The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-08
KANSAS NOTES.
Short Items Of Interest From All
Parts OF the State.

k26 planting trees.
Scandal is making an effort to Or
Eanize military company.
A$2, 900 gymnasium is to be erected
ut St. Johns college, Salina.
A storm gang pillow will be tried in
Finnie county, near Garden City.
Lack OF business compelled the
Holton Electric Light company to shut
down.
The Maysville water works will pipe
water from the springs across the
river
Over /, 700 acres OF cotton grew in
the state last year which sold for $780,
900.
Washington county farmers are
feeding 10000 head OF steers this
spring.
If the Paddock postofiice bill passes,
Kansas will get fifty-nine postoilice
building.
1t is said building for a file factory
10 employ $50 men will be erected next
month in Atchison.
Seneca women have organized for
the purpose OF making clean sweep
Of the local offices.
Shawnee county wants county
high school. Atchison county has one
that it will sell at half price.
A colored man was appointed judge
OF election ut Hiawatha. 1t is thought
TO be the first instance in Kansas.
An Atchdson loafer pretended to at
tempt suicide in order to get his wife
to come back and support him.
Kansas salt companies say that they
are Disseminated against by the rail-
roads, which favor Michigan firms.
An Ohio man has such unbounded
confidence in Kansas that he has leased
Topeka hotel for ninety-nine years.
A Dickinson county farmer boy has
been offered $40, 900 for an implement
he invented, but will take royalty in
stead.
TIE state central committee OF the
peoples party will meet at Topeka
March 80, to consider the matter OF
calling convention,
The government report shows that
IL per cent OF last years corn crop OF
Kansas is still In the hands Of farmers
and in country granaries.
In Atchison it is regarded as all
right to ride bicycle during Lent, but
not to learn how. The latter is not,
conducive to prayerfulness.
Larned has an ordinance prohibiting
boys under sixteen years from being on
the streets after 10 o'clock during the
summer and 8 o'clock during the
winter.
Last year the Kansas wheat crop
was exceeded by only one state, Min
nesota, and that by only few bushels.
This year it is believed that Kansas
will take first place.
A daughter OF Congressman Baker
farms her own land in Kansas She is
said to wear mans garb and can
pillow and SOW as well as any male
farmer in the neighbOrhood.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
in the district court at Wichita against
the Rock Island railway company by
j. w. Dobson of Caldwell, He was
wounded three times by the notorious
outlaw jim Bryant on Rock Island
train near Kingfsher, Ok, about eight
months ago, at the same time that
Bryant killed the noted deputy United
States marshal, Ed, Short.
AT tho annual meeting OF the Kan.
sas United Brethren church held at
Abilene, Bishop Zook presided. The
members are like Quakers, taking nc
part in politics, but resolution to
support the prohibttory law was "a
vored by majority. A large appro.
priation was voted to aid the Russian
sufferers and women were given. q
more prominent place in the order.
In the oratorical contest of the
Southwestern Kansas Teachers Asso-
citation at CJaunte Miss Nina Beal Of
Cherryvale won the first prize of $2i
and w. Hammersly Mason of GirarC
the second prize of $l5, John Nc
Donald OF the Western School Journal
j. L. Klock OF Leavenworth and Ed
Taylor Of Wyandotte county, wero tn,
judges. There were two coloreC
young men in the contest who showed
marked ability, one from Bourbon
county and the other oil Neosho county
At the same time Dr. Baldwin OF tn
Texas university lectured to crowder
house in the Methodist Episcopa
church. The next session OF tn
Southwestern Kansas Teachers associ
alton will be held at Parsons.
At Winfield George haston, aged 2S
assaulted Miss Armenia Byers on th
street with knife. He had been re
fused Miss Byers' company owing
mis- intemperance. So when he sa,
her on the street he whipped out
knife and ran up to her and tried t