Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-05-13
Observation-Disclosures

writing to find out how tokeep sober;
The answer was to take the pledge,
He also sent fifty 2-eent stamps to find
out how to raise beets, and received o.
postal card REPLY: "Take hold of the
tops and publ" III was this same per-
son that sent ftDy l-cent stamps to a
fellow in the East for twelve useful
household articles, and received q pa
per of needles, He Is u relative to a
man who sent 30 10, find out how to.
write without pen and, inls, and the
answer was airy n lead pencil" He
must be twin brother to, the man
who'sen S2 to- find out how TO make
money without work, and was told in
one black line on a postal card to-
"Fish for suckers like we do,"--Hor-
ton Commercial.
The law fxingastandard Of weights
and measures, will go,into effect about
June l. Kansas, heretofore has never
had a. Standard which has, been the
cause of much confusion, and the new
law will tend to, obviate this, The
standard in pouuds'per bushel as fixed
by the new act, is given herewith:
Wheat, 60; rye, 50I shelled CORN 56
ear corn, 10; rice corn, 50; sorghum
seed, So; buckwheat, so; barley, 49,;
oats, 80; bran; 90, conmeal, SOL, beans,
60; clover seed 60,;millet seed, 5O, Irish,
potatoes, 60, sweet potatoes, so; tur-
uips, $751; flaXseed, 50; onions, 81; salt.
so; castor beans, 46I;bluegrass, 20; tim
othy, 45J: dried peaches, 33j dried APP
pless "a; green'apples,, 4S,OoalI 9Ollime,.
So':kaffif corn, So
Kansas has a. fish laws butit is, per-
si$tentlN violated! The law is,explicit
enough and penalties heavy; but peo-
pie refrain from complaining of it's
OPEN violation, and officers fail Of
Naking arrests This, is the 'close
season." and no game Ash, can be-
legally taken by hook, and line, or in
any other way, before the first OF
July. Still, many streams and. lakes
are lined with fellows,whO taking
both bass and!croppy.
Secretary Of State Bush has, COM
pleted the compilation. of the laws y
passedl by the recent Legislature and .
they are now printed and ready
to be bound by the state printer
There. were 2S1 bills passed. $50 be-
came laws and 279 were signedi by the
governOE Leedy vetoed only one bill
the railroad bill Hefailedi to sign
the Neosho county levy bill, but 1t be-
came. a'law nevertheless.
The.new woman in Kansas, has many
occupations, Mrs.. Ida Copeland, h.
Kansas,woman arrested in Kansas City
recently, iS,said to be the only woman
chickenl ttiief in the world She re-
Gently went out into'the country near
0lathe, and made a,haul of 100 chicllh
ems inone night. She has ,tuaEeled all
over the state, and it, is believed that
many mysterious, cases, of wholesale,
chicken, STEALING may be traced to her.
Hnnnewell is an, incorporated city.
Uptto 1893 it held, regular city elec''
tions. But whehthe Cherokee Strip
opened nearly if, not, quite all of it's
officers hacame nOnrresidantS of tho
city and finally allDof the city Offices
became vacant. No city election has,
been held since. The CITY as corpor-
alton owns soma pronarty and has,
money due on it,.
The state boar3Iof railroad commits,
sioners has addressed! q, litter to the,
railroads stating that the State job
bers' association, complains that the d,
rates, which the. supreme. court decided
in the Symns Grocery oompany's> case,
to DO jtlst and fair are, not in eaect,
and that the railroads must puttsuch
Hates,im effect or show cause whyrthey,
refuse.
The first politioal convention of any
consequence called in, Kansas thiSyear'
L - To1s az H..
nominate Republican candidate for
|, Judge of tina 1hirtVesecOnd district
The district is, composed of nine counr
ties and is one of thS largest on tina
western border: The presents Judge. ia
| W.. E. Hutehison a Republican,
II John CAmpball, living at Elwood,
while searching for mushrooms ne
gently, found What he supposed to- be
two gold bricks, wrapped in cloth,
n lying under bank Hl9 refused
| $1,000 each for them, thinking he
could get more, and upon taking them
TO jeweler at st. Joe, found they
were coppeM
Ex-Attorney General p B. Dawes
will go into the law business in Leav-
enworth.
State Bank Commissioner John w.
Breidenthal announces that the case,
against Colonel Alexander Warner,
charged with wrecking the Baxter
Springs bank, will ba dismissed, War;
ner having paid all claims against him,
The bank had onlyv1o cents on hand
when it failed.
A. D. Hubbard, ex-state president OF
the A. P. A., is, under arrest onea
charge of embezzling funds of the
Hamilton Printing company, of which
he was receiver. He was short about;
$4,000. His bon3Smen are proceeding,
against him. Hubbard is in jail al
Topeka.
Samantha Margaret Lucinda are the
first three names Of Kansas girl who
recently married Montana clergy.
man. Her fathers name was. Jehu
Baltazer Boggs, which shows, that the
sins of father may also beivisiaed
upon his daughters
ThousandRof acres of school land in
Western Kansas, which were taken off
the market two years ago on account
of some experiments in Irrigation, have
been placed on sale again by State
superintendent Stryker.
William Harvey Brown, who made
fiaa. collection of animals for the
state university during his visit to