The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-12-13

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The best Christmas present you can
make is a e2.0G0 life insurance policy ID
the phoenix and viii only cost you
S56.1D each year. See Z. 2. Leonard.
To Rent-If yen wish to rent any Of
! the American Investment Co.'S. land or
Mckinley & I.aGning's for 1885 you
can do SO noW.-A. Robinson, Agent
Fine cabinet photos can be had for
hebsxt so days for 81 per dozen. Come
In soon and get q dozen. East side
Boulevard, Geodland, A. G. Reynolds
G. ". Shook, editor Of the Jennings
Echo, has been mean enough to unload
| the good viii, ete. upon Miss LeOta
Shields, who hereafter viii edit the
paper.
The second appearance of the stere-
opticOn views will be given at the opera
house the 9th. La addition to the views
there will be recitatiOns by several local
eioentionists.
Hourly prisons are being ferVently
said by the wet goods puryeyor VINO
Unthinkingiy sold bottle Of beer to
the assistant attorney general while
here the other day.
The pauoity Of the English language
in regard to fOFcible explosives is easily
understood these mornings when the
thermometer stands at zero and No
kindiing wood in sight.
ASS sample Of uptodate philanthropy
that OF the Boston man who cabled
$4,000 to his runaway wife deserves
the laural wreath. Some men express
their boundless Joy in queer ways.
Have two 100 acre tracts Of timber
land, johnson county, KY, entirely
clear, taxes paid, will exchange both
these tracts for 100 acres clear Sher-
man county land.-M. Robinson.
Grave robbers are causing the rela-
tiVes Of departed Topekans lots of
anxiety. A gentleman recently found
the remains Of his dead wife upon the
dissecting table Of medical college.
The long looked for day of the as
cendant Smiths has arrived. The next
volume Of the dictionary of national
biography is announced to contain
notices of 1853 Smiths, fifteen Smyths
and eight Smythes.
Two residence lots 5Ox140 each with
smial cottage, three rooms, in Beatrice,
Neb., three blocks from Rock Island
depot, clear, taxes paid, will exchange
for clear 100 acres Sherman county
land-M. Robinson.
The state board of irrigation has so
far expended only $4,000 of the $780,
600 appropriated They have did an
immense amount of work, and the light
expenditure speaks we'll for the finan-
ciering of the board.
S. K. Rhodes, a stalwart democrat of
LaBlanche, has taken his household
goods and departed for Arkansas. Mr..
Rhodes was one of the early settlers Of
Sherman county and owns we'll i'm
proved farm near LaBlanch.
The Goodland board Of education
have so far neglected to name the
length Of the usual holiday vacation,
and the teachers, as we'll as the scholars,
are on anxious seat. A special meeting,
however, will be called to attend to the
matter.
A Manhattan bank holds a note for
collection which shows how rapidly
interest accumulates when you allow it
to get fifteen or twenty years start. The
note was originally for $500 given in
October, 1876, at 10 per cent interest.
The man who owes it has paid upon it
just s765 and still owes Sl,010.
The eastern fellows have got the
laugh on Kansas where it hurts the
pocketbo0k. In the early fall the river
papers began Dragging about the states
100000 bushel corn crop and kept
it up until husking time. Now the
actual crop Of 100000 has to be sold
at prices fixed by the inflated estimate
NJ. Robinson has been appointed
special commissioner by Judge Bates
of Saunders county, Neb., to take depo-
sitions from NJ. M. Coons of Sherman
county, in the case Of state of Nebraska
VS.. Charles Basye, charged with the
murder of William o. Wright at Val
pariso, Neb., in December, 1893.
The late decision of the state supreme
court in regard to mortgages given be-
fore the enactment of 1893 has turned
things topsy turvy for the mortgage
companies. Judges Martin and Allen
hold that the law applies to all mort
cages not foreclOsed prior to the time
the law went into effect, and that the
redemption of eighteen months holds
good in all.
Western Kansas win be heard from
next year. Large acreages Of small
grain are now being put in, and the
spring will see the amount doubled.
Irrigation has solved the problem of
existence and the wheat and corn crop,
coupled with the various other inter
ests, will go into the pocket of the ives
tern Kansas farmer hereafter as profit.
The supreme court has affirmed the
conviction and sentence of both Seth
Jones and Eph Bane Of Hutchinson,
for selling intoxicating liquors. Jones
was found guilty on eleven counts,
fined 81, 100 and sentenced to eleven
HttlGL5 tSuplAoULlICnb IL b4S DUuuby
jsil. Bane was convicted on seventeen
counts fined S1,700 and sentenced to
seventeen months in Jail.
Many of the state boards of educa-
ton have adopted the following salute
for the flag ia schools. Every scholar,
every morning, rises at a certain time,
the teacher or some scholar selected
By the teacher, will hold up the flag be-
fore the school and all repeat these
words: u pledge allegiance to my flag
and TO the republic for which it stands;
one nation invineible, with liberty and
Justice for ALL" On special public oc-
oasions the salute can be made more
elaborate.
The citizens Of Kinsley and Edwards
county are determined to hang the
thugs who murdered the mayor of
Kinsley some time sgO. Looking to
this end Judge VandeFvert has begun
proceedings in the supreme court to
test the question of whether he, as dis
tFict Judge, can order the execution in
the event of the governor not fixing a
date for such execution, as the law re