Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-07-21
KANSAS NOTES

WESTERN railroad is making progress.
1t already has several prime NOV.
ers."
A Parsons critic demands to know
why it is that rag-time played by the
band on Sundays is called sacred"
A merry-go-round that plays What
Shall the Harvest Be?" was in great
demand in Greenwood county last
week.
Smith county has stopped shrieking
for harvest hands long enough to put
in a clamor for sixty more school
teachers.
The editor of the South Haven New
Era explains that he carefully exam
ines all money received on subscrip-
ton since the government sent out its
warning against counterfeit $1OQ
bills.
None of Henry Gassaway Daviss
early playmates has made himself
known in Kansas yet; but DR.. Sweet,
the pastor of Methodist church in
Downs, was classmate of Charles
w. Fairbanks.
Two years ago J. H. Richards, the
railroad attorney and politician Of
Fort Scott, concluded he would like
to run newspaper, so he got hold of
the Monitor. He disposed of 1t few
days ago, and 1t is reported that the
venture cost him $4,000.
The Beloit Gazette enters R. b.
Dukes, Mitchell county farmer, for
the hard luck championship. Within
few months a lot of things have
happened to Mr.. Dukes. First, he lost
his crops; then cholera killed most
of his hogs; shed fell and killed his
two cows; his wife was thrown from
buggy and hurt so badly that she
went on crutches for months, and she
was just beginning to walk again when
she was burned to death by an ex'
ploding lamp; Mr.. Dukes also was seri-
ously burned in the fire; then he in
jured his knee and had to go on
crutches; then he was badly burned
again in prairie fire; a few weeks
later his mother died, and last Sunday
his house was destroyed by fire with
all its contents.
Government reports show de-
crease in prospective corn and wheat
yields owing to excessive rainfall.
Two thousand men have been sent
to the Kansas wheat fields from Kan
sas City, st. Joseph and Topeka,
many Of them college boys from the
East.
The scale committees of the miners
and operators are at Pittsburg arrang.
ing wage scale for the coming win
ter. Indications point to a reduction
in wages.
Three-Mile creek in Leavenworth
seems to have become Elenen-Mile
creek in Threeworth.
The Fourth of July parade in Law
renee was so tedious that the fright"
had to rest on Tennessee street.
An attempt was made to set fire to
the Grand Opera house in Topeka
this week. Why this discrimination
When dance is given in Augusta
the society reporters do not omit to
mention that good order was main.
tanned.
Victims Of the anonymous letter
writer in Fort Scott are reported to
be almost as numerous as flood VIC
tins in Ottawa.
Perhaps the suit against the Coal
trust, which was instituted with so
much eclat last fail, has been "confis-
Gated in transit"
The lawless element in Wabaunsee
county is badly frightened as the re.
slut Of Mr.. Ketcham's candidacy for
county attorney.
The papers agree that II the Burr
Oak barn burner doesn't go to the
bad place when he dies it will be DE
cause there isn't any"
The Cheney Sentinel has to be re-
lieved from the picket lines at frequent
intervals. 1t has changed hands five
times IN twelve months.
Another appalling instance Of
"gralC" by the state board Of charities
is the telephone in the state institu-
ton for the deaf and dumb in Olathe
A poultry raiser in Butler county,
who studies the agricultural papers,
poured kerosene on his chickens to
kill the vermin, and incidentally killed
the chickens.
Bent Murdoch sermonizes on the
honesty of the people Of Eldorado, be-
cause he left his umbrella for two
hours in the postofflce lobby on wet
day and nobody stole it. A more plaus-
ible theory is that nobody happened
to see it.
A young man from the other side Of
the zinc shafts was strolling arm In
arm with his best girl along the street
in Galena, utterly oblivlous Of the out.
side world. Finally they stopped in
front of jewelry store and we're adj
miring a diamond. She liked one and
he said he was going in to buy II, II
It cost $40. They went in and told
what they wanted. "only $780," said
the affable jeweler. The look of dis
may upon their faces was terrible to
behold. Finally the young man STAN
mered out, Il fist thought I'd asst"
A cyclone was seen to form" near
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