The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-25
KANSAS NOTES.
Short Items of Interest From all
Parts of the State.

Five thousand electric lights are
burned in Hiawatha.
A vein Of Galena ore has been dis
covered near Doniphan,
An Atchison milling company is
having 200 freight cars made.
I.aclede has a new saw mill which
will be supplied with native labor.
The people that return from visits
In other states are satisfied with Kan
sas.
Cheyenne county claims to be the
best horse market In the United
States.
The 24,743 railroad employees in
Kansas received $13, 377, 2S5 in salar-
les last year.
Kansas newspapers are kept busy
getting the names OF the newcomers
from other states.
The value OF farm lands in Kansas
has actually increased "a per cent
within the last year.
Numerous revivals have been held
throughout the state and large num-
Der Of converts are reported.
Ralph Gillian, aged thirteen, is now
said to be the youngest Kansas editor,
His paper is the La Harpe News.
The building at Atchison occupied
by the first banking house and the
first telegraph Office is being torn
down.
Should Ed. Greer be elected con-
gresham at large he would be the
first Kansas born man ever sent TO that
body.
Professor Atkinson OF the Haskell
Indian school, Lawrence, has been APP
pointed to the Indian school at Mesel-
arc, N, M.
Dickinson county farmers have re.
duced their indebtedness $l35, 900 in
the past six months or at the rate OF
nearly 81, 600 a year.
A den OF snakes has been discovered
on o farm near Efiingham. Hundreds
OF reptiles Of various kinds are said to
be frozen to the rocks.
I. b. Wilcox OF Nuscotah worked
for Jay Gould Us surveyor in 1854,
and it took Jay three days to scrape
up the $l2S to pay Wilcox when he
quit.
Professor M. Chichester superin-
tendent Of the Cawker City schools,
has been appointed superintendent OF
the Ind'"j, school at Hoppa agency,
Cali,
Kansas has l0l towns with q popu.
lation OF more than 1000, their total
population being, in 1890, 3GS, S0l. In
the list Kansas stands ahead of thirty
three other states.
Clay Center has the two youngest
living representatives Of the famous
Dutch Van Rensselaer, family. They
are going to New York this spring to
attend family reunion.
A Kansas farmer went out to tho
pacific coast recently to see what kind
of farming country existed out there.
lie now writes back as follows: "Offer
a premium at your next county fair
for the biggest fool in the country
and | will try and be there to compete
for it,
The cold snap a short time ago was
very damaging to Kansas wheat The
plant had grown vigorously for,sever-
al weeks and the cold weather struck
1t without a covering Of snow, While
the damage may not be as great as
reports indicate, yet the most hopeful
realize that the crop must necessarily
DO greatly reduced from the estimates
OF several days ago. Some Of the re-
ports say that thousands of acres are
black and wilted, while others say the
upland wheat has not been injured so
greatly, but all reports tell OF great in
jury to the bottoms, where the water
is standing from recent rains.
The weekly papers OF Kansas are
showing what they can do to and in
swelling the tide OF immigration and
improvement. Every week a number
Of papers publish extended descrip
tions OF towns and counties, giving
facts as to climate, advantages, crops
and population. Sometimes special
writer's are hired to insure good
article, but usually the native genius
of the Kansas editor is all sufficient
The work of making the state known
can be performed by no one else SO
we'll as by the country editors, ~ who
know and love their own localitie.
thoroughly. But this noble work fol
Kansas costs money and, unsup.
ported by the people of the towns, i,
unavailing. Readers of tho news
papers should send these misslonar,
papers east by the hundred. Thel
1892 will be the greatest year in thu
history of Kansas.
The sales of farms in Marshal
county for the month of Februar,
amounted to $107 631. 40. The aver
age price per acre was $23.15. or thi
amount the farms purchased were al
paid for except $31, 315, which was Sc
cured by mortgages on the land pur
chased.