The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-04
STATE NEWS.
Short Items of Interest from all Parts
of Kansas.

Independence is to have cracker
factory.
Railway employees will hold a state
convention soon.
There are 159 national and 439 state
banks in Kansas.
Abine has begun to talk OF Fourth
Of July celebration.
There is.a Kansas avenue in almost
every Kansas town.
The equal suffrage conventions are
drawing large crowds.
Kansas day was celebrated by the
schools all over the state.
Atchison has q company OF well
drilled young Lady zouaves.
The only lawyer in Strong City has
10 teach school for living.
John j. Ingalls, will have an article
on Kansas in the / pril Harper.
Topeka has new paper called the
New Age devoted to Bellamyism.
There are 10000 young Kansans
who will cast their first vote this fall.
Twenty-one designs for the Kansas
Worlds fair building have been sub.
mitted.
Lawrence has q literary club that
has met every Saturday night for eigh-
teen years.
Leavenworth has raised the cash
Ito have her street cars run by COM
pressed air.
Wichita has organized nourishing
democratic club which is called the
Tilden club,
Atchison sugar dealers got to warning
the other day and for time sold forty
pounds for 81.
The idea OF providing waiting rooms
Tor farmers and their wives is spread
Ing among Kansas towns.
Garfield university at Wichita has
been bought by Edgar Harding, rich
Bostonian, and will be reopened
In Cheyenne county half OF the
wheat raised last year is still in the
stack, and most OF the corn unhusked.
General Roberts estimates the ex-
penses OF the state militia on the trip
TO Stevens county at from $1,000 to
1900.
The Atchison Globe remarks that a
Kansas City girl imagines she is all
dressed up when she appears in a red
dress.
Garden City is rejoicing because her
postmaster was pronounced the best
hooking one in the lot at q Wichita
gathering.
Tim Mccarthy, commander OF the
Kansas G. A. r., heard the first shot
fred at Fort Sumpter and the last at
Appamatox.
The insane asylums OF Kansas are SO
crowded that no new patients are re-
ceived unless it is impossible to keep
them elsewhere
Fish are caught by the hundreds in
Sugar lake near Atchison, by the use OF
trammel nets. There are fourteen kinds
Of fish in the lake.
The Anthony Bulletin is discussing
the question, "Will Beer Produce Dis
easep' 1t Is safe TO say that Kansas
beer is immoral and unhealthy.
The Harper Sentinel wants that city
redistricted so as to have but two
wards instead Of four Neither the
school board nor city council can secure
a quorum.
Atchison police methods, such as
peeping over transoms and arresting
all women on the streets after 10 d.
M, are being roasted in the city pa.
pers.
Slugger Sullivan Is said to have
bluffed the conductor for the fare of
his company from Newton to Topeka.
The train crew were afraid to fro
them.
Decatur county farmers have sold to
their local buyers 10000 bushels of
grain in December, 65, 900 in January,
and 1t is estimated that 10000 will be
sold this month,
The Atchison Globe states that there
were very few pretty women at the
Patti concert in this city and then
adds that prosperous towns seldom
have pretty women.
Atwood is talking OF fixing I'D It's
lake 80 that travelling men would make
that town their Sunday headquarters.
Boating and duck hunting would be
elegant there il a little work was done
on the lake.
State Superintendent OF Insurance
Mcbride and his force are preparing
and sending out the 5000 licenses to
the insurance agencies OF the state.
These licenses bring in revenue to
the state OF about SIG, 900.
A Paola judge fined lawyer for bull
lying witness.
Should the saloons be closed during
the encampmentP is the question that
Atchison clergymen are agitating. The
veterans saved the country and are of
an age when their guardians need not
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