Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-02-11
KANSAS NOTES

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quarts OF real kerosene.
AS the Jewell City Republican I'M
derstands it, when common MAD
takes fee it is bribe; but when a
senator takes a bride it is fee.
Judge Adna P. Gristlebone, chief In.
spector of the cinder beetle quaran-
tine at Sharon Springs, is among the
1913 patriots who claim to be the
original Hoch man."
Topeka has arranged to give Gem
eral Nelson A. Miles the freedom Of
the city" next week, which is a ire
mendous concession for Topeka to
make to Democrat.
Wolf Binder of Washington county
has invented a machine that will milk
thirty-six cows an hour. The machine
looks like an octopus, which strength
ems Mr.. Binders belief that there's
millions in it."
Those among the Russian settlers in
Ellis county who have never been nat.
uralized are fastening to make their
citizenship declarations now. In the
event of war with Japan they would
be liable to draft into the cars
army.
Miss Anna Carlson, editor of the
Lindsborg News, replies to critic
who said that woman should not
NEEDLE in the anti-machine movement.
She maintains that women are the
ones who are needed the most at
housecleaning time.
Philip Eastman Of Topeka is con.
tributor to the Review of Reviews for
February, with an article on wind
mill Irrigation at Garden City, Kan"
Clarence H. Matson, also Of Topeka,
had "The Call of the West" in last
weeks Saturday Evening Post.
Church White, who was formerly
poor commissioner of Atchison coun.
ty, says that in his rounds among the
poor he was surprised at the number
of enlarged photographs he saw on
the walls. In one instance where the
family was particularly destitute, en-
larged pictures of the man and wife,
and all their children, and of his par
ents and her parents, hung on the
wall. 1t indicates, he says, that when
people are particularly poor, agents
find the measier to work. Lives Of
find them easier to work. Lives of
adorned one home where the city reg.
ularly furnished relief,
The secretary of the Topeka flood
relief committee is still issuing re-
ports.
Salina is so pleased with it's new
$1,000 fire engine that it is consider
ling the erection of a $4,000 building
to keep 1t in.
; DR.. Snow should not omit in making
up his January weather report to state
that the temperature fell thirty de-
grees the day j. Rialto Burton reached
Kansas.
Muscotah's Celebrated harness
case" has been settled, and the court
holds that the defendant did not take,
steal and carry away the harness ma
Illciously, feloniously and with malice
aforethought.
Fault Is found with the state goolo-
gists' report, 1.-THE Mineral Resources
of Kansas" by the Neodesha Register,
because it devotes only two pages to
the immense oil fields and nine pages
to Trego county shale.
1t is rather difficult to tell whether
Colonel Jeltz of the Negro Ledger has
climbed into the Hoch band wagon or
not. He expresses himself as follows:
Some liar told some politician that we
amounted to nothing, but they shall
see. We are going to even up
with all of our enemies before we set
ON the band wagon. We are
going to fight all down the line, so you
might as we'll get ready for the fray.
. The best people of Kansas
are in favor of reform government.
If this be true, let the wishes of them
be obeyed.
A remarkable complaint is made by
the Highland Vidette. In December
the editor made an earnest appeal TO
his delinquent subscribers to pay up,
and most of them did so. He put his
money in Marcell's bank and lost ev.
cry penny of 1t.
lola is making such rapid strides
toward city ways" that the Register
considers this story pertinent by way
of warning: A man returned from
fashionable dinner and was asked how
the women present were dressed. 81
don't know" he said; 81 forgot to look
under the table to see"
From Arkansas City comes what is
easily the prize-winning Meanest Man
story for January. A woman SO years
old, paralyzed and unable to walk, was
put off the train there. Her son had
put her on the train in an Oklahoma
town and the old mother thought she
was going to Gainesville, Mo-, to her
daughter, but the son only paid her
way to Arkansas City to get rid Of
her. She had no money and was
starving.
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