The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-03-26
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.


Chester !. Long has been unan,.
mously nominated by the Kat sas Re.
publican legislative caucus for United
States senator.
Senator Cubbison introduced n bill
authorizing wyandotte county 10
build q 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
S2,500
Miss Helen Gould, OF New York has
notified the committee that she would
attend the international Railroad Y
NJ. G. A conference In Topeka April
2s. to May 2. President Roosevelt
has also been invited
The city council OF Louisburg has
granted a franchise TO company to
put In telephone exchange. The
company will wire the farm houses In
the surrounding country and connect
them with the Paola and sawstomie
exchanges.
William Polhamus, a farmer living
southeast Of Paola.. met with an acci
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
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The house by resolution has re
quested that the Kansas delegation
In congress support a measure to
build a battle ship to be named Kan.
sas." Since most of the Kansas con
gressmen were 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 herd Of cattle on the track
near Morland recently and killed
twenty.three and crippled eleven The
train was going at about thirty miles
an hour The engineer stated that
when the engine struck the bunch he
thought he had run into snow drifi
An obscured sky prevented the engi.
neer from seeing the animals lying on
the track.
Superintendent II. B. Pearls. OF the
Haskell Indian Institute, has returned
from Washington. ID. 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 $780, 1850. favorably receiv.
cd by the committee. The amount Is
apportioned a. follows: For the sup.
port and transportation of $50 pupils.
$l30.250: for superinttendent's salary,
$2.250. for repair and improvements.
| $1,000: for sewers. 81 600: for improve.
ments on farm. 5000: for Hre escapes
1880: for barns. live stock and i'm.
plements, $1,000.
The constructing quartermaster at
Fort Riley has received orders from
Washington to prepare plans for the
| remodeling Of the old post mess hall
which will be converted into a post
exchange and a gymnasium for the
enlisted men. An appropriation of
$25 900 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 II has been used as post
theater.
The following are the maximum
charges allowed In the stock yards
bill introduced In the Kansas legisla.
ture by Caldwell of Barbour: Driving.
yarding, watering and weighing OF
cattle. fifteen cents a head: calves.
eight cents: hogs. six cents; sheep.
four cents. II 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 at
more than 100 per cent above the mar.
ket price. Dead stock may be removed
by owners. A penalty OF 500 for the
first violation Of the act, 5000 for the
second and $500 and six months i'm
prisonment for the third Is provided
for.
Paul Torrington. who was very well
known among the younger crowd In
Topeka mp to about Ave years ago.
was In Kansas City last week He
now registers from Tomsk. Siberia,
and is on his way 10 Topeka, where
he will visit his parents for a month
II he is not recalled. Mr. TorringtoD
has been In the employ of the Siber.
ian Gold 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 five 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 Kina
will have served twenty years con.
tinnously as a member OF the Kansas
legislature. This IL the longest any
man has ever served continuously as
a member OF the Kansas legislature.
william Buchan OF Kansas City. Kas..
ia believed to have served longer. but
II was not continuous service. The
record made by Captain John Seaton
OF Atchison. who served eighteen
years In the house. was the longest
any man had ever served continuously
In that body. Senator King Is only
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