Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-04-30
BRIEF KANSAS ITEMS.

The thirty-sixth annual meeting of
the Kansas Medical society win be
held May 7, and at Lawrence.
The city council approved the
plans of Architect HadIy, of Topeka,
for a three-story brick and stone
city hall building at Wellington, to
cost 5000.
W. II. Barnes, secretary of the
State Horticultural society, has re-
turned from a tour of inspection of
the fruit trees of the state. Mr.
Barnes says that the state will raise
a big apple crop unless the weather
continues dry.
At HallowelI, DIR. D. W. Martin
stumbled over board placed across
walk and died from his injuries. He
was an old soldier and had practiced
medicine in Cherokee county for
nearly 40 years. He was the first
county superintendent of schools.
The first locomotive of the Orient
railroad arrived at Anthony Sunday
night. A train of fat cars and a num-
Der of push cars have been there sew
eral weeks and as soon as the steel
on the way arrives construction will
begin.
A company composed of Topeka and
EmpOria men has started new town
| at Notation, Jewell county, where a
| 6O-inch vein of coal was recently
struck. Edward Keegan, former state
superintendent of mines, has been
chosen to superintend the Notation
mine.
Edward McCumber, a young miner
of Ho1 n4@ L =
room. McCumber and his sweet
| heart, Miss Grace Dobson, with
whom he is in love, had a quarrel
which resulted in the act. Physicians
say his chance for recovery is very
small.
Henry Donahue was acquitted by
jury in the district court in Kan
sas City, of the murder of Noah
Long. The jury was out an hour and
Is minutes, and only five ballots were
taken. Long was an old soldier, who
was murdered near Argentine, Kan,
January 80.
Mrs. John Cass, of Kingman coun-
ty, has gone insane through worry
ing over a son who went to the Phil
ippines with American troops and
from whom she has been unable to
hear for long time. 1t is reported
that he was killed while out with a
scouting party.
While an eastbound Rock Island
passenger train was running at full
speed through Manhattan Mrs. J. M.
Graham leaped from car window
and was killed. Mrs. Graham has
been in the state asylum for the in
sane for some time, but had been
taken back to her home near Clifton.
Uncle Billy Simmonds died in Smith
county the other day at the age of
| 81. For half a lifetime he had sailed
years ago in order, as he said, to get
as far away from salt water as pos
sible, and he vowed that he never
wanted again to sail the raging
main.
A. P. Collins, of the Solomon Co.
Operative Grain Buyers association,
says that at several shipping points
the miIlers have decided that no
| wheat from last years crop shall be
shipped from their stations, as they
think they will be able to use all
the wheat in the territory surround
ing their towns.
The railroad companies want their
men to keep out of politics. H. B.
Morse, a Santa Fe employee at EN-
| poria, was announced as a candidate
for the legislature. He has with
drawn from the race because of the
refusal of General Manager Nudge to
grant him leave of absence during
"a lot
Thomas J. Price, an old settler of
Lyon county, dropped dead on the
street at Emporia. About three
months ago he was stricken with
paralysis, and had been weak since
! Tom Price was born in Ohio "a years
ago and moved here from Illinois in
1867. He served in company A,
Fortieth Ohio, during the civil war.
Willis F. Neff, of Garnett, who was
convicted in the federal court at To
peka for misuse of the mails, has
been sentenced by Judge Hook to
four years in the federal peniten-
tiary. Herman Johnson, of Topeka,
was convicted of making and passing
| to two years in the penitentiary
the imitation was so poor that it
would not work the slot machine.
J. A. McCallom, a railroad contrac-
tor of Strong City, says that 1902
is to be the most prosperous year
for labor that the west has ever
known. He also predicts a raise in
pay for 1aboring men of from IS to
20 cents day in the country within
six weeks. He attributes the present
labor conditions to the large amount
of railroad construction work that
is being done and makes his pre-
dictions on what is to be done dur
ing the summer, including the work
of harvesting crops.
A recent dispatch from Abilene
said the central Kansas farmers will
not again be caught without rough
feed as they were last year. They
are preparing to put out an unex-
ampled acreage of alfalfa in the Kaw
and Smoky Hill valleys, and the prob
abilities are that next years crop
of alfalfa hay will be the cheapest
feed in the west