The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-22
KANSAS NOTES.
Short Items Of Interest From All
Parts OF the State.

NAASNS NNAAS6S'
A mad dog did considerable biting
In Marshall county.
Forty-two Wichita men enlisted in
the regular army last week.
Atchison keeps q mounted police
man to look after stray COWS.
There will be no women on the
Atchison school board this year.
The Beloit military band expects to
go to the Minneapolis convention.
Work will shortly be commenced on
large school building at Rushville
Kansas has 10000 school teachers
and an army Of bright school chill
dren.
jamestown has haunted house"
In which o one can live more than a
few days.
The new vitrifed brick works TO be
started in Atchison will be the largest
In the west.
A Bourbon county couple rode eigh-
teen miles in Saturday nights storm
to get married.
OF !, 900 Germans who nave just
landed in Baltimore, nearly all are
bound for Kansas.
Milton E. Bryant, founder Of
Wathena, Gied few days ago at the
ripe age Of eighty-six.
Joseph Rowe, Of Beagle, Kas., was
run over by an engine on the Memphis
route and instantly killed.
A recent hail storm at Manhattan
broke 1920 window lights at the
Kansas agricultural college.
Fred See OF Colby was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
OF gun during runaway.
In Newton the women arc taking an
increased interest in politics, and more
have registered than heretofore.
Ninety per cent of the people OF
Kansas are OF American blood 1t is
the purest blood state in the union.
Kansas has never had governor
who lived sixty miles west OF the Mis-
souri, river. Yet the state is 400 miles
long.
A Wichita firm has a $780, con-
tract for iron work on the new court
house now building at Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Ben Jordan, colored, who is said to
have been the wickedest man in Tope-
ka, has been converted and closed up
his joint.
The Topeka street car lines have
consolidated, and the new company
will equip the Kansas avenue with
electricity.
Two men named Schrader bent gun
barrel over the head OF Charles Biel,
at South Leavenworth, and otherwise
injured him.
The Wichita Eagle thinks that when
the north pole is discovered a Kansas
man will be the first to make break
for the consulship,
When man at Beattie wished to re-
move the body of his wife, no trace of
the coffin was to be found So grave
robbing is suspected.
Southeastern Kansas has nine zinc
smelling plants, operating fifty eight
furnaces, which combined daily capaci-
ty is 100000 pounds.
Lincoln has offered the Atchison
road 500, 600 and its business for five
years if it will extend the road from
Barnard to that place.
Hutchinson is the only town in the
state that boasts Of rock salt street
crossings, which are said to be very
durable and satisfactory.
Topeka republicans have decided
not to build u temporary wigwam, but
permanent hall seating 2, 900 or 8, 900
people, at a cost OF $50, 600.
A Wichita dentist has sued five COM
petitors for $40, 900, alleging that they
conspire to ruin his business by prose-
cutting him on various charges
A Wichita minister was dismissed
because he took kennel OF dogs on a
debt He feellngly observes; The
more see OF men, the better | like
dogs
An Ottawa girl at a church fair drove
twelve eight-penny nails in sixty
seconds, and won tack hammer,
while man sewed on four buttons in
two minutes and twenty seconds and
won thimble. These people would
surely be we'll matched.
The village OF Towanda, recently
swept away by Kansas Twister will
be rebuilt Immediately, largely by the
donations made in her behalf by her
generous sister towns.
Seneca had a sensational elopement,
j. H, Ballinger, a Grand Island brake.
man, and Miss Connie Cottrell,
daughter Of photographer, eloped and
were married in st. Joseph.
There has been revolution in the
manner and nlane nf holding caucusas