Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-08-20
: KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| ms, for coroner.
| The Southwestern Grain Journal,
OFFICIAL organ of the Kansas grain
dealers, in it's special crop report
says that under the most favorable
conditions from now on the Kansas
| corn crop this year will not exceed
235, 100000 bushels.
A report on strange disease which
is killing cattle in southern Green
wood county has reached the live
stock sanitary commissioners. F. c.
Chamberlain, secretary of the COM
mission, says he believes the dis
ease is hydrophobia.
W. II. Frampton, of Topeka, has
| just recovered from a peculiar acci-
dent. Last week he went fishing on
| the Wakarusa. He pulled out 3
three-pound catfish. The fish put up
a fight, stabbing FramptOn in the
wrist with its horn, producing a seri-
Gus wound.
Robert Cline, of Linwood, picked
and sacked 103 sacks of potatoes in
one day last week. The sacks hold
| two bushels each. The land is yield
| ing 400 bushels to the acre, and,
while the price is low, the pickers
are making good wages at four cents
sack.
J. W. Colley shot and killed his
| brother-in-law, L. P. Simmons, at
Perry. The trouble resulted over
the alleged blackmailing of CoIley's
family by Simmons. The latter was
recently found guilty of the offense
charged by the federal court in Salina
and was fined $500. Colley surren-
dered to the officers.
| Editor Gilmore, of the Fredonia
Citizen, has discovered that James
Bigheart, who was recently elected
chief of the Usage Indians, was 3
Kansas soldier during the war OF
the rebellion. He served as a private
for three years and two months in
company /, Ninth Kansas cavalry,
under Capt. H. n. F. Reed.
According to ruling made by the
| United States district attorney Of
Kansas trade checks are illegal and
| their issuance and circulation are
punishable by a fine of $500 or i'm
prisonment for five years. By trade
checks are meant the bit of metal
which in most cases bear the inscrip-
ton: Good for - cents in trade"
Near Sharon Springs Charles Sam
ueIson jabbed his wife with a pitch
fork because she was not pitching
hay as fast as he wanted her to.
It looks like a pretty severe method
of correction, but the wives Of Kan
sas need to have it brought home to
them that when they pitch hay, they
must pitch hay, and not try to
"soier' like a hired man.-Kansas
City Journal.
Anna /. Welch, II years old, OF
Wichita, reported that she had been
made the victim of a mock mar
riage She alleges that John Mich
olson induced her to marry him and
on August Q produced a license and
they were married by Rev. st. John.
Since that night she has not seen or
heard of Nicholson. There is no min
lister named st. John in Wichita.
A recent dispatch from Wellington
said: The partial failure of the wheat
crop in this county has not dis
mayed the big wheat planters, who
| are now preparing their ground for.
| bigger crop than ever next year. In
the south part of the county steam
plows are in use, and near South
|
ments are at work now turning over
the ground as fast as possible.
L. L. UhIs, superintendent of the
Osawatomie asylum, has been raked
over the Goals by Topeka officials for
admitting J. c. Lowe, the wife-slayer,
| into that institution. Lowe was an
attache of the state reform school
at Topeka. In fit of rage recently
he killed his wife. His relatives i'm
mediateIy set up insanity as de-
Tense. However, he was bound over
for trial on the charge of murder
and was released on $1,000 bond. SUI
perintendent Uhls admitted him to
the Osawatomie asylum.
There is one town in Kansas that
has two distinct names, and Uncle
Sam delivers mail addressed TO either
name. The town is midway between
Leavenworth and Kansas City on
the Kansas City & Leavenworth cleo
trio railroad and the Missouri Pa
cific established a station there and
named it Conner in honor of lead
ing citizen of the neighborhOOd.
When the electric line was built the
owners of the line named the station
WoIcott. in honor of H. w. WolcOtt,
general manager of the road.
It is expected that the state re-
union of the G. A. R. to be held il
Topeka September % to 2e win be
one of the largest in the history Of
the Kansas department. An interest
ing programme has been prepared.
Among the. speakers who have al
ready signified their willingness to
attend are NJ. S. Quay, of Pennsyi-
yania; J. B. Foraker, of Ohio; Charles
G. Burton. of Nevada, No; ex-Com-
missioner of Pensions, John C. Black
of Illinois; James Tanner, of Wash
ington, and Russell A. A1ger, OF Mich
igan.
Arthur C. Curtis, ex-captain of the
University of Wisconsin football
team, has accepted the offer of Kan
sas university to coach its team dur
ing the coming season. He will come
to Kansas early in September to get
the men into shape for practice
work.
/ Eight years ago Daniel Crillman
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