Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-03-05
KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS.

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Salina citizens have just dedicated
$4,000 Methodist Episcopal church.
The principal avocation of Enter
prise citizens these days is lodging
chickenpox.
A Nortonville man took his first
barber shop shave last week at the
age Of Sc.
Will wonders never cease? A Nor
tonville high school girl grabbed a
live mouse by the tail and threw it
from the room.
Captain Tyrus |. Hurd, commanding
a company in the Fifteenth Kansas
cavalry during the civil war, is dead
at his late home in Minnesota.
George G. Gardiner, wealthy far
mer of Lyon county, was buried last
week. He and his infant daughter
died Of typhoid fever within few
hours of each other and were buried
in the same casket.
Robert Hubbell, living three miles
northeast of Lebanon, met death by
accident Friday while driving team
pulling logs out of the creek. The
doubletree broke, one end striking
him in the abdomen. He lived only
few hours.
Here's an item which shows what
natural gas has done for southeastern
Kansas: Monday evening the Beggar
Prince Opera company played to
big audience in the Gas City opera
house, near lola. Three years ago
the site of the building was in wav-
ing field of corn.
Smith county has the Meanest Man,
too. When he came to have a settle
ment with his hired man few days
ago he deducted from his wages the
price of one box of matches, which he
estimated the employee had con-
sumed in lighting his pipe since the
first of the year.
B. P. Schmidt, freshman student
of the Manhattan Agricultural college,
was drowned while skating on the
Blue river recently. The river was
not completely frozen over and
Schmidt went down in channel The
body was not recovered. His home
is at Inman, Mcpherson county.
The American heirs Of William
Corey, Scotchman who died a num-
Der of years ago leaving an estate-val-
ued at $270,000,OO0, seem to have as
surances that the estate will soon be
settled. j. w. Corey of Eldorado and
his children claim to be direct heirs
and believe the estate will come to
them.
The supreme court has Just denied
the motion for a hearing in Debois-
siere Odd Fellows Orphans home case
This gives James A. Troutman of
Topeka title to property in Franklin
county, Kansas, valued at 100000,
on technicality. Troutman brought
his claim in fronce for a nominal
sum.
AS the outcome of the recent leg.
islative coal famine investigation two
bills have been reported in the legis-
lature. They make it crime for
railroad to confiscate any coal con-
signed to a shipper, no matter how
great their need may be. AS q penal
ty for violation fine of $1,000 is pro-
vided.
Nine more free rural delivery routes
go into services in Kansas on the 1st
of April. About the easiest way on
earth for a statesman to start trouble
now would be to advocate the abolish
ment of free rural delivery; a scheme
that has grown in usefulness and
favor more rapidly than any work ever
undertaken by the government.
Horticulturists report that the peach
buds in the northeast part of the state
have been killed. Every variety, it
is declared, having succumed to the
severe cold weather of last week
e. j. Holman, the Leavenworth county
fruit grower, examined the buds Of the
different varieties of peaches on his
farm the other day and found them all
dead.