Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-27
; KANSAS STATE NEWS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

GoH' OIanley ana congressman
Long addressed the old soldiers re-
union at Cherryvale.
Junction City is to have free deliv.
cry Of mail as soon as the city can
be divided into districts.
1 Miss Sarah EggIeston, who died in
California recently, bequeathed 40
acres of land in Topeka to the First
Presbyterian church of Topeka.
The veterinary department. of the
Kansas agricultural college says
CHAMBERS in horses cannot be cured
and the sooner the afflicted animal
is killed the better.
Express Agent Schletzbaum, charg-
ed with robbing the American Ex-
press company of $4,000 at Fords-
vile, KY, is former resident of
Eden, Atchison county.
James Casebeer and Henry Thorn
as, ''trusty" prisoners, escaped from
the Kansas penitentiary farm. They
were working near a cornfield with
out any guard near, and ran away.
The Topeka Advocate, official or
gan of the populist party in Kansas,
hauled down the democratic state
ticket from its masthead and says
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make the paper distinctively farm
publication.
At Wellington a man is under ar
rest for failure to pay occupation
tax of $50 for having permit to sell
Intoxicating liquors. Still the chan
ces are that a fine-tooth comb would
not rake up any evidence to prove
that liquor is sold in Wellington
Topeka Capital.
William Geiser proposes to pipe nat
ura1 gas into Sedan and furnish it to
consumers at. the following rates:
Lights, 25 cents per month; cook
stoves, $1.75 per month; heaters, So
per month; gas for Industrial pur-
poses to be furnished at prices rang
ing from to 10 cents per thousand
feet.
The latest gossip of the politicians
is that if Cyrus Leland, Chester I.
Long, w. j. Bailey and their friends
capture the legislature this winter
they -wilI put Shawnee county back
in the Fourth district for the purpose
of destroying Congressman Curtis.
The populist legislature in 1897
shifted Shawnee from the Fourth dis
trict to the First.
S. NJ. Fox, adjutant general of the
Kansas national guard, has in the
hands of the state printer a report
compiled from official documents that
will contain the history of the Third
and Fourth Kansas regiments. It win
be the first authentic record of the
two regiments. The Third and Fourth
were recruited for Gen. Lanes bri-
gade Independent of the state.
Now that President E. r. Nichols,
of the state agricultural college, has
announced that he will not accept
the presidency of the Rhode Island
agricultural college, it is stated the
fight to GUST him from the Kansas
institution will be resumed. Secre-
tary f. D. Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, who is one of the re
gents of the college, is the leader Of
the fight against Nichols.
The state school superintendent,
Mr. Nelson, holds that school boards
in cities of the first and second class.
may employ teachers who are re-
lated to members of the board. The
last legislature enacted law pro-
hibitfng the employment of teach
ers who were related to board mem
.
that the clause applies only to
third-class cities and country dis
tricts.
One hundred masked men appeared
at the home of Joseph White, ne
gro near bingham, with guns and
rope, saying they intended to hang
White White escaped and notice
was served on his wife that she and
her husband must leave that vicinity.
Mrs. White had eloped with a white
man named Dyke, and White, who
was constable, followed them to
Topeka and returned with them
handcuffed. At the preliminary trial
Dyke and Mrs. White were acquit-
ted.
An unfortunate condition of af-
: fairs in connection with the Kansas
. G. A. II. organization is revealed by
: the last annual report of the state
department, which has just come
from the press The report shows
that the organization is losing mem
] bers so rapidly that it is only ques-
ton of a comparatively short time
until it becomes extinct. The num-
3 Der of old soldiers dropped from the
list during the fiscal year ended De-
cember 81, 1901, was 2,447, and OF
this number only 329 died. The num-
: Der suspended or dropped because
of delinquency in making reports was
. 1906. The department gained 1,466
members in the year and BIT of these
Joined on transfers from other or
carnations. The number reinstated
was 661, the new recruits numbered
456 and 80 who had been delinquent
t in making reports came back The
? department closed the year with but
} 12. ss7 members and began the year
with 1865.
George Lindner. of Chetopa, arose
in his sleep and in walking about
tunlbled down fight of stairs, cut
ting a 21s-inch cash in mis- forehead
to the bone. Both his lips were bad
EIy cut, his right arm severely
sprained and one hand cut.
x 4o-acre field of wheat near Ever
est was thrashed last week and
Yielded 40 bushels to the acre. The
grain sold for 60 cents per bushel.