The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS


stitute for regular beef.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision that foreign judgments in
Kansas cannot be taxed.
A Topeka dispatch said President
Abe Steinberger had dissolved the
State Reform Press association.
But $40. Sc in cash was found in the
Baxter Springs bank which failed last
week. The capital stock was s65, 600.
10 few weeks all towns in south
eastern Kansas will be connected with
Kansas City by long distance 'phonea
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Improved Stock Breeders association
will occur in Topeka January II and
I3.
Galena is preparing to take in more
territory There is more town outside
of the present limits Of Galena than in
side.
A cigar stub thrown down on the
floor of Roherer's hall in Ottawa de-
stroyed the building, causing a loss Of
81, 600.
The latest government crop report
placed the condition of Kansas wheat
at 1O8 per cent the highest of any
other state. Missouri was second with
lO1.
The Kansas Editorial association
will visit Kansas City, No, in a body
January &c, going there from the state
convention at Topeka in a special
train.
Dairymen of the state will work for
a law this winter that will absolutely
prohibit the manufacture or sale of
Oleomargarine or butterine in the
state.
1t is rumored that Congressman
Kirkpatrick, of the Third district,
would like to be appointed minister to
Bolivia, the position now held by Col.
Thomas Moonlight.
J. w. Walton, of Wichita, ex-Gov.
dwellings former partner, will open
up big creamery and cold storage
plant at lola, being attracted there by
natural gas for fuel.
Wesley Davis, a Shawnee county
grain dealer who in 1895 disappeared,
leaving $4,000 in debts, then after.
wards returned to settle up, and hav-
ing failed, has again disappeared, this
time, he said, for good.
It is alleged that one of the biggest
combinations ever formed in the west
is now in existence to control Rbso-
lutely the entire output of the coal
mines in southern Kansas, which
amounts to about 100000 tons per an'
nun.
A strong effort will be made by the
coming legislature to do away with
the Office of secretary of the state
board of health. 1t is alleged that the
Office is purely ornamental and the
$1,000 a year salary waste Of public
money.
In a recent interview at Lawrence
Gov. elect Leedy disclaimed any IN
friendly feeling toward the game of
football, and intimated that his mes
sage to the legislature would contain
no reference to legislation prohibiting
the sport
A Washington telegram says Kansas
republicans have asked aid of Chair
man Hanna to carry on a vigorous edu-
cational campaign the next two years
1t is proposed to establish hesdquar-
ters at Topeka and put man in charge
who will distribute literature and at
tend to other requirements
The Kansas Municipal league, COM
posed of the officials of frst-class cities
of the state, elected B. P. Waggener,
of Atchison, president and c. S. Smith,
of Wichita, secretary. The convention
was held at Leavenwogth and major
ity Of the delegates favored the ap-
peal of the metropolitan police law.
The Kansas State Grange. in session
at Oiathe, elected Henry Rhodes, of
johnson county, master; e. w. West
gate, of Manhattan, Overseer: Mrs.
Otis, of Topeka, lecturer and George
Black of Olathe, secretary. Resolu-
lions were passed declaring that the
regents OF the state agricultural coll
lege should be practical farmers
State Superintendent-elect StFykeF
says he is receiving a great deal of en-
couragement from the members of the
legislature on his free textbook propo-
sition. He fsvors district ownership
of books and law fixing the maximum
price; he also tavors fve-year con-
tracts and bids from publishing houses
for books for the entire state.
RepresentatiYe-elect Smith, of Sher-
man, declares strong opposition to
further experiments in irrigation on
the uplands of western Kansas, and
will introduce a bill to do away with
any more expenditures Of money for
that purpose. he says western Kan
sss is a grazing region pure and sim
pie; that there is wealth 10 cattle on
the Kansas plains, but thst failure and
poverty will be the only reward Of
cereal planting
1t is said that the state board OF rail-
road commissioners in its decision in
the case iu which the Kansas City
board of trade asked that grain rates
be reduced, has practically admitted
that it has no authority over the rail-
roads of the state, and that the orders
Of the board are treated with indiffer-
encei they obey its behests when it
suits them and would ignore the
board altogether If they did not fear
more stringent laws BY the legislature.
The survivors Of the Eleventh Kan-
sas Senator pfsnb's regiment. held
their annual reunion at Emp0ris the
other day. j. 81. Thomas was chosen
president and Fred Herth secretary.
The ]. O 0. z. lodges Of the state
viii trg TO secure the passage OF a law
prohibiting any person not q bona fde
member Of that order from wearing
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