The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-30
KANSAS NOTES.
short items of Interest From All
Parts OF the State.

John Iieimetz, a painter, attempted
suicide at Clifton, AtchisOn county,
recently by taking Paris green.
Secretary Mohler OF the state board
Of agriculture is Investigating the sub
ject OF irrigation at Garden City
The corn crop in Douglas county is
FULLY matured and will make the Big
gest yield OF any produced foryearS'
A farmer living near Newton 10
having 4,000-bushel grain elevator
erected for storing his own grain.
Chanute merchants are happy be-
cause the Santa Fe road left 500 OOO
among its employees at that place.
The annual tournament Of the
Kansas State Tennis league will be
held at Abilene, October II, l2and 10.
Nina Mediums mile in 218@ at
Topeka last week is the hall-mile
track record in Kansas and makes her
great mare
The anniversary OF the emancipa-
ton proclamation was celebrated by
the colored people of Emporia Sep
TENDER IA
The seventeenth annual session OF
the Kansas conference OF the African
Methodist Episcopal church was held
at Atchison.
Alvin Clark, who was serving o
term at the penitentiary for robbery,
escaped September goth and has not
yet been heard from.
A street parade and picnic was given
at Leavenworth Thursday last in cele-
bration OF the emancipation OF the
slaves OF the United States.
Cooper & Co.'s great show was at
tached at Kansas City by Deputy
Sheriff Steve March to satisfy claim
of Ed Gillespie for the amount OF $l65
for board bill.
Kansas can claim some Of the
smallest NJ we'll rs some OF the largest
things TO be seen anywhere. A horse,
said TO weigh only twenty-five pounds,
has lately died at Parsons
The Great Bend Register does q
good thing when it calls upon the
officers OF the law to enforce the
statute forbiddlng the sale Of cigar
cites to boys under 16 years old,
Dick Wiley, saloonist, and william
Rodgers, who rooms with him. were
both shot at Argentine by n man who
had entered their room, it Is supposed
with the intent to rob the inmates.
The Lawrence base ball club, whicl
earned the title Of champions of Kan
sas, has been disbanded and moe
of the players who were residents c
other cities have departed for thei
homes.
The wreck on the Santa Fe nea
Usage City, leads an Atchison pape
to remark that there are more wreck
between Topeka and Osage Cit
than on all the balance OF the SAINT
Fe system.
The Hepler creamery, an immens
institution for the manufacture OF bu
ter and cheese at TT. Scott, and tn
emily one in Bourbon county, WI
destroyed by fire September 10th. IT
loss was estimated at 81 900; insurant
$4,000 Incendiarlsm is supposed
have been the cause Of the fire.
A company is now engaged in pro
pectlng for coal near Kansas Cit
The machinery has arrived and wol
commenced. The finding Of coal
WyandOtte county means great do
for the manufacturing interests in tn
region as high priced fuel has been
big drawback to locating industrl
there.
Ed Olmstead, highly respected CT
zen aud trusted employee OF u large d
goods house Of Salina, was arrest
recently for stealing merchandise frt
his employer. In eleven years he
accumulated over $4,000, and ii
claimed that the bulk of this "
made by systematic stealing. He v
made to turn over $4,000 in NOR
to the firm and submitted to SIN
fine and was allowed to go free
has n nice family and his wife own
10 ,,ro orIntn Ia GartOonv
The sheriff of Usage county has
egraphed to officers all over the ST
to keep lookout for three men S
pected OF the CRIME OF wrecking
Santa Fe. A description OF only
of them is given. He is about
years Of age, with scar on the
side of his face nearly feet high |
wears q SLOUGH hat and light clotf
Tho description almost tallies "
that given by Miss Decker, OF Tee,
sch, of the mau who assaulted
about ten days ago. The descript
is that OF Frank La Moss, who br
jail at Topeka nearly year ago,
who afterwards shot policeman
Kansas City.
Charles G.. Stafford, a Santa
brakeman living in Kansas City,
shot dead between Edmond and d
homa City by negro who was 81
ing ride and whom he attempte
put Off tie car, A white tramp on
car stayed with the dead man /
they arrived at Oklahoma City.