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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
SUICIDE BEFORE A MOB.
A Louisiana Fire Bug Hangs Himself
With the Assent of vigIantes.

A Louisiana Fire Bug Hangs Himself
With the Assent of vigIantes.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, June 19.-For
six months past incepdiary fires had
been of almost nightly occurrence in
Monroe, La. Last Wednesday night
fire was discovered in the vicinity.
Half the town turned out and the
flames were easily extinguished.
Bloodhounds were brought to the
scene and soon struck the trail, which
led them to the house of white man
named gay, a former private night
Waterman. He was arrested and
confessed, stating that he burned the
houses to get even with the people
for discharging him.
On the way to Jail, Day said he
wished to die, and asked permission
to hang himself. The request was
granted, and Day deliberately fast
ened rope to limb of tree, tied
the moose around his neck and jumped
off. He was allowed to hang until
life was extinct.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
THE ELKs IN CONVENTION.
Seventy Members of the Grand Lodge
WIthdraw and Go to Atlantic City.

Seventy Members of the Grand Lodge
withdraw and Go to Atlantic City.
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, June 20.-At $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon the Elks'
grand lodge special session began.
Exalted Ruler Apperly made a brief
speech in which no reference was
made to the discussions in the order.
The roll call at the opening of the
session showed 100 members of the
grand lodge present. A large num-
Der of lodges were not reported.
There was an animated discussion
concerning points of order, and finally
at o'clock seventy members OF the
grand lodge withdrew and proceeded
to take the train for Atlantic City,
the withdrawing delegation including
members from Portland. Ore; Buffalo,
Meadville, Denver, Brooklyn, Chicago,
Lancaster, Pa; Danbury, Conn, and
others. By a vote of &c TO 10 the
grand lodge approved the report of
the committee on laws and appeals
sustaining the action of the exalted
ruler in suspending Grand Trustees
Vandelier, Campbell and Laab and in
appointing Midaugh, Robes and Rake
in their places.
By vote of 81 to 2, it approved the
action of the grand trustees in APP
pointing Jamestown as the meeting
place of the grand lodge. Fifteen
lodges were read out of the order of
the grand lodge until they make
proper returns to the officers They
were: Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Baltimore, Meriden, Albany, New
Bedford, Lowell, Newport, R. l.;
Wilkesbarre, Brocton, Haverhill, Bos-
ton, Richmond, Worcester and Indian
anOliS
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Notes.

Wheat harvest is in progress as far
north as Leavenworth county.
One hundred families of formerly
of Topeka" now reside at Los Angeles.
Bismarck Grove, buffalo and all, is
to be open to the public this summer.
1t is believed that smallpox has
been thoroughly wiped out in Atch-
Ison.
Lawrence is to have an ice factory
to counteract the West Lawrence
girls.
boy of IS and a girl of Is were
married in Dillon, Dickinson county,
recently.
The annual report or the state
board of health is the latest public
document.
Diptheria and scarlet fever are pre-
valent in BrookvilIe, Saline county,
and both are spreading.
The city clerk is the best paid of
fetal in Lawrence, and policemen get
more than the treasurer
A Lawrence girl is going TO Europe
this year. The crowned heads will
do well to dust up their crowns.
A Sumner county man claims to
have corn in tassel. But his claim is
49,
The average daily attendance at the
Parsons schools for the term closed
was 1852 out of an enrolment of ,458.
The Arkansas river bridge at In
gals, Gray county, went out during
the high water. 1t will be replaced
shortly.
Mrs. Hattie Homer Loutham of Chi
cago, late of Butler county, has
Of in
the printer.
The sub-stations for the propaga-
ton of the infected chinch bugs are
proving of great value to the farmers
OF the state.
According to the country papers
every young man or woman who grad
uated from the state university this
year and came to his home town led
his class.
Ex-State Superintendent George W.
Winans is conducting the Wyandotte
county normal institute in Kansas
City. Kan. Seventy-eight persons
are enrolled.
The Fort Scott council has passed
an anti-cigarette ordinance, and any
0ne selling them to minors will be
fined from s25 to 800 and go to jail
for thirty days
"A praise and prayer meeting 1000
miles long," is what VIII Simpson, of
the Santa Fe, calls the excursion of
the Kansas Baptist Young Peoples
Union to Toronto.
An Emporia college boy who was
member of a foot ball team two years
ago is now an ordained minister of
the gospel. That comes pretty near
being a work ofiightning grace
a last years graduate of the law
school of the state university has
found time IN the duties of his prac-
tiee at Denver to withdraw from the
madding throng and think up patent
CONTINUANCE.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
ACTRESSES ON WHEELS.
Partisan Women of the Stage Indulge in
a Ten Mile Race.

Partisan Women of the Stage Indulge in
a Ten Mile Race.
PARIS, June 19.-The bicycle race of
actresses took place in the Bots de
Boulogne yesterday.
There were sixteen starters, dressed
in tight fitting jerseys or blouse
waists, snug knickerbockers and
black stockings. Some of the best
wheelmen in France devoted their
efforts towards bringing their respec-
tive favorites through first by means
of systematic pacing. Each of the
girls was surrounded by corps of
obsequious followers on cycles, with
advance couriers shouting at people
to keep the track clear. There were
one or two cases of broken tires and
one tumble over a boy with a dog
cart, but otherwise there was no acct
dents The distance was ten miles.
Mile. Blanche Dupre of the opera
pedaled her bike over tAe ten miles ia
28.14, defeating her fifteen COM
petitors by very safe margin. The
second rider to finish was Mile.
Solange of the Menus-Plaisirs, her
time being within one minute of that
of the winner. The Gaiety theater
came next on the scene with Mile.
Alise Berth as it's champion.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
THEY ARE DIVIDED AMONG FIVE
KANSAS JAILS.
IMMEDIATELY HUSTLED TO PRISON.
Judge Thomas Fines the Whole Outfit
From $40 to $50 Each for Obstruct-
ing the Mails-NOt a WeaIer Now
Left at Fort LeaVenworth Ex-
cept Those in Jan-1Iay Be
Released in Thirty Days.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, June 2O.-In
the United States district court this
morning Judge Thomas sentenced the
commonwealers, who were convicted
yesterday of obstructing the mails,
and effectually broke up the army by
scattering its me mbers over the state.
Thirteen were fined $25 each and
committed to the Douglas county jail
at Lawrence. Six of the officers were
fined $50 each and committed to the
Sedgwick county Jail at Wichita.
Forty were fined $40 each and COM
mitted to Leavenworth county Jail.
Thirty two were fined $40 each and
committed to the Wyandotte county
Jail. Thirty were fined $40 each and
committed to the Shawnee county
jail.
AS quickly as a detachment was
sentenced, the members were hustled
off to the train, and at noon not a
''wealer" remained in the city except
the forty in the county Jail and the
general who is now an officer with
out command. He says he has not
matured any plans for the future.
Under a provision of the statutes
the ''wealers' may get out of jail at
the end of thirty days by swearing
they cannot pay the fine imposed.
When the news of the verdict of
guilty was conveyed to the camp on
the military reservation yesterday
afternoon the prisoners became ex
cited, and a rush for liberty was
made. The deputy marshals took
after two men, firing on them, hitting
and bringing down one man, who
afterwards crawled away in the
brush. During the confusion nearly
forty of the convicted wealers es-
capped. Company f of the Sixth cav
airy was called from Fort Leaven-
worth and the remaining prisoners
surrounded and brought to Leaven-
worth for safe keeping with a caval-
ry guard
The Rock Island and Burlington
roads, which have for the past month
kept officials and detectives here to
watch the Sandersites and armed
men on the Missouri side, will with
draw all of them now that the wealers
are disposed of.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
KANSAS MATTERS.
The Kansas Nav.

An interview with one of the potato
nobility of the Kaw valley-either q
prince or king-brings out the fact
which every man familiar with Kan
sas felt sure would sooner or later be
made public-that the recent frost
was a blessing in disguise. The dry
weather which followed the frost
saved the potatoes, and now, instead
of being a blight, the frost, which re-
tarded the growth of the tops, put all
the vigor of the plant into the tubers,
and in the place of half crop as the
result of the frost there will be crop
larger than was looked for by even
the highest hopes of the farmers be-
fore the cold snap Every body in
Kansas expected something of the
sort. For the recuperative powers of
the climate have been communicated
to the people, and while the slightest
frost casts them down, there is moth
ing on earth that can permanently de-
press them. The Kansas people and
the Kansas crops are always falling in
May and advertising for harvest
hands in June.
That is the Kansas way. There is
something about the Kansan that
marks him out from among the men
from other states He has a peculiar
quirk of character that has never
been put in book. He never really
believes in failure, and yet he is al
ways prophesying it. He is everlast-
ingly pointing to the dark cloud and
yet he has his eye on the silver lining.
He is forever anticipating defeat, yet
he keeps the laurel and green ready
for use. He can figure with PAPER
and pencil and prove that his statesi is
so deeply in debt that it will take
twelve centuries to lift the mortgage,
yet he keeps the interest paid up and
buys an extra eighty every other
year with clock-like regularity. He
often drops from the citadel of hope,
but he scampers into the elevator in
a few minutes and has his place in the
watch tower throwing a search light
on the sky to advertise his state
The case of the potato crop is an adj
mirable illustration. In no other state
do such things happen. Even in the
ravages of the grasshOpper year, it
was found that castor beans were UNI
molested, and when the drouth kills
the corn in the tassel it is always
heralded abroad that the stand is un-
usually good and will make excellent
fodder. While digging for artesian
wells and failing, the last despairing
blast brings the Kansan floods of pc
troleum or unlimited reservoirs of
natural gas Everything, sooner or
later, comes his way and he knows it.
The Kansas man has been cared for by
the ravens so long that he has the faith
of Elijah; he knows that prices will be
better in the fall, and if the weather
isn't what it should be in the spring
there will at least be wet summer.
Out in far Western Kansas where
there has not, according to a local
paper, been a good rain in months and
where the crops do not come up, men
are running for the legislature on the
platform of state aid to irrigation.
The Kansan has such faith in himself
and his state that he is willing to be-
lieve that he can do what Providence
has neglected. There is no use try
ing to keep the Kansas man down; he
never knows when he is whipped
Kansas City Star.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
NO GIVING UP IN MISSOURI
Strikers at Various Points Refuse to Re-
turn to Work.

RICHMOND, Mo-, June 2o.-The min
ers of this section held meeting
and discussed the strike situa-
ton, but no effort was made to settle
with local operators in regard to
prices for digging. The men pay but
little attention to anything but strike
bulletins. The recent action of Presi-
dent Mcbride of the national union is
upheld by some and condemned by
others.
NEVADA, Mo-, June 2O.-At a meet
ing of the Vernon county strikers it
was voted-19 to sOO-not to return to
work. They ask that the mining
price be advanced from fifty to sixty
cents ton, but many of them would
prefer the privilege of check weigh
man to the advance of ten cents.
MACON, Mo-, June 20.-The recent
fires and shooting at Bevier and
vicinity have caused great alarm.
Armed guards have been stationed
by all the large property owners
about their business houses, and a
mass meeting has denounced the
1awlessness. The coal miners have
also held meeting and adopted
similar strong resolut ions denouncing
the outlaws and promising all possible
aid in checking the lawlessness and
protecting property. There is no
change in the strike situation nor is
there any prospect of any.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
oRNADo IN NEBRASKA.

It SwOOps Down on Sioux County With
Terrible Severity.
HARRIsoNBURG, Neb., June 20.-The
northern part of Sioux county was
visited yesterday by tornado which
was terrible in it's severity, but COM
paratively small in its territory. 1t
was about twenty rods wide and five
miles in length. Everything in its
path was swept from the earth. The
barns, sheds, wagons and implements
of d. w. Woody were completely de-
molished and ten rods of wire fence
was swept clear. Rufus Woody and
his horse in a shed were picked up
and carried through the open roof
and landed again about 200 feet
away. Neither received any serious
damage. No other reports of damage
have yet come in.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
CHARTERS NOT REvoKED.
The Missouri Supreme Court Decides for
the Bond Investment Companies.


the Bond Investment Companies.
JEFFERSON CRY, No, June 10
Some time ago the attorney general
brought suit in the supreme court to
vacate the charters of The bond in
vestment companies in st. Louis, Sc
dalia and Nevada. To day Judge Nc
Farlane fled an opinion holding that
they were properly Incorporated and
had a right to continue business.
Judges Sherwood and Burgess dis
sented, and Judge Brace did not sit in
the case, but, as it was passed upon
by the entire court. the opinion of
Judge McFarlane is final.
Judge McFarlane gives tbs COM
panies this bill of health:
We are unable to see that there is even
suggestion upon the face of the certificate of
incorporation that the proposed business is
Illegal, either in it's charter or the manner of
conductin it, There is nothing illegal in the
issuance OF bonds nor selling the same upon
installments if done in lawful manner and
naturally be left to the corporation issuing
them There is no suggestion on the face of
the pleading that respondents are abusing or
misusing the franchise of Incorporation for
the purpose of conducting q lottery or other
unlawful business, and until such abuse or
misuse is shown We cannot lnt 3rfere to declare
a forfeiture.
The attorney generat says that if
the companies attempt to resume bust
ness he Will prosecute them as lotter-
les.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
THREE FATALLY INJURED.

Down an Embankment in a Runaway.
LEADvILLE, Col, June 20.-Mrs. J.
r. Miller, wife of leading merchant,
and her two children were thrown
down an embankment by runaway,
when driving to Evergreen lakes.
Mrs. Miller was very seriously cut
and bruised about the head and 1T is
feared fatally injured internally. Her
little boy had his skull fractured in
two places and was cut and bruised
all over the body. Her little girl,
Ollie, aged years, was caught be-
tween the wheel and bed of the car
riage and her throat horribly torn.
She cannot recover
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
MR.. DuNHAM DIVORCED.

The Chicago congressman Released
From His UnfaIthfuI wife.
CHICAGO, June 19.-Judge Mcconnell
entered a decree for the complainant
to-day in the divorce suit of Exon
gresham Ransom w. Durham against
Elizabeth R. Durham.
In March. 1898, Mr.. Durham fled
suit against his wife naming Major
Allen, who is prominent in South Side
social circles and connected with a
city bank, as correspondent.
While hearing on the suit was pend
ing, Mrs. Durham, who was once
prominent in Eastern society, took up
her residence in South Dakota and
secured a divorce there.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
ANOTHER BANDIT DONE FOR.
Bud Smith OF tho Dalton Gang killed by
an Omcnr HVhila FIaaino

Bud Smith OF tho Dalton Gang killed by
an Ohicer While Fleeing.
NORTH ENID, Ok, June 2O.-Eight
deputy marshals trailed Bud Smith
into Watonga yesterday afternoon
and attempted to arrest him. He was
one of the most desperate members of
the Dalton gang, and when the Off
GERS ordered him to throw down his
weapons he fired at close range,
leaped on his horse and started
through the town, firing indiscrim-
inately.
One of the deputies rested his Win
chester on the saddle and fred at
long range at the fleeing bandit, hit
ting him in the back and killing him
instantly. He was taken to the court
house and an inquest held by the
coroner.
There was about 1900 in rewards
on the dead bandits head.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
The switohmen's order in Court.

CHICAGO, June 2O.-On the applica-
ton of George Rutter Judge Ewing
has issued an injunction against the
Switchmen's Mutual Aid association
restraining it from making an assign
ment of any of its property or from
giving preference to any of it's credit
ors. The injunction was granted upon
a creditors bill to recover Judgment
of 81, $50 which Rutter obtained last
March. 1t is charged that the asso-
citation has neglected to file a GER
tifcate of organization with the sec
rotary of state
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
ORDER OF UNITED woRKMEN.
Supreme odge Completes Its Work and
Adjourns.

Supreme Odge Completes Its Work and
Adjourns
SAN Francisco, June 20.-The SUI
preme lodge, A. O. o. w. held short
session yesterday morning and then
finally adjourned.
During the morning session it was
decided that a members stand
ing in the order should not be
considered to be imperilled by his
failure to pay assessments levied for
the benefit of any funds other than
the beneficiary, relief and general
funds 1t was decided that no sus-
pended or expelled member can be
taken back into the order unless he be
under As years of age. The newly
elected supreme officers were duly in
stalled by Past Supreme Master Work
men Baxter and Wilson.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Rains Cheer Farmers.

OMAHA, Neb., June 20. Farmers in
Chase and Dundy counties who were
compelled to leave that section of
Nebraska on account of the continued
drought during March, April and May
and seek temporary work elsewhere
are returning in large numbers owing
to the recent heavy rains. They have
begun planting corn, and throughout
the counties mentioned confidence
has taken the place of doubt and dis
trust.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
A FUGITIVE RECEIVER.
j. C. Thompson. the Ascending Cashier,
Is in Charge of a Railroad.

j. C. Thompson. the Ascending Cashier,
Is in Charge OF a Railroad.
SEDALIA, Mo-, June 2O.-By the &C
ton of the supreme court yesterday,
according to a telegram received here
from Jefferson City, J. C. Thompson,
the absconding cashier of the defunct
First National bank, is the receiver of
the Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwest
ern railroad.
Several months ago, on the petition
of Carlos S. Greedy of st. Louis, and
other stockholders, Judge Richard
Field appointed Mr.. Thompson re-
ceiver of the road. The Missouri Pa
cific appealed to the supreme court
and yesterday the appeal was dis
missed, leaving the appointment
stand. Mr.. Thompson is now sojourn-
ing in Mexico, with no prospect of re-
turning unless accompanied by a
United States officer. Judge Field, it
is expected, will at once appoint some
one else to the receivership.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
WORK Must De Resumed.

ST. Louis, Mo-, June 2O.-The E.
seiver of the LOOMS Coal compa ny,
controlling mines at Bevier, Mo-, and
other points has been directed by the
United States court, under whose or
ders he is acting, to resume work at
once, importing non union miners if
necessary. In Consequence the United
States deputy marshals of this dis
trlct are being concentrated at Bevier
to prevent trouble.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Fixed sentence, Not Approved.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 2O.-The
main session of the National Prison
association began to-day. The com
mittee on criminal law reform strong
" criticised the sentencing of prison
ers to fixed terms as vindictive and
barbarous and recommended that
sentences depend on good conduct.
Incorrigibles should be confined for
life regardless of the degree of crime.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Buildings CoIiapse.

ELLSWORTH, Kan, June 2o.-A cloud
burst, accompanied by hail and high
wind struck this place yesterday.
Water on the main streets was from
two to four feet deep, filling cellars
and undermining buildings. R. w.
Longs two story brick grocery and R.
Ruehl's two story brick meat market
collapsed
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
shot and Beaten by Masked Men.

STRONG CITY, Kan, June 2o.-John
Beilman, an old settler and his wife
were reading last night when eight
masked men appeared and shot him
after desperate struggle. Mrs. Bell
man in aiding her husband was seri-
ously beaten over the head. The
men then fed.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

John Walters, one of the early set
tiers of Illinois county. died at Prince
ton at the age of 50. He was a noted
abolitionist and a co-worker of Owen
6. Lovejoy in the underground rail-
road work.
Attorney General Olney says there
Is no truth in the published statement
that he had decided to enter suit for
SI71, 600, 600 against the Pacific bonded
railroads. but had employed Attorney
Russell for the purpose OF handling
the suits.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
a Texas minister disappears.

DENTON, Texas. June 19.-Elder
Charles Baker, pastor of the Christian
church here, left last Thursday morn
ing for Tioga, on business, promising
to be back on the Afternoon of the
same day. He has never been seen or
three weeks ago to Miss Carrie Dun
bar, a member of his church.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
The limo Rise.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 19.-The
Missouri river continues to rise, and
Observer Connor of the weather
bureau, said this morning that if
ger line -21 feet-will be reached by
Thursday. The stream was 10 feet,
inches above low water mark this
morning, rise of inches since Sat
1Irdav
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Commodoro Easily Passes Away.

WASHINGTON, June 9.-Commodore
John w. Easily, United States navy,
retired, is dead. aged rs years. He
was an inspector of government gum
boats during the late war and subse-
quently became a naval constructor.
During President Garfield's admins
tration he was appointed chief of the
bureau of construction and repair,
navy department, with the rank of
commodore