Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-28
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stolen nine fine brood sows from hls
pens. One was taken last July and
the other eight were taken recently,
three at one time and five at another
This kind Of fooishness will be con.
tinued until some Of the gang are
planted up in the cemetery, where
they belong, Long Island Leader.
-Tink Reed has had some expert
ence with the lawyer that promised
him legal publications which never
came. We have lawyers down this
way with very short memories too. -
KenOiagton Mirror.
Possibly il the Mirror would let up
on personal fight 1t makes upon a
certain attorney just about election
time, it might get the legals from the
said attorney.
In response to our local calling
for Kafiir corn meal, who should
come with the grist but Alex Sleffel,
the man whom Bryan il elected pres
ident would have called into his cabl-
net as secretary of agriculture. We
have recently come in possession Of
information that Kafir corn meal
mixed in equal parts with wheat -four
makes the best pancakes that ever
leveled morning stomach We have
tried the pancakes and pronounce the
combination ne plus UItrq--sav the
syrup used is made from New Or
leans sugar. Norton Champion.
There must be large number Of
open wells in Rawlins county, says
the Citizen, and it is time the com
missioners commenced to go slow in
this matter 1t is a question If the
county under the law becomes re-
sponsible for these fittings up" until
the amount is collected as taxes, and
large owner of land informed us 9
short time since that his Company
never intended to pay for these jobs
They would simply refuse to pay
taxes and when they came to redeem
would pay ordinary interest because
this sort of tax was included. III
claimed that under the herd law, i
stock or anything else got into we'll OF
their land, they did so as trespassers
DIR Thos. White Of Edison, Neb
a veterinary surgeon Of considerable
experience, was in town Tuesday. Ii
speaking OF the malady prevalen
among the horses of this and othe
sections, DR.. White expressed it a
bis opinion that the disease was
stage Of blind stsggers and that /
was caused from form Of poisoning
The brain becomes affected and tn
animal soon succumbs to the disease
He suggests bleeding as a goot
remedy as soon as the horse show
symptoms OF an attack. DR.. Whit
considers the cause OF the malady a
similar to that Of pink eye and b
does not think corn stalks or worm.
corn has a thing to do with it. Thl
idea Of the doctors can he taken TO
what it is worth. No charges 10
gan Republican.
Three children, whose names W
could not learn, came near being ruI
over this morning by the west bount
passenger train, Peck Lawless, en-
gineer. The children we're on thei
way to school, and took to the rail
road track for a short cut The tran
was late and was making good time
but when midway between Agra ant
Dana, the engineer discovered tn
children on a bridge, and soundet
the usual alarm. One of the Children
boy got off the bridge and roller
down the bank, while the other two,
boy and a girl, renamed The DO.
with wonderful presence Of mint
laid down on the bridge, outside o
the guard rail, and pulled his siste
down beside him, just sas the trail
passed them. The train was stoppe'
and the train crew started hack ex
pectlng to find two mangled bodies
but the children escaped unhurt. s,
the train came on. Those children will
probably use the highway hereafter
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