The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Hr Bryan, Of Brown county, has
named his baby Mckinley.
Members Of the Topeka police forCs
have brought suit against the city tor
$500 back pay.
There are now S7,577 volumes in the
Kansas state library, 1901 having bsen
added during the past two years.
The Kansas national guard consists
of /, $50 privates and i8S commissioned
officers, exclusive Of the governors
stan
The citizens Of Lawrence, regardless
Of party, rendered Gov elect Leedy and
wife q brilliant reception the other
night.
W. A. Randolph, judge Of the dis
trict court st EmpOris, surprised his
friends by marrying his stenographer'
Miss Lane.
Nearly all the candidates for state
printer have promised, in case they are
elected, to establish q populist paper
at Topeka
Farmers Of Marshall county are
gathering the biggest corn crop ever
raised in Shat county. which they claim
will exceed 10, 600, 600 bushels
1t was reported that in several soutl'
eastern Kansas counties sOeialistic COLI
onies we're beiGg organized, state head
quarters being at independence.
DR.. Selden W. Jones, who came TO
Kansas in 1857, died at LeavenwOrth
recently. BE was one of the Oldest
praetiCing physicians in the state
A new city hospital at Pittsburg has
just been thrown open to the public,
Che contamination of years Of effort on
the part of charitable organizations
there.
Pat Rabbit, clerk of the eUurt-elect
of Crawford county, has been taken TO
the insane asylum at Osawatomie and
Judge Simons, of Fort Scott, will ap-
point his successor.
Burglars had become so common ia
Kansas City, Kan, that the chief OF
police ordered his men to parade the
streets at night ia citizens clothes that
they might more readily capture the
thieves.
The youngest member elected to the
legislature is Warren Finney, Of Wood
SON county, a son Of ex-Lieut. Gov
Finney. He is % years old, is a native
Kansan and still lives 10 the house
where he was born 10 Neosho Falls.
1t was announced when Gov. Leedy
appointed Ed G. Little private seere'
tarv that it would take the latter out
of the senatorial race, but late reports
from Topeka indicate that Mr. Little
will be an actiFs candidate before the
legislature for Senator PETERS place.
A bad boy in Downs recently refused
to obey his teacher and she broke q
ruler on him. The parents raised a
fuss and the board passed an order
that the teacher had done right, and
that if the supply Of rulers ran out in
Downs they would ship in more for her.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, says the farmers OF
Kansas should 60 into the COW indus
try more extensively. He says the
dairy industry, properly and vigorous
| " cultivated, would soon place KAN
sas in the first rank in commercial i'm
portance.
In his forthcoming report Attorney
General Dawes will recommend that
the law requiring the appointment OF
an assistant Encouragement in coun-
ties to prosecute whisky sellers be re-
pealed. He says the Murray temper
ancs law is a hindrance rather than
an aid to the prosecution Of whisky
sellers.
The bill to divide Kansas into two
United States judicial districts, as
agreed upon by the delegation in con-
gress, proposes two judges at $500
each. The Northern district will have
three locations for terms Of court
Leavenworth, Topeka and Salina. For
the Southern district court will be held
at Fort Scott and Wichita An attor-
ney and marshal, with deputies, is pro-
vided for each district
According TO the report OF Otis q
Sadler. state fish commissioner, there
were 1885 distributions of fish by the
state the past two years and 1887 10y
the federal government During thai
! time there were 70 arrests and go nets
DESTROYED. The commissioner recon-
mends the location of fish hatcherie;
and restocking the larger streams o.
the state. He says the present Law
needs strengthening, as it cannot b'
enforced.
Fred and Frank Moerbel, of Doni
phan county, tried the virtue of powder
\ in splitting logs. But they got the:I
faces too close to a fuse and the explo
sion disfgured them terribly. Thei
| faces and necks were burned to a raw
/ mass and their hair singed off. Thu
! chances are that one, if not both o.
them, will be totally blind Theii
bodily pain and the distress at the
prospect of being manned for life
caused them to piteously beE to bt
killed.
The Kansas Day banquet will he he'll
at Topeka, January %. James I
Challiss, of Atchison. has been giveI
! the place of honor on the proEramm
and he will respond to the toast Kan
sas." This place is always accorded
to a native Kansan. Other speaker
who will have places on the programml
are W. L-Stewart, Troy; Henry j. Al
len, Ottawa; Charles S. Reed, FredOnia
I. E. Lambert, Emporia; J. B. Furry
Topeka; W. w. Finney, Neosho Falls
Fred A. Stocks, Blue Rapids: E J.
Aekley, Coneordia; s n. Hawks
Stockton; Z. G. Laing. Russell; iIarr
L. Gordon, Wichita; John s. Simmons
Digbtou, and R w. Coleman, Bake
university.
Representative Edwin Taylor Q
Wyandotie county. said 20 De prepai
4 ing q bill 20 do away with the stat
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