Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-04-02
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

OOOAS0 LUZ SONSInOI anu OAl1tOO
States senator. His gubernatorial
boom was started by Morton AIbaugh,
chairman of the republican state CEN
| trail committee.
The secretary of war has authorized
the state historical society to take
charge of the building used as the
first capitol of Kansas. 1t is about
four miles from the Fort Riley reser-
vation in Riley county.
The Santa Fe is to have the largest
round house in the world. 1t is to be
erected on land, part of large tract,
near Turner, west of Argentine. The
house will be used as headquarters
for the engines of the road.
The state horticultural society is
disposing of the 81 barrels of apples
collected for the Kansas exhibit at the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo.
The legislature refused to make an
appropriation for an exhibit.
The president has reappointed Pliny
L. Soper United States attorney for
the northern district of Indian terri
tory. Soper is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Kansas and nephew of
| Cyrus Leland, United States pension
agent at Topeka.
The lower house of the Pennsylvania
legislature adopted a resolution re-
questing the president of the United
| States to reward Gen. Funston in
manner that viii fully recognize his
great and meritorious services" in
capturing Aguinaldo.
Mrs. Margaret King, the grand
mother of Mrs. J. II. Kirkpatrick, of
Eureka, is dead at the age of 1OS
years. Mrs. King was the mother of
IS children, and she was one of 13
children. One of her brothers lived
to be more than 100 years of age.
Evangelist Williams, who effected
such an overturning at Hiawatha a
few weeks ago, began series of union
meetings at Fort Scott in Convention
hall and every saloon closed it's doors.
The keepers are apprehensive of an
explosion of sentiment that would
land them in Jail.
Mrs. Mary E. Bradley is dead at
Salina. In 1867 Mrs. Bradley ran Sa-
lina's only hotel, log cabin with
| dirt roof. Tt was this hotel that
Bayard Taylor, travelling across the
continent in that year, humorously
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New York Tribune.
A Washington dispatch said politi-
cal gossip at the national capitol is
suggesting things political for Fun
ston. Even the ticket for 1904 of
stRoosevelt and Funston, the east and
the west - is whooped up by the en-
thusiasts, and the prediction that Fun
ston viii be the next senator elected
from Kansas is general.
| Arrangements are being made for
Pawnee village celebration July 4,
to be given under the auspices of the
Masonic order of Belleville and the
Kansas State Historical society. At
that time the cornerstone of the Zeb-
ulon Pike monument will be laid. This
monument will be placed on the exact
spot where Pike hauled down the
Spanish flag and swung up the stars
and stripes. The state will fence the
park and keep it up.
Dairying in Kansas has become one
of the greatest industries of the state,
and Kansas is rapidly becoming one
of the greatest dairy states in the
union. Its rapid developments during
the last ten years and the enormous
| increase in its productions of butter,
cheese and milk during the last four
years, have been phenomenal. The
United States department of agricul-
ture places Kansas eighth in rank in
number of mich cows.
The street commissioner of Eureka
was blowing along one of the main
streets of that city when one of his
horses crashed its feet through what
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ground. Investigation disclosed that
| the box was a coffin and that it con-
| tanned the skeleton of a woman. Then
the oldtimers were routed out and
it was learned that a Mrs. Bell had
been buried at this spot in 1860 when
the town was yet in prospect.
State Auditor George f. Cole was
| given severe shock the other day.
Fhe legislature appropriated $50 to re-
imburse j. A. Lester, Barber coun-
| ty populist who lost his seat to w. G.
Miller in a contest. Lester did not
call for his warrant and after waiting
a time Auditor Cole mailed it to him.
| Lester returned the warrant, saying
he did not earn the money and there
fore could not accept it, 1t was said
that Secretary Martin, of the state his
toricaI society, had sent for photo
of Lester, to be hung in the historical
society room.
The grievance of the Kansas farmers
who are organizing to oppose the
alleged grain trust is that each rail-
road company has one or two big
shippers who handle the grain on
their roads, and have by one means
or another secured possession of most
of the elevators at grain shipping
points. Where they have competition
they pay prices SO high that they
soon drive the small grain buyer out
of business, and when he has gone
they pay what they think the farmers
win stand and handle grain at what,
the farmers say, must be an immense
profit to the shipper.
The sod schoolhouse in Kansas is
rapidly vanishing. The Topeka Mail
and Breeze prints the picture of one
in Gray county, which is soon to give
place to modern structure.
Secretary Barnes, of the State Hor-
ticuItural society, says there is an