Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-08-11
KANSAS ITEMS

The Hiawatha newspaper row, grow,
ing out of the county printing, has
broke out with increased fury.
Slice radium has been discovered in
Canada the Wichita Eagle is more de-
termined than ever that the DomiD-
ion shall be annexed.
Northwestern Kansas will eat its
watermelons individually this season,
instead of collectively. The famous
Clyde watermelon carnival has been
declared off.
The Hutchinson Bee is quite firm in
the belief that August Belmont's en-
try for the Futurity stakes will run
better than his entry in the presiden-
tial race.
Members of the Kansas National
Guard receive forty-three cents day
and their board while they are in en-
campment. This isn't much, but it's
as good as teaching school.
1t seems to be up to w. R. Stubs,
Victor Murdoch and F. Dumont Smith
to collaborate on a reply to the Uni
versity of Chicago professor who is re-
sponsible for the new theory that red
hair is sign of degeneracy.
Complaint is made" the Atchison
Globe says, that it was called the
annual children's picnic They say
it should have been, 'children's an
nual picnic, though there were enough
children there to make it look as if
they came annually"
Says the Eldorado Republican.
Our Kansas Stock Shippers associ-
ationNthere are five or six members
which threatened to tear up the
railway tracks, and raise the devil
with the railway companies, seems to
have subsidized. Two of them were
elected delegates to the national con-
vention; two are nominated to office,
around a little and that is all. P. S.
All six of them got railway passes and
special shipping privileges; and we
will hear no more from the Stock
Shippers association till next year.
Moral-Work for graft"
Miss 10 Shipley Watson OF Emporia
receives highly flattering mention in
the last issue Of the Musical Courier,
a New York publication. She is a
talented young pianist, lecturer and
llnguist whose musical education was
completed in Berlin and Leipsic.
The valued Coffeyville Journal
prints two columns under the head
line, Nothing Much Done"
There are so many chiggers in Ell
dorado this season that it is not re-
garded as impolite to stop anywhere
and scratch.
Church White of Atchison is think
ing of running for the legislature on
the platform; 1T is felony for a
town man to keep dog"
The Abilene papers will never be
quite satisfied unless the battleship
Kansas is christened with a quart bot
tie of extra dry Abilene water.
A Topeka reporter asked Victor
Murdoch how he likes his job as con-
gresham. you haven't heard me
talk about giving it up, have you?" he
replied.
e. W. Hoch in the Marion Record:
"The intramural railroad affords easy
conveyance to every important part of
the grounds. You can make almost
the entire circuit of the exposition on
this road for ten cents. But don't
make the mistake that many people
make, that of referring to the iIftra-
mural railroad on the inside of the
grounds, for intramural is a Latin
word which means inside the walls
and you've said it all when you've said
intramural."
IAN Emporia girl" the Gazette an.
nounces, lis going to get divorce and
try it over. Her wedding presents
lacked $6.9S of paying for her dress,
the ice cream, cake, lemonade and
chicken salad that she put into the
wedding. She win apply for receiv-
er for the groom, return the presents,
and go visiting in the oil belt where
they buy more cut glass and fewer
23-cent china cups and saucers. She
believes that Love is the greatest
thing in the world. but sees the fool
ishness Of trying to do business out
side of the trust. She has decided to
get a two-story buggy with red wheels,
a hat with a white veil on it like Alice
Roosevelt's and break into real soci-
ety."
Vernon Kellogg. who is visiting in
Emporia, tells the Gazette reporter
that the only way to escape malaria
is to avoid mosquitoes. One should
avoid the mosquito. he says, as he
would a rattlesnake. The Gazette
adds: "He says If you aren't badly
bitten by mosquitoes you will never
have malarlal fever, even IL you are
living on a bottom farm that has been
covered by water six days out of the
week all summer. But to be bitten by
a mosquito is like having a hypoder-
mic injection Of malarial virus in your
system. You can't go to too elabo-
rate precautions against the mosquito
this summer Chase him out of the