The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

girls 20 all the dances, and when ten
o'clock comes she yanks them home.
4 Topeka dispatch said ex-senator
PETER would be urged for governor by
the prohibition element Of the peoples
party.
A number Of Kansas editors who axe
odd fellows have begun a fight to re-
tain the De Boissiere home in Franklin
county.
The Jail at Syracuse was not strong
enough to hold a man who was to start
the next day for a stay Of ten years in
the penitentiary.
Mrs Annie L. Diggs has been in
Washington recently arranging for
free silver picnics throughout Kansas
this summer and fall
Charley Cooper, of Fort Scott, has
just won $4,000 damage suit against
the NJ, K. & I. railroad after waiting
10 years on the slow process of law.
Over 20 fire insurance companies do
ing business in the state have notified
Superintendent McNan that they viii
no longer use the Clarkson rate book.
The Kansas Philadelphia centennial
exposition wagon, which was made at
Leavenworth at a cost of $500 and took
first prize, has been sold to a Stiilings-
vile (No.) farmer for $50
The sound money democrats Of Kan.
sas will hold a series of meetings
throughout the state this summer.
Ex-COngressman w. D. Bynum, of In
diana, will be one of the speakers.
Glenn Skinner, of Oak Valley, won
the examination for a cadetship TO
West Point from the Third district,
W. G. Gamble, Of McCune, was second,
there being a difference in their grades
Of only One-third of one per cent.
Margaret Guilfoil, of Fort Scott, for
is years an incurable insane patient,
was recently taken from the asylum
and again adjudged insane, because
the jury which found her insane years
ago had made a technical error in re-
turning its verdict.
The state grain inspector is having
trouble enforcing the new inspection
law. At the time the law was enacted
it was said that it would net the state
many thousands of dollars, but so far
the receipts from the operations Of the
law have not been equal to expenses.
In a speech before a temperance
mass meeting in Topeka Gov. Leedy
said the failure to enforce the prohibi-
tory law was chargeable to the execu-
tive committee of the state temperance
union. His position was strongly as
sailed by all the other speakers, in
Guiding ex-senator PETER.
During February, March and April
of this year the receipts at the Kansas
penitentiary were S39,287 against S26,
585 for the same period last year. The
total expenses were sSS,627, against
SS2, 995 last year. This left a balance
of $3.50 for this year, while there was
deficiency of Sc, 450 last year
The yearly meeting Of the Kansas
Home Missionary society Of the NJ. E.
church was held at Topeka recently.
Officers chosen are: President, Mrs.
Elizabeth Parker, Topeka; secretaries,
Mrs. a. Salkeld, Manhattan, and Mrs.
H. B. Mcbride Clay Center; treasurer,
Mrs. Robert Hawthorn, Atchison.
The grand lodge Of Knights Of
Pythias, in session at Wichita, elected
W. A. S, Bird grand chaneellOFi Gus J.
Neubert, grand recorder, and A. Q,
Jobes grand treasurer. The Rathbone
sisters elected Mrs. Mamie Holcraft
or and chief; Mrs Mary Higgins, grand
secretary, and Minnie Weigant, grand
treasurer.
c. Il. J. Taylor, the well-knOwn ne
gro democratic politician who served
as minister to Liberia and register Of
deeds of the District Of Columbia IN
der the Cleveland administrations, an
nounces that he will return to Kansa:
and stir up the negroes of Kansas
and Missouri and lead them to break
away from the republican party"
Eastern capitalists have put a large
force of men and teams atwork in But
Ter and Greenwood counties building
dams and reservoirs across small
streams. These dams, it is claimed
will prevent soil washing, store and
hold water, increase humidity anC
solve the drought problem. Thousands
Of dollars viii be expended in the ex
pertinent,
The state meeting Of free silver re
pubIicans at Topeka last week was no
well attended. The resolutions adopt
red declare against the retirement o
greenbacks; advocate the payment o
all demands on the treasury with silve
instead of gold; favor a protective
tariff; condemn trusts, and indors
President Mckinley in appointing tn
international bimetalie committee
Webb McNall was chosen chairman o
the state central committee and D. c
TlIOtson secretary.
A. a. Sorengf a Norwegian farm
hand near Ottawa, was struck by
bolt Of lightning recently and his es
cape from death is miraculous. Fh
/ bolt struck him on the back Of tn
head. tearing of a piece of sealE
passed across his left shoulder an
/ breast and continuing down his lief
leg where it burst open his chloe, lesy
| ing 8 bright red mark the Who'll
length Of his body. The hoe he va
using was torn into splinters. Ned
cal aid was summoned and after tire
hours he regained consciousness.
Joseph Ralph Burton has assure
Lucien Baker that he viii not be i
the race for the United States senator
ship il 1901. All he asks is that Bake
shall take care Of some Of mis- friends.
The Kansas State Medical societ
closed its annual session at Topeka
/ eIscfing C. a. MeFu!fe, Of Topeka
president, and 81 f. SawbilI 81 Cor
eordis, secretary
One Of the hands0I7est Prss5ytsria
/ churches in Kansas Eas recently dedi
estsd at Enp9Eia
yst5iY.5e sfr5un fhS-Fsrious assessor