Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-11-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS. ;
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The Grand Central hotel and ad-
Joining buildings at Stafford were de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of
$4,000.
John S. Miller, of Doniphan county,
has sold 1000 barrels of apples at
$1.10 per bushel. This made him about
1000.
Rev. A. L. Ward, pastor of the
Christion church at Martinsville, Ind,
has resigned, to take a chair in the
state university at Lawrence, which
the Christian churches endowed for
Bible work.
Mrs. Margaret Mullady, q Topeka
widow, has served notice on Mayor
Parker that she proposed to sue him
for damages because he has allowed
the joints to run, thereby causing the
downfall Of her son, who is her only
support.
Hiram Ware, who died in Washing
ton city, was brought to Fort Scott
for burial. The body was accom-
panied by Pension Commissioner
Ware, son of the deceased. Hiram
Ware was IS years old and prior to
the civil war was a sailor.
The tax bill prepared by the legis-
lat1ve tax commission seems to be
an orphan. The republicans did not
indorse it at their state convention
and several of the republican nomi-
nees for the legislature openly de-
clare they would not support it if
they were elected.
Thomas Ryan, first assistant Sec
rotary of the interior department,
and Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assis-
tant postmaster general, arrived in
Topeka Thursday, Mr.. Bristow to as
sist his party with campaign
speeches over the state and Mr.. Ryan
went on to Oklahoma for a short
business trip.
Grant KINNEY, nine years old, liv
ing near Leona, Brown county, was
attacked by loclzjaw last week as
result of getting his hands lacerated
in pulley. The boy was taken to
Atchison and anti-toxine was in
jected. In week his jaws relaxed
and his recovery is now almost COM
plete.
start its furnaces at Independence in
few days. 1t will be one of the
biggest window glass plants in the
country. This company is co-opera-
tive and most of the members came
here from Hartford City, Ind. A
40-acre tract near the plant has
been laid off as part of the town and
about 20 houses already have been
put up for the employees of the plant.
Eastern people frequently refer to
Kansas as the drought-stricken state.
They imagine that if Kansas pulls
through a season without having her
crops all burned up it is a miracle.
The fact is the rainfall in Kansas is
greater than in nearely every east
ern state. For the past 20 years Kan
sas has been the wettest of II states.
It's average rainfall has exceeded
that of New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, the District of Columbia,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, New York,
Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
State Auditor George E. Cole issued
comparative statement showing
the amount of supplies for state
charitable institutions purchased
from merchants within the state and
the amount bought of dealers out
side of the state. The statement
shows that only 70 per cent. of the
total purchases were made outside OF
the state and that the greater part
of this sum was for hard maple floor
ing, which could not be secured at
satisfactory figures from local deal
ers. The total expenditures for sup
plies within the state aggregated ST.
212,119 and outside the state, $S9,597.
The people of southwestern Kansas
are a patriotic set. Some of them
have to drive as far as 80 miles to
vote. In the big towns in eastern
Kansas voters are hauled to the polls
in carriages furnished by candidates.
In seven of the southwestern Kansas
counties there are only three voting
places to the county. Those counties
are: Haskell, Grant, Seward, Stanton,
| Stevens, Wichita and Morton. Gree
ley has four voting precincts. Each
| of these counties is about 80 miles
square. In some of them the voting
precincts are punched together on
one side of the county, so the voters
of the other side must ride almost
across the county to vote.
T P. II. Anderson, of Enterprise, who
has made a fortune in the Klondil1e,
where he first went as missionary,
has just returned from Europe. Mr..
Anderson bought the residence of
John Krapf, one of the best in town.
and gave it to his sister. He liked
the furnishings, which were almost
new, and bought them also. The
former owner took only the family's
personal effects. Anderson has pur-
chased also fine farm for his eldest
brother, another for another
brother, one for his father, together
with several hundred dollars OF
new furniture for the house, and
has set up sister and her husband
lin business. He was very unostenta-
tious in his gifts and left town as
soon as he had completed the deeds.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs is in Belfast,
ireland, where she will remain until
1.-The last of November, when she will
70 to the south of France for the
winter. Mrs. Diggs is. collecting ma