Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-25
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

The remaining assets OF the Kirb4
bank, which failed three years ago.
have been sold for $500. The originaz
amount was SAL 900.
A company has offered to bore For
gas at Wellington on an agreement
that it is to receive $4,000 if gas il
struck and not cent otherwise.
1t is printed that the threshermen
of Mitchell county have organized a
trust, and agreed upon five and onei
half cents bushel as the price for
next years threshing.
The state board of charities viii
meet this week to make the semi-
annual award of contracts for supplies
for state Institutions for the next six
months. The awards will amount "a
about 300, 900.
Winfield is having trouble casing
her gas well, but the flow continues
strong as ever. By an accident. 2e0l
feet OF casing and casing spear drop-s
ped to the bottom OF the well and So
far have resisted the efforts of the
drillers to get out.
On the farm OF the late Ex-Governor
Lewellyn near Wichita a threshing
machine boiler exploded, dangerously
injuring Otto Pierce Barger, who was
operating it. The boiler was lifted OF
the ground and crashed into the roef
OF barn, setting it on fire..
Work on the Orient road between
fu
at once. The work has been DELAYED
by suit in the supreme court brought
by the Santa Fee road to prevent a
crossing of it's tracks at Emporia |
The case has been decided in favor OF
the Orient.
D. J. Hanna, lieutenant governor
elect, is receiving an unusual number,
Of letters from girls in the Eastern
states who are anxious to marry him.
Many of them" said Mr.. Hanna, ARE
from women who are apparently cul-
tured and the majority of them in
close newspaper clippings with their
letters
An illustration of the efficiency OF
the postal department was given at
the statehOuse recently. An old farm
er in Connecticut wanted some infor.
nation from the Kansas Agricultural
department. He addressed his letter,
''The Horse Useful, Kansas" The
letter was delivered promptly to Sec
rotary Cobrun, where it properly be-
longed.
Emmett Crockett, a young man liv-
ing in Fleming, is lying between life
and death at his home in that camp
Ii.
His probable murderer, a young man
and cannot be found. The trouble
arose through youEg Crockett object
ing to Mccall keeping company with
his sister.
Through efforts of Senator Burton.
an inspector has been ordered to abb
lene to investigate the feasibility of 8
complete rural delivery system for
Dickinson county, reaching every
farm. Eleven new routes are contem-
plated and some already have been
approved. With those already in oper-s
auon and the star routes, the county
will be thoroughly covered.
Three carloads Of white paper wifi
be used by the state printer in pub
fishing Secretary Coburn's biennial
report. The legislature two years ago
realized the benefits derived by the
farmers from the book and passed a
law providing for the publication of
10000 volumes. The book is about
two-thirds completed. Mr.. CoburRs
says that it will be ready for distribu-,
ton by January 1.
The thirteenth biennial report Of
the state auditor, Mr.. Cole, shows that
of the $2,624 ,9O5.96 of appropriations
fiscal year ending June 80, 1902, ST.
258,593.61 was expended, leaving
balance of 1886, 312.35. The largest
amounts unclaimed at the close of the
year were from the appropriation to
complete the interior of the state
house. OF this appropriation $88,559.3
was not expended. The adjutant gen.
eral turned back $21 ,232.40. The Agri-
cultural college has a balance Of ST.
5000 and the penitentiary has left
$4,000.
State Auditor Cole has prepared a
statement showing the amount Of
Quantrill raid claims paid by the state
and will suggest to the legislature
that it should ask congress to REIN
burse the state. Kansas has paid, all
told, $467 ,288.17 in raid Claims" said
he. '"This is a debt the federal gov
eminent should pay. 1t was created
by raids and depredations committed
during the civil war. The govern
ment has paid other claims of this
character and should pay this. The:
state has paid up the claims in full,
and is now able to render a complete
account to the government. With a
united delegation behind the matter, I;
believe that congress would appropri-
ate money to reimburse u.s."
Sir William Muir, who LAS just re-
signed the principalship or the Uni:
versity of Edinburgh at the age of SO,
has been in the public service sincel
1887, spending much time in India