Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-04


Arthur Brundeen, 16-year-old Swed-
ISL boy, was accidentally killed near
lLindsborg while handling a shotgun.
Carlos Fajardo, son of the mayor of
the city of Mayaguez, Porto Rico, has
| arrived at Lawrence and will enter the
law school at the university at once.
The Farmers Cooperative Grain aud
Live Stock Association of Kansas, Ok
lahoma and Nebraska, will hold a con
vention in Topeka on December to
discuss plans for the good of the order
Tramps stealing a ride on passenger
train No. 5, east of Dodge City, shot at
Conductor Gillfroy when he ordered
them of the train. The train was stop
ped and the conductor and brakeman
captured one of the tramps. one was
Injured.
A. M. Robinson, captain of the To-
peka fire department, was testing new
aerial truck. While standing on the
top rung of the 75-foot ladder one of
! the chains broke and he was thrown to
the ground, sustaining injuries which
may cause his death.
A north bound Missouri, Kansas &
Texas train was derailed at Hyattsville,
On the Sedalia and Parsons division,
and several carloads of stock -ditched.
Many Of the animals were killed and
others so badly injured that it was ne
eessary to slaughter them. None Of the
train crew was hurt.
Louis Alt, who disappeared from
Salina over a week ago, and for whom
the authorities have been seeking ever
since, has written to his relatives stat
ing that he is at Shawnee. Okla. He
gave no reason for leaving a profitable
business, and his friends are at loss
/ to account for his strange actions.
Milt. M. Wheeler, a prominent stock
man and farmer, committed suicide at
his home in Eureka by taking large
quantity of carbolic acid. He had been
resident of Greenwood county for
more than thirty years and was we'll
| known in Southern Kansas. Mental and
financial troubles probably caused him
to take his life.
Flossie Dillon, an 8-year-old girl, was
! playing in a pasture near her home in
Topeka suburb when the family car
riage horse ran towards her in a play
full manner and then wheeled and kick
ed her on the head The childS Skull
was crushed, and pieces of bone were
driven into her brain. Surgeons are
trying to save her life, but they say
there is little hope.
hn fa 1n1-c in
having trouble in getting their corn
husked. Besides the scarcity of corn
shuckers, there has been so much rain,
bringing dampness and mud, that tho
men have been unable to get into the
fields. The corn will average nearly
sixty bushels to the acre this year and
in many places it goes as high as sew
! enty-five and eighty-five bushels.
Attorneys in Washington, D. c., who
have been searching for NJ. Netsell or
Robert Cooper to award to him his EoT-
ton Of a large estate left in New York
by a brother. have found him in the
person of G. H. Cooper, Of Fort Scott,
chief clerk in the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railway bridge and building de-
partment. He was New York orphan
named Netsell and was adopted by
arated from his relatives.
1t now costs over $4,000 600 to run the
! common schools of Kansas annually.
State Superintendent Nelson has pre-
pared a statement showing the amount
expended for the maintenance of the
common school system for the past
twenty-five years. In 1876 the schools
! cost $1,379,231 Last year they cost
81, 56O,207 The largest amount spent in
any one year was in 1889. The sum OF
SIS, 1877, 400 was used then. OF this ,um,
! however, over $1,OO0,0O0 was spent for
lew school houses.
The depositors in the defurcr First
! National bank, of Emporia, which fail
/ ed in 1898, have been awarded posses
sion of the Cross homestead by District
Judge Madden. H. G. Cross was presi-
dent of the bank at the time CT his
death and after the failure of the bank
Mrs. Cross retained possession Of their
home, which is one of the finest in En-
poria, under the homestead law. After
the death of Mrs. Gross, last February.
! the receiver of the bank brought suit
/ for possession of the home, but Probate
Judge Mason decided against him.
Judge Madden reversed Judge Mason.
HI. Whitaker, one of the pioneers
of Atchison county, is dead at his home
in Lancaster. His death was caused by
heart trouble and a fall in which
blood vessel in his head was ruptured.
The,deaceased went to Atchison county
in 1855 and settled on claim at Par
dee. Later he moved to Atchison and
engaged in the hardware business.
About nine years ago he located in
Lancaster and was proprietor of the
Whitaker house at the time Of his
death Mrs. Emaline T'ruax, mother OF
the deceased, is resident of Lancaster
and is 90 years Of age. Mr. Whitaker
was Is years of age and is survived by