The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-05
KANSAS NEWS.
Items of Interest From All Parts Of
the State.
Salina now has electric lights.

A German colony will locate a
COTS.
Rabbits sell for % cents dozen a
Fort Scott.
There is talk OF moving the county
scat Of Garfield county.
Armour's ice cutters at Atchisor
struck for higher wages.
A book agent is canvassing Herring
ton with work on etiquette.
There were 1865 conversions from Q
recent revival in Manhattan.
An Indian is student" in the
Leavenworth Kelley institute.
David Brewer of Emporia has In
vented q self coupler for cars.
G. Van Leuwen of Nortonville was
killed by train near Atchison.
An Atchison colored woman knocked
her child down and stamped on it.
Armour is building an ice house near
Atchison that will hold 10, 900 tons.
Seven quarter section farms were
purchased in Decatur county last week.
The Exchange bank, with $50, 900
capital has been organized at James
town.
Jewell county reports tendency to
cultivate tame grasses and high grade
stock.
Wolves are very abundant in Neosho
county. A hunting party is being dis
cussed.
Atchison doctors give the grippe
three weeks longer to run its course in
that city.
Kansas raised thirty-two bushels OF
wheat for every inhabitant of the state
last year.
Garfield county, the smallest in the
state, is in debt $85, 900 and asks to be
disorganized.
The court house at Beloit has been
declared unsafe and the court has no
place to meet.
Russians in Ellis county have con-
tributed $40, 900 to relieve their starv-
Ing countrymen.
Kansas made 3,92S,3S pounds OF
Oleomargerine in 1891, and still has
only one factory.
Rufus Crosby, we'll known banker
of Valley Falls, hung himself because
i'll and Respondent
A ladies' club is giving concerts at
Leavenworth to raise money for the
worlds fair exhibit.
Fort Scott found coal, mineral paint
and cement rock at one spot and is
greatly rejoiced thereat.
Lorenzo Weisner, serving four
year sentence in the penitentiary, hung
himself by his suspenders.
The four hundred old soldiers in
the home at Leavenworth will be given
the Kelley treatment free.
Some one has figured that the pei
capita yield of wheat in Kansas last
year was thirty-two bushels.
A report that some Topeka council
men were boodlers has aroused much
feeling and some vigorous denials.
D. w. Cannon OF Mound City,
member of the first territorial legisla-
ture at Leoompton, died last week.
From the extremely high price of
butter and eggs it might be surmised
that the cows and hens had formed
trust.
The abundant snow prompts some
papers to remark that the services Of
the rain maker will not be needed next
summer.
Green Michels plead guilty to the
charge Of manslaugater at Leaven-
worth. He shot John Hunt through
window.
Mathew Wilson Of Rice county,
husked 225 bushels and fifty pounds of
corn in twelve hours and took time to
eat dinner.
A man in Hodgman county was mar
ried by telegraph to woman in the
east. She's coming to meet her hus-
band now.
The original hoop-skirt in which JEFF
Davis was captured is advertised as
one OF the attractions of an Atchison
G. A. r. fair.
A wife near Sabetha induced her
husband to put mortgage OF $1,000
on the place. She took the money and
eloped with widower.
The Jetmore Reville says: "If the
season continues to be as favorable as
1t seems now it will be, Hodgeman
county will roll up the biggest crop
next year that was ever known in the
history OF western Kansas.
Four members of gang organized
to steal wheat, corn and hogs were ar
rested at Lees Summit, near Indepen-
dence. All arc said to be prominent
citizens.
Atchison young ladies are going to
show the young men few things
about nsnssietvn and how To run it