Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-11-13
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

Cupid is sighting Butler county.
There hasn't been marriage license
issued out there for over two weeks.
There was heavy frost In some
parst of Kansas last week that cut
down everything exposed, and ice form
ed on water out of doors.
John w. Leedy is the Prohibition
candidate for governor of Iowa. While
he is no relation to the former govern
Or of Kansas, there is not much shoT
for his election.
H. R. Nickerson, vice president of the
Mexican Central, who, it is said, is
slated for the presidency of the South
ern Pacific, began his railroad career in
Atchison as trucker.
| H. w. Cochran, of Linn county, is 81
years old. Mr.. Cochran has never rid
! den on a railroad train or on a street
car He boasts that in all his life he
never attended a wedding save his own.
The case brought by ]. B. Billiard to
compel the school board to desist from
the use of the Bible in the public
schools has been heard in the district
court at Topeka. The decision will not
be given for a week.
The Kaw valley farmer who planted
| potatoes this year is happy man. A
year ago the potato crop of the valley
was almost total failure. This year
the yield is averaging $50 bushels to
the acre and they are bringing first rate
prices.
Citizens of Douglass pitched in" last
week and bought a house and lot for
Aunt Dinah Fouts, respected Old
negro woman of that town. The old
woman, who is becoming too feeble to
work, broke down and cried when she
was told that she owned her little
home.
The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon has ar
ranged to assist in the Canada cam
paign in favor of prohibition. Mr..
Sheldon has arranged his affairs so as
to be in Canada for several meetings
about the time the prohibitory cam
paign there opens in December. Mr..
Sheldon will also lecture in New Bruins
wick and in various Northern states
John Stanton. state architect, has
Informed the state officers that the
statehouse will be cofpleted by January
IL. 1t has been the hope of the members
of this administration to see the build
ing completed before they go out OF
office and Mr.. Stanton's statement
means that it will be finished twelve
days before they turn the government
over to another set of officers.
The body of William H. Bennett, who
died while serving his country in the
Philippines in March, 1901, has arrived
at Concordia and was buried with mill
tary honor. Bennett enlisted in Troop
F, First cavalry, at Fort Riley in 1896
and served through the Cuban war. He
then enlisted in the hospital corps and
was transferred to the Philippine is
lands. Kansas national guards, assist
ed by the G. A R., had charge of the
funeral
The famous Sweeney will case has
been decided at Alma in favor of the
four children of Michael Sweeney, who
sued to break his will. In July, 1901
Michael Sweeney, prominent citizen
Of Wabaunsee county, died, leaving ar
estate worth $50, ZOO. In his will he be-
Queathed nearly all the property to his
sons Michael, Martin and Thomas, and
cut his three daughters and another soI
off with pittance. The decision gives
an equal division.
"Billy" Patterson will be pensioned
by the next legislature if the wishes Of
E. B. Jewett, warden of the peniten
tiary are followed. Billy is an EN-
ployee of the penitentiary who worked
as a mason when the building was be-
ing constructed. Billy, is too old tt
work and too old to be discharged,
says the warden. 1.-The only way 1 car
see out of the difficulty is for the state
to give him a small pension and le
him retire. He has served the state
long and faithfully enough to merit it.
AS a result of a quarrel at Independ
ence between Charles Hooper and hi!
wife, their four children are orphans
The trouble was in the postoffice build
ing, and when occupants of the build
ing reached the scene both husband
and wife were dead. Mrs. Hooper lef
her husband some time ago. After
wards a reconciliation was effected, blu
later she secured divorce and the Gus
tody of her children. Hooper recent!
took the children from his wife AM
she had been consulting an attorne!
relative to regaining the custody of he
children when her husband met her. H
fired three shots at her and then sho
himself.
Parsons contractors announce tina
men are very scarce there at present.
Judge Clayton has refused an in
, junction restraining the revenue in