Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-09-24
Kansas Notes

topeka papers nave 10 crltlclse the
Coal trust in an apologetic sort OF
way. A lot of the incest" people in
town belong to it.
A chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution has been established in
Abilene, where the merry-g o-rounds
are manufactured.
The Hessian flies are engaged in
laying their next years eggs, says a
university professor, and Lawrence
paper adds that the hens are, too.
A Smith county man who murdered
two women and child has been sur
rounded near Superior, Neb., and
lynching is one of the personalities.
Farmer Doolittle is trying to incits
a strike among the bakers in Wichita
for no other reason than that he won't
have to eat bakers bread for while.1
Taxation and legislative extrava
sance will not be tissues" in Kansas
next year-in the same sense that
Doodle will not be an issue over IL
Missouri.
The determination of the Populist
conference to avoid fusion in the fu
ture is made easier to enforce by the
fact that nobody is trying to fuse with
them.
The decision of the Young Peoples
Society OF Christian Endeavor to enter
politics in Topeka is token that the
Epworth league and the Y M. c. A.
are no longer to have things all their
own way.
Il. w. Hoch of Marion declares that
he doesn't want to be governor. and
that he asplres to be state printer
and nothing else. .
According to the board OF agricul-
lures census, Kansas has l02,955 dogs.
Ellis county leads, with 1876; Wyan.
dotte county has only two. Evidently
prairie dogs were not included in the
count.
Attorney General Coleman holds
that notaries public have no authority
in law to perform the marriage SER
vice. but that knot tied by them Is
valid and binding. This appears to be
all the contracting parties" could ask,
and 1t satisfactory to the notary.
1t IL time, moreover, to call In all
crop forecasts which begin with the
statement: III the frost holds OF two
weeks"
Topeka should arrange to have the
old Dutton house reopen this week for
the benefit of the POpullst confer
ence.
A racing ostrich is one Of the attrac'
tons at the Burlington fair, and the
local talent is betting that 1t will win
by neck.
Governor Bailey has been offered
SIS an acre for his Nemaha county
farm, but he refuses to sell it-for the
lands sake.
Klnsey has four automobiles, which
Is not a very great number, but the
boast Is made that 1t Is larger per
capita than that OF any town in the
state.
Eldorado, where a carload of dyna.
mite exploded last week, is determined
to regulate" the traffic in explosives
hereafter or bust.
II. W. Howe of the Atchison Globe
has started his two sons. James and
Eugene, in the newspaper business in
Idaho. He has bought the Emmett
Index for them.
Conner Davies finds himself handi.
capped in the task Of preparing a suit
able reply to Morton Albaugh by the
fact that there are only 100000 words
In the English language.
Both Topeka and Hutchinson are
holding state fairs" this week, but
the weather Is so "crlmpy' that tho
managements think they made mis-
take In not advertising a winter circus
instead.
The Wichita Eagle tells of all OBJ
serving man who watched the prairie
dogs frolic. He uotlced that one OF
the dogs had coal dust on It's tail.
which gave the observing man an
idea. He dug a hole and found coal
In paying quantities.
Bent Murdoch thinks Kansas should
quit jeering at Arkansaw until this
wrong Is corrected: Women school
teachers in Kansas receive an average
81 81 a month less than women teach
ers in Arkansas. But. Of course, teach.
ers are needed much more in Arkan-
sas than in Kansas.
Rush county makes the claim that II
raised more wheat In proportion to It's
population than any county in the
state. 1t raised nearly 4 million bush
els. and the county has $500 nhablt-
ants. The per capiter" is els bush
els.
II may be true as the Wtr depart
ment contends, that the Kaw Is not a
nayigable river, but 1t is likely to be
any minute.
Love addition in Arkansas City Is
probably used as a tennis court
The tower Of the museum at the
University OF Kansas was struck by
lightning this week, and all Prof.
Dyche has to do is to take it inside