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STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.
A stock company was organized at Williamsburg to bore for gas.
Concordia citizens voted to erect an additional schoolhouse to cost $8,000.
Daniel Fultz, a pioneer farmer near Udall, was killed by a dehorned bull he was trying to halter.
Arkansas City has formally come into possession of the waterworks plant there at a cost of $108,000.
Congress passed a special pension bill granting $50 a month to Rev. Allen Buckner, of Baldwin.
It was discovered that $140,000 in fraudulent bonds of the Leavenworth Light & Heating company were being offered for sale in Chicago.
The Topeka Capital, edited by Maj. Hudson, bolted the nomination of Galen Nichols, candidate for county attorney, who at the primary secured 159 plurality over his opponent.
Judge Theo Botkin was discharged from a Kansas City hospital last week, cured of a malignant cancer. He announced that he would seek the republican nomination for senator from Reno county.
Kansas last year paid $3,033,248 in salaries to teachers of the common schools. Wyandotte paid the most for teachers' hire of any county in the state-$120,810.86. Shawnee came second with $113,485.12.
The death of George Helwig, an old resident of Labette county, caused comment among the neighbors and an inquest was held and a verdict returned that he came to his death from arsenic poisoning.
Negotiations are in progress for the establishment at Rosedale of a malleable iron works by a St. Louis firm. The plant, exclusive of the site, will cost $50,000 and will give employment to 100 men, chiefly skilled labor.
The Presbyterians at Manchester, Dickinson county, are having a lively time with their pastor, Rev. G. D. Hyden, growing out of a disagreement over salary. The trustees keep the church locked and he is unable to gain admission.
The Seventh district republican congressional convention at Hutchinson renominated Chester I. Long and elected Judge T. B. Wall and Frank Milliken delegates to the national convention. J. Q. Thompson was chosen presidential elector.
The report of the city treasurer of Coffeyville shows that the municipal system of waterworks owned by the city has cleared $1,075.59 from January 1 to April 1. The receipts of the system were about $2,100, and the expenses about $1,000.
At Galena, W. H. Hohimar has sued his doctor for $10,000 damages. He alleges that the doctor accidentally cut a hole in one of his lungs while operating for an abscess and that the hole has never healed up. He says he can and does breathe through the hole.
The state board of agriculture last week issued a statement of the acreage and condition of winter wheat in Kansas. The acreage is estimated at 2.3 per cent. less than in 1899. The condition is regarded as first-class and made still more favorable by rains of the past week.
Within the next week over 5,000 bushels of corn will be shipped from Newton to the famine sufferers of India. Two carloads will be sent from Newton, four from Halstead and one from Lehigh, Marion county. This has been contributed by the Mennonites of that section.
Students in the Kansas university in the year 1873 will remember a roly-poly little fellow with a wealth of sorrel hair who bore the name of James Harris. Well, James Harris is now one of the literary lions of London and chief editor of a heavy review. - Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Nettie E. Randall, wife of a Kansas City traveling man who was forcibly ejected from a Rock Island train near Topeka last summer because she had a broker's ticket, was recently given a judgment of $5,000 against the company because of the injuries received and humiliation caused by the ejectment.
Matters in connection with shutting down of the Citizens' state bank of Yates Center have mystified the depositors. Cashier Runyan says he knows nothing whatever of the missing $8,000. Investigation shows no record of earnings of the bank, nor of the liabilities. The stockholders will make the deposits good.
Eighteen years ago Mrs. Jeremiah McPherson left her husband and little son, Albert, in Chicago, and eloped with another man. For the past ten years she has been a repentant woman and has searched unceasingly for her son. Last week she found the missing boy, but he was an inmate of the state reformatory at Hutchinson-sent up from Wichita for larceny.
During the recent tornado near Newton, the home of Ten Travis, a wealthy farmer, was completely destroyed, he and his family narrowly escaping death. They rushed to the "cyclone hole" when the funnel-shaped cloud was discovered, but were