Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-01-08
! KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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for paving.
Col. w F. Cody CBuffalo BID was
at Bismarck grove near Lawrence to
buy 100 horses for his shows The
horses viii be purchased to replace
the 40 killed in railway wreck last
season.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes IS
sued a call for all outstanding state
warrants containing the mot pasd7
stamp. He will begin paying them on
February 8. Interest on them ceases
on that date.
The quarrel between Senator J. R.
Burton and Secretary Hitchcock has
reached a point where Senator Bur
ton admits he cannot longer appoint
his friends to federal positions in the
Indian service.
Mrs. William Patterson, of Kiimer,
gave her husband a New Years gift
in the shape of triplets-two boys and
one girl. The combined weight of the
three babies was IL pounds. They are
all doing well.
Receipts of the Atchison police
court for 1901 aggregated $685. 6e and
the expenses $1,000, leaving $4,000
cash for the city treasury. Ninety
per cent. of the receipts was from
licensed joints.
Frank Yoakum was shot and dan
gerously wounded by the doorkeeper
of a dance hall in Meriden because
Yoakum insisted on taking into the
hall a woman who had previously
been denied admission.
The statement of the state and pri-
vate banks of Kansas under the last
call will show deposits of about $685.
100000, a decrease of $2,OoO,O00 since
September. The farmers are draw
ing money from the banks to buy feed
for stock.
The electric light plant at Fredo-
MIA is to be shut down, and the lights,
wires, machinery and fixtures viii be
stored until the proprietor finds a
suitable location IN which to do BUSH
ness. The use of natural gas is
spreading rapidly in Fredonia and
electricity cannot compete with that
lighting scheme
In order to supply the demand for
travelling libraries, James L. King.
secretary of the State Travelling Lii
brary association, has had construct
ed recently rs new cases for books.
The association now has 225 cases for
books. Of this number $50 are now
out over the state and applications
are on file for more than can be inn
mediately supplied.
To test the biennial election law
Gov. Stanley will appoint one sheriff
which will be followed by test in
the supreme court. In Montgomery
county republican will be named to
succeed a populist. The appointments
will be made at noon January 13,
when the term for which the sheriff
was elected will expire. The appointee
will demand the office and be refused,
and writ of quo warranto out of tbs
supreme court viii follow.
The restoration of D. w. Thurston.
of Fort Scott, to competency and his
marriage to Mrs. Sarah Maycumber,
of Sheboygan, Mich, brought to light
a romance. They were married 40
years ago in Michigan and divorced 80
years ago. Each remarked and each
was bereaved. A few months ago
Thurston was declared insane. Mrs.
Maycumber came to him, and her
presence is said by the physicians to
have restored his mind. They have
a son nearly 40 years old.
District Judge Hazen decided that
the council of the city of Topeka had
no right to pass an ordinance for the
search of places in which liquor-is He
galiy sold and for the seizure Of
liquors found there. The court held
that unless the. legislature gave ex-
press and not implied authority for
a search and seizure ordinance or un-
less provision was made in the city
charter for the destruction of prop
erty, the council could not pass such
ordinance and the present ordinance.
is invalid.
This dispatch was recently sent out
from Topeka: Many of the largest
flour mills in Kansas viii have to shut
down before the close of the week =
the price of wheat does not drop from
the recent heavy rise. The mills which
stocked up heavily two months ago
at the lower price are running to full
capicity and are making big money on
their flour. Probably one-half of the
mills of the state did not do this, and
the result is that jump of u cents
bushel makes it impossible for them
to buy and compete with the others.
Charles Roberts, a clerk IN J. e..
Crockett's store at Mcpherson, was
arrested under charge of murder IN
the first degree. The arrest was
most sensational one from the afro
cious character of the crime COM
mitted and the prominent social con-
nections of Roberts. Last week Rob-
erts' wife gave birth TO a child, and
on the Monday following the dead
body Of a child was found in q park
in the north part of town belonging
to E. A. CoIburn, Roberts father-in-
law. The baby was fuIly-deve1oped
child, and there was apparently no
cause for its death except exposure.
Roberts and his wife were married
last June.
W. r. spilman, of Manhattan, prt
vate secretary to Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristogs, has been
appointed chief of the appointments
division of the iatter's Office This IL
vision has charge of the appointments
of all the Postmasters IN the United
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