Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-01-19
LATEST KANSAS ITEMS

1t will be a comfortable house Of
seven rooms.
Tom Mclean is going to erect
bank building at Talmo soon. When
the building is completed 1t is said
the bank now located at Wayne will
move its contents to Talmo.
George Small, rural route carrier
at Glasco, received broken rib and
other injuries one day last week by
the horse starting and dragging him
some distance under the buggy.
The trahmen, says the Leona Hus-
tier, reported that 205 packages Of
liquor were unloaded at Highland Sta
ton last Saturday. They were prob
ably getting ready for water famine.
An Emporia man mistook bottle
of carbolic acid for his bottle of medi.
cine. He left wife and six children,
reports Harry Mailer in his Doniphan
Hustler.
The world has shown few equals to
Mrs. Chadwick in ability to work the
rich, but Santa Claus can give her
cards and spades, for he works all;
rich and poor, says the Norton Cham
pion.
Oskaloosa has organized a jefferson
county taxpayers league to check of
ficial extravaganza, and as usual some
OF the extravagant ones are vigorous
ducks in the reform puddle, declares
the Tonganoxie Mirror.
1t was Kansas man, boasts the
Phillipsburg Herald, that successfully
| ferreted out the land frauds that lead
to the indictment of Senator Mitchell
and Congressman Hermann of Ore
| gon.
The Kansas State editorial associa.
ton will hold its annual meeting at
Topeka, Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 16
and II. An interesting program has
been prepared and good attendance
is anticipated,
The Downs Times says: 1--WE re-
Gently received a letter from a party
in Oklahoma asking if there was a
barber shop in Downs. Wouldn't that
jar horse? What is fame, and from
whence does he come?
We had always imagined that a
captured opossum was something
very valuable, but a young man in
town Saturday had one for sale and
couldn't find a ready market for the
animal at 25 cents, says the Concordia
Press.
Says the Leona Hustler: "A bunch
of Robinson boys were arrested last
week, and fined 81 and costs, amount
ing to SO each, for playing football on
the streets. Leona boys could have
a sham battle on the streets and moth
ing would be done"
Last Monday, says the Humboldt
Union, a carrier on one of the rural
routes from the Humboldt postoffice
found a nice fat possum, killed and
prepared for cooking, in one of the
mail boxes. And he didn't take It.!
Maybe because the possum wasn't
stamped.
We have on exhibition this week,
says the Concordia Press, an ear OF
corn raised by Cecil Cutshaw which
is 7 inches long. IL inches in diam.
eter, and has SO rows of kernels. At
its side is an ear Of yellow corn, raised
by II. d. Layton which is 13 IL inches
in length.
A Hill City dispatch says: Lieuten.
ant Governor d. ]. Hanna, in COM
plance with his promise at the Wich-
itas convention two years ago, that
in the event of his nomination and
election he would become a married
man, fulfilled his pledge Sunday by
his marriage to Miss May Keleher Of
this place. daughter of William Kel'
cher, proprietor of the Hotel DeshoupI
The home of Nose Thompson, who
lives near Beloit. was destroyed by
fire. Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson had
gone to town to do their trading and
left their three daughters and Mrs
Thompsons aged father at home to
take care of things. One of the girls
built fire in the cook stove and as IT
was not burning as rapidly as II
should, she picked up the coal oil can
and began pouring the oil upon the
fire with the usual result.
The editor of the White City, Kan,
Register is mad. He scays: "A man
in Morris county swore he would take
this paper is he was elected. He was
elected and what do you think, he
hasn't redeemed his oath-an oath
solemnized by the pound Of his horny
hand upon our sacred desk. Isn't that
mean? But he will -politically-if
ever this moral sheet gets a shot at
him in another one Of his campaigns.
We are crying mad
A party from Kansas City, says the
Olathe Register, composed Of John
Hayes, chief Of police; Henry P. Stew
art, police commissioner; Lieutenant
Edward Hickman; Sergeant w. II.
Hammill and Frank Peck, killed 447
rabbits and a number Of squirrels and
quails in a two days hunt near Morse
the latter part Of last week. The
game was shipped to Kansas City and
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