Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-19
KANSAS NOTES

ty district court, appears to be a plu-
rality in himself.
Leavenworth attributes its place
near the foot Of the Missouri Valley
league to the unfairness Of the UNI
pires.
Since Port Arthur has been securely
bottled up, the Neodesha Sun expects
1t will eventually be good old Port.
Politics is getting so warm in But
Ter county that the Eldorado Repub-
lican gets out the word "perspicacious-
ness"
A negress died In Wichita a few
Overalls are to be manufactured at
the state penitentiary, but no jumpers;
there is always danger that the con-
victs may escape over the walls.
Although Hutchinson is old enough
and populous enough to know better,
1t has permitted itself to get into the
clutches of the trading stamp evil.
A Sumner county man who has just
returned from Panama looked over
the canal route and says 1t is not
much different from the right-of-way
from Wichita to Geuda Springs.
Victor Murdoch, the Seventh dis.
trict congressman, who camped in
Secretary Shaw's office long enough
to discover that the, government
spends $1,62O minute, must have
been appalled, at the number Of times
the item mo Sale" was rung up on
the cash register.
The Kansas Editorial association
will 90 to the st. Louis exposition next
Saturday as the guests Of the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad. One train
will leave Wichita May IA and another
will leave Kansas City on the same
night and the two will be Joined at
Springfield. There will be at least
300 in the party.
Several years ago mike" Sutton
and ED" Madison were law partners
in Dodge City. Mr.. Madison, who
was much of an orator and is now
district Judge, was invited to deliver
a Decoration day address at Stafford
and accepted, but at the last moment
couldn't go. So he sent his partner,
mike" Sutton. In letter to the COM
mittee, he explained the circumstances.
GAS a matter of fact" he said, I'VE
have but one Decoration day address
in the firm, and Mike delivers 1t
about as we'll as do"
A tooth extractor who is to be In
Macksville May II, confesses modestly
that he is "the originator Of painless
dentistry"
AS there is no longer anything to be
feared from the drought, the farmers
out in Kiowa county have begun to
worry lest there may be hailstorm. 1
A Glen Elder girls commencement
Grafton is entitled, Hitch Your Wagon
to Star, But Keep the Endgate In"
There is need of an affidavit to &C.
company the news that a Jewell coun-
ty farmer has gone into voluntary
bankruptcy.
The chef In a Hiawatha hotel uses
a pair of brass knucks in pounding the
beefsteaks.
General Miles has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address at the
state G.. A. R. encampment at Empo-
ria next week.
One Of the jurors in the Dewey case
worried so much over the criticisms
of the verdict that he has been de-
clared insane.
Elmer Spare, recently admitted to
one of the state asylums for the In
sane, has a mania for eating lard and
drinking catsup.
The old-fashloned grocer who still
prides himself in handling both staple
and fancy goods" has card in the
Great Bend papers.
"Hooligan's Troubles" showed in OF
tawa a few nights ago, but those who
have seen both say they are as moth
Ing compared with Henry Aliens.
How quick st. Petersburg and To-
kio can hear good news" observes
the Jewell City Republican. land how
long It takes the news of defeat to
filter through"
A farmer in Pike township Lyon
county, refuses to have telephone in
his house or take daily paper be-
cause "the temptation is too strong
to waste time"
A horse fell into a trench which
had carelessly been left without dan.
ger signal in Hiawatha the other night
and was killed. The owner, instead Of
claiming that the horse was worth
$500, admits that $25 was its real
value, and offers to take $40. 1t is
believed to be a case without a par
allel.
The Izaak Walton club of Newton
has bought tract Of land along the
Little river and is preparing to cast
its lines in pleasant places.
Warden Jewett has started an over.
all factory at the state penitentiary.
BY this means the convicts will have
something to wear when they send
their prison garb to the tailor's to be
pressed.
Congressman Murdoch spent all his
spare time during the winter watch.