Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


cor1ia Blade
A recent dispatch from Wichita
said: Mrs. Mary E. Lease, politician
and author, arrived here en- route to
Galveston from New York Mrs.
Lease was here to secure a divorce
from her husband, who is in the drug
business.
1t required 100000 to make the
quarterly payment of pensions at the
national soldiers home in Leaven-
worth county last week. About 400
veterans left the home this week on
furlough to spend the summer
months at home.
Judge Sam Riggs, of Lawrence, is
about to leave Kansas for his old
home in Ohio. He is one of the pio-
neers of Kansas, having come here in
1859. Several times he has held Of
fees of Importance, including United
States district attorney and district
judge.
John C. Cannon, of Mound City.
nominated by the democrats for as
sociate justice of the supreme court,
was formerly a resident of Sedan
and in 1878 was the democratic OPP
ponent of Thomas Ryan for congress
when Topeka was in the old Third
district.
According to the New York Herald.
W. NJ. Rice, who has represented the
treasury department in London for
several years, has been transferred
and placed in charge of the district
of Niagara Falls, n. Y, as special
agent He is a son of Gen. Rice, of
Fort Scott, and lived in Kansas most
OF his life.
The district court at Fort Scott
set aside a verdict for $2,279, rem
dered for the plaintiff by jury in
the case of Martha Bisp VS.. the Mod
ern Woodmen of America lodge.
The court held that the evidence was
| insufficient and granted new trial.
The question of the validity of an
insurance policy where the insured
commits suicide was involved in the
case.
Orders for Kansas penitentiary
binding Irvine are so large that it
is not probable that the officials will
be able to supply the demand. The
rains of the last three weeks have
aided the Kansas wheat crop, and the
| demand for Irvine is increasing.
Most of the farmers who write for
Irvine tell of the wheat prospects
and the prison officials say the in=-
formation tends to show that Kan
sas viii have a very fair crop
The abstract of the national banks
| of Kansas, exclusive of Kansas City,
Kan, at the close of business on
April 80, shows the average reserve
to have been 34.10 per cent, against
1871 per cent. on February %.
| Loans and discounts increased from
| $2S, O6o,O19 to $29, 1874, 24s; gold coin.
from $1,14s,759 to $780, $50; total
specie, from $1,s12,366 to $1,998,252
lawful money reserve, from $2,SO7,
651 to So 1891, Az; individual deposits
decreased from S34, 1928, 400 to $34.-
| OSO,86
The report of the adjutant of the
/ Kansas Grand Army of the Republic
encampment shows that there are
1857 members of the order in Kan
sas, against 1865 the year before.
| There were some accessions during
| the year, but the losses were greater
and the net loss was 9S1. The losses
were caused by death, suspensions
and transfers. The deaths were S29.
There are 4O2 posts in the state. The
| year before there were 412. Two new
| posts were organized during the
| year and two old ones reorganized.
The Irvine plant at the state prison
is not running at present. This is
due to the inability to purchase sisal.
All the sisal obtained by Warden
/ ri, 10 hos
manufactured into Irvine. The price
| of raw material is high and has been
for three months. The favorite
method of the Irvine trust is to adj
vance the cost of material to make
the prison officials pay high price
for it. On the other hand the prison
officials are selling Irvine about one
! cent a pound below the schedule fixed
by the trust. If sisaI can be secured
in time, Warden Jewett viii start the
| prison plant again so as to furnish
heavy Irvine to bind corn.
| Ex-Lieut. Gov. D. w. Finney tried
| to persuade the G. A. r. encampment
at Fort Scott to censure Gov. Stanley
and State School Superintendent
Nelson for voting against him (Fin-
| ney) for railroad commissioner, and
| eIecting j. C. o. Morse. Finney is an
old soldier and Morse is not. E. B.
Jewett, warden of the penitentiary,
was opposing Finney's movement.
His argument was that Finney has
his remedy at law with the old sol
diers' statute, and that the change
of railroad commissioners did not
originate with the governor. Jewett
says that if Cyrus Leland, a leader
In the 6. A. R., could afford to start
the movement to turn down Finney
surely Stanley should not be CEN
| sured for his vote.
C. W. Goodlander, a wealthy pio-
neer Fort Scott citizen and proprie-
tor of the Interstate hotel, is criti-
cally i'll there from stroke of apo
| plexy.
James F. Legate, the veteran poll
tician, was stricken with aPeplexy
at his home in Leavenworth. He has
| served II terms in the Kansas leg