Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-22

The increase within a few years OF
something like so per cent in the en-
rollment OF the State Agricultural
College, bringing it up to 1896 this
year. 1ustifies the request of Pres
ldent Nichols for a considerable in
crease in the faculty, and consequent
ly in the biennial appropriation from
the Legislature.
1t has been discovered that each
session Of the Kansas Legislature
costs more than the one preceding;
which will cause no particular sur.
prise. 1t Is generally known that the
larger a family gets, the higher the
expenses pile up. Still, there has al.
ways been waste of money around
the Legislature
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Farmers Alliance Insurance company
was recently held at Mcpherson. The
year which has just closed has been
very successful for this company. 1t
Is a cooperative company and has a
membership of over 21,00C, and has
over 20 million dollars of insurance.
1t has a reserve fund of $4,000.
X. K. Mccartney of Valley Falls, |
is the only founder of the Kansas
State Teachers Association in the |
harness. In 1868 he and a few others |
teachers Of the Kansas border held |
a meeting at Leavenworth and formed |
a state association. which has grown
into a most powerful organization |
Mr.. Mccartney has attended every
one of the forty annual meetings
While "Gil" Mercer of Concordia |
was sitting by lamp reading one
night last week, some unknown per.
son entered the yard and fired a shot
from a revolver at him through the |
window The ball passed just above |
MERGERS head. The assailant was
within a few feet of the window Mr.. |
Mercer is unable to account for the |
attack.
p. M. McHale, as attorney for Mrs.
Carrie Nation, will file a $4,000 dam.
age suit against the city of Wichita
for bodily injuries, mental anguish and
nervous distress, alleged to have re.
suited from an attack made upon Mrs.
Nation by mob when she was in
Wichita on one of her visits in 1901.
The suit will be filed in the United
States circuit court.
The army board, composed of Gen;
eral Young and Major John P. French,
appointed to distribute the approprla.
ton of 100000 for post exchanges,
amusement rooms, ETC., at army posts,
has made its report and it has been
approved by Secretary Root, Among
the principal items of allotment are
$4,000 for Fort Leavenworth, Kas.,
$4,000 for Fort Riley, Kas.
John Collins will renew his efforts
to secure'a pardon from the state
penitentiary when w. j. Bailey be-
comes governor of the state. 1t is
said that Collins is in better spirits
of late and this may be due to the
fact that he expects to secure elem
ency at the hands of the incoming
governor. Collins was Kansas
university student and was convicted
of assassinating his father in Topeka.
Mrs V. NJ. Johnson, Of Highland
Kas., has gone to Florida where she
will sell IA, 90 acres of timber land to
tue highest bidder. Some years ago
Mr.. Johnson had 10000 on deposit
in a New York bank. fhe bank fail
ell. In order to protect him the bank
made deed to the $4,000 acres OF
Florida timber land to Johnson He
died a few years later and the land
was bequeathed to his widow. She
proposes to dispose of it at public
sale and invest the money in Kansas
farm lands.
Because he got drunk in Joplin
Mo-, and disturbed the peace, Wesley
Erwin, a paroled Kansas convict
must return to the pcnitentiary and
serve out the remainder Of ten-year
sentence. Erwin was convicted IN