Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-11-12
Kansas Notes

cd for exterminating the cinder bee.
ties.
The Lawrence World gave Its fead-
ers quite a shock in announcing the
coming of the Hello Bill" company
by emitting the 20" in hello"
Enemies of DR.. James Nainsmith,
the physical director at the University
OF Kansas, have divulged the fact
that he is the man who invented the
game of basket ball.
The amiable telephone official who
Is prepared to prove that the more
phones there are in use the higher
the rates should be is trying 1t on
the Atchlson city council this time. 8
1t is proposed to have the Seventh
District Editorial association take up
the case of Fred Kirch, editor of the
Rush Center Breeze, who advertises
that he has money to lend.
General Manager Nudge has Offered
a reward of $4,000 for the capture
of the outlaws who caused the Santa
Fe wreck In Colorado last Friday,
and there Is no doubt that the job Is
worth it.
A debating society in Great Bend
decided a few nights ago that the
United States ought not to annex
Cuba. 1t is too early to forecast ex-
actly what effect this will have on
Mr.. Palmo's proposed 80 million dol
lar loan.
The fourth trial of o. w. Coffelt
of the "101" ranch for the killing
of George Montgomery, Santa Fe
detective, is in progress in Winfield.
and there is hope that the jury may
find him innocent or guilty, or some
thing
One of the professors from the
State Agricultural college was watch
ing farmer feed corn to his hogs.
and he asked; "Are you feeding 1t
wet or dry?" DRY" Don't you
know If you feed 1t wet the hogs can
digest 1t in one-half the timer" The
farmer gave him a quizzlcal look.
Now, see here, professor" he said,
"how much do you calculate hogs
time Is worth?"
The controversy between the Le-
land and Curtis factions as to what
really happened at the Severance re-
union has reached a point waers 500
bets are offered
A church in Eldorado gave a waffle
social few evenings ago, and an ac-
count of the event says the waffles
went like hot cakes.
Lawrence has the foot ball situa-
ton clnched. However madly TX.
u" may fare the town knows 1t can
fall back on Haskell.
The old fashioned man whose idea
of suitable wedding present is a
bouquet of wax flowers has been found
in Marion county.
,Cowley county does more than It's
share of "lawlng." The November
docket of the district court has 239
civil cases and thirty.elght criminal
cases.
The Lawrence man who has
scheme to cross the helpful hen with
the prolific oyster is undecided what
to call the strange creature, but he
is favorable to rooysters. Q
Auditor Wells refused to allow Mr..
Dayhoff, the state superintendent of
instruction, to dock his stenographer,
who was detained at home by the
death of her brother.
The Scientific American devltes half
page to a description of the largest
locomotive ever built" It is No. 915,
of the Santa Fe, the first Of an order
of seventy being built at the Baldwin
works.
Two hundred students at the Kan.
sas Agricultural college went forth to
battle with the town boys of Manhat-
tan. There is inquiry as to whether
these free fights come under the de-
partment Of military science or house.
hold study.
DNi FoiNullhV Who It-tlcNNtu CltIh
of the supreme court Monday. Justices
Johnston, Smith and Green were for
him, and Justices Burch, Mason and
Pollock were for Gale Jones. Justice
Cunningham, who had the ecldlng
vote, went to Valentine on the second
ballot.
Senator Conkling-hls parents real
ly named his that's going to be a
candidate for the state senate in Reno
county, and he must be a mean man,
indeed, who would deny him such a
needful boon.
In order to settle the question OF
whether the animal which infests the
streams Of Southwestern Kansas is
really the cInder beetle Prof. Cllnker
has been conducting series OF ex-
periments. He was sure, Of course,
that the clnder beetles cannot live
under the water. Still, he put three
beetles under water for half a day
just to observe what the result would
be. At the end of that time one was
corroded to death, another was 80
severely oxldIzed that It suffered