Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-04-16
Kansas Notes

SAAS a ANSANNAH 40 ~ JAh0 w 0'CANs
Samuel A. Kingman, who retired
from the office of chief justice in 1878
because he considered himself too old
for active service tried a case in the
supreme court this week.
A four-story Masonic temple is to
be erected in Topeka soon on the cor
ner of Eighth and Quincy streets. 1t
is the first time new Masonic temple
has been builded on that corner for
several years.
Colonel E. G. Titles badly was bap-
tized in Abilene this week in water
brought for this purpose from the
River Jordan. Some of his home pa
pers inclined to regard him as dis
loyal to Abilena water.
"The parking in front of a mans
lot" says the SalinSi Union, 'is his
most valuable piece of property. He
pays no taxes on 1t, yet well kept
parking adds much to the value of
his property, in case he wishes to
SELL"
The Rev. Daniel s. Hubbard Is re-
turning to Emporia from Ilollo, Philip
pine Islands, where he has been
Presbyterion missionary for several
years. In view of the prevailing con-
ditlons in Emporia he may never re-
turn to the Philippines.
The fence war has been resumed In
the Colby land office district between
the cattlemen and the farmers, in
volving 10000 acres of land. All the
cattlemen want Is monopoly Of the
land, and law prohibiting farming
west of the nlnety-eighth medldian.
Another crop report was issued Mon
day, extolling the splendid condition
of the wheat. The reports are so
boastful that each one tempts Provl-
dence.
According to the bank commits.
sioners latest report Kansas is lending
money to New York. 1t is hoped that
Kansas hos not so far forgotten its
own days of tribulation as to become
oppressive and foreclose ruthlessly.
The New York man who has been
holding converse with Henry Ward
Beecher's ghost is not in 1t with Joseph
e. Rank of Atchison, who has had
vision Of Atchlson with a population OF
$4,000 by 1905.
A Topeka pastor who preached his
farewell sermon Sunday drew pictures
Of buzzsaw, photograph and a wolf
to symbolic the gossps In his con-
gregatlon. A hammer would have
been easier to draw and It would have
illustrated what he was trying to
say.
Colonel Jeltz Of the Negro Ledger
who never fails to express himself
neatly, says In the last issue of his
paper: 1--WE feel 1t our duty to say
to you that we are for the most people
for the most possible good" He Odds
this defiance: Let those monkies con-
tinue to give us a good time, we don't
care for that, we guess we are as good
as those monkles who have lied about
us, don't see why We are not"
Before his friends could do anything
to prevent him, a Cherokee county
farmer sold his farm for $500 and
started for Chicago to join Elijah
Dowle's Zion colony.
Sheriff Gleason Of Mcpherson county
not found 1t necessary to make an
arrest since he took his office last
January and County Attorney Lindsay
has not been called upon TO Issue n
a warrant.
A pupil in one Of the public schools
In Atchlson the other day used the
word "swelled." Whereupon the
teacher said: Swollen would sound
better" when | talk" replied the
pupil, ~ am not running band con-
cert and don't care how 1t sounds" 3
Winfield thinks II has been de-
ceIyed. The city offered $4,000 as a
bonus to any one who would drill a
gas we'll that would produce u million
cubic fet OF gas a day. A syndicate
dug the we'll struck gas In consider.
able quantity, and took the $4,000.
Now Winfield finds that only 10000
cubic feet Of gas In a day Is produced.
It is suspected the syndicate used a
meter.
A prisoner at the Fort Leavenworth
penitentlary was shot Saturday while
trying to get away. The public is glad
that the guards are seeking to dis
courage the practice, which has be-
come more or less prevalent among
the conYlcts OF escaping.
A Leavenworth literary critic says
he would like to read novel In which
the hero has a pug nose, buck teeth
and freckles instead Of the lnyariable
Clean, square-cut chin and acqulllne
nose" Evidently the critic has never
read the "Boyville" stories.
zone OF these fine days" predicts
the Junction City Republic, which is
long suffering and slow to wrath. can
awful apparitlon In human form will be
seen to scud through the trees, mount
the stairway. and, standing on the
will be heard to shout in
words Of FIRE with birthstone border,
WAKE UP! Mind, we are not adj
vocating the wanton slaughter Of tele-
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