Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-11-19
Kansas Notes

governor Bailey has pardoned j. Nd.
Apple out Of the penitentiary after
convincing himself that he is no kin
to the notorious Ben Davis.
Still, there is hope that Attorney
General Coleman may have better sue
cess in the Doodle cases than he has
had in fighting the Coal trust.
Had Judge Caldwell known what a
fuss he was going to start among the
Kansas politicians he would probably
have stayed on the federal bench.
The army captain who has been sent
to Panama to investigate the condi-
tons and report to the War depart
ment is Kansas man and was APP
pointed to West Point by Jerry Simp-
son during his first term.
There is no trace of short grass in
the Mackville Argus's society columns.
In describing a. recent wedding it says:
"The decorations were superb and each
room was transformed into a bower,
where the choicest exots filled the air
with their redolent perfume"
Wichita Eagle: Judge Adna P. Girls
tlebone, chief Inspector of the cinder
beetle quarantine, has in his investi-
cations discovered that the gluttonous
cockStrice is developing an abnormal
appetite for Hessian fly eggs, and the
judge is now taking the initial steps
for propagating them in the Kansas
wheat fields. .l
In going from Wichita to Washing
ton Dave Leahy claims to have encoun-
tered 225 near and distant relatives.
"They are mostly of Irish descent" he
says, although there are, l am sorry
to say, few Dutch mixed up with
them. There is also a Christopher
Columbus. / think he is Spaniard.
They are a decent. god-fearing and
country-loving people and engaged in
various occupations. Most of them
earn their living, though there are q
few in the government service"
The government has refused to pay
the expenses of Governor Bailey's staff
at the Fort Riley maneuvers, although
the war department must know that
without Governor Bailey's staff the
maneuvers would have been wretched
failure.
"The theory that cinder beetles re-
quire metallic food" says the Hutchin-
son News, sis disproved by the fact
that there was nothing to the Nebraska
Kansas & Gulf railroad which they
devoured but paper. Not a rail had
been laid"
The Meanest Man stopped over in
Cherryvale a few nights ago, long
enough to eat his fill at a church sup
per and receive seventy-five cents in
change for lead dollar.
There may be temperance lesson
in the fact that Coldwater does not find
1t necessary to have police force, or
even town marshal.
The Wellington News is not afraid
to tell the people Of Wellington with.
almost brutal frankness what it thinks
of them. This s 1t: "There are still
in Wellington two revivals, nine
churches, six saloons, two gambling
houses and two bucket shops. On one
side law, civilization, morality, relig-
ion-on the other side money. Who
wins? Why, can't you see every day?
Money wins. Money is the god in We'll
lington ami Sumner county"
There was a small earthquake in
Pratt county last week, and the cor
respondent, who is accustomed to re-
porting cyclones, says the vibration
was from the southwest"
Hiawatha's most recent claim to dis
tinction is that Victor Lee, the peer
less wizard" who is mystifying the
kerosene circuit, spent his boyhood
there.
The Parsons Sun passed the meridian
this week. 1t celebrated the aoquisi-
ton of the Associated Press service by
changing from morning to an after
noon paper.
Ex-Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter will
observe his Thanksgiving day two days
late, but nevertheless fervently. He
will be released from the federal peni-
tntiary November 2S.
The latest proposition is to refer all
plans for Strengthening the banks Of
the Kaw River to the bank commits
sioner.
The Preston correspondent for the
Pratt Republican wrote last week:
pete Dicks wife was away last week
on visit and some comment was made
on the way Peter spruced up, shoes
shlned, boiled shirt, etc. Some men
are built that way-to fix up when
their wives go off on a visit"
BY the way, what has become Of the
suits brought by the attorney general
and the county attorney Of Shawnee
county to smash the Coal trust?
Solomon is trying to obtain a cold
storage plant. The Minneapolis Mes
senger thinks this is clue to the pres
emit address of the Wisest King.
Topeks Capital: The cinder beetle
IN in bad repute in Mcpherson county.