Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-11-27


The forestry commissioner at Dodge
City is going to give away million
trees next year.
At base ball game between Gypsum
City and Roxbury the score ran up as
high as So to 13 before all the bats were
worn out
Jerome Pitney, who owned a 1000
acre ranch in Pottawatomie county.
died suddenly last week of apoplexy.
He leaves widow and two sons.
Five years have elapsed since the
Greeley county Jail had a prisoner in il.
The poor farm, too, has such small
patronage that it is advertised for sale.
The wheat throughout Central Kan
sas is looking fine and the grain is in
much better condition than at this
time last year. The stand is better and
the plant is much stronger.
Rock Island freight No. 81, west
bound, loaded with stock, ran into
Union Pacific local No. Is, near Perry
The Rock Island engine and two cars
were derailed. Eight head of cattle
were killed.
Harvey Berkeley of Hamlin has es-
tablished the record for fast corn
husking. He shucked lis bushels OF
corn in five hours. Another Hamlin
man holds second place because he
husked 134 bushels in seven hours.
Four new banks have been chartered
by the state charter board. They are:
State Bank of Englewood, capital So
600; State Bank of Charlton, capital
$4,000; State Bank of Ada, capital $10,-
900; Citizens State Bank of Garrett,
capital $4,000.
California passenger train No. s ran
into an open switch at Newton Thurs
day and three cars left the track. The
bagga geman and mail clerks were in
jured slightly but the three passenger
coaches that left the track were unoc-
cupied and very little damage was
done.
Charles Tomlinson, II years old, was
killed west Of Ottawa while hunting
ducks. TOmlinsOn and Benjamin Clark
were riding in cart when the formers
gun was discharged. The whole charge
struck him in the face. He lived about
ten minutes. Clark went to farm
house and telephoned to town.
A young man, Charles Brown by
name, stripped off his clothes and
threw himself from a second story win
dow in Osawatomie the other night. AS
an example of the curious VagarieS
which take possession of the insane
it is reported that on being picked up
he said he wanted to pray for his
brother and that it was so dark in his
room that he couldn't see to do it. He
has been sent to an asylum.
Miss Lizzie Boyce, the Brown county
girl who received word that she had
been left 1 million dollars by an aged
man on account of kindness shown
him, has become very popular, al
though she is not yet in possession of
the money. She has received many
proposals Of marriage and many men
admirers have sent their pictures to
her. Every day, through the mail, she
receives business offers, investment
chances and requests for charity.
A story is being told of a Southern
Kansas cattle man who was riding on
train a few days ago with shippers
ticket, which had really been issued to
another person, a much younger man.
When the conductor took the ticket
and read the description on it of the
man to whom it had been issued, he
looked at the elderly cattleman and
said: "This ticket describes a much
younger man than you are. 1 can't let
you ride on it, 81 can explain the
matter said the cattleman, very cas-
lily. That ticket was issued to me at
the time I ordered those cars in which
to ship my cattle to Kansas City"
"She seems to have abandoned her