Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-04-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS. )
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

| booming Webb McNaH for governor.
Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson will be at the BeIoit Chautau-
qua assembly July %. Congressman
Watson, of Indiana, is also on the
BeIoit Chautauqua programme.
W. Order, of Caldwell, has sued
George Hill, lumber dealer of that
town, for $4,000 damages, alleging
that Hill accused him (Grider) of
stealing coal from the lumber deal
er's cars.
George H. Coulson, who committed
suicide by hanging at Eddy, Ok, the
other day, was one OF the first of the
Farmers Alliance members sent to
the Kansas legislature. His home
was in Harper county.
The application made by Hutchin-
son to Andrew Carnegie for a $4,000
library building has been granted.
The only requirements is that the
town furnish $500 annually for
maintenance and site.
The Santa Fe company is giving
high school graduates the preference
in filling vacancies in the Office force
at its headquarters in Topeka. This
is done in order to encourage boys
to complete the high school course.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., said
the proposed railroad from that city
to Emporia, Kan, had fallen through
with, as Emporia demanded that the
road be completed this fall and Its
promoters couldn't see their way to
promise this.
On account of the confusion ex-
perienced in the voting of the new
Australian ballot at the recent mu.
nicipal elections in the state several
politicians have Joined in a demand
that the public shoots teach pupils
chow to mark an election ballot"
For the thirteenth consecutive time
Mr.. Glover has been elected mayor
of Bluff City. A man who can be
elected 13 times to the Office of mayor
is wonder, but how are we to gauge
the man who is willing to suffer so
continuously ?-Kansas City Journal.
The promoters of the Kansas City
Topeka electric line are having trou-
BILE getting a right of way between
Lawrence and Topeka. Farmers east
of Topeka believe it is scheme for
some regular railroad to get route
into Kansas City and they think that
they should be paid for their land.
Two big million dollar colleges in
Illinois are now managed by Kansas
men. A. R. Taylor, formerly presi-
dent of the state normal school at
Emporia, is president of the James
Millil1in university at Decatur, Ill. E.
o. Sisson, formerly of the Kansas
agricultural college, is director of
Bradley college at Peoria.
The Seventh Day Adventists of To-
peka, during the meeting of the
Southwestern Union conference in
progress there, established vege-
tartan restaurant. It may be de-
cided to make it permanent insti-
tuition. Many Adventists confine their
food to vegetables, and it is for their
benefit that the restaurant is estab-
lished.
II. A. Roose, merchant of Cald-
well, frustrated an attempt on the
part of his 2O-year-old son to elope
with Miss Jennie Cormack, aged 10.
The young folks had mare arrange
ments to have the ceremony per-
formed, but Mr.. Roose, hearing of it,
chucked his son in the house and es-
tablished such a strong guard that
he could not get out.
William Johnson, a Topeka restau-
rant man, deserted his wife and
baby 10 months ago and went to Col
orado. Six months ago Mrs. Johnson
sued for divorce and got it. The
mother died of a broken heart soon
after. She owned $4,000 worth of
property in Pueblo, Col, and her life
was insured for $1,000. Johnson has
70 oIo he
ExGov. J. w. Leedy was elected
mayor of Valdez, Alaska, at the re-
cent municipal election. Gov. Leedy
went to Alaska a little over a year
ago. He was at Valdez only a couple
of months when he was elected city
attorney. At the election this spring
he was chosen as mayor. He says
what Alaska most needs now is a
homestead law and some railroads.
The Kansas wheat growers cleaned
up 81, ESQ, 900 profit on last years
wheat crop. This was the amount OF
profit the grain itself Melted them.
It does not include the profits from
the sale of straw or from pastur-
age. According to Secretary Co
burns figures obtained from 120 OF
the largest and Oldest wheat growers
in the state the pasturage and straw
amounted to s1.96 per acre. The
average yield last year was frac-
ton over Sc cents per busheI. The
farmers had in 1916, 4s2 acres Of
wheat and raised 9o,sSS, 9O5 bushels.
Secretary Coburn has prepared
table showing acreages, annual prod
uct, value and average yield of wheat
in Kansas for the past 70 years. From
an acreage of 1880 and total yield
of 2O2, 232 bushels in 1862, the indus
try has constantly expanded until in
1901 the total acreage was 5,316,4s2
and the product was valued at $780,
61o,505.
Col. and Mrs. Everard Bierer ceIe-
brated their golden wedding at Hia-
wather the other day. This yener-
able pair have eight children, and
all were at the old home for the ceIe-
bration, including Lieut.. Bion Bierer.
who got leave of absence from the