Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-29
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

$500, collected only $50 cash from the
poll tax last year.
A farmer near Mulvane has the fol-
lowing notice in the Record: Hunters
once killed a mule on my farm. If l
want any more killed on my premises
| will do the shooting myself"
The library Of the State Agricultur.
al college has just received fifty new
books, including three dictionaries, the
writings Of John j. ingalls, and four
Voiumn's of Lain's Veterinary Medi-
cine.
]. M. HUFF, proprietor of the hotel
at Purdy, shot and killed his wife
early Saturday and then killed him
self. Domestic troubles are believed
to have caused the tragedy.
The entire business portion of Ham
lin has been destroyed by fire. A month
ago one-half was burned by the work
of an incendiary and last week the bal
ance Of the business part was con-
sumed. The total loss is $4,000.
e. W. Rothe, who was released from
the Saline county Jail last week, after
serving a three months sentence, was
arrested again by Deputy Sheriff
Meyers on the charge of stealing team
of horses at Ellsworth. The animals
were found in Rothe's possession.
Things seem to be sadly out of pro-
portion in Kansas. At the idiot asylum
one employe takes care of nine idiots.
At the penitentiary one officer safely
guards sixteen malefactors. But with
the Kansas state senate it takes four
guards or attendants for each inmate.
A new organization of students of
the University Of Kansas has been
formed at Lawrence. 1t will have for
its purpose cooperation with the
alumni and former students to push the
interests of the school in every direc-
ton.
Three Of the six surviving eX-gov-
errors attended the Inauguration of
Mr.. Bailey-George w. Click, Lyman
U. Humphrey and E. N. Morrill,. The
other three, John P. st. John, Samuel
j. Crawford and John w. Leedy, could
not be present.
Robert Bowling, of Salina, aged
about SO, one of the oldest cattlemen of
Central and Western Kansas, died at
Canon City, Col, last week. With his
brother Mick" Bowling, who is still
living at Littleton, Col, the deceased
had many daring encounters with In
dams during the early days.
A man in Rocks county was kicked
by a mule and knocked unconscious
while trying to feed his mules in new
way. He says that the first thing he
heard when he regained his senses was
his wife saying: well, I'll thank God
when he can't find any new expert
ments to try on them mules"
Patrick Raber, a 19-year-old farmer
boy living near Lawrence, had his arm
so badly mangled in a cornshredder
last week that it was necessary to am
putate it and he is in a serious condi-
ton as a result. Raber was feeding
stalks into the shredder when his glove
was caught by one of the knives and
his arm drawn into the machine and
chopped into shreds.
Congressman Jackson of the Third
district Is having troubles enough for
whole delegation. During the campaign
he fell and broke his leg. At the cleo
ton he was defeated. He went to
Washington last week to finish his
term and his leg began to bother him.
He went to New York to consult a
specialist, who found 1t necessary to
break the leg again, and reset it.
A couple at Wichita were about to be
married. Invitations to the ceremony
had been sent out and the wedding
dinner prepared On the morning OF
the day Of the marriage, however, IL
was discovered that the bride had been
divorced only five months, instead OF
the six months required by law, and
much to the modification of those con-
Cured the ceremony had to be post
poned.
Petitions were circulated in all the
churches of Arkansas City asking that
the legislature kill any measure look
ing toward the resubmission Of the
law. The petitions were
sent out by the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and will be present
ed to the legislature in very short
time in order to forestall, if possible,
any attempt to bring the question be-
fore the people.
While cleaning an oil we'll at Cha
mute, John Carson was perhaps fatally
burned. He had been using a fire in
the derrick, but thought he had extin'
guished it when the we'll on which he
was working commenced to spout oil
which caught fire and burned up the
entire drilling outfit and also the team
which was hitched to the derrick. Mr..
Carson was carried to his boarding
house and is not expected to live.
The legislature will be asked for
liberal appropriation to enable Attorney
General Coleman to push the suit
brought by Kansas to prevent Colorado