The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-18
KANSAS NOTES.

The latest is that the Friends col.
lege will be located at Cawker City.
A basket factory will be started at
Atchison, using the willows from ad-
jacent islands.
A negro at Leavenworth was landed
In the penitentiary seventy hours after
his attempted crime.
The railroad business at Osborn for
January was five times as great as for
January of last year.
The Atchison Champion publishes q
portrait OF negro wOod-sawyer who
10 quite character.
Atchison young people in certain
church bet on which Of two saints will
make the longest prayer.
Bernard Schmitz, the man released
from prison by the emperor OF Ger
many, has arrived in Atchison.
Atchison will soon start out an ANA.
teur minstrel organization.
An Atchison man is busy writing
music for the Iowa state band.
A Doniphan county man thinks he
has found gold mine on his farm.
Others think it zinc.
The Kansas state normal has / ,400
students, the state university $40 and
the state agricultural college over 500.
Farms to the value OF $148, 900 wero
sold in Marshall county last month
and only $50, 900 Of farm mortgages
were filed.
Kansas wheat was never known to
be in better condition than 1t is at the
present time. Indications point to
very heavy crop.
The library OF the late Senator
Plumb, composed Of 1000 volumes,
has been presented to the normal
school at Emporia.
The rainfall for February was the
heaviest for that month in twenty-five
years, being three times the average.
1t was 1856
Two million five hundred dollars
has just been distributed in pensions
TO the old soldiers in Kansas. So
many farmers are getting pensions
that the people this year won't care
whether corn grows or not.
An extensive prairie fire in Meade
and Ford counties did much damage.
There Is prospect for phenomen-
ally early spring, and the farmers are
preparing for 1t.
Atchlson has colored boy about
ten years old whose hair is fully
foot and a half long, which he wears
In braids.
Work on the Kaw dam at Topeka
has been suspended, the materials used
In construction being attached by
creditors.
An attempt is being made at Blue
Rapids to haul gypsum rock from the
mine to the mill by means OF trac-
ton engine.
The police Of Topeka arrested the
drivers OF the Police Patrol" COM
pany advertising wagon for fast driv-
Ing, and they had to pay $40,
Rev. Innocent Wolf abbot of ST.
Benedict's at Atchison, comes down
town but once or twice year, and
few citizens know him by sight
Hiawatha women are warning on
vice. Recently they tore objection
able posters down, and now woman
has invaded gambling den and
raised such fuss that some of the
sports have left town, fearing arrest.
The Rawlins county Jail has no
tenant.
Osborn ladies have organized an
athletic club.
There are 900 Offices to fiji in Kan
sas next fall
Sherman county is catching immi-
grants from Illinois and Wisconsin.
A thousand converts are reported at
the revival held by Major Cole at Kan
sas City.
The republican club at Topeka will
erect pavilion to hold campaign
speeches in.
Concordia has cooking club.
Cloud county has regular monthly
spelling contests.
A man named Woodson, formerly
secretary OF state and acting governor
Of Kansas, is now making a living
sticking type in a country Office in the
southern part of the state.
The mayor and city council of
Paola have been arrested under the
state law providing that old soldiers
shall be given the preference in all
state and municipal appointments,
they having refused to appoint an old
soldier applicant to the Office of city
assessor.
The jury in the case Of the state Of
Kansas VS.. lands, the defaulting alli-
ance county treasurer OF Stafford
county, stood nine for his conviction
and three for acquittal. The county
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