Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-12-11
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

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About sixty cars Of beets have been
hipped from Lakin this fail
New potatoes like those of the June
raising are on the Kansas market.
Walter L. Payne, deputy county clerk
Df Douglas county, has been selected
Tor the place OF chief clerk in the office
Of Thomas T. Kelly. state treasurer
Hlect.
The kilograms have noted that Will
BOrah is a leading candidate for United
States senator in Idaho. He formerly
lived in Rice County.
John A. Reeds. of Fort Scott, Ger
tainly can boast of a fighting family
His great-grandfather served in the
war OF 1872, his father served in the
Mexican war, he himself spent four
Eears in the civil war, and his son was
! volunteer soldier in the Philippines.
Three Smiths were elected to office
N Russell county. One was elected
county clerk, one county Superintend-
mt and the other coroner. Two were
IN the Republican ticket and one ON
he Populist.
P. H. Anderson, of Saline, has given
$4,000 to the new Swedish mission
University which will be built in NC
Pherson. The city of MCPHERSON has
given $17,O 900 and a tract of land to the
Institution, which will be the only uni
Tersity OF its kind west Of Chicago.
Attention is called to the fact that
he four most efficient orators in the
asst campaign were editors, not law
rers. They were Henry j. Allen of the
ottawa Herald, Thomas A. McNeal Of
he Topeka Mail and Breeze, Z. w.
Hoch of the Marion Record and Charles
:. Scott of the lola Register.
The Cowley county district court has
granted Oscar Schmidt, a restaurant
Keeper and alleged jointist, an injunc-
ion restraining the city officers from
searching his place for intoxicating
liquors. This is the second injunction
# the kind granted on the grounds of
Persecution.
Ralph Boucher, the 10-year-old son
" A. Il. Boucher, who lives fourteen
niles east Of Wichita, was thrown from
pony Tuesday. His foot became en-
angled in the stirrup. While dragging
he boy the pony passed in front or his
Ather. The latter was so shocked that
he was unable to catch the animal.
Lieutenant w. c. Fitzpatrick, Seventh
infantry, one of the STUDENT Officers at
ending the general service and stah
college at Fort Leavenworth, has just
old part of his land at Beaumont,
Tex, for IA million dollars. Lieutenant
Fitzpatrick owned forty acres OF land
n the oil district near Beaumont. he
soId several acres for "a million dollars
he will continue in the army as stu
lent officer at the war college in 1eaV-
inWOrth.
JEFF Calhoun, the ex-convict who
Vas caught trying to break into the
aouse of B. f. Dienst, sheriff-elect, is
! lead at Parsons. Calhoun ran when
Dienst and his son appeared after hav-
ng being awakened by the noise of the
burglar. They caught him in the alley
back of the house. He showed fight and
he sheriff hit him with an ak just be-
Aind the ear. The burglar had used the
TX, which he had stolen from a neigh
Dor, in trying to break open the door.
It is understood that the salaries of
Judges of the supreme court are TO be
Increased to $4,000 a year by the leg1s-
lature this winter. They now receive
$4,000. The constitution provides that
The pay of the judges shall not be in
creased during their respective terms
Of office" but the proposed increase
would apply to the judges who will be
elected in 1904, when the benehciaries
Of the present court, should they be re-
4lected, would be Justices Johnston,
Smith and Cunningham. Two years
later, or following the election Of 1906,
Justice Burch would come in, and the
following election of 1908 Justices
Greene, Pollock and Mason.