Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-10-01
: KANSAS STATE NEWS.


bushels to the acre.
c. B. Harmon, the socialist nom
inee for congress in the First dis-
trict, lives at 0skaloosa.
I A vein of coal IA inches thick was
discovered on the farm of j. D. Reed,
three miles west of Kansas City.
DR.. A. NJ. Ellis, 81 years old, a
pioneer of Lawrence, fell from tree
he was trimming and received prob
ably fatal injuries.
The annual convention of the Kan
sas equal suffragists will be held in
Topeka October 14-16. Helen Kim
Der, the president, has issued q call
for the convention.
The latest gold find' in Kansas is
reported from the Chippewa hills,
nine miles west of Ottawa. An assay
list in Denver says samples show a
deposit of $3.50 ton.
| A check for $2.12, drawn IS years
ago, was presented for payment at
a bank in independence Saturday.
The firm on which it was drawn now
has no account at the bank.
| f. I. Thurman recently sold quar-
ter north of bingham to a man
named Vandiver, from Shenandoah,
Ia, for 1000, and E. j. Kelley sold
quarter southwest of Effingham for
| $4,000.
| Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, the ia
nous Topeka preacher, followed the
footsteps of Col. f. c. Little and
withdrew as a candidate for con-
gresham at large on the allied party
ticket. Like Col. Little, he was not
consulted about the matter.
In Cowley county the republican
claring many men in the party were
betraying certain candidates on the
ticket, especially Thomas T. Kelly,
nominee for state treasurer and the
nominees for the legislature.
Miss Myrtle Rose, one of the teach
ers of the Mcpherson public schools
was agreeably surprised by being no
tilted of her election TO the chair Of
languages in the Southwest Kansas
college at Winfield, at a salary of
twice that which she was receiving.
Bessie Hickland, who killed a 12-
year-old boy at Wilder last July and
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree in the district court
at Olathe, was sentenced by Judge
Sheldon to 20 years in the peniten-
tiary. She is % years old. The boy
was the step-son of her half-brother.
The supreme court allowed writ
of mandamus asked for by the fu-
sionists to compel the secretary of
state to put the democratic and pop
/ ulist tickets on the official ballot.
The writ is made returnable Octo-
Der 6, and the case is given the right
of way over all others in the supreme
court.
| Kansas Baptists are coming to the
front to assist in replacing the build
at Ottawa university, which was
burned some days ago. The congre-
CATION at Walnut, Crawford county,
600 population, sent in a contribution
of $40. And the Baptists of McLouth,
a town with 100 less population, sent
in sos.
TITUS Muck, % years old, diod at
his home at Talmo, Republic county,
12 miles from Concordia, as the re-
suit of bullet wound received Sum,
day night, while on his way home
from a visit to young lady. Arden
Jewell a rival for the affections of
the young woman and with whom
Muck had quarrelled Saturday, is
under arrest charged with the crime.
Henry Lowery, young farmer,
belonging to a prominent family,
was convicted in the district court
at Wellington of numbering an in
FAINT child May 2, 1901. Lowery denied
| the paternity of the infant which was
born about three months after his
marriage and according to the evil
dence accomplished its death by adj
ministering morphine. His wife
still is to be tried as accessory to the
crime.
A new fraternal beneficiary order
| to be known as the Patriotic Legion
of America was instituted at To-
peka. Gen. Wilder s. Metcalf, pen
sion agent for this district, is SUI
preme general of the order aid as
soeiated with him in the manage
ment of the order are State Printer
w. Y. Morgan, DIR. J. p. Lewis, of
Crawford, and w. a. s. Bird. The
headquarters of the supreme officers
will be in Topeka.
In the last IL years Judge Well
house has grown IN Kansas nearly
100000 bushels of apples, for which
he received an average of % cents a
bushel. Judge Wellhouse has in
creased his orchards annually until
he now has more than 900 acres in
Leavenworth, Miami and Usage
Icounties. When the seasons are IA
vorable, as the season of 1892 he
raises from $4,000 to $4,000 bushels
of apples. In hot and dry seasons
his yield falls as low as 400 bushels.
In the season Of 1893 he did not pick
the crop at all.
Judge Hook has appointed Lucien
Baker, John II. Atwood and /. E.
Lambert to defend the federal con-
victs who murdered a guard during
mutiny year ago.
Agitation of the temperance ques-
ton in Kansas City has resulted in
the organization of a law and order
league and saloonkeepers are on the
uneasy seat.
Thirty-five counties in the United
/ $780, Iova cool, A0n mn M. more ar