Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-13
I; KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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IN Geary county acknowledgements
are paid higher wages than at any
time since 1889.
Merchants at Junction City have
agreed to discontinue the use of
premium stamps.
w. G. Williams, negro member of
the Topeka school board, has just
been arrested for embezzlement.
The state charter board has grant
ed charter to the American Book
company to do business in Kansas.
The new physical science building
at the Kansas state agricultural col
lege has just been completed and ac-
cepted by the regents. 1t cost more
than $4,000.
Gas has been struck in Eureka at
depth of 3s2 feet. The flow is
strong and another well will be sunk
at once. 1t is the only well in Green
wood county.
H. W. Brent, adjutant, has issued
a circular reminding the members Of
the Twentieth Kansas that the third
annual reunion of the regiment viii
be held at Burlington September 10
and IL. A county fair will be held
there the same week.
For the first time Emporia used
its new city Jail Wednesday night.
Annie Henderson and Minnie Grubbs,
two negro women, twisted the lock
off the door with an iron bar which
had been handed to them from the
outside and escaped.
George Knots and wife, of Cherry
vale, returned to their home from a
drive to find burglar in the house.
Mrs. Knots was first to enter the
house and the burglar dashed red
pepper in her eyes and escaped. Ply
sicians fear Mrs. Knots will lose
her eyesight.
Gov. Stanley has rendered State
Auditor Cole the position of state.
agent and Cole has it under advise
ment. This position has been filed
by w. W. Martin, of Fort Scott, for
many years past, but Martin is now
| treasurer of the national soldiers
home at Leavenworth.
The annual reunion of the Twen-
| ty-third regiment of colored infantry
was held at Leavenworth with a
large attendance. The Twenty-third
Kansas regiment was composed of
about 900 Of the states best colored
men, and it was the only Kansas
regiment that saw service in Cuba.
NJ. A. Rodman, Wabaunsee coun-
| ty farmer, has just recovered from
| peculiar surgical operation. Some
time ago he had a brass stickpin in
his mouth. He started to sneeze
and in doing so swallowed the pin.
It lodged in his intestines and pune
tured them in several places. Local
surgeons cut the pin out, but gave
no hopes of the patients recovery.
However, he has recovered complete
| ly.
Uncle Sam has some more jobs in
the Philippines to give to Kansans
and civil examination for them viii
be held at Topeka on August 20.
These positions are open: Book
binder for Philippine service, salary
81, 400 a year; linotype operator and
compositor, salary $1,4Oo a year;
pressman, $1,4OO year; mechanical
engineer, salary 81, 400 year; assist
ant examiner patent Office, salary
1,26O a year.
John A. Cole and his niece, Clara
Babcock, were arrested on a farm
south of Parsons and bound over to
the district court. 1t is charged
they have been living together as
man and wife for years. They have
three children-one four years old,
months old. In default of $500 bail
Cole was taken to the county Jail
and his niece, who is said to be sim
ple-minded, was placed with her chill
dren on a poor farm in charge of the
keeper and his wife.
Forty acres of onions, yielding an
average of 400 bushels to the acre,
and bringing an average price of
$1.25, indicates the scale on which the
crop is raised in the neighborhood of
Lawrence. Onions are raised to this
extent for the Kansas seed house of
Barte1des & Co. The industry has
grown from trial patches of few
acres until the 4O-acre field is now
regarded with as little anxiety as
were the smaller areas when the cul-
tivation of the crop was first com
menced.
/ According to the government CEN
sus bulletin just issued Kansas has
173,O9S farms with an average of 240
i acres. Sixty per cent. of the farm
land is improved. In 1890 there were
1862 farms and they only averaged
1s1 acres each. But a larger per
cent. of the ground was improved, the
per cent. then being Is. This was at
a time when people were trying to
grow crops in western Kansas. La
ter they gave up the task and that
section has been turned back to pas
ture for cattle. OF the 173, 09s farms,
,so7 are hay and grain farms, 2,249
vegetable farms, $50 fruit farms, 49,
s0s live stock farms, 1881 dairy
farms, 5 tobacco farms, IS plant and
flower farms, 70 nursery farms, and
e.142 miscellaneous farms.
The State bank of Coils, with $10,-
600 capital, was chartered by the state
charter board upon the approval of
the bank commissioner.
Burglars entered the store OF
George Casebeer, at Louisburg, and
blew the safe to pieces with dyna-
mite, but found no money there.
Socialists of the Third Kansas dis
trict nominated W. E. Morgan, OF
lowell Cherokee county, for con-