Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-06-25
! KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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Work on the electric line to connect
Kansas City. Lawrence and Topeka
will begin in less than so days.
Laura Parrett, 16-year-old girl
of Council Grove, disappeared, Ieav-
ing note to her mother not to
worry about her.
David w. Mulvane, republican ma
tiona1 committeeman for Kansas, Sc
cured a promise from President
Roosevelt that he would visit Topeka
September 90
The president has concluded not
to appoint either Lieut.. Gov. Richter
or J. B. TomIinson, of Kansas, to the
position of United States marshal for
the Northern district of the Indian
territory.
The Salina city council passed an
ordinance increasing the fines of
jointists from $50 to S1OO, instead of
from SIS to $50. SaIina has IL joints,
which turn into the city treasury
about 5000 a month.
Word was received at Emporia
from Capt. Thomas Perry, of the bat
tleshfp Iowa, now at Caireo. Monte
video, that Maurice Hill, an Emporia
y
deserted from the Iowa.
Fritz Pottsburk, of Cheney, a
farmer owning 12O acres OF land,
hanged himself in his barn. He lost
a lawsuit last winter involving $3S
and he has brooded over it since until
his mind became unbalanced.
There is talk of 4. B. Carney, Of
Concordia, for state superintendent
of the public instruction ON the dem
ocratic ticket in place of Mr.. Sence,
declined. Mr.. Carney is a member
of the state textbook commission.
The care of the insane wards of
the state of Kansas is apparently
becoming a serious problem, and the
disposition of citizens who are unfor-
tunate enough to be thus afflicted
in the future is perplexing more
than one county.
Two Kansas universities have been
purchased by a committee represent
ing John D. Rockefeller7s Chicago
university. They are Hiawatha acad-
envy and Campbell university, of HOI-
ton. The price paid for the Camp
bell university was $1,000.
The republican state committee
has decided to assess the state can
dfdates ten per cent. of their sal
aries. The remaining 80 per cent.
will be used IN donating to subscrip-
ton lists, in subscribing to newspa-
pers and in organizing mining COM
panies.
The state reformatory at Hutchfn-
son now has 3O5 inmates, whereas
the total was but 185 three years
ago. The increase probably accounts
for the decrease in the number of
convicts at the state penitentiary,
which has been commented upon by
the press lately.
The people of Grant county are
building hopes of getting railroad
soon-the Denver, Enid q Gulf. The
survey is up the valley of the north
fork of the CimarrOn to the bend
north of Ulysses, and then through
the sandhills, crossing the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe at Kendall.
A BeIoit cothing firm has sign
on a hill east of the city which can
| be read for miles. 1t is $50 feet IN
length, and the letters, each of which
is 35 feet in height, are formed of
| wllitened rocks, which stand out in
bold relief against the green OF the
hillside recent change in the
firm name required 80 loads of rock
| to bring the sign up to date.
Lieut.. E. H. Agnew arrived at Min
neapolis with the body of his wife,
who died in the Philippines last No
vember Lieut.. Agnew and Alice May
Sexton were married in Minneapolis
| August p last, and Immediately
started for Manila to join his regi-
ment, the Twenty-sixth infantry.
Within three months his wife was
dead Mrs. Agnew graduated from
the University of Kansas with the
class of 1901.
Fifty-one young men and women
received their diplomas at the
thirty-ninth annual commencement
! of the Kansas state agricultural col
| lege last week Of these IS are wo-
men. All have completed their four
years course at the college and re-
ceived degrees of bachelor of science.
At the exercises w. NJ. Beardshear,
president of the state agricultural
college of Iowa, delivered the alumni
address.
The Kansas state convention of
Christian Endeavorers, in session at
Leayenworth, elected the following
4 officers: President, DR.. G. A. Crise,
Manhattan; first vice president, Rev.
W. A. Parker, Emporia; second vice
president, Prof Otto Newly, Ster-
ling; secretary. Miss Maud Grifiths,
Topeka; treasurer, L. NJ. Gillette,
Cottonwood Falls; junior suPerin-
tendent, Miss Addie Mains. Oska-
loosa; director, Rev. Frank Fox, Kan
sas City; worlds fair vice president
for Kansas, Rev. C. L. Milton, Fort
| Scott. Emporia was selected as the
place for holding convention next
year. The pink carnation was adopt
ed as the official state flower of the
union.
Congressman Calderhead's bill
granting an increase of pension of
$40 a month to old soldiers whose
disabilities require the constant at
tention of an attendant has passed
the house.
Mrs. Johnson arrived at Palmer