The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS

waterworks improvement
William J. Bryan viii make several
speeches in Kansas the latter part az
October
The Wellington Voice, q poFaiist
organ, is publishing a daily during tse
campaign.
The latest government crop report
placed the condition OF Kansas e9Fn et
50 and OF wheat at 70
There viii be a coursing Meeting at
Herington, beginning October s. oySF
100 dogs win be there,
A Railway Mems Sound Money club
was organized st Atchison the other
night with 500 members
Ora Harrison, who was convicted of
selling liquor at Frankfort, got a iiu5
Of 81, 100 and 500 days in jail
Fish Commissioner Sadier is putting
in considerable time stocking the
streams Of the state with FISH.
A new industry at Emporls is
broom factory, the output Of which
viii be 1900 broOms per year,
A car loaded with cattle caught frs
from the sparks OF an engine near Par.
sons and the cattle were burned up
Male students at She state sgFioul.
tural college at ManhattaA organized
Bryan free silver club with 100 meme
bers.
It is said 81 FIRE departments from
over Kansas win attend the reunion
and carnival at Topeka Sept IS to Ocs
tober B.
Henry Dixon, who represented thss
he was q scion of noble English fasa-
lily, died in the poor house at Wichits.
deserted and penniiess
C. B, Hewitt, fusion nominee for the
legislature in WyandOtte county, was
arrested for obstructing the strssts Ia
Kansas City, Kan, talking politics.
C, J. Devlin, OF Topeka, has pus.
chased al of the Santa Fe coal miass
in Usage, Cherokee and Crawford csun-
Ties. Their output is 500 car loads pss
day.
Robert Bowling, stamp aud registry
clerk in the Kansas City post ofice,
was dismissed under charges OF iH-
subordination and offensive partisan.
ship.
John j. Ingalls, has given the two
first weeks in October to therepublicaE
national committee aud viii make
speeches outside Of Kansas during that
time.
Mayor Selig, Of Lawrence, vetoed a
curfew ordinance passed by the coua-
ell and ali the youths aud maidens Of
the town are singing the mayors
praises.
The city schools Of Phiilipsburgh
have been closed on account Of an cpl
demic of diphtheFia and children
under l6 were prohibited from geing
on the streets.
There was a rumoT that Gov Morrill,
would abolish the board Of police COM
missioners of Kansas City and turn the
police management over to the mayor.
The governor denied any intention Of
so doing.
The Amity irrigation canal and IN
derhow ditch has been completed aud
opens a new era for western Kansas.
It extends from Lamar, Col, to Coo.
lidge, Kan, and waters a very rich
soil. 1t cost 81, 900, OOO
r. Braden was arrested at Independ-
ence the other day for clipping with the
1s-year-oId daughter of a well-to-dO
farmer Besides the girl he stole q
horse, harness and buggy, and after he
was locked up admitted the crime.
When the improvements now in
progress at the soldiers orphans home
at Atchison are completed the institu.
ton will have accommodations for car
ing for 975 children, and will be, SH-
perintendent Faulkner says, one Of the
most modern and commOdious in the
United States
People from Kansas, Missouri and
Arkansas focked tosFairlsnd. Mont
gomery county, to hear the Mormon
question discussed. Rev. White at
tempted to prove that Joseph Smith
was an inspired apostle, while Rev.
Shick endeaVored to show that Smith
was a thief and imposter.
August Sauer and Charles Sullivan,
of Wichita, while fishing recently on
the banks of Walnut river in Butler
county, were visited BY 3 heavily
armed burglar who robbed them Of
their gold watches, money and jewelry.
When the fishermen returned home
they had something to relate besides
FISH stories.
Charles o. HUFF, an ex-cOnvict from
the Kansas penitentisFy, went 70 To.
peka and disguised his identity by rep
Fesentiug that he was New York Uiii-
lionaire. He succeeded in getting into
the best society on his nerve, and run
big bills at several different places.
One day recently he quietly dissp.
peared, and numerous people found
they had been cleverly duped.
William Blaylock and Charles Pound,
life prisoners in the state penitentiaEy,
made bold attempt to eseape The
other day. They were Worising az the
bottom OF 72O-fOot mine, but daring
iy climbed up the air shaft 70 the top
just after getting cut they wers dis
covered and commanded 70 halt. but
instead OF obeying started 10 pm. The