The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-11-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Rev. Jerry Botkln, c0ngrsSsEuau=at-
large-eleet, has declared in favor o. 8
service pension for old soldiers
Mrs Annie Rowland, on trial at
Chetops for killing her fsther-in-laWs
was acquitted on the ground Of self-de.
Tense.
The republicans OF the entire Third
congressional district succeeded in
eleeting but one member Of the legs
lature.
A Pittsburg paper has already an
nOuneed State Auditor George Z COls
for governor On the republican tiekst
in 1s9a
Ex-Congreasmsu Funston, OF Allen
county, is being urged by his friends
for secretary Of agriculture in PFesi-
dent McKinley's cabinet
The total output of Cherokee county
lead. zinc and coal mines, including
coke, spelter and powder, bring abOut
$50, 600 in cash every week.
a. NJ. F. Randolph, supreme court
reporter, has resigned after Id years
service and T. E. Dewey, Of Abline.
was named as his successor
The Salvation army will establish
hospital at Topeka, where the sick and
injured who are poor and friendless
viii be cared for without price.
D. C. Tillotson, of Topeka, is state
chairman of the free silver forces He
has called a state convention Of silver
clubs at Topeka January y, 1897.
1t ia said that every republican ofics-
holder under the present state govern.
meut will place his resignation in the
hands Of Gov Leedy on the day of his
Inauguration or as soon thereafter as
convenience will permit
Rev Harmon Hoover, of Las Vegas,
! n. NJ. has succeeded Rev. J. W. Stewart
as pastor of the First NJ E. church In
Ottawa. Rev. Hoover is a graduate Of
Baker university at Baldwin, and q
son-in-law of Judge Nelson Case, Of
Oswego.
Jacob Rodgers, q married man was
convicted at lola of numbering q young
girl named Della Hutchinson and her
unborn child. The girls body was
found 10 a stream, weighted down with
rocks The evidence against Rodgers
was purely eircumstantiaL
Through the efforts Of Mrs, 7. J.
O'Neil, wife of 8 member of the man
aging board, the state reform school at
Hutchinson has been supplied with q
library Of several hundred volumes Of
good books The ". C. T. o. of Usage
City was a large contributor
Mrs. Anna Jacobs was fatally injured
at Atchison by passenger train. She
was on the track and saw the train
coming but fright rivsted her to the
I spot, She dropped on her knees and
covered her head with her hands as
the train struck her, and was thrown
to one side.
Fred Taggart aud Albert Failes, two
young farmers Of Reno county, got
into trouble the other day by violating
the game law. They started out to
bag a few quail, but before they had
proceeded far they were themselves
bagged by officers of the law. 1t cost
the young men SsS.65 each to get out
Of the scrspe.
The Atchison school board cannot
raise money enough to pay the ex-
penses of its city high school, and a
tuition of $40 a year is charged each
high school pupil At the same time
Atchisou pays go per cent of the taxes
TO maintain the county high school at
bingham, from which the city re-
eeives no benefit whatever.
The three nou-partisan state temper
ance organizations-W. C. T. u, / o.
g. T. and State Temperance union
} have issued a call for a state temper
auce convention at Topeka, January
} Is. The object of the convention is to
insist on the enforcement of the pro-
= hibitory law by the new administra-
= ton, and to make a showing that will
influence the legislature against resub-
mission.
The suit of the government against
the NJ, x & T. railroad to cancel
} patents for large tracts Of land in Lyon,
/ Franklin and Allen counties, has been
/ dismissed on the recommendation Of
the special master showing that She
titles Of the present owners we're good.
The lauds were purchased by farmers
r who have been cultivating them for
? years, and the dismissal Of this suit
= will clear up the titles.
S Kansas diarymen, in session at
, Abilene, Endorsed ex-Gov. Hoard, Of
Wisconsin. for secretary OF agriculture,
and elected ]. L. Hoffman, Of Newton,
= president and j. K Forney, Of Abilene,
S secretary. It also asked for anti-oleo-
margarine legislation and state dairy
school at Manhattan. Il Endorsed See
rotary Coburn. Of the state board OF
. agriculture, and pledged opposition "a
any effort to put into partisan politics
the work Of the board
q From 1885 to 1895 Kansas increased
O SO. 2O4 in population. The increase was
s wholly from births, the KaRsss-born
2 population increasing II, Geo and foreign
/ / bors 5000. Kansas in 1895, however, hsd
p a smaller white male population than in
s 1855 The total decrease in whites Of
( the male persuasion was 10000 but the
q / increase Of females was q, 900, making
{ the total increase of white people IS,
s COO The colOred population was 4s,