Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-12-03
Kansas Notes

Henry Allen, the purchasing agent
for the Newspaper trust, is said to
have designs on the La Cygne Stand
ard.
A negro in Olathe has sued for $500
damages because the proprietor of
bowling alley refused to admit him as |
spectator.
Out in Haskell county the commits
sioners make an appropriation OF $500 |
year as an inducement to the only |
doctor in the county to stay there.
Judge Adna P. Gristlebone was
"reticent" at the Union depot last
night on his way to Washington.
He says he will issue tatement in a
few days.
The story from Arkansas City that
an Indian buck was seen propelling a
baby buggy while his wife followed,
contentedly chewing gum, calls for
affidavits.
Attention is called to the fact thai
aside from small collapse caused by
an absconding cashier there hasa't
been bank failure in Kansas for
year and half :,
How the Topeka papers will howl,
exclaims the Hutchinson News, "at
Tom Anderson when they see the deep
! dye fhis villiany coming up through
the roots of his hair" The principal
defect with this figure of speech is
the fact that Mr.. Anderson has for
fifty years been as bald as billiard
| ball.
The only Kansan now in Washing
ton who hasn't got hammer out for
someone else is Carrie Nation; she
prefers to use a. Ratchet.
The word "ooze," heretofore sacred
to dastardly murders, is being used in
North Topeka to describe feeble oil
well.
A man who padded the Missouri Pa
cific payroll in Kansas City, Kas., is
in Jail. His blunder was in not at
taching himself to the legislature in
stead Of a railroad
1t may be observed, in connection
with the meeting of the State Histor-
ical society December that Kansas
has had, in the fifty years of its exist
ence, more history" worth preserv-
ing than Eastern state can accumulate
in 300.
The man in Burden who is reputed
to be too tired to get out of the way
of wheel barrow seems to have
taken up his residence in the right
town.
Roy Crabb of Macksville started for
Florida Saturday, and If he makes
progress backward, like the rest of
the family, he is expected to finish
in the vicinity of Puget Sound.
"You remember" says the Atchison
Globe, "the old story of Ali Bahia and
the Forty Thieves, from The Ara
bian Nights They are now referred
to as ALI Bahia and the Forty Cap
tains of Industry"
Instead of Governor Bailey display
ing irritation over being called "W.
Josh Bailey" by the Eldorado Repub-
lican the governor rather enjoys 1t.
1t used to make Governor Stanley
fighting NAL to be referred to as "W.
Eugene"
The last remnant of the Ottawa
street railway was sold this week for
So. All that was left of 1t was a pile
of ties, thoroughly seasoned and suit
able for stove wood. The mules, cars
and rails were sold several years ago.
But ottawa will always be a good
town as long as 1t has Henry Allen. 2
This, from c. L. Edson's book Of
Kansas university verses, will appeal
to those who have made the tedious
ascent Of Mouns Dread:
X. U. is cosmopolitan,
Or so It seems at tlses,
Because its students gather
From so many different climbs.
Editor HUFF of the Netawaxa Times
was offered Job of setting type on
the Cuba Daylight and he refused.
He looked through one Issue Of the
Daylight and detected such name
as Otto Vacha, Charles Slopansky,
Louis Hostinsky, H. ]. Opocensky and
G.. w. Peters.
Edgar Watson Howe of Atchison
has declined the nomination for Con-
gress in the first district rendered
him by a friendly newspaper. In re-
fusing Mr.. Howe explains: 81 am
trying to quit the use OF tobacco aud
have my hands full"
Its too bad" observes John Walk
err in the Minneapolis Messenger,
that parents can't get divorces from
their children when they turn out to
be bad experiments"
zone thing can be said in behalf
of Mrs Nation" says the Coolidge
Enterprise, "She always uses a hatch
ct, and has never brought the ,tradi-
tional blunt instrument into play"
AS most Of the Kansas Democratic
brethren have already given their lex.
perience" s to Grover Cleveland, the
class leader viii be excused II he