Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-01-02

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THE HERALD.
PHILLIPSBURG. KANSAS.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SATURDAY, JANUAHr ID, 1886.
Norton has fine new opera house.
The Beloit Gazette has shown much
enterprise in issuing its customary pic
toriaI annual.
VIII c. Thornton. a newspaper Ish-
mael.te, formely Of this county, has
started paper in Topeka called the
Free Kansan.
Convictions are continually being
made under the prohibition law. 1t IS
being generally conceded that this self
same law is pregnant with vitality.
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There was meeting OF citizens of
northwest Kansas, the other day at
Bird City, Cheyenne county, held for
the purpose Of expressing Indignation
ut COMMISSIONS Sparks, and to me-
molialize Congress for relief.
The following item from the Oberlin
herald will give something of an idea
OF the value of town property in that
tbriling little city situated toward the
setting sun.
John Peterson has bought the cor
ner lot ON which his bakery stands.
The price paid the Lincoln Land Co.
was $1,000. -
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Hon. Thomas Cavenaugh. formely an
old politician of western Kansas, and
Ex-secretary Of State and Ex-Register
of the l.. $. Land Office at Oberlin,
has started a paper at Olympia, Wash
ington Ter, called the partisan - Il
tits never an offensive PARTISAN to
the majority of its readers, it will do
well. All great men get TO journalism
sooner or later.
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Albert NJ. McHenry, the Stockton
bi9amist, who served about two and 9
half years in the penitentiary for mar
rying q girl in Mcpherson county
when he had wife and four chiIdrer
living in Stockton, has again beer
heard from. This time he turns up d
AraPahoe, Neb., where he has agair
espoused connubial felicity.
Just hear the Holablrd, CDakota) AID
yocate brag over ITS water facilities
With prohibition in force in tina
country there would be a terrible
dearth of drinkables.
&" When you talk about water, HoIa
bird holds the grid iron over any town
in This part OF Dakota, with three goo,
We.ls aud plenty of water in them -
c. W. Mcdonald, editor of the Con
cOrdIa Empire, has been sued for ibe
by the editor of the Concordia Demo
crat. Mac. always was a lucky chap
Not content with making him banker
repl sentative and railroad director
the fates have now favored him wit
he mammoth advertisement of a libt
suit. Surely the good things OF thi
life are unevenly distributed.
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The Thomas County Cats spine
still curved over the school land que:
ton in that vicinity. II now claim
THAT County Clerk Stevens OF Sherid a
county retained in his own possessio
the injunction which was allowed b
Judge Pratt and forwarded by til
deputy Sheriff to Clerk of the Coul
ratum. 1t seems that the deputy mad
mistake and gave it to the wron
Clerk.
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There is IL prevalent suspicion ov,
the country that Miss Elizabeth Clev
land wrote that part Of the President
Message ] referring 10 the Mormon que
lion. Wei, what if she didP
might better be her than some sma
kalaried clerk The majority of T
ports or proclamations purpOrting
come from public officers, really en-
nate from The taxed brains of sa5ord
mates. Many colossal figure heads ar
after an. but mammoth DlaUiarlst