Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-02-12

The ways and means committee of
the senate met to take up the consid-
GRAFTON of the bill making an appripri-
alton for a Kansas exhibit at the St.
Louis Worlds fair and decided to ap-
propriate 100000 for next year. This
will make the appropriation for the
two years $175,O0O, as $4,000 was ap-
propriated two years ago.
Since the meeting Of the women's'
clubs of Kansas at Enterprise, a Man
ual Training school has been suggest
ed. There is now school there, the
Enterprise Normal academy, which is,
under the management of the West,
German M. E. conference. The plan
is to convert it into a manual training,
school, providing funds can be raised.
Oscar and Charles Plarlin, two
young boys living fifteen miles north
of Winfield, were in the justice court
for flogging their school teacher, Miss
Ethel Fricker. The teacher had severe
ly whipped the young boy, who secured
the assistance of his brother and they
Joined in kicking and whipping her
until 1t is feared her condition may be
serious. The boys are and IA years
Of age.
Burglars entered the house of Jacob
Durhinger, farmer living near Cher
okee and after chloroforming the fam
lily robbed the house. Mr. Durnlnger
had sold drove of hogs the day be-
fore and 1t is believed that this in
duced che thieves to make a raid on
the house. They secured only a small
amount of plumber, as the farmer had
deposited in the bank the money re-
ceived for his hogs.
The Kansas State Bar Association
gave its annual banquet at Topeka on
the night of January % at the close Of
the usual three days session. The
toasts and responses were as follows:
1.-THE Law and It's Makers" Senator
Wulfekuhler; 1.-THE Law and It's Inter
prefers" Judge Lobdell; Editors and
Lawyers" G. S. Finch; Guilty or Not
Guilty" Fred Dumont Smith; "The
Stranger Within Our Gates" Chief
Justice Clark, Of North Carolina.
Ernest Fry, of Galena, aged a.,
was run over and instantly killed by
car last week. The unfortunate lad
did not see the car and attempted to
head of an approaching funeral pro-
cession and when on the track just in
front OF the car, stumbled over dog
which was with him. Before he could
regain his feet the front trucks Of the
, car passed over hin, dragging him
about twenty-five feot and grinding his
head into a pulp, horribly mangling
his body and cutting his legs of also.
The ticket agent at Wichita recently
stretched a point and accepted
the trunk Of stylishly dressed lady in
lieu of cash as pledge for a ticket to
Guthrie, o. T. The lady in question
was Mrs. NJ. z. Crowley, who was on
her way to the Oklahoma capital,
where she is to marry P. Highly, a
banker Of Coyle, o. T. Mrs. Crowley's
fiance had sent her check with which
to buy her trousseau and railroad
ticket. After making her purchases
she had just a IS bill left. This she
gave to little boy to get changed, but
the lad never returned.
A strange animal, which has been
greatly agitating the people Of Lowell,
was killed near that place by Chris
Rickner. Nobody who has seen the
animal is able to tell what family 1t
belongs to. It recently killed dog at
Lowell and devoured all but the head
and one leg. Since then determined
effort has been made to kill it, as 1t
became a menace to stock in the COM
munity. 1t is thought the animal had
den in the big cave on the Haines
farm. This cave was partially explor.
ed a few weeks ago by a couple Of men
who went into It a distance of some
| 300 Yards.