Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-01-07
KANSAS NOTES

under cover during the winter.
A convention of auctioneers was
held in Newton this week and took in
all the sights, and after going-going
Tor several days, they have gone.
Justice Burchs address in Salina
Saturday night, "The Present, Past
and Future" may be held to be null
and void as the title Is not sufficient
ly explicit.
BY means of search warrant, re"
plevin and other "due process of law"
Parsons woman was able to recover
two pictures, bread knife and
guitar from her husband.
Finley Rogers of Newton tried to
start fire with gasoline few days
ago, which he mlstook for kerosene.
Fortunately" the paper adds, his in
mries are not permanent in their char
acter."
Newton welcomes an increase OF its
court business as an indication OF
prosperity. Two divorce petitions
and several other cases were brought
this week, and 1t is added that more
are in sight"
In Cherryvale the probate judge re-
fused to marry couple who offered
him q fee Of only fifty cents; not be-
cause he is greedy, but on the theory
that a groom who offers a wedding
fee of fifty cents manifestly can't az
ford to get married.
The lola Record says that Grand
pa" Acres, 81 pears old, was able un-
til short time ago to go down stairs
regularly to be shaved. Someone saw
him this week with rough growth OF
beard started, ana by following up
this clue II was discovered that ne
has been sick.
A jury in Kingman county found 81
las Morrison guilty of a criminal as
SAINT. His defense was that on the
night before the crime was committed
he drank two quarts and pint or
whisky. although he never drank
, lIouor before in his life, and those VINO
saw him the next morning said ne
I wasn't webbing. The jury knew bet
( ter.
4 "As between W. r. Hist and
4 Judge Alton of New York for the
d nomination for president" says the
( Coolridge Enterprise, I'VE are inclined
} To favor the Hon. Richard Only OF Bos-
4 ton"
{ An Eldorado firm advertlses "one
I hundred dollars reward for anyone
who will sell meat cheaper than we
d sell it," This looks like a chance Tor
Z some speculator to make about s99.96
y of easy money.
y A Hiawatha man has q horse tnat
is So years old and Is driven to a bug
y gy every day. The Wichita cores
u pondents can be depended on to find
one that is 3S, and can still go mile
in better than 800.
i, What is believed to be the largest
!. pension drawn from the government
h by any Kansan Is that Of Ell Avery
/, q resident of Alton, who gets $3.50 O
q year. He served through the Mexican
d war, two years in the Civil war, and
II five years In the Clusters Indian cam
A. paigns.
r Sometimes, observes the Kelly Re
d porter, II does not pay to be facetious
D II relates that lawyer In southern
. Kansas town received a note for col
o lection against a wealthy business
man. The note was outlawed because
the business man had not always been
:. in a position where the debt could be
y collected from him. The lawyer wrote
= him that as he was now able to pay
a he ought to do 80. The business man
} replied that he refused to pay the
i, note, but II the holder was In need re
|, would contribute, and inclosed bread
q check. The lawyer credited the note
k with the value Of the check, which re-
Is news the note under the laws OF this
u state, and he will now proceed to col
u lect the note with interest. 1t Is pre-
sumed that the business man has
learned something.
Hutchinson is expected to oppose
% tho Panama canal II, as the anti-canal
= faction claims, 1t is going to look like
: Cow creek.
A brass band composed Of Chlloccc
j, indians from Sumner county will play
a all during the st. Louis exposition
|, and is likely to do the cause OF the
red man more harm than the New
England philanthropists can remedy
In five years.
n Topeka and Hutchinson have had
n dispute for several years as to whicI
% one was entitled to call its fair thu
ls state fair" The American Assocl
le alton Of Fairs has ruled in favor o
!, Hutchinson and calls the other "th'
~ Topeka exposition"
sallna takes considerable pride II
the fact that one Of its citizens, W
!, p. Pierce, prepared the accepted de
= signs for the one, two and threecen
II stamps Of the forthcoming Louisiana
Purchase exposition series.
Il An Olathe paper announced las
vreek that Henry G., Caldwell, thu