Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-03-23
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! SHORT KANSAS ITEMS

Baldwin is going to have new lum.
Der yard.
Kelley is one # the remaining towns
where the city prison is called "cal-
aboose."
The Standard Oil does not believe in
Kansas, and Mr.. Ware may write a
poem about it.
S. S. Hoover, of Coffeyville is in
Peru looking after his interest in the
gas wells there.
Gas City has been improving during
the last few months. 1t has built a
number Of new homes.
l.. T. Hussey of Usage county, the
new state oil inspector, is likely to be
buster than his predecessor.
E. e. Myers is spending few days
In Lccompton fixing his farm that he
bought from ]. H. McClanahan.
The postmaster in Delphos, who
heretofore has overlooked nothing, has
appointed Miss Chance to be his de-
putty.
An Atchlson politician is so clever
that the Globe declares he can tackle
a crowd of ten men and get eleven
votes.
Chas. E. Banker, of Salina, was sue
cessful for the nomination for railway
mail clerk. He was appointed last
Tuesday.
]. w. Burk, ex-country commissioner
of Gypsum, is seriously i'll of heart
trouble at his home six miles north of
Gypsum.
The opinion has been expressed that
President Roosevelt would enjoy being
a citizen of Kansas during these siren
uous times.
w. Buckle and H. Wool have organ
lied a telephone company at Pittsburg.
They will start out with two thousand
feet of wire.
]. H. Franklin, of Humboldt, has
just been offered $4,000 for his gas
well. The well will produce three mil
lion cubic feet.
After studying the new game law
carefully the Hutchinson News finds
there is no change in the season for
hunting trouble.
The bank of Chapman has moved in
to it's new place of business. 1t is
now in the new buil ing o. DR.. McShea
on Marshall avenue.
The Whiting journal has cornstalk
that Mrs. G. B. Wheeler brought in
that is 1Os feet high. 1t was raised
by her in her garden.
The Orient graders are making the
dirt fly at Eldorado, and it is thought
that the laying of track will begin
about the 1st Of May.
The destruction of John Fiery's
home in Leavenworth by fire Tuesday
night is quite certain to be commented
upon all over the state.
e. B. Manning of Fl. Scott, is the
composer Of lively two step called
TEDDY, the Whitehouse. 1t has been
published by Chicago firm.
Dad Stypes, of Olathe, had his toe
amputated at Springfield, NO., last
week. He has been In the employ of
the Frisco system for ten years.
Since the adjournment Of the
legislature the Chanute date line is
expected to crowd Topeka completely
off the first page Of the newspaper.
A Kansas City, Kan, man confess
ses to GS years has welded woman
one year his senior BY the way, DR..
Oslers attention is called to this item.
The man who is willing to promise
to build an oil refinery If he is given
site and considerable bonus is
beginning to infest the towns in the
bill district.
The houses of Smith Center are all
occupied and the town Is calling to
have investors build few new houses,
which shows that Smith Center is
building up.
Arkansas City is getting so accus-
toned to big events in these stirring
times that the bringing in Of the lat
est big gas well caused hardly ripple !
Of excitement in the town.
The Beioit Call says that there will
be SO Sundays this year. and 1t will not
happen again for 10 years to come,
but 1t is bound to happen every time
that New Year comes on Sunday.
The Winchester Star says that the
Telephone Co. has men |
putting up poles for the new line be-
.ween Winchester and Oskaloosa. They
will have direct line to the county
scat.
Carl Cavney of Baxter Springs, Kan,
lad the misfortune to lose his valuable
irving colt the other day. It was so
INJURED in the field on barbed wire,
where was playing, that 1t had to
70 killed. It was worth 5000.
That the lawmakers OF Kansas are
lot serving the state altogether for
heir health e surmised from the fact
hat they adjourned in a very few days
.fter their pay as legislators dropped
rom SO per day down to nothing.
Nearly all OF the big eastern mag.
zines have lately had representatives
n the Kansas oil fields gathering data
or articles on the big fight with the
standard Oil company, and in six
months or a year the articles will be.
in to appear in print. Meanwhile,
cad the papers for the news.
THE homegrown, hand-spanked,
arefooted, hard.fiCted country boy"
emarks a Kansas exchange, will
lake better fight in the battle Of life
han the pampered, high-collared,
youth Of our cities,