Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-03-05
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! KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Kansas university has received ma
chinery with which to produce liquid
air.
Rush county republicans elected
solid delegation for James A. Trout
man for governor.
T. B. Murdoch, editor of Eldorado
Republican, withdrew from the race
for the republican nomination for
congress in the Fourth district.
Birdie AGcCarty, aged %, who stole
a horse and buggy from a liyeryman
at Fort Scott, was arrested at BaX-
ter Springs and taken back. She is
now in Jail at Fort Scott.
At the hour for church services at
Hutchinson the other evening the
First Baptist church was destroyed
| by fire. A revival had just closed and
| the converts were to have been bap-
TIED. The church was erected at a
cost of $4,000.
a man in johnson. county has es-
| tablished new record. His wife and
his married daughter gave birth to
babies on the same day. Was there
| ever before a man who became a
| grandfather and a father at the same
time kansas City Journal.
w. J. Babb, of Wichita, who led the
anti-fusion forces in the populist
state conference last week, will be a
candidate for governor. Babb pre-
| diets fusion between democrats and
populists. He thinks the populists
will be given governor and chief JUS
tice.
A report from Lincoln county says
that a number of cattle are dying
| there from what is supposed to be in
sufficient food of the proper nourish-
ing qualities Cattle cannot be taken
through a winter on straw and straw
is about all the feed there is on some
| farms.
| Congressman Charles Curtis has in
troduced a bill in congress extending
| the provisions of an act granting pen
sions to soldiers and sailors, approved
| June 27, 1890, to the Eighteenth and
| Nineteenth regiments of Kansas cav
airy volunteers. The Eighteenth was
mustered into service at Fort Har-
| per in 1867 and the Nineteenth at To-
| peka in 1868, both to fight Indians.
Calvin Ramsey, nephew of Register
of Deeds Ramsey, of Fort Scott, met
with an accident that nearly cost him
his life. While prodding some cattle
on his farm with the handle of a
| pitchfork a fractions colt ran against
the fork and thrust one of the prongs
through his body, barely missing the
bowels. The physicians say it came
within a quarter of al inch of killing
him instantly.
w. S. Picken, principal of the new
auxiliary state normal school at Hays.
was five years superintendent of the
| Eureka schools and seven years super
intendent of the lola schools. He
graduated from the state normal in
1887. Since 1898 Prof. Picken has
been associate professor of history
in the state normal. The auxiliary
school at Hays will open September
2. Miss Anna Kellar, of Montgomery
county, will be Prof. Picken's assist
ant.
The Kansas grand lodge, a. o. U.
W., will hold it's next meeting at
Wichita. The following officers were
elected: Master workman, ex-senator
G. II. Lamb, Yates Center; recorder,
E. NJ. Forde, Emporia; receiver, NJ.
B. Light, Winfield; medical examiner,
DR.. ]. S. Crumbine, Dodge City. The
resolution to meet every two years
was voted down. The state superin-
tendent of insurance was urged to
enforce the law against all flake"
or doubtful fraternal insurance com
panies.
A rather novel test of the Kansas
marriage law is to be made at Smith
| Center. Two years ago a woman was
divorced in the Smith county co 1rt
and four days later she went to Ne
braska with a man and married him
The Kansas law forbids remarria sc
until six months have elapsed after
divorce. The woman is now seek IN g
divorce from her second husband and
as ground alleges that the MARI sc
was Illegal. The question before 5he
court will be whether or not leesi
marriage in Nebraska can be held s1
illegal one in Kansas.-Kansas City
Journal.
Mr.. Wiley, chief chemist of the &C.
partment of agriculture, says thst
Kansas is not to be considered seri-
ously in the development of the slsgar
| OSSG 1uuuSIIy, anu 1Of UnlS reason alS
would refuse to give Kansas congTess
men and senators any portion of &c
free sugar beet seed he is distT bu-
ting This is denied by Mr.. CoburD,
secretary of the Kansas state board
of agriculture, who said ''the avera ge
profit on sugar beets in western Ear-
sas per acre realized by 81 groves
from whom figures were obtained as
$17.Os, and ranged, in some instances,
as high as $43 per acre. Fifteen 81
the most successful or painsta&ing
growers raised an average of ncs
quite II tons per acre (the maximum
per acre was 18.41 tons), yielding en-
average of 1859 per cent. of sugar ana
82S.48 profit per acre. All this vas
exclusive of the 81 per ton DO
paid by the state
Statistics show that Kansas 1a1-sa
ses0nd in the manufacture of oI=o-
margarine, with about % per cent.
of the total product, and that III
is first with 40 per cent.