Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-02-12
! KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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An eastern syndicate has purchased
80 acres of land ~ miles from lola
for $4,000. The land lies in what is
known to be certain gas territory
Mrs. G. W. Ceilings. a prominens
club woman who died recently AZ
Wichita, left request that no preach
er be allowed to hold services over
her remains.
By majority of 10 in total vOte
of 81 Burlingame decided to issue
bonds to the amount of $4,000 for
the purpose of building an electric
light and waterwOrks plant.
1t is reported that Nathaniel
Barnes, of Kansas City. is a candT--
date for the republican nomination
for congress in the Second district
! against Congressman BowersOck.
A Chicago man is seeking a Ioea-
ton in Kansas for plant to make
| sugar, paper and cellulose from cane
stalks in the gas belt. Farmers
around lola propose to donate land
free for the plant.
Four new free delivery routes were
| started out of Fort Scott last Sat-
urday. It's hard to determine which
| is developing more rapidly in Kansas
the rural delivery system, or teIe-
| phonic means of communication.
| Owing to the high price of grain,
j. NJ. SeweI, Hiawatha stock raiser,
| is feeding his stock cotton seed He
recently shipped a car of seed there
| from the south. It is said to be good
| for fattening stock for the market
George Sutton, a grocer at Wich-
tia and bachelor 40 years old, was
! found dead in his brothers store. He
| had been shot and a revolver lay at
! his side. He was to be married Sun
day and spent the evening before with
| his fiancee.
Wichita men will build a driving
park east of Chisholm creek south of
| the city. There will be a half-miIe
| speedway and baseball and football
! grounds. grandstand with a seat
| ing capacity of 5000 people will be
| constructed.
1t is possible that the next IegisIa-
| ture will be asked to make aPpropria-
! ton to pay the 100000 or 100000 of
bonds issued by Kansas during terri
+ toriaI days to pay the Claims of per
sons whose property was destroyed
by border ruffians.
| v.
advice of ex-Congressman Vincent and
eX-State Senator Hanna, refused to
send any delegation to the coming
state convention and declare that
/ they will have nothing to do with the
proposed union of forces.
! The state board of charities has
! completed the plans for the new
! buildings for tn asylum for the in
sane in Parsons. The asylum viii be
| built on the cottage plan. 1t viii be
! intended especially for the care of
patients afflicted with epilepsy.
| Quite a sensation was caused at
! Fort Scott over the disappearance of
the wife of w. r. Suffla, a railroader.
who he alleges has gone to join
| Charles Wells, prominent man who
| deserted his wife and daughter a few
weeks ago and who is supposed to
have gone to Indiana.
On complaint of Mrs. Emma Coffan.
| of Kansas City, the woman's 13-year-
| old daughter was sentenced to the
state industrial school until she
reaches Is. When the sheriff called at
the Coffan home to take the girl
away Mrs. Coffan was so stricken with
remorse that she tried to commit sui
eide.
The tax bill, which has been pre-
| pared by the state tax commission
| appointed last winer, is not liked, 1t
is claimed, by the larger corporations
| of the state, and it now seems very
probable that there will be vigorous
fight made on the bill when it is
brought up before the next legisla-
ture.
Mrs. Sarah Stephens, who died at
| Council Bluffs, Ia, recently, came
| to Lawrence with her father, Otis
WiImoth, in 1855. She married Ed
ward P. Fitch, who was the first man
who ever taught school in Lawrence,
and who was afterwards killed in the
| QuantriIl raid. She later married
Rev. Mr.. Stephens.
The Douglas county commissioners
decided upon a location for the new
$50, 900 courthouse and jail by accept
ing the proposition of J. B. Watkins,
who donated site on South park,
diagonally across the corner from the
Watkins national bank building and
three blocks south of the present
courthouse location in Lawrence.
A late dispatch from Kansas City,
|
had turned down all post Office arpi-
rants and would appoint ex-COunty
Treasurer Ben Schnierle as postmas-
ter. Schnierie has held office con-
tinuously longer than any other man
in Wyandotte county. He is very
popular and is probably as good an
accountant as there is in the state
Schnierle has always been closely al
| -,
publican party in Wyandotte county
Out of the % women who were
granted divorces by Judge Fischer in
Kansas City last Monday % accused
their husbands of drunkenness.
Robert Harris, while cutting wood
near Paola, was struck by falling
tree and pinioned to the frozen
ground, where he was held nearly an
hour before he was found.
Washburn college at Topeka has
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