Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-02-19


and district courts of the United
States at Kansas City, Kas., and for
other purposes, has been reported
favorably to the senate.
That new divorce bill before the
Kansas house has much to say about
the respective rights of husbands and
wives But it is voiceless on the is
sue raised by Horton preacher the
other day when he spanked his wife
with board
One member of the legislature in
one day last week asked one railroad
attorney in Topeka for twenty-seven
trip passes, and got them. They were
for total Of 1850 miles, and if paid
for at regular rates would have
amounted to $437.10.
In order to get all the old Price
raid claims in shape so that the state
can determine what to do with them,
Senator Porter introduced a bill pro-
viding for the appointment of COM
missioner to investigate the claims
and file a report with the legislature
two years hence.
Discussion on Ex-Governor Stanley's
reward" has been renewed. 1t is
proposed to make him a federal judge,
which revives the old plan of dividing
the state into two federal judicial
districts. A federal judgeship is a
life job, and the most desirable place
on the political calendar.
There are 1873 employees about the
Kansas senate. Presenting that each
is paid SO day, each of the forty
senators commands patronage to the
amount of $1O35 day. The senator
himself is a SO man. Therefore each
senator is costing the state $685. a
day. And some of them are cheap at
half the price.
The senate and the house differed
on the question of the amount of post
age necessary to send out Secretary
Coburn's agricultural reports. The
senate gave him $4,000 and the house
cut it to $4,000. The senate refused
to concur, and the house, refusing to
recede, the bill was sent to a confer
ence committee.
A section hand working in Wallace
county was killed by train the other
day 1t was found that he had $2,056
on his person. 1t represented his
saved earnings during sixteen years
of working at the poorest paid job on
a railroad 1t seems to prove that
man can lay by something, no matter
what his job may be.
W. s. Commers, brother of the
at his place by being thrown from a
as his pace by being thrown from a
windmill. Commers climbed upon the
windmill to oil it. A sudden gust of
wind moved the wheel and brushed
him off. He fell forty feet to the
ground. striking on his face. He died
while on the way to the hospital.
The surviving members of the Tenth
Kansas cavalry want their regimental
flag placed with the other Kansas reg
mental flags in the adjutant gene
rails office. 1t is now in the possession
of heirs of the late Governor Harvey.
Senator Stewart has had the senate
adopt a resolution, authorizing the ex-
ecutive department to negotiate for
the flag.
James Uhl, who lived fifteen miles
west OF Leavenworth near Jarbalo,
hanged himself in the barn of his
grandmother, Mrs. Phoebe Porter last
week. Uhl was 81 years old. He has
been very dispondent and seemed to be
demented. The farmers living near
refused to touch the body until the
coroner arrived from the city and or
dered II taken down.
Including Chester I. Long, Kansas
has had fifteen United States senator's
James H. Lane and Samuel c. Pome-
roy were the FIRST two. The successors
of Lane have been Edward Ross,
Robert Crozler, Alexander Caldwell,
James H. Harvey, Preston B. Plumb,
Bishop W. Perkins, John Martin, Lu.
Glen Baker and ]. r. Burton. Pome-
roy's successors have been John j.
ingalls,, William A. PETER, William A.
Harris and Chester I. Long
w. E. Rlchey. Of Harveyvllle, one