Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-07-16
Kansas Notes

OIlll, mdJOrlIy OI lnem are uOC dp
pointed.
Butler county has a sensation. A
farmer-by name David T. Britain
has been found who has voluntarily
cut all the weeds along the highway
passing his farm, and the lane leadins
to his house.
There was great anxiety around
Mankato lest John D. Rockefeller
might give $1,000,000 or so to the floot
relief fund. The Advocate says the
price of coal oil and gosaline is al
ready as high as the people can pos
sibly endure.
In Parsons a new club is being or
ganized, the members of which pledge
themselves to give no wedding pres
ents unless they are invited to bott
the wedding and the reception. They
say there has been too much "of this
inviting the crowd to the church anC
a select few to the house"
The military company sent to Nor
way, S. c., Saturday night returned
Sunday to Columbia. They had nc
clash with the negroes and report the
town quiet, although some of the citi
zens there are still apprehensive.
A bridal couple was in Emporis
this week riding about town in low
necked hack This" explains the
Gazette, lis Lowell"
The Postorfice and War department;
each have scandals, and if the Leav
enworth Times has its way there vii
be an investigation of the Interior de
partment.
The new catalogue of Baker univer
sity, just out, shows that it has an en-
rollment of 9O7, gain of $50. Baker
ranks up fairly close second to th(
State university.
Ten members of the legislature have
turned their per diem and mileage
for the special session over to the re
lief fund-leaving only 155 senators
and representative who haven't.
Labor Commissioner Johnson's an
nual report boasts that there are M
strikes in Kansas at this time. Blu
unless the indications are wrong thu
coal miners will soon correct this over
sight.
An effort will be made to have thu
next legislature regulate" the deadl!
Fourth of July toy pistol, and thu
only surprising consideration is tina
no master legislative mind thought o
it before.
One paper suggests that the blight
ing and poisonous effects of the flooC
waters, about which scientists arc dis
agreeing, were really caused by TIL
number of drug stocks swept ava!
in North Topeka and other towns up
river.
Applications for 100 licenses to re
tail liquor, made in one day TO the col
lector of internal revenue in Leaven
worth from all parts of Kansas, do no
bear out the idea that the new injunc
tion law for suppressing the traffic
is going to stop it entirely.
Daniel Booz is the name Of one o
the negro harvest hands in Edwards
county VINO was assaulted by whit
men, anG who sent telegram to Gov
Crnor Bailey asking for protection
A man with a name like that shoulI
never have taken it among lot o
thirsty harvest hands.
Bids for new bridges in Marion
county were rejected by the commits
sloners because they were too high.
But If they are built higher they ma,
not be washed out next time.
The Neodesha Registers change o
editors would be noticeable, even if |
had not been announced. The ney
editor insists on using plural verb
with collective nouns.
The Clyde Herald was 25 years oil
last week, on the same day that tn
United States was 1877 years old, an,
the Herald made the Eagle scream
twice.
A Phillipsburg paper meant TO sa
that a wel.known farmer shipped
carload of hogs to Kansas City las
week, but it came out in print "a cal
load OF kegs"
Fredonia's Fourth of July celebra
tion took on the nature, somewhat, o
a corn carnival Oscar Coleman an
Mrs. Corn, both negroes, were public
ly n.lried.
A convict who escaped from tn
penitentiary and was captured in Je
ferson county Saturday explained tina
he ran away because he was hitche
to a corn planter and made to do tn
work of horse.
Prisoners in the Hutchinson reform
atory have been put on the state pa
roll and are drawing two cents a day
The plan will work nicely until tn
men take a notion to strike.
The Salina Union finds fault wit
the English of a contemporary whic
used the headline Joined Together.
It says they couldn't be joined apar
and the Union ought to know.
Manhattan's -four mills are wori
ing day and night to fill an order 70
one million pounds of -four, to be ser
to Rotterdam. Holland. The mill