Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-02-19
! KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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erect a second plant at Wellington
with capacity of SEQ bushels a day.
With the old min the company can
turn out nearly 1000 barrels day.
a poem in last weeks Mail and
Breeze entitled 1.-THE Cheerful LIAR"
by Ed Blair, of Cadmus, is a splendid
antidote for the blues and it plainly
points a moral. Mr.. Blair is a writ
er in whom Kansans take pride.
Miss Alkaline Horner, who is de-
scribed as mot bigger than min
ute,'' has been appointed clerk of the
district court of Douglas county, vice
Capt. Ad1a G. Clarke, who resigned
to enter the army.
At Lawrence $4,000 tons of natural
ice have been housed away. The nor
NAL summer consumption is about g.
| 600 tons. 1t is said that the local ice
factory does not expect to run at all
during the coming hot season.
The Wellington Creamery company
| is making arrangements to build a
cheese factory in Anthony. The COM
pany has a sl1imming station at An
thony now and the territory is so pro-
ductive of good milk that it has been
| decided to make cheese.
The Topeka Commercial club adopt
ed resolutions opposing the bill now
pending before congress providing
for the leasing of government land in
Kansas for two cents an acre and
using the proceeds for irrigation pur-
poses. The bill was introduced by
Congressman Bowersock.
Col. and Mrs. J. II. Upton, of
Downs, celebrated their golden we'd
ding Wednesday, and several hundred
invitations were issued to a din
ner in the evening. Col. Upton is
cousin of Sir Thomas Upton, of Lon
don. He has been the proprietor of
the Upton house at Downs for Is
years.
SpOrtsmen are interested in re-
port that pot hunters in the central
part of the state were killing thou
sands of quail and prairie chickens
in the recent bad weather. 1t is said
the birds are driven by the heavy
snow to the fields of kaffir corn for
! their feed, and it is there that the
hunters are slaughtering them.
The cost of maintenance at the
charitable institutions of Kansas for
January aggregated as follows: Sol
diers' orphans home, $2,418; feeble
minded institute, 1926; deaf and
dumb school, 1904; Osawatomie asy-
lum, SIG, POS; Topeka asylum, $14,214;
blind asylum, $1,000; girls Industrial
school, So, 161; boys industrial school,
Topeka, $5,135; boys reformatory,
Hutchinson, $7,93S; soldiers home, So
! OO1.
Dr.. C. C. Calhoun, on trial charged
with the murder of his wife, Madge
Calhoun, at Mound Valley, in Octo-
Der, 1901, was found guilty of murder
in the second degree. On the first
ballot the jury stood ten for first
degree murder and two for second de-
gree murder. Mrs. Calhoun died sud
denly and the fact that her life was
insured for SIS 900 in favor of her hus-
band led to the belief that she had
been murdered.
Conner Jones, a 17-year-oId boy at
tending a country school near En-
poria, created terror among all the
pupils and teacher by threatening to
shoot them. He played desperate,
| placing his revolver at some pupils
head, swinging it carelessly, and
with the muzzle against his victims
head threatened to shoot if the per-
son reported him. He forced his
mother to give him a sum of money
recently by placing a revolver at her
head and threatening her life. He
will probably be sent to the reform
school.
Unwilling to face her husband in a
| compromising situation Mrs. Lydia
| Timmons, wife of J. L. TimmOns, of
Edwardsville, committed suicide in
| Omaha, Neb. Her uncle, w. w. Flow
er, an Omaha painter, is held for in
vestigation of grave charges preferred
| by the woman's husband. Mrs. Tim
mons was married seven months ago.
| She left her husband in Kansas last
month and went to Omaha, and on
Wednesday last gave birth to a child.
| 1t had been intended not to notify
the husband of the arrival of the
child for several weeks yet, but Mrs.
Timmons became so i'll that he was
summoned by telegram. Timmons
says Flower is the father of Mrs.
Timmons' child.
The bust of S. B. Sanborne, of Con-
cord, Mass, given to the University of
Kansas by the New York sculptor, F.
B. Elwe11, was formally presented to
the university Friday by Alfred Whit
man, of Lawrence, the original ''Lau-
rie'' in Louisa Alcott's story, and pu-
pill of Mr.. San Borne at his Concord
school. Mr.. Sanbourne is at present
a newspaper man. His early life was
given up to the anti-slavery cause. He
was warm admirer of John Brown
and on visit two years ago to Kan
sas he became so interested in the
university that he persuaded Mr.. Ell
well to present the university with a
bust of Miss Louisa Alcott. Mr.. Ell
well showed his appreciation of the
institution by giving a bust of Mr..
Sanborne to the university library.
Ten prisoners escaped from the
Cherokee county Jail at Columbus by
forcing open the cells with a crowbar.
It is the first Jail delivery from the
new jail.
The total earnings of the Kansas
penitentiary for January were $21,-
| 995 and expenses S14,2sO. The cash re-
e,..,,, tod