Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-10-01


George E. Col may awake some
morning soon and find himself the
most popular man in Kansas. He
settled" the tax controversy.
Henry Aliens libel suit against Bar.
ney Sheridan, which should have been
settled out Of court year ago, is on
trial this week in Ottawa,
A Chanute man, Morris Montague
is laid up by the bite of horse fly
The fly bit the horse, the horse kicked
Montague and his condition is seri-
Gus.
Frank 3. Grimes, in order to give
all his time to the Orient railroad, has
decided to sell his shirt factory to any
bosom friend who can produce the
price.
All the trains into Pratt have been
so late during the last few weeks that
the travelling men who have had to
wait for trains are thinking about
renting houses"
Girl messengers have been hired in
Topeka, and unless they respond more
promptly than the boys used to they
will become cognizant of an eloquent
and forceful side of the English Ian
guage of which they have heretofore
been kept in the dark.
There is reinsurance. anyhow, In
the promise that the school of jour.
nalism at the University of Kansas
is going to begin by making the uni,
versity's weekly worth while.
]. w. Gleed of Topeka has a plan
for the relief of the supreme court.
He would have golf links established
in Capitol square so that the justices
may play while the lawyers are max.
ing their arguments.
viii the Kansas legislature also
ask to be reelected ION its merits?" 2
In Atchison no young man is con.
sidered "refined" unless he carries
silk handkerchief.
Thomas Madison who killed two
women and a child out in Smith coun.
ty, has probably escaped in the tall
corn.
The lola Register tells of local
Shylock who went to Colorado, and
while he was away gained pound
of flesh
Really the only thing made certain
by the tax controversy is that Kansas
has great need of watchdog of the
treasury"
One farm of 800 acres in Trego
county which yielded 5000 bushels
of wheat this year proved that there
is gold in that Trego shae, after all.
A man in Garnet, a local paper
says, became i'll by reading the patent
medicine advertisements and was
cured by being examined for life in.
surance
1t is taken for granted that the
Topeka man who was fined $3.50 for
swearing at his neighbor must have a
remarkable and picturesque command
of words.
Colonel o. f.. Learnard of Lawrence,
who presided over the convention at
which the Republican party in Kansas
was organized joined the Boss Bust
ers this week
Announcement of fire engagement OF
granddaughter Of General Grant to
the son of a Confederate general
comes just too late to figure in the
resolutions of the Lawrence encamp.
ment.
Carelessness on the part of Mr..
Brick Mason, chief clerk of the
house OF representatives, may result
in the loss of $4,000 to George Clark,
or two years profits from the state
printing. Mason was a Clark partisan,
too. but Mr., Clark will probably re-
gard him as a gold Brick.
Has it occurred to Senator Long,
who is taking the waters" at Geuda
Springs, that the only safe way nova
days is to boil it ?
This seasons mosquitoes are so
large in the neighborhood of Fort
Scott that the milliners expect to trim
hats with them
he Topeka Commercial club has
allowed Tom Anderson 800 for EEK.
renses" in getting through resolu-
ton at the Trans-mississippi congress
asking the government to do some.
thing to prevent overflows by the
| Kaw
The injunction to "hold your
wheat" exploited many years ago by
Wood Davis, is being adhered to at
present. Billy Morgan says, because
the formers are unable to get any
freight cars.
There is something, somehow, about
the proposition of the Republican edi'
tors to quit fighting that suggests the
cars futile proposition to disarm.
It is hoped that r. II. Allen, who