The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-12
KANSAS NEWS.
Items Of Interest From All Parts OF
Kansas.


Hiawatha is to have $50, 900 hotel
A Beloit man weighs SAT! pounds.
The Kansas peach crop is said to be
all right.
Rosedale has a now fye-story brick
-four mill.
A Hill club has been organized at
Dodge City.
A big butterine factory is to be built
at Wyandotte.
The Ottawa street car line has been
sold by the sheriff.
Atchison ladies submit all questions
to planchette boards.
An Atchison county boy has caught
600 rabbits, his winter.
A boarding house in Junction City
is run on the Bethany plan.
Atchison is preparing for the state
q. A. h. encampment this month.
There are twenty eight female county
superintendent Of schools in Kansas.
Two tramps stole oil the overcoats
from the vestibult OF a Chetopa church.
The nineteen-ye ar-old son of Hon. A
g. Hobbs at Horton has gone insane.
Money is being raised to put town
clock in the new court house at Olathe.
Seneca butchers are said to run
slaughter houses on the main business
street.
Expert canva ssers are trying to in
crease the city list Of the Leavenworth
Times 800 in one week.
A workingman at Atchison wears
two pieces OF stove pipe on his legs to
keep his pants from wearing out.
Gaylord has success ,ful public
school library supported by half-mill
tax
Only one Of the six charter members
OF the state historical society is yet
alive.
A cooking main OF eight fights was
witnessed by large crowd at Leaveu-
worth
Leavenworth feels herself metropoli-
tan because she is to have regulation
mail wagons
The daily output OF the rock salt
mines OF Lyons, Kingman and Kanap-
oils is 1000 tons,
Joseph Bell OF Atchison received
1907 back pension and was enabled to
buy house and lot
While drilling for water near Galena,
Il. j. Morrison found two foot vein
of lead and zinc ore.
William Morgan OF Beaver under
took to roundup some steers, but they
chased him up tree.
Ten farmers near West Plainville
raised and threshed 5000 bushels OF
wheat the past season.
The sorghum experimental station
at Sterling has been consolidated with
the station at Medicine Lodge.
Military prisoners at Leavenworth
engaged In cutting ice, made q break
for liberty. Only two got away.
The county commissioners of Atch-
ison county will try torecover 5000, 900
due from the Santa Fe road.
Charles Benson, who was soon to
have been hung at Leavenworth for
murder, hat been granted au indefinite
reprieve.
An Atchison ragpicker who sued q
railroad for $1,000 for injuries re-
ceived at railroad crossing dismissed
the suit for 1925.
A three-foot doll named Ethel In
gals" and dressed like the senator's
daughter, is to be an attraction at the
Atchison G A. r. fair
John X Roode was bound over to
the United States district court ut
Leavenworth on the charge OF sending
threatening letters through the mail.
A Jamestown man captured a rabbit
with four horns on its head and two
under It's chin. They were from half
an inch to an inch and one-half long.
An old negro near Atchison claims
he is 1903 years old, or rather that he
was Is years old when he saw George
Washington at Richmond. He is a rag
picker and lives In shanty.
The most poverty stricken family in
Atchison are related TO John Brown.
The father OF the family married Fran
els Brown, sister OF the abolitionist
One Of her children is yet living with
the family, which was found almost
starving by an Atchiaon Globe re-
porter,
Twice within three weeks crowd
OF hoodlums have visited the house OF
Mrs, Lake, an old woman OF Norton,
smashed every window and door,
broken the furniture, stoves and dishes,
beaten the old woman aud stolen her
money. The officers make no effort
to arrest the hoodlums.
A grand all-day wolf hnnt near Hoyt
failed TO find any wolves.
Wildwood has extensive cement beds
but no one 10 work them.