Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-01

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their scalps as is done with tie co,
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Seward w. Falls Is dead in 0sborr
county at the advanced age of {
years. He was married Just after th
second Inauguration of Andrew JAG
son. He reared twelve children an
when his wife died in 1899 then .hs
lived together sixty-six years. W
Mrs. Marshall A. Barber, wife d
professor in Kansas University.
disappeared from her newly furnis
room, was found in the Kansas ril'
at Lawrence. Her clothes were plac,
on the bank in such manner as
convince those who found them TIL
she had committed suicide.
While in a store in Columbus, She
if o. w. Sparks was approached by
friend who playfully kicked hin
striking the sheriff's revolver in b
back pocket. 1t was discharged al
the ball ranged upward into the sh(
ifs right shoulder, iRaicting a wouI
from which he may not recover.
There will be no inaugural ball
connection with the Inauguration
Governor Bailey and his associaN
state officials on January IL. tn
ceremonies will be held in the auI
forum and the principal feature vi
be the governors inaugural adore
This will be followed by a general
ception.
Mergers are such a good thing th
even the farmers of Kansas are foH|
ing them. The different farmers q
operative grain and live stock ass
Citations have decided to pool interes
and organize merger concern wi4
100000 capital. The merger expect
to start with thirty elevators in Ka1
sas, fifteen in Oklahoma and ten W
Nebraska.
In an edict issued recently, NJ
man Plass, president Of Washt "A
college, places the ban on da1
and card playing among the stu
The president says that the q
was founded and is maintained b
Congregational church and that
evils he prohibits are not compa
with Christian education.
The Harvey Eating House sysV
has completed a chicken fatteniiI'
house at Newton with capacity
5000 chickens, and by new proce
an instrument will be used for foI
ing prepared food down the threats
chickens. This process will add th1
pounds to each bird In three wee
One man can feed 800 chickens
hour. w
It is told as true story that al
old man in the Douglas county pest
house was taken into the probate
court and declared insane by jury
His hallucination was that his BID,
was overrun with lice. He was tal.I
to the asylum in Topeka. At the IA
OF two days the superintendent of Nh
asylum wrote to the probate juWg
that the patient was being returHe
to Douglas county. I'VE found
wrote the superintendent, that th
only evidence of insanity about hin
was his constant complaint that hill
body was covered with lice. We ex
amined him and found that his bod,
was covered with lice"
The lightning rod swindler is work
ing his old game throughout Contra
Kansas. An agent takes orders from
farmers to put rods over all theil
buildings and finally gets them t
sign some sort of contract. The
contract turns up later as a note for
big sum. In one case the man whit
went ahead made verbal agreemen
with a farmer TO put up lightning
rods for $3.50. The next day two mIel
appeared to put up the rods. 0ne o
them had note for S192, signed ID,
the farmer One man always pie
tends to be lawyer and by threat
Of suit and trouble in the courts
usually gets the farmer to pay all 10
large part Of the note. The men air,
good judges of human nature and sci
dom spend much time with a mai
they cannot coerce.
Representative P. j. Gale, of Nd
Pherson county, believes that tn,
present Kansas divorce laws are et
tirely too lax for the good of societh
and will endeavor to tighten them Nj
at the coming session of the legislE
ture. He thinks that three separatV
amendments will do the work Thi
first will make the state a necessary
party defendant in all divorce cases
and require the county attorney to in
quire fully into the facts and appeal
at the trial. The second changes the
present law by making residence Il
divorce cases one year in a county in.
stead Of thirty days, as now required
The third makes it an offense punish
able by fine and Imprisonment tc
abandon a husband or wife.
In letter written to William Allet
White, president of the Kansas Dal
club, w. D. Ford, private secretary I'd
the governor, suggested that the club
have for its guest at the annual meet
ing next month, Galusha A. Grow
cong cssman-at-large from Pennsyl
vania. The suggestion is made be
cause Mr.. Grow, as member Of con
gress in 1859, introduced the bill in
congress providing for the admission
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