The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-01-08
KANSAS NEWS.
Short Cuttings From all Parts of tho
State.

Lum Spratt was shot and killed in
row at Wallace.
The next battleship to be launched
win be "The Kansas"
Cimarron girls do not go TO school
the day they eat onions.
Complaints of cattle losses from stalk
field feeding are quite frequent,
There are sixty records OF the late
Senator Plumb in the annals OF Kan
sas.
A boy OF eighteen is furnishing
spiritual comfort to the people OF En-
poria.
The State Deaf and Dumb school
supports base ball club, composed OF
pupils of the institution.
The Missouri Pacific has paid out
$37 900 in the vicinity Of Westphalia
this fall for fire losses
Boxing gloves are in good repute at
Almena just now. Their use has led
W bttlh Vi al uLnleJlC CluD.
Northwest Kansas was visited by a
fine rain recently. Crop reports from
that section are excellent.
Leavenworth's rival electric light
companies are at war with each other
concerning city franchise.
The Larned Optic states that
'Larned young ladies do not chew
gum but some of the girls do.
Mexico's Cinderella cooking club is
noted for Its pies rather than the size
OF the shoes Its members wear.
Labor Commissioner w. G. Hall
will begin next month compilation of
statistics for use at the worlds fair.
Judge Hackett OF Fort Scott issued
six marriage licenses and performed
the ceremony in three cases last
Wednesday.
Candidates for congressman at large
are seriously disturbed in their cam
paign by the uncertainty attending the
extra session.
Weather Prophet Foster OF st. Joseph
has missed fire so often recently that
he has become callous and predicts o
very mild winter,
Secretary Rusk has convinced a
great many Kansas farmers that there
is 81, 900 profit in five acres OF ground
planted in chicoly.
Kansas will furnish the ornamental
stucco for the worlds fair buildings.
The works at Hope have contract to
furnish 10000 tons.
The A. o. U. w. OF Parsons is in a
prosperous condition. 1t has already
paid two death assessments this year
out OF the general fund.
The winter wheat outlook in Kansas
at present is, on the average, better
than In any other western state, still it
is not up to the standard of last year.
The Topeka papers are the only
Kansas papers that will publish card
OF thanks for bereaved family, After
awhile the Topeka papers will quit it,
Colonel John Speer OF Garden City,
who is rs years old, recalls the fac
that Senator Plumb worked for him on
the Lawrence Tribune when he first
came to Kansas.
A colored man in Atchison put a
notice In the paper that he would no
longer support his wife, and thinking
that that was all there was to a
divorce, married again the next week.
An Indian conference" was held in
Lawrence on the 23d. Governor
Charles Robinson delivered the open
ing address and was followed by Hon.
7. j. Morgan, commissioner OF Indian
affairs
1t is reported that all the floors OF
the new court house at Marysville
have collapsed. The loss will fall
heavily upon the citizens of that city
who donated the building to keep the
county seat from being moved to
Frankfort.
An Atchison firm offered silk dress
to the lady constructing the greatest
number of words from the words
"Donald Brothers" Mrs. M. L.
Saunders, widow lady living in that
city, won the prize with 3,106 words.
She was bound to have the last word
II she died for it.
A Kansas politician who is on the
inside Of the machine in the state saws
there were three kinds of men in the
last state senate: Those who never
asked more than $15 or $40 for their
"inHuence, those who stuck for as
high as $1,000 or $4,000 and those who
did not strike for anything.
President Robert Hopkins, an
nounces that the coming convention OF
the Kansas state federation of labor at
Hutchinson January 4th will be COM
posed OF artisans, mechanics, railroad
men, miners and workmen engaged in
other industrial pursuits. The policy
OF the federation and unions affiliated
with 1t prohibits the introduction OF
either personal or partisan politics.
A large number OF Kansas farmers
have got entirely out Of debt this fall.
G. Wood Davis once owned a coal