The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-19
KANSAS NEWS.

The Salina paper mill pays "a atom
for rye straw.
Wichita Is to have six new wholesale
grocery houses.
Atchison wants one of the democrat
ic state conventions.
There is talk of organizing a Kan
sas-O Oklahoma ball league.
The Kensington G. A. r. post will
put up large business block.
Cheese factories and creameries are
the popular factories just now.
The Atchison mill has exported $780,
900 worth OF -four in thirty.five days.
The G. A. r. college at Oberlin will
Guild a substantial school building this
year.
jamestown shipped out $4,000
bushels Of corn in three days last
week.
o. L. Thisler Of Chapman received
$1,70O for Percheron stallion last
week.
There are thirty applicants for the
one vacancy Ia the West Point military
academy.
W. G. Larimer sold twenty head Of
cattle and $50 fat hogs at Cherokee
last week.
Effingham has an ordinance prohib-
ting one man from keeping more than
two swine.
The Masons OF Wetmore have COM
pleted new hall and furnished it
handsomely.
A series of worlds fair balls will be
given in Kansas towns to raise money
for an exhibit.
One of the two boys who will gradu-
ate from the Atchison high school in
June Is cOlored.
A Mr.. Kelley was fined for drunken
ness at Atchison. Can 1t be the doctor
has gone wrongP
One hundred women are employed
in making pantaloons by an Atchison
clothing manufacturer.
Competition between clothiers in
Atchison Is so sharp that one day
shirts sold at five cents each.
The Leavenworth bi-chloride Of gold
club will give concert to raise money
to put poor men through the Kelley
institute.
Kansas convicts will no longer make
the Caldwell wagons. Their manufac-
ure was the first industry started In the
penitentiary.
Arkansas City is too generally en-
gagged in a city government fight just
now to care much for outside questions
state and national.
An Atchison undertaken buried thir.
ty-five people in January, and an Atch-
ison woman boasts Of attending twenty.
seven funerals during the month.
An Atchlson county farmer earned
enough in one year to pay rent, buy
machinery, support himself and pay the
passage OF ten friends from Germany to
this country,
Paola INDUCED in doughnut party
last week. The game consists in eat
ing swinging doughnut by bites with
tied hands. A minute and half was
the best time made,
Over 500 cars OF last years wheat
crop have already been shipped out Of
Logan county, and it is estimated that
fully one-third Of the crop is still in the
hands of the farmers.
Kansas ismaking war on Hoosier
Industries. The Pioneer Cooper works
has bought thirty acres of hickory tim
Der near Easton, and will employ thirty
men making hoop-poles,
An accident insurance company re-
fused to pay an Efllngham man for the
time he was laid up by injuries inflicted
by highwaymen. The company
claimed it was not an accident.
Lawrence isn't 50 sleepy after all.
negro committed an assault on a WON,
an there the other day. was arrested
fined 500 and committed to jail for
three months, all within an hour.
When an Atchison girl stepped in
puddle and splashed her dress, 0
loafer stepped up, doffed his hat, Of
fered to accommodate her and then 10
loose some awful cuss words about the
mud.
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W. I. Davidson Of Abiline was elect
ed president Of the Pennsylvania veter
an association.
Hoxie people claim to have seen tn
Rocky mountains. which are 200 mile
west, by means'ot mirage. The phe
nomlnon occurred about sunrise.