The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-01-15
KANSAS NEWS.

A popular subscription Tor monu'
ment to Plumb is advocated,
Mound Valley men have subscribed
money to build a kite-shaped track.
Melbourne offers to make rain at Par
son for $500 and travelling expenses OF
three persons.
A hard blow has struck White City.
The local egg dealer who paid 81, 900 a
month has failed.
The Riley county commissioners are
discussing the advisability OF buying a
county poor farm.
During two months Atkinson has
furnished aid to sixty families, and fif-
ty OF them were colored.
Fred Duloch, an Erie jeweler, has
been sent to the Kelley cure by the To-
cal Good Templars' lodge.
There is lady in Nebraska who for
bids gossip In her house She receives
no callers but visits a great deal
The register OF deeds In Atchison re-
ports a decrease in the mortgages re-.
corded thus far during the month.
Memorial services In honor OF the
late Senator Plumb were held in almost
every village and city In the state.
A large number OF the inmates Of
the deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe
went to their homes to spend Christ
mas.
Newton Howe, superintendent OF
the Summer county poor farm, was
shot dead by John Meeks, a one-legged
ward,
Several families that left Oberlin to
better themselves elsewhere didn't
do 1t, and have gone back to their old
home.
Labette creek the source Of Parsons
water supply, is about dry, and the
people have been placed on short ~
lowance
The vigilance committe has clew
to the highway robbers who have COM
mitted the series OF bold robberles near
bingham.
Miss Elya Ray Root OF Atchison has
achieved the distinction OF being rec
Ognized as poet and will write for the
Seneca News.
We would send -four and pork to the
starving thousands Of Mexico if we had
q water route. The car famine prevents
lots OF charity.
A game OF football was played in To-
peka Christmas, and an admission fee
was charged for the purpose Of raising
charitable fund.
j. Il, Forbes, hardware merchant
of Ottawa, has made an assignment in
favor Of his creditors. His liabilities
OF record are less shan $40, 000
The storm in Kansas on New Years
day was considerable of a blizzard.
Good resolutions were knocked into
a cooked hat, " remarks a south Kansas
editor.
On Christmas afternoon Washington
Waterman, a prisoner 81 years OF age
died in the penitentiary at Lansing. He
had served five or six terms In various
prisons for different offenses.
The conference of Indian school
workers held in Lawrence was attend
ed by about u hundred workers, every
Indian school in the United States of
Importance being represented.
All the mortgages recorded in Brown
county in the last year have been
either for the purchase money or for
renewals, and all renewals have been
for less sums than the original debts.
George II. Miller, formerly superin-
tendent Of the blind asylum, and John
Wherrel, once q well-known superin-
tendent of schools, have established
sanitarium for inebriates at Wyan-
dotte.
1t Is probably true that no state in
the union observes holidays more gener-
ally than do the Kansans. Christmas
and New Years were up to the stand
ard and nearly every church and school
house in the country districts had q
program arranged and all had pleas
ant time. There were fewer neglected
children in Kansas than any state in
the union, and this was accomplished
by hard work rather than by money
expenditure,
White, the Topeka insurance agent,
who has invented an "annunciator for
the supposed dead, " will gain notoriety
by his invention even II he makes no
money. 1t is simple device and is
placed on the casket just before inter-
ment, 1t consists OF small battery
with fine wires attached to the first
and little fingers Of the supposed
corpse, II the corpse is not a
corpse, the theory is that tho
fingers will move, and this releases tho
battery, which opens a rubber tube
supplying air TO- the occupant OF the
grave and at the same time gong is
struck at the sections headquarters,
an arrangement in the form OF toll
board indicating the number OF the
grave from which the alarm comes.
The twenty little inmates OF
the orphans home in Topeka were
made glad Christmas morning by find
ing the stockings they had hung up the
night before full OF presents, and later
In the dav nv n hOuntiful furlrev din,