Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-04-13
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Ottawa does not wish to appear
| fire and an assassination all the same
night.
Something which happened in Cof-
fey county recently was announced In
the newspaper under the heading:
was double wedding.
Great Bend has raised $4,000 for
the purpose of building an opera house
and is evidently ambitious to become
known as the Lindsborg Of Barton
county.
A correspondent of the Newton
Kansan has encouragement for hor'
ticulturists. He says: I'VE have
noticed that not ali the apricot buds
have been killed."
John Q. Royce, Of Phillipsburg, Is
another editor who has been placed
in charge of the affairs of the state.
Governor Hoch appointed him state
bank commissioner.
A bank in Anthony prints quite an
elaborate advertisement headed: "Ad.
vantages Of bank account" There
are many Of us who did not know, and
welcome the information.
The probable result of the election
in Atchison is further complicated by,
reason of the fact that both candi.
dates for mayor are so popular that
the community hates to defeat either
one Of them.
Applications for work in the sum-
mer session of the University Of Kan
sas are already being received by the
university in large numbers. The sum-
mer session opens June and con-
tinues six weeks.
The heavy wind last week caused
great deal of damage to telephone
and telegraph wire through the east
ern and central parts of the state.
However in very few days everything
was again in repair.
If man got his leg caught in bear
trap everybody would be excited until
he was helped out; but when he falls
into the whiskey trap, which Is worse
and much harder to get out Of, they
call him fool and let 1t go at that.
The Wisconsin senate has passed
the Evans anti-cigarette bill. The
bill, which absolutely prohibits the sale
or manufacture Of cigarettes or cigar
cite paper, has already passed the as
sembly, and now goes to the governor.
H. Pierce formerly superintendent of
packing plants for Nelson Morris at
st. Joseph and East st. Louis, but now
Of Des Moines, Ia, was united In mar
riage at st. Joseph with Miss Adelia
Mae Bagby, the daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. w. Bagby.
The Barton County Democrat dis
covered a county commissioner who
established new record for economy
at the last meeting of the board when
he kicked on a bill for ribbons for
typewriter" "She's a nice girl, /" said
old eagle eyes, "but the county is UNI
der no obligations to buy her Clothes"
Guy Gardner, who some months ago
disappeared from Winfield, where he
was agent for the Santa Fe railroad,
and who since that time had not been
heard from, and was mourned as dead
by his family, was located last week
In Carlo, ILL.,, by his father and was
brought back. He was in the employ
of the Big Four at Carlo, and says
that the time since his disappearance
is blank to him.
County Attorney Lee Bond, OF
Leavenworth county, who Is attorney
for the Kansas City-Leavenworth
railway, has filed complaints against
Maret and Powers, the two young men
who fired into an electric car near
Wolcott recently and injured two men.
A Kansas City attorney will defend
Maret, who, 1t is said, will claim that
he Is but Is years Of age and not sub
ject to a penitentiary sentence.
1.-THE subscription list of a local
newspaper Is one Of the very best II. !
nancial directories that can be imag. |
ined," says the Highland Vidette.
while we do not divulge 1t, we could |
go over the entire community and
classify everybody as follows: Prompt,
good but negligent, good but slow.
deadbeat. A glance at the various
date tags beats any Bradstreet or Dun's
commercial agency rating ever pub.
lished."
Miss Ida Tarbell, the Standard OIL
historian, has reached Chanute in her
tour OF the Kansas oil field, and is in
producers with special ref.
erence to the 20-cent differential the
Prairie Oil and Gas Company main.
tanned between the North and South
Neodesha fields for several years.
She will go to Humboldt from here
to interview Webster, the Humboldt
reflner, being DESTROYS Of getting data
on the refining qualities Of the oil In
the north field.
Frank 8. Thomas, Santa Fe watch
Inspector, wants S48,SS8 from the San
Ia Fe railroad because, he alleges, the
company broke off contract with him
to sell its employees 1900 watches and
take the money out OF their wages.
The contract was made In 1896, Thorn
as sold 720 watches at $50 each.
When the contract was annuled, he
had, he claims, 4,074 watches still on
hand. He would have made 312
On each watch had he sold them.
Colonel Walter T. Duggan, First
Infantry, U. s. A.. will succeed Brig.
adler General Friedrich Funston as
of the department OF the
Lakes, with headquarters in Chicago.
Colonel Duggan is now at Fort Wayne
md will come to Chicago within ten
lays. General Funston, who has been