The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-17
KANSAS MATTERS.

A ladies' band is in process of organ
ization in Lawrence.
Lawrence has a new cooper shop
empio.J mp twenty-four men.
The receipts of the Atchison police
court last month were 81,
Lawrence is to be treated to an
'Iolanthe' renaissance this fall.
Toronto Is replacing. some of its old
plank sidewalks with stone walks.
Yates Center has a Good Templar
lodge with a membership of nearly
200.
Fort Scott will have only eight
months of school the coming school
year.
Tobacco is being grown success
fully and extensively in the vicinity of
Spring Hill.
The school tax levy in the 100 dis
tricts of Shawnee county ranges from
Z to IL mills.
A big irrigation convention will be
held IN Tribune, Greeley county, some
time this month.
Marshalrs military band has been
petitioned to include "Sweet Marie"
in its repertoire.
The electric lights in the state house
are to be supplanted by gas in the in
terest of economy.
Tobacco is being grown successfully
and extensively in the vicinity of
Spring Hill, johnson county.
The Dold packing company in Wich-
tia can not get cattle and hogs enough
to keep its plant in operation.
Blue Rapids offers a $4,000 school
building to any qualified instructor
who will establish an academy.
The Kansas national guard is grow
ing, having increased thirty-three by
enlistments during the past month.
Stock is being shipped from along
the line of the Central Branch road
on account of the failure of the corn
crop.
Ears of corn fifteen inches long, of
this years growth, are on exhibition
in Pratt. That corn evidently wasn't
''fired."
1t is late fad in Atchison to carry
a cantaloupe into an ice cream parlor
and get the clerk to split it and fill it
with ice cream.
A Woodson county firm CT hay deal
ers is laying the foundation for
small fortune this winter by storing
hay in five large barns
The Lawrence oil well near Neo-
desha is yielding thirty barrels of
petroleum per day. 1t is the second
best we'll in the district.
A man in Van Buren,, Ark, writes
to Secretary Coeurn to inquire where
he can purchas 100 acres of Kansas
corn, his faith not vavering for an in
slant.
Shipments of walnut logs from Fort
Scott during the past two years have
amounted to no less than $50 cars.
Most of the lumber was exported to
Europe.
With woman living in the county
seat "a years old who is the mother of
twelve children what does Norton
county care for hot wind or a
drought?
The merchants of Salina, who have
been trying early closing, like it so
well that they have determined to
keep it up all the year except Christ
mas week.
IA movement has started in Leaven-
worth for the organization, by colored
people, of civil and political rights
league, which is intended to cover the
whole state.
There is considerable pressing BUSH
ness in Kansas this year despite the
going to be squeezed into cider before
the snow flies.
Since the organization of the Par
sons school district 15S teachers have
been employed by the board of educa-
ton. Some of them have been en-
ployed since 1878.
The farmers of jefferson county
have a beef club, composed of twenty
families, who use an ordinary beef in
a weeks time and take turns in pro-
viding an animal for slaughter.
When a member of school board
in Beloit asked spinster applicant
for place why she didn't get mar
ried, the woman replied that she pre-
ferred $40 job to $50 man any day.
Prof. Dinsmore's drought killer with
little improvement can take up the
work where Shows bug killer lays it
down Now if some one will only in
vent fool killer Kansas may be all
right yet.
Charles L. Wood of Topeka adj
dressed letter to Miss Ida Fuller at
GIasco, Kan, via Hong Kong, China,
and Liverpool England. The missive
circumnavigated the globe in seventy
nine days.
The question of whether it pays to
feed wheat TO nO2S Will De SebCleQ III
Kansas this year, judging from the
reports of the intentions of farmers to
feed it in preference to selling at
present prices.
A bad man from the head waters of
''Bitter crick'i who attempted to scare
Ell Dorado into conniptions was jolted
down hard on the cold stone floor of
the city Jail and made TO dig up SO
for riding a horse on the sidewalk.
| Ell Dorado has had so many bad men,
| to deal with that fakir don't stand
any show.
The Hon. A. r. Greene of Lecomp-
| ton has given the state historical So
ciety specimen brick from Chin
| ney in the Lecompton prison of 1867.
| In this prison were confined the Hick-
ory Point and other prisoners, free
| state men who were incarcerated by
| the pro-slavery authorities for taking
a hand in the. struggle which made
/ Kansas free.
The marshal of Lawrence put q COW
| in the pound for grazing in the park.
The owner of the COW IS the owner O.
/ the town street cars. The marshal
lost his pass. He then made the street
car owner pay two year back license.
There are more ways of killing cat
than choking it to death on butter
! milk.-Kansas City Star.