Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-10-29
!: KANSAS STATE NEWS.


to aid Stilwell's Kansas City, Mex
leo & Orient railroad carried by
small majorities.
The 1. o. o. F. grand lodge adopted
resolution asking the legislature to
pass law making it misdemeanor
to wear any emblem of the order if
not entitled to do so, with a penalty
attached.
The First NJ. Z. church of Peabody
was dedicated Sunday by Bishop ]. w.
Hamilton, of San Francisco. The
structure as it now stands cost about
$4,000. About $3.50 was asked to set
tie obligations and in few minutes
$1,054 was raised.
j. NJ. Dunsmore, 1.-The Bald Hornet
Of the Neosho," who was speaker of
the fusion house during the legisla.
tive war of 1898, is now making
speeches under the direction of the
republican state central committee.
Dunsmore "flopped" several years
ago.
w. A. Jones, of Wichita, dele
gate to the state meeting of the
Anti-Horse Thief association at Paola,
was robbed by three negroes, a man
and two women, who sprang upon
him as he was passing dark alley.
The man held him while the women
searched his pockets.
The following officers were elected
by the Kansas Rebekah grand lodge
at Pittsburg: President, Mrs. Hattie
Fest, Atchison; vice president, Miss
Emma Stephens, Topeka; warden.
Mrs. Kate Squires, Galena; secretary,
Mrs. M. E. Mays, Columbus; treas
urer, Mrs. Della Brooks. Sedan.
Secretary of State Clark issued
articles of Incorporation to the Kan
sas City, Olathe & Southwestern
Suburban Electric Railroad and
Power company. 1t is proposed to
build short line electric road from
| Olathe to Kansas City. The persons
| interested in the company are a
number of Johnson county farmers,
through whose places the road will
| pass.
John w. Haughey, state fish COM
missioner, the past week distributed
a car of bass and croppie in the
streams between Winfield and New
| ton, thence west to the state line.
Mr.. Haughey says it is more fish
given to the state of Kansas than
| before in five years. 1t is the sec
ond car within a month to be dis
tributed within the states bounda-
| Ties.
Mrs. Roosevelt, hearing of the won
derful display of grasses at Kansas
headquarters during the recent G. A.
II. encampment, asked that it be given
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during it's dedication ceremonies,
which will take place in several days.
The presidents wife is a member of
| Grace church This is considered
most distinguished honor for the
states exhibit.
Secretary Barnes, of the Kansas
Horticultural society, reserved some
fine specimens of the states display
at Washington during the G. A. r.
encampment and which, in the name
of Kansas, were sent to President
| Roosevelt. Among the things sent to
the white house was watermelon,
weighing so pounds, several baskets
of mammoth apples, case of alfalfa
honey, which came from the apiary
OF E. Davidson, of Garden city.
Todd Brooke, the eight-year-old
son of Mrs. F. A. Brooke, of Arkan.
sas City, died of lockjaw. Nearly
three weeks ago the boy, with some
playmates, was sliding down board.
Todd ran a splinter in his hip. Part
of it was removed by the boys
mother and he felt no evil effects I'M
til few days ago, when he COM
planned of a pain in his jaw. An OPP
Grafton was performed and a piece
Of wood nearly five inches in length
was removed from the hip, but this
failed to relieve the boys suffering. .
The result of next months cleo
ton in Kansas will be known much
earlier than in former years. In the
past, Kansas has had slow way of
counting. Under the new law, the
counting of ballots is greatly facil-
itAted Only one mark is necessary
to count straight ballot, where be-
fore a mark had to be made behind
the name of each candidate on the
ballot. The straight tickets are
marked as of old. From one-haIf to
two-thirds of the tickets are straight,
80 It will take but a short while to
count out the vote. By midnight on
election day the result ought to be
known.
Bethany college (Swedish) at
Lindsborg has just celebrated its
twenty-frst anniversary. President
Carl Swensson gave the following
statistics of the FL years of Bethany's
history: Bethany was founded Octo-
Der IS, 1881, in the school room Of
Bethany church. The first morning
record was two teachers, no students
and no property. The first years
record was 81 students, $500 given
from the Messiah" concerts and SIS
surplus in the treasury. Now Beth.
any has AZ instructors, II depart
ments, sos students, 25 acres OF
ground and five buildings and the
property is worth $175,OOO.
Henry G. Parsons, star route mail
carrier from the depot to the post
Office in Lawrence, is under arrest
). 1t is alleged that he attempted to set
fire to his own home on the north
side of the river.
Mrs. Annie Randall, of Paola, is
s serving her second term as superin-
tendeat of the Miami county poor