Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-03-24

welcome. :
If the government is not going to
allow any appropriation for the pur'
pose of preventing Kaw rive rfloods
the next best thing would be an i'm
proved weather service which will
warn the people when to flee.
According to the Star, in Conway
Springs, man there lost a greyhound
pup last week. The pup was once
kicked by a mule and when a big
jackrabbit jumped up before him he
turned and ran, the rabbit after him.
When last seen the pup was gaining
On the rabbit.
Among the other things the public
is curious to know is if Mr.. Trip, OF
Dickinson county, is related to Mr..
Stubs.
The Coolidge Enterprise refuses to
treat Mormonism in any other way
thsp as the comic supplement to the
Good Book"
Colonel Jeltz, of the Negro Ledger,
il pleased with the assurance that the
"venal equinox" is only about ten
days distant.
1t Is related as true that young wo-
man who was taking her first ride on
a railroad a few days ago stayed on for
sixteen miles. Then she concluded
that the cars were running away"
and jumped off. She was not seriously
burt.
The Dewey trial was resumed in
Norton, Friday, just as the public was
beginning to make excellent progress
In the good work Of forgetting 1t.
The Palmer Index denounces the
h!oodhounds recently brought from Ne
braska to trail thieves, as fit only for
the bologna works. The editor has 4
Dul oc-Iej sey pig, he says, which can
give those Nebraska trailers cards and
spades.
David Leahy is going to recover all
right. He is we'll enough to be able
to denounce the four-flushers who
live in washington.
1.-THE Red Man Has No Show" Is
the title of an able Sunday editorial
ing what has become of the Wild
West Sht
That Wichita judge who gravely
decided that diamonds are not wear
ing apparel evidently is awal" that
soma are entitled to be classified as
pastry"
The Shannon Times, in criticlsins
q recent concert, is quoted as saying:
Miss Vesta Holler had very strong
voice; she mad been eating spring
onions"
A Dickinson county girl sued rich
farmer for $4,000 for breach of prom
Use. He married her, as the easiest
way out of the suit, and now she Is
suing for a divorce and division OF
his fortune.
Jonas Stafford, so years old, has
been placed on the pension list of the
Santa Fe system. He has been in the
company's employ in various capaci.
ties thirty-six years and his home is
Dodge City.
The practical joker" who leaves
notes demanding that sums varying
from 500 to $500 be left at designated
places, under threats to burn the re-
cipient's barns and blow up their
houses, is teasing the farmers in the
vicinity of Glen Elder.
"Mr. Subscriber" pleads the Green
leaf Sentinel the white paper alone
in your Sentinel for year costs forty
cents. Then we put in fifty-two weeks
work and ask you sixty cents for this
labor. Don't you feel small when you
beat us out of it,"
Valuable Music Note in the Burr
Oak Herald: "a growing plant should
be kept in the room with a piano, says
a piano tuner. AS long as the plant
thrives the piano will. The reason
that a piano is injured by dry. over
heated room is that all the moisture
is taken out of the sounding board"
The Jewell county woman who graf.
ed S25 worth of horse radish by hand
within the last few months is reported
to have shed enough tears to float
an auxiliary cruiser.
In Mcpherson the girls have organ
lied a Marble Heart club, but the
young men who have read the ac-
counts of the Baltimore fire are aware
that even marble is not fireproof.
All of the rockies" at Fort Riley
rushed for the cellar when the dust
storm approached last week. They
had heard about Kansas cyclones and
they thought one was upon them.
Governor Bailey has designated
April Z as Arbor day.
The dramatic critic for the Emporia
Gazette finds fault with one Of last
weeks shows because no man ever
says Curse you'll" to another man In
actual life.
The first fire escape in Manhattan
was installed last week. A local paper
explains that 1t consists of iron steps
from one Of the west win