Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-01-15
5 KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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huSSeu ana MarSna0 counties
started the new year with empty
jails.
Senator H. B. Miller, of Usage City.
republican candidate for governor.
is said to be one of the best Bible
class teachers in the state. He
structs large Sunday school every
Sunday.
Daniel Kelley, farmer near BeIoit,
has dug IA wells and bored over so
on his farm in an effort to find water,
but has failed to get it. He is not
discourag ed and will buy land adj
joining his place and keep on boring
for water.
The Beloit Call tells a remarkable
story of how young mans life was
saved by a package of love letters
which he carried in his pocket. The
bullet which was intended for him
struck the letters, melted and dripped
harmlessly into his left shoe.
Under the direction of the state
agricultural college, in connection
with the federal goEernment, some
positive efforts are being conducted
in Harper county and other parts of
| the state to determine what can be
done to help the cattlemen to better
grass supplies.
Visitors to the Kansas state prison
and there are many-carry away
with them kindly feelings for J. C.
Brown, the warden's chief clerk. Mr..
Brown is quiet and transformations,
but is thoroughly posted on matters
connected with the prison and he has
| the ability to convey desired informa-
ton to the inquirer.
Frank Kidd, a 12-year-old boy at
Wichita, is defying the board of edu-
cation in it's threatened enforcement
of the compulsory education law and
is organizing conspiracy among the
boys with whom he plays baseball and
engages in fstic tournaments, to stay
out of school. The school board is
determined to enforce the law.
In his Eminent Men of Kansas
Hill P Wilson contributes the sketch
of Charles Robinson, and gives him
first place in the states history.
| This, and a reflection he puts upon
James H. Lane, offers an opportunity
for the friends of the latter to re-
vive the ancient Lane-Robinson feud,
although long since passed from the
world of action.
a. M. Middleton, of Ports, who
makes. a speciality of raising poultry
for the market, is feeding 20 dozen
chickens in crates just large enough
for them to stand in comfortably,
hoping by special attention to their
feed and by keeping them confined
to hurry their growth and get them
to market in a shorter time than is
usually required.
Twenty-one years ago W. J. Trous-
dale went to Harvey county with
$4,000, with which he purchased 100
acres of land. He soon after com
bined stocl1raising with farming. He
now owns 5000 acres of Harvey coun-
ty land worth $4,000 and $500 acres
in Edwards county, worth $4,000.
He also has 700 head of cattle worth
$4,000 and IS business houses in
Newton worth $4,000, besides a num-
Der of residences in Newton. He is
also president of national bank in
Newton.
The board of directors of the Kan
sas penitentiary entered into pre-
1iminary agreement to purchase the
largest part of Staiger's island, body
of land in the Missouri river opposite
Lansing. The directors agreed to
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and more if available for farming
purposes, at the rate of SIS anacre.
The land will be used to raise vege-
tables for prisoners. In addition
the coal rights underlying the island
are worth So an acre to the state in
connection with the penitentiary
shaft.
A meteorological summary of the
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Snow, of the University of Kansas,
in which he says: The most notable
features of the meteorological record
for the year 1901 are the deficient
rainfall, the abundant snowfall, the
low run of wind, the high mean tenn
perature, the large number of hot
days and the few rainy days and
thunderstorms. Of the 33 years pre-
ceding. only five had less rain, only
four more snow, three less wind, eight
higher mean temperature, one a
greater number of hot days, and none
so few rainy days and thunder
storms.
Gov. Stanley and State Superin-
tendent Nelson have issued a joint
letter to the superintendent and
principals of the public schools of
] CnS state requesting bAiGHl 10 dII<1AS q
for the observance OF Kansas day,
January 80, which is also the date of
the birth of the late President VIII
liam Mckinley. The superintendent
are also requested to take charge of
the work of collecting fund to as
sist in erecting the national memorial
monument to Mckinley at Canton, o.
They viii take charge of the money
raised by the pupils in the schools
and remit it to Gov. Stanley, who
has genel al supervision of the work in
the state.
Frank C. Meekin, an American sol
der in the Philippines recently SEN
fenced to be shot for entering the
services of the enemy IN violation Of
the war; formerly lived at Pittsburg,
this state, and has relatives there
who do not believe he was rightly
! convicted.
The Missouri Pacific is ready to
build a railroad that is not vented.