Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-06-09
KANSAS NOTES


1925, and now it contains even
more.
A timid girl in Medicine Lodge who
is afraid to handle firearms sleeps
each night with two hatplns under her
pillow.
Out in Barton county the sportsmen
organized a great coon hunt, and after
twelve hours labor mad bagged two
coyotes and a tame cat.
"The Reaper" department in the
Junction City Republic is not devoted
to news Of the wheat crop, but Is
given over wholly to obituaries.
A young woman in Ottawa county
explains that she got married just to
keep the young man from hanging
around the house all the time.
T. A. McNeal, who has occasionally
spoken charitable word for Carrie
Nation, now proceeds to deprive her
Of the only good defense she ever had.
He denies that she is crazy.
A new kind of card of thanks
made its appearance last week in Grid
ley. A couple published card extend.
ing grateful thanks for kindness
shown us at the church on the occa-
sion of our wedding"
If Abel RICHTER, editor Of the Cool.
idge Enterprise, is made regent of
the state university, as he expects, he
says he is going to abolish the chair
OF Evidences of Christianity and have
swimming taught instead.
A Lindsborg editor told his readers
that If they kept their feet dry they
were in no danger Of getting grippe.
The next day he received letter from
a subscriber who has two wooden legs,
who protested he had been laid up
with grippe five years in succession.
A bootlegger has been arrested in
Baldwin on the technical charge Of
"sacrilege and selling liquor"
Not even a keen Legal mind Is re-
qulred to find technical defect in the
information filed against Kansas
City, Kan, attorney, charging him with
bribery. 1t says he offered council
man "a large sum of money, to-wit, the
sum of $1,000" The court can hardly
fail to take cognizance Of the fact
that $1,000 has ceased to be large
sum of money" in Kansas.
A green brakeman, just off of the
farm, went to work on the Central
Branch few days ago, the Atchison
Globe says. The first evening at
about dusk, when his freight train ran
onto a sidetrack, the brakeman began
taking off his boots and making prep
arations to go to bed. what are you
doing?" the conductor asked. Going
to bed, the brakeman replied; "you
don't run your train after dark, do
your"
A. r. Greene, ex-railroad commits
sioner, is able to boast that he knew
Stanley" Both Stanleys, in fact
Henry M. and w. Eugene.
A man who has been trying to get
street railway franchise in Ottawa
refuse sto accept the franchise in its
present form, because 1t requires that
the line shall be built.
Somewhat Of scandal has been
started in Osborne county by the dis
covery that one candidate is using a
consignment of twenty gallons Of
maple syrup for campaign purposes.
Numerous prophets in the valleys
Of the Kaw, Smoky and Marais des
Cygnes rivers who have been predict
ing droughty spring for Kansas were
busy Sunday moving their families,
household effects and live stock I'D
into the hills.
Topeka put its best foot forward In
Secretary Taft's honor. In the parade
were Colonel ]. w. +. Hughes and
staff, mounted, the boys bugle bril-
gade, the Topeka City troop, a platoon
Of Company G, the Lincoln Post drum
corps, the Reform school band, the
Flambeau club, the fire department
and the Modocs.
Sheriff Kiff Of Atchison mustered
up courage enough last week to ar
rest the notorious Painting Bertha"
for robblng a jewelry store. 1t &C.
Cured to him that fair heart ne'er won
faint lady.
Eureka is chagrined to find that
Madison, a smaller town in the same
county, has It beaten by the posses
sion Of an opera house, electric street
lights, rock crusher for macadam, an
Ice plant and sewers.
A Chanute woman who has excep-
tionally successful in sinking wells
and getting leases is in a fair way to
become rich, notwithstanding that she
Is referred TO as the Gas and Oil
Queen" Of the district.
MARCEL, the Highland bank wrecker
who forged notes aggregating $3.50, 900,
has pleaded guilty on five counts. II
he is given the minimum sentence he
will serve in the penitentiary at the
rate OF $4,000 year.
In Topeka feature Of the Memorial
day exercises was the scattering OF
flowers from the bridge spanning the
Kaw. For allegorical purposes the
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