Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-02-05

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States senator.
Senator Cubbison introduced a bill
authorizing Wyandotte county to
build new 100000 courthouse in
Kansas City. Kas
Bills have been introduced In both
branches of the Kansas legislature to
increase the state superintendent OF
Instructions salary from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Miss Helen Gould, of New York has
notified the committee that she would
attend the international Railroad Y.
M. c A conference in Topeka April
%, to May 2. President Roosevelt
has also been invited
The city council OF Louisburg has
granted a franchise to a company, to
put in a telephone exchange The
company will wire the farm houses in
the surrounding country and connect
them with the Paola and Osawatomle
exchanges.
William Polhamus, a farmer living
southeast of Paola.. met with an acct.
dent that is likely to prove fatal Ten
days ago he had the end of his thumb
crushed in corn shelter, and since
has been taken with lockjaw There
Is little hope for his recovery
The house by resolution has re.
quested that the Kansas delegation
in congress support a measure to
build battle ship to be named Kan.
sas" Since most OF the Kansas con.
gressmen we're in Topeka a wag sug.
gested that the resolution be sent
over to the hotel
The engine OF Union Pacific pas.
senger train on the Lincoln branch
ran into a herd Of cattle on the track
near Morland recently and killed
twenty'three and crippled eleven The
train was going al about thirty miles
all hour. The engineer stated that
when the engine struck the bunch he
thought he had run into snow drift.
An obscured sky prevented the engi.
neer from seeing the animals lying on
the track.
Superintendent n B Pearls, OF the
Haskell Indian Institute, has returned
| from Washington. d c., where he has
| been In the interests of the local In
dian school. He succeeded In having
a bill for giving Haskell a total appro
priation OF $l56,2550, favorably receiv.
ell by The committee. The amount is
apportioned as follows: For the sup.
port and transportation of $50 pupils.
$3.50 $50; for superintendent salary.
$2,250: for repair and improvements
$4,000; for sewers, 81 900 for improve.
ments on farm, $4,000; for fire escapes
$500; for barns, live stock and i'm
plements, $4,000,
The constructing QuartermasteI al
Fort Riley has received orders from
Washington to prepare plans for the
remodeling OF the old post mess hall.
which will be converted into post
exchange and gymnasium for the
enlisted men An appropriation OF
S25 1000 was made for this work sever.
al weeks ago. The mess hall was the
largest In the United States The
mess hall experiment proved failure
in the army. and since the plan was
abandoned the Old hall at Fort Riley
has been used for many purposes.
Lately 1t has been used as post
theater.
The following are the maximum
charges allowed In the stock yards
bill introduced in the Kansas egisla.
ture by Caldwell Of Barbour: Driving.
yarding, watering and weighing OF
cattle, fifteen cents head; calves.
eight cents; hogs. six cents, sheep.
four cents 1t Is provided that a ton
Of hay shall have 1000 pounds: that
seventy pounds OF ear corn or fifty.six
pounds OF shelled corn shall be a
bushel Feed shall not be sold al
more than 100 per cent above the mar
ket price. Dead stock may be removed
by owners. penalty OF 500 for the
first violation OF the act, 5000 for the
second and $500 and six months i'm.
prisonment TOR the third Is provided
for
Paul Torrington. who was very we'll
known among the younger crowd In
Topeka up to about FIVE years ago,
was in Kansas City last week He
now registers from Tomsk. Siberia.
and is on his way to Topeka. where
he will visit his parents for a month
II he is not recalled Mr.. Torrington
has been In the employ Of the Siber.
ian Cold Dredging Company, OF Lon
don. which Is getting rich deposits Of
gold out OF the bed OF Tomsk river.
He had been in charge OF their work
there for hve years. and Is very enthu
siastic about the possibilities which
have been revealed In Siberia. espec.
tally for expert mining engineers.
With the close OF his present term
In the state senate, Louis P King
will have served twenty years con.
tinuously as member Of the Kansas
legislature This Is the longest any
man has ever served continuously as
a member OF the Kansas legislature,
William Buchan OF Kansas City. Kas
is believed TO have served longer, but
II was not a continuous service The
record made by Captain John Seaton
81 II.