The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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IN 1895.
There are over 600 Baptist churches
in Kansas, with an aggregate member
ship of IS, COO
Living Checkers, with y girls as
the "men, was an attraction at the
Brown county fair
Ground has been broken at Cofey-
vile Tor new paper mill, which viii
give 900 people employment
The annual meeting Of Kansas
Seventh Day Adyentists was held at
Council Grove the past week
Joseph Cation, & Cowley county farm
er, was killed BY a runaway team
while working in the hay field
Kaw valley farmers have this season
sold $4,000 worth Of potatoes and
fully 800 car loads remain unscld,
w. j. Bryan received oue-half the
gate receipts, amounting to STA, for
speaking two hours at the lola fair.
IN his Topeka paper ex-senator
PETER advocates the union of ali POI
litieal forces to beat the republicans,
Superintendent Of Insurance AlcNall
has barred the Woodlands Accident
association from doing business in the
state
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Kansas City, after
struggling several months under a
debt Of g., 600, was foEced to close its
doors.
1t is said that hundreds Of agents
representing Chicago grocery stores
are soliciting orders from Kansas
farmers.
w. j. Bryan addressed three great
crowds in Kansas last week-at Bur.
lingame Wednesday, lola Thursday
and Atchison Friday.
Frank R. McCrary and n. G. Cooke,
both Of Kansas, have passed successful
examinations for admission to the ma
tional naval academy.
William J. Bryan was in Emporia a
few hours the other day and addressed
the teachers at the state normal re-
ceiving quite an ovation.
Registration of new students at the
state university last week exceeded all
records in point of numbers. It was
expected that !, 800 students would en-.
roll
Julius Stencil, a barkeeper, has dis
appeared from Atchison, taking with
him $500 belonging to Miss Dora
Rickert, to whom he was engaged tC
be married.
AT Topeka the other day a nine.
months-old son of ]. NJ. Senter, clerl
of the state railroad board, was So
riously burned while playing on the
floor by the upsetting Of a kettle Of ap
pie butter
At German picnic near st. Marks
the other day three men were cut t.
pieces and others were badly bruised
in a row that occurred over a horse
race on which the stakes for bott
sides were only SO.
The Y. P. s. c. E. convention Of the
First district was held at Atchison. T.
G. Bergen, Seneca. was elected prest
dent: Elizabeth Moves. Troy, secretary
Ella Zimmerman, Hiawatha, treasurer
/ Eva Sparks, Atchison, junior superin
tendent
Kansas photographers in session a.
/ Leavenworth last week, elected II. S
Stevenson, Leavenworth, PRESIDENT; J
]. Pencil, junction City, secretary
and P. A. Miller, Arkansas City
treasurer The next meeting will bt
at Topeka in January 1888.
Last spring nine families Of Mennon
ties near Great Bend sold their farm
and moved to Minnesota They re
Gently returned. declaring that Kansas
/ Just suited them They bought bacl
their farms, but had to pay about q
! per cent more than they sold them for
Two weeks ago Edmonia Paxton
aged 10, Of Pawnee county, whose par
ents are wealthy, disappeared. Hel
relatives thought her dead until sht
was discovered living in a Bohemias
settlement in Barton county as thu
wife Of Won w. Boes. At last account
! the officers were after Won BOes fo
marrying child.
Single tax advocates in Kansas wil
hold a state convention in Topeka
/ September 80. Prominent speakers ar
announced. The cali invites the at
| tendance of ''all who believe that thu
! present system of taxation is unjust
and that all taxes, fines and restriction
should be removed from labor and th.
I products Of labor.
! Galena is in the throes Of a liquo
war which promises to assume larg
/ proportions A recent raid was mad
on the joints, by order Of the count.
attorney, who says be Is determined Z
/ enforce the law. Unless he does. ca
! temperance people threaten 70 TAX
the law into their own hands. AM
! there are runners of the secret organize
ton Of a vigilance committee to COP
I with the lawless element
The alleged persistent violation O
the prohibitory law By the joint
/ keepers Of Topeka has aroused th
/ churches to renewed efforts for tn
suppression OF the laW-defying el5
ment not only Ia Topeka. but through
out the state. The churches Of ali do
nominations are 10 unite in q NOR
/ vigorous campaign than ever before Fl
behalf Of the prohibition osuse, an
viii Join with the law officers Of eaeI
county and city in working for
better enforcement Of the law.
State Bank Commissioner Breiden
( thai says Kansas farmers viii iHersas
their wheat acreage Ione-third this fal
I and raise. If the season IS favorable
IS. o00. o59 bushels next year.
/ VIII shafeT. son Of SeRstof ShsEer
/ Of Fulton, is under arrest charged wit
EuiHiHg the daughter Of +. Shadley,
merchant Yauag Shaaisr startes &
Texas to AVOID sr.esl, bat aas arTests
/ oa the train - YiHita. J. q
+. The latest estimate pisces tss kaa
SIS Whest gield At Us. sl1. 2se aushel,
u 20 bushels 70 TIE acre
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