Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-03-12
( KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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William Gridon, a merchant of
Leavenworth since 1857. is dead.
The Kansas State Temperance IN
ion has announced its convention viii
be held at Topeka May and 9.
Contractors of Kansas City have
united to test in the highest courts
the validity of the eight-hour law for
public work.
George Mcbride, convict. escaped
from the Kansas penitentiary the
other night. He was a trusty and was
working on the prison farm when he
fed.
Three thousand people heard Nine.
Lillian Nordica, the prima donna par
excellence, at Lindsborg, Mcpherson
county, and Lindsborg has a popula-
ton of only 1900.
John T. Stewart, of Wellington,
owns SIC quarter sections of land. 1t
figures up. to IA square miles, or
fsrm-in the richest portion of Kan
sas.
Ex-State Treasurer Howe has been
appointed receiver of the Modern
Tonties,'' an insurance order with
headquarters at Wichita, with in
structions to wind up the company's
! business.
Claude Duval, of Hutchinson,
prominent democratic politician,
wants his party to declare again for
resubmission and if the people of
Kansas vote to sustain the prohibit
tory law Duval favOrs strict en-
| forcement of the same.
Deep interest was taken in all pa
pers read before the Kansas Dairy as
sociation's meeting at Manhattan. A
parade of As thoroughbred cattle was
seen by more than 600 visitors, after
which the herd was inspected by the
agricultural college regents.
The state board Of charities after
making a thorough investigation Of
the working of the industrial school
for girls at BeIoft, decided to employ
professional cook and establish a
scientific cooking school in connection
with the school for the benefit of the
girls.
The attorney general has notified
Gov Stanley that the title to the
Fort Hays reservation, ceded to Kan
sas by the government, is clear.
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cultural college and the Emporia nor
NAL school viii be established on the
| land.
Much ill-feeling is being manifest
ed between the negroes and white
people in Topeka over the refusal Of
the school board to permit colored
children to attend the white school.
1t is understood that some of the ne
gro teachers of the city are trying to
keep the trouble alive.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at two o'clock the other morning to
rob the Leroy State bank. One door
was blown off the vault. A stick of
dynamite was placed in the second
door, but the robbers were fright
ened away before they could explode
| it. The plate glass window was
blown out.
Mrs. Sylvester Nyhart; who Iyee
southwest of AtchiSon, has 400 chick
ems and says her fowls have laid an
average of six dozen eggs a week for
which she received from IS to As cents
a dozen In, addition to this she has
set liens and has 81 little chickens.
| Mrs. Nyhart fed her hens nothing but
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better.
j. W. Robson and B. F. LoveaH, Be-
lott stOckmen, say the stock panic last
fall because of the drought was not
necessary if farmers had only known
it. They have 217 head of cattle in
Graham county, and say they have
actually been buying hay out there at
$3.50 ton. Last fall 81 a ton was re-
fused for hay by the farmers who are
now selling at $50 a ton.
Capt E. L. Glasgow. of Salina, late
of troop A, Eleventh cavalry, has been
| offered a lieutenancy in the regular
army by the president. Capt. Glas-
gov left Salina in 1898, as first lieu
tenant of company M, Twentieth
Kansas. While in Manila he was pro-
NOTED captain of company A, and on
the return home of the Kansas Fegi-
ment he was given command of troop
A, Eleventh cavalry.
State Fish Warden George Wiley
says he is unable to secure the usual
number of live fish for distribution
from the senators and representatives
in Washington. Mr.. Wiley spends
about $500 per year for fish, which
ferent parts of the state. This year
he has supplied about $4,000 fish to
Sedgwick, Clay, Wabaunsee, Marion,
Geary, Smith and Shawnee counties.
Louis Klingbel1, a citizen of Fort
Scott, was a soldier in the German
army for a long time. He was on
guard at the summer palace in Pots
dam when Prince Henry was born
He says he remembers that the roads
about the palace. were covered with
straw in order to deaden the noise OF
passing vehicles. And later he saw
Prince Henry in his mothers arms.
while the present emperor of Ger
many, a little tad, was tugging at her
skirts.-Kansas City Journal.
A trainload of emigrants from Due
bois, Neb., reached Emporia recently.
The company is composed of - fami-
lies OF Swedes. 20 persons in all They
bought 5000 acres of land to begin
with.
Rev. Charles BowIes, one OF the old