Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-10-08
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: KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Observation-Disclosures

over 10000 visitors attended the
Atchison corn carnival
Attorney General GODDARD decided
that the peoples party nomination
papers of c. NJ. Cole, fusion nominee
for congress in the Sixth district,
were given to the secretary of state
too late for fling.
| Norman Barratt, who was presi-
dent of the Atchison national bank
which failed in September, $780, sui
| cided at Atchison by cutting his
throat with a razor. Worry over
financial troubles is given as the
cause.
w. S. Stoltzman, aged 20, station
agent for the Frisco railroad at
| Pawnee, is under arrest charged with
numbering Il. j., Morrison, merchant
and postmaster at Pawnee, two
| weeks ago. 1t is said Morrison was
robbed of $500 after the murder.
The request made by Chancellor
Strong, of the Kansas university, that
the faculty wear caps and gowns
during class exercises will be with
drawn. A storm of protests from
the parents of the boys attending
the university has changed the new
| chancellor's plans.
S. /. Hale, formerly a member of
the state textbook commission and
now a candidate for the legislature
in Rush county on the democratic
ticket, announced his candidacy for
speaker of the next house of repre-
sentatives in case the fusionists elect
majority of the house.
Rousseau A. Burch, nominated by
the republican state committee for
associate justice of the supreme
court to succeed the late A. H. FL
lis, has been resident of Saline
county since 1869. He is 40 years
old and graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1885.
The Topeka city council, composed
largely of republicans, has appoint
ed committee to investigate the
official actions of Mayor Parker, a
democrat. A resolution has passed
the council accusing the mayor of
allowing saloons to run contrary to
law in return for money paid the
city.
The programme for the meeting of
the State Teachers association in
Topeka December 29-31 has been
completed. The special theme of the
session will be '"The Rural School;
It's Problems and Possibilities" The
papers and addresses are planned to
cover this subject in a practical and
helpful way.
John Stahl, merchant at Willis,
Brown county, has appealed to the
supreme court from the decision of
the Brown county district court
awarding a judgment for damages
amounting to $3.50 against him to
Ella Loumer, who claims he is the
father of her child. StahI is mar
ried and has three children
The Paola Republican recounts a
terrible mistake made by father in
Miami county. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ford were the parents of twins, aged
ten weeks. Mrs. Ford was ailing and
the doctors left two powders, one
for her AM one for the babies. The
powders were laid side by side on
shelf. In the night Mr.. Ford admin
istercd by mistake the mothers med
icine to the babies, and within a few
hours both were dead.
Justice A. H. Ellis, of the Kansas
supreme court, died at Topeka very
suddenly. Justice Ellis served in a
Michigan regiment during the civil
war. In 1873 he came to Kansas,
settling at Beloit. He was appointed
to the supr cme court by Gov. Stan
ley two years ago and was nominated
by the republican state convention
for fonr-year term. He was one
of the leading republican politicians
of the state and was an able mem
Der of the supreme court.
A recent dispatch from Washing
ton said: There is more money in
corn and wheat in western Kansas
than in the search for gold and sill
yer supposed to be carried in the
shale beds. About once year gold
boom is started over the discovery
of traces of the precious mineral in
the shale beds of several of the west
ern counties. Last May the geolog-
ical survey began an investigation
to determine whether gold and sill
yer were carried in commercial guam
titles in these beds. and the results
have just been announced. No trace
of the precious metal was found.
The woman who is alleged to have
married w. F. Elliott, travelling
man at Manhattan, and about whom
so much has been said lately, has
been located and is now with Elliott.
Tt is claimed that she was already
married to Emery Willitts, of Grant
vile. Why her husband would allow
her to leave home when she pleased
and stay as long as she desired with
no set purpose known to him is
fact that has not been explained al
though it is asserted that she
claimed to be employed in the de-
partmcnt of music at Lindsborg. The
woman is said to have formerly been
a Miss Simmons, of Perry, whose
father was recently killed.
During a storm at Hutchinson
lightning struck a shovel in the
hands of A. ]. Hooper, laborer.
knocking him insensible. He will
get well, but the shovel handle was
shattered.
The past week the Solomon river
at Beloit was three feet higher than
the high point of 1873.