Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-12-10
Kansas Notes


Price of turkeys the Coolidge Enter
prise this week will advocate the
municipal ownership of incubators.
A state house janitor who is be.
lieved to be a friend of the late Noah
Webster, laid violent hands upon
Colonel Jeltz this week and elected
him from the building.
A Western Kansas man has patented
a new kind Of bootjack, and the
only thing that stands between him
and a fortune is the scarcity of men
who wear boots.
Jessie Morrison is taking lessons on
the organ at the state penitentiary and
John Collins leads the prison band. 1t
seems to be up to Emmett Dalton to
take elocution lessons and to Willie
Sells to adopt china painting.
A correspondent explains that the
freight congestion on the Central
Branch is due to cinder beetles. He
writes: "The situation has been bad
for the last three weeks on account of
all the box cars running hot boxes.
The cause was discovered only yester-
day. 1t was found that a big colony
of cinder beetles had located in the
stock yards at Big Bend. When trains
stopped at that station the beetles, at.
tracted by the oil in the boxes, came
over to the train for lunch. The eat.
ing of the dope did not amount to
much, but some of the beetles would
crawl into the journal-bearing, and
when the train started the box would
run hot, melting the babbit and
causing the journal to burn off. We
. have had three big wrecks lately on
this account, and east of the Big Bend
the sidetracks are lined with cars the
company is unable to move. Notify
Judge Gristlebone,"
Congressman Reeder tells Secretary
Wilson Of blade of grass out in Nor
ton county that is twenty-seven feet
eight inches in length. He says he
would like to exhibit it in Washington,
but there is no express car tall enough
to hold it. Has it occurred to Mr..
Reeder to wind it up on spool?
The State Historical society has a
plan to mark" the Santa Fe trail.
What's the matter with H. U. Mudge's
miles posts?
Although his parents christened him
Pearl, the manager of the Salina Jour-
nal, Mr.. Stone, is making an excellent
paper of it,
w. j. Black believes the newly dis
covered gold fields west of Rincon, N.
NJ, may even surpas those Of Trego
and Ellis counties.
To make matters worse, the physi.
clan who was caught in the act of rob-
bling a store in Bennington this week
Is said to be prominent"
The opera house in Sedan was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday. For a
time 1t was feared some miscerant
had touched a match to the Kerosene
circuit.
In retiring from the editorship of
the Newton Journal Joe" Fugate
managed to get through with his vale
dictory and introduce his successor
without using the word "bespeak."
The Rev. Jerry Botkin denies the re-
port that he is "out of politics" which
originated because he has resumed his
place on the pulpit He expects to re-
4i.o oLo,,t 81 n eoy,o Tina fhat tho Rev
Barney Kelley does.
Joseph L. Bristow's report and the
presidents comments thereon are so
cordially received throughout Kansas
that the Emporia Gazette is moved to
nominate General Bristow for United
States senator to succeed Burton.
The Junction City Republic feels con-
fident that it could have won The
Times's Theater Pest contest. I'VE
know what we would say about the
pest" says the Republic, but the
Times wouldn't print it.
A Lawrence paper wants Prof. Dyche
to mount the skin of the Missouri
Tiger which was captured in Kansas
City last Thursday.
Referring to these piping times OF
peace" the Lawrence World is willing
to give John D. Rockefeller his share
of credit
A man in Moran who advertised for
n wife, is storngly tempted to embrace
hormonlsnl. He has to pick from
among hlrlS-two alluring candidates.
Afarmer near Potter sold his farm
ofi240 acres few days ago for $50 an
are, His name was Ode, but he Is
Imposed to have settled up since.
i'hlk a dearth of litigation is a sure
aIsn Of prosperity, Kansas certainly
has 1t. Seventy justices of the peace
have. resigned since Governor Bailey
has been in office.
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.
The word "ooze," heretofore sacred
to dastardly murders. is being used in
North Topeka to describe a feeble oil
we'll. 49,
Before any cards are dealt in the