Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-03-19
Observation-Disclosures
! KANSAS STATE NEWS.


liquefied air has been set up at the
university of Kansas.
Rev. a. F. Irwin, of Hutchinson,
one of the most gifted Presbyterian
preachers in Kansas, is dead at Los
Angeles, Cal.
It is now thought that the Missouri
Pacific branch road from Salina to
either Yuma or Concordia viii be
| built this summer.
A divorce suit filed at Newton re-
veals that the wife was but IA years
old at the time of her marriage, while
the husband was SO. The husband
is now 65 and the wife 20.
At Fort Scott the other day there
was fiddler's contest for prizes.
Horace Hobson, who took the first
prize, made his fiddle out of a cigar
box>in less than half an hour. He
constructed bow out of walking
stick.
The officers at the federal peni-
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth will
begin work on the 6OO-acre farm gar
den with a large number of prison
ers. Fields will be plowed and pre-
pared at once for seeding 600 bushels
| OF early OnlO potatoes.
The state will refund $4,000 of it's
outstanding bonds July 1. Altogether
the state owes $632, 600 in bonds. Of
this sum, $15O,OO0 is due next July,
1920, 900 in 1903, $159, 900 in 1904, SIS, 900
in 1908 and $s5, 900 in 1906. The state
school fund holds the entire amount.
Congressman Curtis is urging the
government to reimburse all persons
who lost their personal property or
sustained damages at the hands of the
convicts who escaped from the United
States prison at Fort Leavenworth
during last November, in the sum of
$40, 600 or so much thereof as may be
necessary.
The Kansas state agricultural col
| 1ege held a school in judging horses
March 10 to %. j. W. Robinson, OF
Eldorado, acted as instructor. Mr..
Robinson is a breeder and gave in
struction in judging draft, driving
and saddle horses. Some of the best
horses in the state were lent to the
college for the work.
Miss Lola Lowther, daughter of Rev.
| G. w. Lowther, of the NJ. E. church
at Mcpherson, will christen the new
lake steamer, S. Fl. Wilkinson, at
| Chicago. The christening will be
about April l. Miss Lowther is OPP
posed to the use of champagne in
this exercise and will therefore take
with her bottle of Kansas water.
At the request of Charles F. Scott,
ongressman-at-large the committee
or agriculture consented that $4,000
of the $40, 900 appropriated for expert
ments in silk culture be expended in
continuing experiments at the sta
ton already established at Peabody,
Kan 1t is thought the next Kansas
legislature will add to this appropria-
ton.
The judges of the supreme court
elected James L. King, of Topeka,
state librarian to succeed Mrs. Annie
L. Diggs. The term of office is for
four years and begins March 80
Miss Nellie Arnentrout, of Wyan-
dotte county, was defeated for first
place, but was appointed assistant
librarian by Mr.. King at a salary Of
5000 year.
Prof. Lantz' laboratory of prairie
dog poison at the agricultural college
consumes daily about six dozens of
eggs, so pounds of sugar, 9 pounds of
green coffee, pounds of potassium
! cyanide and 176 ounces Of strychnine.
The quantities given above will fill
about So cans, all that can be manu-
featured per day by Prof. Failyer,
who is making the deadly prepara-
ton.
The Kansas State Teachers assoc
citation next winter will ask the leg
islature to increase the salary of the
state superintendent of schools. The
state superintendent now receives
only $4,000, while the rest of the
elective state officers receive 81, 500
each, except the governor, who gets
So, 900. The association wants the
superintendent's salary raised to
So, 500.
The contest for the republican nom
| nation for congress in the Third dis
trict now lies between C. W. Sprow1,
of Chautauqua; o. P. Ergenbright, of
Montgomery, and G. w. Wheatley, of
Cherokee. The other active eandi-
dates have been eliminated from the
fight In the case of deadlock
Representative n. P. Willis, of VIII
son, stands ready to take the nomina-
ton.
William Trembley, city clerk of
Kansas City, and Ed White, mem
Der of the fire department., received
word from the war department at
Washington to the effect that the
medals of honor, which had been
awarded to them by congress. had
been sent by REGISTERED mail Trem-
bley and White were members of the
twentieth Kansas regiment and the
medals were given them for conspic-
uous gaIlantry in swimming the Bag
bag river.
Work win begin at once on Well
Iington's electric light plant, which
will cost $4,000. Sixty-four arc
lights for street lighting and about
Ii 500 incandescent lights viii be sup
Ipied.
III. Milford, who died at Milford.
Geary county, came to Kansas in 1855.
He was a veteran of the Texas revolu-
ton, Mexican war, the Seminole war
OF 1868, and the civil war, and was
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