Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-04-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Blanche Boise, who horsewhipped
the mayor of Topeka, says she is go
ing to horsewhip Gov. Stanley. Be
fore starting in Miss Boise should call
to mind that the governor has raised
a large family of healthy children
and knows all about the art of
spanling.-Kansas City Journal.
During the past IS years 5000 pris
oners have served time in the Kansas
penitentiary Two convicts-William
Jabbers and John Drake-have seen
these 5000 and other convicts come
and go. One of them has been in
prison % years and the other %
years. 1t begins to seem like home
to them.
The late Job Throckmorton, of
Coffey county, was once a large figure
in Kansas politics. He was member
of the Kansas house in 1864, 1865 and
1867. In the latter year he was recog-
nized as a manager of the Pomeroy
interests, being chairman of the Pom
eroy steering committee on the floor
of the house
The new smelter and refining plant
to be erected at Chanute by eastern
and local capitalists will be wholly
Independent of the American Smelt-
ing & Refining company, which owns
the Argentine smelter. The Chanute
plant viii employ 500 men. Natural
gas furnished by the city will be
burned as fuel at the smelter.
According to the official report of
the druggists in Ottawa for last
month, it took 50 gallons of whisky,
88 gallons of alcohol, 80 gallons of
wine, IA gallons of gin, % gallons of
brandy, 4 gallons of beer, 3 gal
Ions of ale and gallons of malt to
cure the ills of that distressed com
munity.
S. o. Spencer, state oil inspector,
was fined 81 in the police court at
Fort Scott for slapping John Forbes,
a democratic local politician. Spencer
pleaded guilty to the charge of as
sault and battery. The trouble was
over a report that Spencer contrib
uted toward the defeat of a negro
candidate for member of the school
board.
r. P. Ohverson, of Abbeyville, left
for England to attend the corona
ton of King Edward. Over 60 years
queen of Great Britain and Ireland
and empress of India, Mr.. Oliverson,
| then a schoolboy, was among the
10000 school children who sang in
the chorus "God Save Our Maiden
| Queen"
An Eldorado commission house re-
Gently shipped a carload of hens to
San Francisco and the editor of the
Republican figures that the shipper
will be out nothing for freight.
The car will contain 5000 hens.
They will lay 1850 eggs a day. For
the entire trip the total will be g.
| 625 dozen. At 20 cents a dozen the
value will be 1925. The freight on the
car is $3.50.
Mrs. Lucy Simms is dead at Fort
| Scott. Mrs. Sinms was the aged wife
of Grandpa" Simms, who is one of
| the oldest men in the world. His
family claim that he is ia years old.
What is known for sure is that he
was a man and drove mules for the
| United States government in 1915,
and was with the forces of Andrew
Jackson~in the battle of New Orleans.
kansas City Journal.
Warden Jewett is keeping the pris-
oners at the state penitentiary busy
making brick which are to be used
in the construction of the new in
sane asylum at Parsons and also in
the erection of a number of small
buildings at other state institutions.
| Warden Jewett says that a fine grade
of brick is being turned out and at
such small expense also that the
plant is saving the state a great deal
of money every year.
Five years ago Frank White ap-
peared before Judge Hazen, in the
district court at Topeka, and was
given a light jail sentence for crime.
After the sentence was pronounced
he cursed the judge until compelled
to cease for lack of breath. He was
brought before the court again
Thursday, charged with burglary,
and was sentenced to Is years in the
penitentiary, which is the limit for
this crime. His companions were let
off with sentences to the state re-
formatory.
The cost of running the various
charitable and eleemosynary institu-
tions of the state last month aggre-
gated $46,46 considerably less than
the month previous. The boys re-
form school at Topeka cost $3,242;
Topeka insane asylum, $3.50; Osa-
watomie asylum, $13,11O; girls in
dustrial school at Beloit, 81 ,815; sol
diers' orphans home, Atchison, ST.
927; school for feeble-minded at Win
field, So, 9O6; school for the blind at
Kansas City, $1,56S; school for deaf
and dumb at Olathe, $4,2O1; industrial
reformatory for boys at Hutchinson.
So, POS.
Many of the Kansas convicts are
in prison under assumed names SO
their relatives will not find out where
they are. One convict who is serv-
ing his third term has parents iv-
ing within a stones throw of the
prison and they do not know he is
or ever was in prison.
Gov. Stanley, all told, has collect
ed s. ,316 in Kansas for the Mckinley