. NJ. Piper, of Labette, was married
to Miss Alma Plaff, of near Oswego.
Piper is the man for whose love Miss
| Mabel FORMER, of Fort Scott, COM
1nitted suicide-last week. Miss Fort
ner claimed that Piper had promised
to marry her. This Piper denies.
The library of the Kansas State
Historical society contains 2S.O51
books, 67,41s pamphlets, 23,9O7 vol
umes of newspapers, 1887 manu-
scripts, 6,397 relics, 5000 pictures, A.
$50 aliases and maps. Estimated
value of the society's collections, $175,-
600.
The state labor commissioner has
received reports from 81 railway con-
ductors in Kansas as to their work
and pay during the past year. The
conductors ran on an average of 1883
| miles per month last year. Their
average annual income was $1,071 and
their expenses were SITS.
Judge Hook convened the federal
court at Salina Tuesday, the first time
/
| building which has been furnished by
the government for court purposes.
E. D. Anderson, ex-postmaster at
Arvonia, was fined 500 and costs for
| fraudulent cancellation of stamps.
Dickinson county people were in
censed over the action of the health
officers who made an order that there
shall be no public gatherings in the
igcouTty for 80 days on account OF
smallpox. The order puts stop to
every school commencement in the
county, including those at Solomon,
Chapman, Abilene and Herington.
Proceedings were begun in the SUI
preme court to test the constitution
atty of the biennial election law. The
/ test case is brought by A. H. Wilson.
| fusion nominee for judge in the Thir-
ty-third judicial district. Secretary of
State Clark refused to file the paper
and a mandamus to compel Clark to
act was filed and a hearing set for
June s.
1t is noted by the Emporia Gazette
| that Miss EsteIIe Marshall, zone of
the prettiest young women that have
been in the dining room of the Whit.
ley hotel for years." has fallen heir to
| $4,000 wilIed to her by her grand
mother in Ohio. Furthermore; Miss
Marshall is to receive large sum
from an uncle's estate when it shall
have passed through probate, and
| from waiter girl she becomes lady
of independent fortune. :.
The members of the state board of
charities are visiting the various
counties and checking up their pauper
insane accounts. This duty was
thrown upon the board by the new.
law. The object of the provision is to
cut down the expense. 1t is estimated
that under the new act the expense
of maintaining pauper insane outside
of asylums this coming year will not
aggregate over $685. 900. In the past it
has run from 100000 to 100000 a
year
James F. Legate, of Leavenworth.
the noted Kansas politician and pio-
nee, has retired from participation lin
the active affairs of life and has be-
come an inmate of. the national SOL
diers' home. Advanced in years, fec
bic in health and almost blind, Mr..
Legate has taken to the seclusion OF
| the soldiers home to undergo. an
operation to save the remaining dim
sight of his eyes and for rest from
long and arduous political career, COW
ering among other things a services
of II sessions in the Kansas fegisla-
ture.
| a year or more ago it was discov-
cred that for ten years an estate
valued at 100000 in Bourbon county
had paid no taxes. This led to inquiry
elsewhere in the state and it came out
that estates in probate were regular
tax dodgers. To cure this evil the
legislature enacted law last winter
making it obligatory upon probate
judges to report to the assessors the
names of all administrators, execu-
tors and guardians and of the amounts
of funds in their hands, but so far as
has been learned by the auditor of
state no attention has been paid to
the act.
The Sedan Gas & Oil company
struck strong flow of gas in it's
first well at depth Of $50 feet three