Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-15
Kansas Notes.


Kansas towns
Thieves robbed the safe of Haight
& Hine, Sterling liverymen, Of 1856.
A Mr., Youngbow, aged 60, is looking
for wife in Hutchinson.
Many big strings OF fish are caught
by Atchison people at Doniphan Lake.
Opera house at Lawrence was badly
damaged by Gre,
Fire destroyed several small build
ings at South Haven, Sumner county
independence Gas company has
struck fine well on the Greer farm
west of town.
Mrs George Cert, wife of Wichita
barber, shot herself fatally through
the left lung,
Charles f. Scott of lola has resigned
as state senator because he is presi-
Dental elector.
Charles Curtis, Santa Fe switchman
ut Emporia, was knocked of car
and fatally injured.
Frost took MP at the sweet pota-
toes in the Solomon valley last week
Nothing else was hurt
The streams and pools out about
Leoti are full Of ducks just now and
the marshes full OF snipe.
The young fellow who committed
suicide at Downs the other day smoked
as many as 100 cigarettes in a day.
independence has n Mason who 10
ninety years of age and has been u
member of the fraternity for sixty
nine years.
Several cars of lumber have been
shipped in the past weeG by parties
intending to build large corn cribs this
fall Smith County Pioneer
One OF the institutions of Hartford
is blind horse doctor who gets drunk
and spends half his time in the Gala
boose
The Burlington Fair association is
able TO pay all awards and after pay"
ing expenses to put away u sum for
next seasons show.
Mr.. Rod Schelnkoenig lives at
Broughton, and, naturally, he has the
cattle business up there all his own
way.
Governor Morrill, has offered re-
ward OF $500 for the arrest and con-
viction of the murderers of Martha
McCord of Lawrence.
Two plows more than 1000 years
old are on exhibition at lola. One
was brought from Jerusalem and the
other from Egypt.
MIR. Amen, of Brown county, is not
a Methodist, and, OF course, never sat
in the amen corner, but he has raised
the biggest ear of corn ever exhibited
in Everest - Atchison Champion.
q. &. Sheldon OF Topeka, is under
arrest for securing passes from rail
loads under pretense OF being news
paper editor, and selling them to
scalpers.
In some manner the prisoners at
the county jail in Topeka procured
Chinese lantern and placard which
read: "Rooms to Let" These they
hung outside Of one of the second
story windows and many reunion
strangers were allured into applying
for lodgings at q place from which
they later fed in terror
Some startling hg ures have been
furnished by the Atchison Champion.
According to its report on Corn Carni-
val day the Office force had kissed 1853
girls up to o'clock, who wore red
ears Of corn. This means, in an ordi-
nary working day of ten hours, 1880
Atchison kisses. Not all OF life's
pleasures are denied to rrinters
The name of a Cawker City mans
mother-in-law is Awe, and she Is said
to be a very good mother.in-law, too.
Jacob Marks of Indiana, who is Wis
ting Mr.. and Mrs. Joe coleman of
Topeka, was captain in an Indiana
regiment during the war, and at the
storming OF Mission Ridge q shell
burst over his head and knocked him
senseless. He remained unconscious
for over two years, and when he at
last came to himself he found himself
at home and the war over.
County Treasurer Eden Lowe, OF
Bourbon county, has brought suit
against the county commissioners in
an action which will be full of inter-
est to all Of the counties which have
procured the passage of special fee
and salary bills. The last legislature
passed number OF these bills. In
Bourbon county the treasurer's salary
was cut from 1000 to 80, 500. and Mr..
Lowe is suing for the difference. The
question involved is the constitution
atty of the special law.
Eureka Messenger: During the fall
months Kansas climate is the finest in
the world. The nights are delight
fully cool and during business hours
the sun gives just enough warmth to
impeach the testimony that autumn
days are melancholy. The peoples
Joy in such grand weather is only
married by the presence OF the political
campaign, which comes every year
Just at the time when Kansas would
otherwise be happy.
Fifty-five car loads OF cattle were
out of Clark county one day
last week, and the same day herd OF
SEQ Idaho horses were driven In to