Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-05
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time in the exercise of his power to
pardon criminals. Out of the $50 ap.
plications for pardons received during
December he has granted only five.
After all, Tom McNeal, editor of the
Topeka Mail and Breeze, has been Of
fered and has accepted the job of pri.
vate secretary to Governor Hoch, re-
serving, however, the right to make
the race for state printer. The secre.
taryship pays $4,000 a year.
An A0la thief who stole an overcoat
did not know until after he reached
the hospital that the garment was one
worn by a doctor in attending his
smallpox patients.
The personal effects of a gang of
Italian laborers in Allen county were
destroyed by fire, and the lola Rec
ord estimates that the loss may reach
a grand total of thirty cents.
Pity the poor reporters, printers and
proofreaders at Mcpherson. Here is a
sample of the names that may be
found by the score in any issue of the
papers, published in that Scandinavian
community: Will Neuschwander, A.
Bitikofers, NJ. Coughenour, Jens Chris
Jefferson, August Schlichts, Christ ].
Goering.
In the oil and gas business in Cot
feyVille is a producing firm known
by the very ordinary name of Smith G.
Dean. The independence Reporter
adds There is nothing especially in
terestins in this statement, unless it
might be that the firm is drilling its
No. well on its own land and is
meeting with success. In private life
'Messrs. Smlth & Dean are known as
Miss Smith and Miss Dean. They are
said to be thoroughly up to snuff and
attend to the affairs of the lease as
practically as the average man. And
why not?"
1t Is significant that the department,
Thoughts We Have Been Thinking"
has disappeared from Governor-elect
Hoch's paper, the Marion Record. 1t
may be that the place hunters have of
late given him no chance to think,
and, too, it may be that they have
worried him so that the thoughts he
has been thinking are not suitable to
appear in the columns of good fam
lily paper like the Record.
Tho Eria 10 co 60.
in state pride that it denies that Mrs.
Cassie l.. Chadwick ever lived in the
state
Governor Bailey and family will va
cafe the executive mansion in the af-
ternoon of January 8, and Governor
Hoch and family will then move in.
In the evening a. reception will be
given In which the Baileys and the
Hochs will stand together while re.
ceiving the public.
In Saline county the probate Judge
Is offering bargain sale of marriage
licenses during the few remaining
days Of leap year.
The report come from Topeka by
way of Wichita that Colonel Jeltz is to
be the historian of the next Kansas
Day club banquet.
The red flag which will be displayed |
In Topeka next week will not be the |
symbol of Anarchy, but means that
the State Auctioneers' association is
holding its annual meeting.
Among the appointments which are
expected to devolve upon Governor
Hoch is that of an accountless state
accountant.
man in Severance was given TWEEN
ty years in the penitentiary last week,
just to show that the crime of wife
killing is no joke.
The Topeka Herald has stepped in
and arranged just how the Santa Fe
directors are to spend the new $780,
100000 bond issue.
E. l.. Miller has sold the Seneca
Rural Kansan to j. r. Derry, who has
eliminated the Rural" from the name
and made other Improvements.
The Coffeyville dynamiters should
be given treatment right away, be-
fore they become addicted to hitting
the pipe.
Arkansas City has her tow line out
for sugar beet factory" It is pre-
sumed, however, that she would be
satisfied with a beet sugar factory.
A party Of millionaires in a private
car passed through Abilene a few days
ago, but the Reflector says they at
tracted less attention than the rosy
checked bride in the chair car.
Washburn college at Topeka was
named in honor Of lchabod Washburn,
who gave il $4,000 when it was called
Lincoln institute and needed cash,
ana out Of gratitude for the gift the
name was changed. He was a Con-
gregatiolal deacon of the old school
who made a fortune out of the wine
business at Worcester, Mass.
While cases Of small POKE are re
ported from many Kansas towns
there isn't the disposition to get
scared about 1t as in former years.
Science has made wonderful progress
In tho treatment of fhfe dicaaca and