Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-02-23

!: SHORT KANSAS ITEMS f.:
Observation-Disclosures IN

SuCC6SS VI lue DuSlueSS.
The Winfield Free Press tells of q
citizen who is so crooked you couldn't
feed him with a round steak"
The official count for the winter
term shows an attendance at the state
agricultural college at Manhattan OF
1854.
The Parsons Sun suggests that the
governor might use in that investiga'
ton, the Search Light club Of Coffey
vile.
A man in Neosho county is so mean
that he embezzles eggs from the pan.
try and trades them at the store for
cigars.
The Kansas Security Oil and Gas
Co. has shot its third well, which pro-
duced about rs barrels of good oil the
first two hours.
The Reporter at Independence has
figured it out that the profits to the
state of state oil refinery would be
$2S,579 month.
A large drilling outfit has arrived
at La Cygne to be used in prospecting.
The machinery is capable of drilling
/ W "a NSPIi VI oiOOV iCCNs
Burlington has abandoned her eff.
forts to find oil or gas, having gone
down about 400 feet and then lost
their machinery in the hole.
Chautauqua county has furnished
several hundreds of rabbits to the poor
people of Kansas City. the distribut.
ing being done by the Salvation Army.
The two easiest jobs in the state are
those Of jailer and superintendent OF
the poorhouse in Rush county. Both
institutions have been empty for sew
eral weeks.
An editor out hunting for coons in
the woods of Michigan found pocket
book containing $97.4O. All the edi.
tors in that part Of the state have
taken to the woods.
The Lincoln Club of Pleasanton will
give an entertainment on February 20
at the opera house, the proceeds Of
| which will be applied in the starting OF
a new public library.
Edward A. Goodnow of Worcester,
Mass, has been good, not, and be.
queathed $4,000 to Washburn college
at Topeka, according to report eman.
ating from his home town.
The last Kansas Day banquet held
at Topeka recently was not so largely
attended as usual, and only very few
guests were present But the speeches
and other entertainment features up
to the usual high standard.
Kansas has an editor governor, an.
other editor his private secretary and
editor auditor Of state, an editor state
superintendent, two editors in the sen.
ate, and three in the house, and an.
other editor secretary Of the senate.
The sales of booze in Topeka as re.
ported by the drug stores for the
month Of January were several hun.
dred less than in December. Which
proves that Topekans, like other peo-
pie, turn over a new leaf at the be.
ginning of the year.
The sixteen public institutions OF
the state of Kansas have asked for ap.
preparations, the total amount OF
which Is $4,219,628.50. OF course they
do not expect to get all they ask for ,
yet as a rule the state deals pretty lib.
orally with its institutions.
Colonel w. F. Sapp, chairman of the
Democratic state committee, has re.
ceived an acceptance from w. j..
Bryan Of the invitation to address the
Democratic banquet in Topeka Feb.
ruary %. Mr.. Bryan writes that his
subject will be Back to the People"
The Atchlson Globe refuses to be.
come indignant because the death pen.
atty is to be enforced in the case OF a
New England woman who murdered
her husband. The Globe says she
should be hanged so high that the
sky-larks will build nests in her hustle.
A new game law his been enacted
by the Kansas legislature, prohibiting
the killing Of game by hunters except
In the following numbers: Grouse,
10; prairie chickens, s. plover, 20;
wild ducks, 20; wild geese, 10; wild
brant, 10. All Of these may be logged
by one hunter on any one day
A Kansas editor went to the Worlds
fair in an $4,000 automobile, had a
suit OF five rooms on the first floor OF
the Inside Inn, purchased a $4,000
painting OF Ruth Gathering the
Sheaves," and was about to start home
again. when his wife awakened him
for breakfast.
Colonel Thomas Benton Murdoch,
editor OF the FL Dorado Daily Repub
lican, who is one of the original squat
ter sovereigns Of Kansas, or "Sover
eign Squats," as he puts 1t, having
done good job in the work Of boss
busting in Kansas, is now very much
inclined to do a little "trust.busting.
and favors starting in on the Stand.
ard Oil company win a new state re.
flnery.
A man called up Mayor James W.
Orr OF Atchison over the telephone
few evenings ago and asked: who
is our congressman? / know but !
can't think Of his name" Mount
Cochran" replied the mayor, who Is
a good deal Of a joker, and who want.
ed to ascertain II the fellow really did
know. "Oh, yes" he replied. how
stupid Of me to forget. Much Obliged.
Good night"
Henry w. Young. the veteran Popu.
list Of Montgomery county, the editor
Of the independence Times and ex.
state senator, is the beneficiary Of q
pronounced change OF sentiment IN
that section Of the state. He used 10
be denounced as an Anarchist" for