The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-13
NUMBER rs
KANSAS MATTERS.

IRWIN BROS circus stranded IN
Southern Kansas.
A new Masonic temple was dedi-
Gated in Belleville lately.
1t cost nearly $50, 600 to run the pub
lie schools of Lawrence last year.
The Salvation army proposes to
build tabernacle in Wichita at once.
The jefferson county old soldiers
reunion viii be held in Winchester.
August 9.
A Valley Falls man has waited
thirty years for the government to
pay him So.
Abilene has a man who claims to
have been photographed by Sarony
of New York.
An ice factory containing 81, 600
worth of machinery has begun opera
tions in Lawrence.
A Kansas boy, Mr.. G. O. Virtue, has
been appointed instructor of political
economy in Harvard.
There is a good demand for harvest
hands at living wages in Saline coun-
ty and no applicants.
Burlingame has a beekeepers' as
sOciation. There are very few such
institutions in the state.
Pittsburg has human barometer
who can tell by the ''feel'' of his Joints
when it is going to storm.
The receipts of the Leavenworth
police court for June were "a, 5S7-
more than for five years before.
The fourteen banks in Marshall
county have deposits amounting to
nearly three-quarters of million
dollars.
Civil service examinations for the
postal service will be held at the reg
ular points in Kansas on Saturday,
August II.
When a Lawrence boy goes to
sociable and only buys one dish of
ice cream and no cake, he is called
''air tight
The enrolment in the Sedgwicl
county normal institute is 262, more
than at any institute yet held in the
state this season.
Corn in some Southern Kansas corn
fields is sin roasting ears" In the
Kaw valley only the very early fields
have begun to tassel.
The affairs of the old Gypsum Val
ley bank in Gypsum City, Saline
county, have been settled up and all
the depositors paid in full.
A new photograph gallery is reduc-
keeping the trainmen awake nights
from Emporia to Nickerson
Mr.. White of Greenwood county has
a daughter named "Snow." That is
as bad as Mr.. Button of Fort Scott,
who has daughter named Pearl"
Sharon Springs has Swedish school
teacher who teaches in her native
tongue. But she uses an American
cowhide, and that talks straight
enough.
The search light on the top'of the
soldiers home in Leavenworth is the
greatest blow the hammock crowd has
had since the marriage of the last
lieutenant.
An Oberlin man has written play
called ''The Theft of a Name" 1t
will be purified by fire through North
western Kansas and then go on the
Crawford circuit.
The tribe of Indians after which
Wichita was named are now located
on a reservation forty miles southwest
OF Ell Reno, 1. T. There are only a
handful of them lett.
When Lawrence girl resigns her
place in the public schools, people
watch her every time she goes to
dry goods store and try to find out
when it is going to be.
A chalk plate epidemic has broken
out among the Lawrence papers. A
little less art for arts sake and little
more art for mercy's sake would be a
good thing in this emergency.
Mike Malott of Abilene has done
trick of the nationality which his
name indicated by trading a horse
and buggy that would go with the
lines tied around the whip for bicy-
Gle.
Lawrence will have no fair this
year; the newspapers will have to fall
back on the electric road up Mt.
Dread, the paving of Adams street
and the North Lawrence correspond
ence.
Chancellor Shows little boy Frank
is chip off the old block. He is an
enthusiastic bug collector, and can be
seen very often under the electric
lights in Lawrence hunting for speci-
mems.
The announcement that a Wichita
law firm got $40, 900 fee has caused
more feather busting of old reports"
than anything that has happened
since the title of College hill was
called into court
Though corn is t'laid by in most
Kansas counties the poke berry crop,
from whence comes the red ink that
saves the state during the long winter
evenings, is wavering in the wobbly
balance of doubt.
The Leoti base ball team drove
forty miles across country" to play
game with the Lakin nine. It took
three days to make the trip both ways
and play two games of ball Each
team won one game.
A SaIina woman has fled complaint
against a firm of dentists for assault
in administering to her deleterious
drugs and liquors during an operation
upon her teeth, which caused physical
illness and bodily disorder.
The dancing season is at full blast
in Cottonwood Falls; it may be a
shade warm tearing the works ont of
a two-step waltz, but the young men
peel their coats, put handkerchief
under their collars and SAID in to do
or die.
Circulars are being sent to ali towns
In Kansas where Masonic lodge ex-
lists asking propositions for the loca-
ton of the proposed Masonic home.
A company composed mostly of Kan
sas men has received q charter from
the territorial secretary of Oklahoma
authorizing them to build a railroad
from Arkansas City to Eagle Pass,
Texas The company Is capitalized